A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION The Westfield Leader and THE TIMES of Scotch Plains – Fanwood Thursday, August 10, 2000 Page 17 Arts & Entertainment Holiday Gift Market Slated Prepare for Sound of Motown In October; Vendors Sought At Echo Lake on August 16 SCOTCH PLAINS – Holiday ing holiday season celebrating planning is starting early this Halloween, Thanksgiving and MOUNTAINSIDE – The Union The concert is presented free year at Union Catholic Christmas. Holiday decorations County Summer Arts Festival free of charge by the Union County High School as the spon- as well as gifts that could be concert series will resume on Board of Chosen Freeholders and sors of the annual Holi- used throughout the year for Wednesday, August 16, at 7:30 its sponsor Tosco Bayway Refin- day Gift Market seek birthdays, anniversaries and p.m. when the Sensational Soul ery. Lawn chairs, blankets and vendors for the event on friendly visits will also be Cruisers bring their Motown picnic baskets are encouraged. A October 14. available for purchase. melodies to the outdoor stage at refreshment stand will be avail- The Holiday Gift Mar- Most of the vendors are ket & Craft Fair which is local artisans, however, Echo Lake Park in Mountainside. able at 6:30 p.m. normally held on the Sat- some come from as The 11-piece band, which will The rain site for all concerts is urday after Thanksgiving far away as Cherry perform a full slate of Motown, Cranford High School. For more will not be held this year. Hill, Trenton, New disco, rhythm and blues and clas- information, please call (908) 352- The craft/gift market, York, Staten Island and sic soul music, has been wel- 8410 or (908) 527-4900. which is a combination of Pennsylvania. comed back by the county for the two events held annu- To participate as a vendor, the seventh year in a row. ally in October and Novem- please call the school at (908) The program may include “If ber for the past 10 years, 889-1600 for an information You Don’t Know Me By Now,” On the Beat will be held on the campus of packet with a contract listing “It’s Your Thing,” “Tenth Avenue Union Catholic High School, 1600 the pertinent information and Martine Avenue, Scotch Plains, from costs for the display area. Ample Freeze Out,” “Love Train,” “Treat CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18 Her Like A Lady,” “Hold On, I’m 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. parking is available on the school panded with three bonus tracks. Coming” and “Could It Be I’m Over 125 vendors will bring campus and the building is This album marked a career re- Falling In Love.” quality hand-crafted items as well handicapped accessible from the surgence for Willie in the mid- as new merchandise for the com- gymnasium entrance. 1970’s as his “Blue Eyes Crying Normandy Invasion Jazz In the Rain” hit number one (his Band Sets Concert Tonight first number one surprisingly) Little Opera Co. Seeks Singers, on the Billboard charts. Legacy WESTFIELD -- The Westfield has done a great job bringing the Recreation Commission will vocals and guitar to the fore- Instrumentalists for Auditions present the Normandy Invasion front. Jazz Band as part of the AREA—The Little Opera Com- 15. Participants will play side Castle Communications in En- Commission’s 2000 Summer pany, located in Scotch Plains, by side with professionals in gland has re-mastered and re- Concert Series in Mindowaskin will hold auditions for singers the orchestra of The Marriage leased the progressive band, Park this evening, August 10, at and instrumentalists in Septem- of Figaro. “Family’s” back-catalog includ- 8 p.m. ber for an upcoming produc- Requirements for instru- ing the classic, “Anyway.” In ad- A dynamic six-piece jazz band, tion of Mozart’s The Marriage of mentalists include perform- dition, Castle also brings us a 2- their performances cover a wide Figaro. ing one piece under three CD, “Baby Jump,” a compilation Cheri Rogowsky for The Westfield Leader and The Times range of music, with a special The auditions for singers will minutes that best demon- of Mungo Jerry, famous for their DISCO FEVER...Captain Hawkers and the All Stars took the stage at the emphasis on 1920s Chicago style Village Green in Scotch Plains last Thursday to entertain a packed be held on September 14 for strates one’s abilities. An hit, “In the Summertime.” jazz. They also feature original crowd. The band, which is approximately 28 years of age, offered a singers ages 7 and up to be in accompanist will not be pro- Delerium Records, a great psy- compositions. performance with a full “YMCA” theme that was reminiscent of The the chorus. Requirements in- vided, one must be brought. chedelic label in the UK, sent me Village People. Normandy Invasion Jazz clude performing one song, The Marriage of Figaro will a super double CD psychedelic Band features A.J. Bodnar on POPCORN preferably legit. An accompa- be held on Saturday, Octo- sampler, “Pick & Mix” as well as piano, Dave Kleiner on guitar, nist will be provided. ber 28, at The Presbyterian a terrific album from the band Jeff Desmedt on strings, Darryl Adults are also needed in the Church in Westfield and will “On Trial” called “New Day Ris- Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps Courtley on clarinet and saxo- adult chorus. For an audition be conducted by Robert Butts ing.” phone, Liza DiSavino on cor- time, please call (908) 654-2006. and narrated by film, stage Our friends at Capricorn Concocts Formula for Bad Taste net and Jeff Rantzer on trom- Auditions for instrumentalists and television star Celest Records sent two diverse but bone. By Michael S. Goldberger ages 7 and up to participate in Holm. highly enjoyable albums, The band is represented by One Popcorn, Poor • Two Popcorns, Fair • Three Popcorns, Good • Four Popcorns, Excellent the Little Opera Company New The Little Opera Company “Deathray’s” self-titled release Kitestring Music in Towaco. Jersey Youth Orchestra Work- is located at 162 Spruce Mill featuring members of the recently 2 popcorns the studios hope will bring the For more information, please shop will be held on September Lane in Scotch Plains. defunct “Cake,” as well as “Gov- adolescents out in droves, this mar- call the Westfield Recreation There are many reasons not to see ernment Mule’s,” “Life Before In- Nutty Professor 2, most of them in- keting ploy shouldn’t be easily dis- Commission at (908) 789-4080. sanity.” A special hello and thanks volving the basic precepts of good missed. For to say that the Nutty to Amy Leavel for sending those taste, common decency, and rational Professor 2 is merely interested in great CD’s! thinking. But there are at least seven sex, especially as it relates to Pro- Dual Concerts Scheduled at Village Green good arguments for catching it at the fessor Sherman Klump’s experi- Finally, our friends in England mentation with a youth potion (the at Angel Air sent some more cineplex anyway. And all seven of those are Eddie Murphy. Viagra jokes proliferate), would be In Township This Evening, August 10 great archival releases, “The Portraying the entire Klump clan, to miss the whole tarnished point. Gillan Tapes Vol. 3” features the plus genius Sherman Klump’s bad boy Obsessed, or better yet, fixated, is “Deep Purple” front man in fine alter ego Buddy Love, Murphy again more like it, with an uncomfortably SCOTCH PLAINS – The Scotch James, Tommy Dorsey and Artie Spectators are urged to bring strange focus on lovemaking among Plains Cultural Arts Committee Shaw. vocal form. Also, two great “Mott serves up his homegrown Lazy Susan blankets and lawn chairs for their of screwball characters. Like Peter Sell- the geriatric set as its weirdest char- will host two concerts with Joe Free birch beer will be pro- comfort. In case of rain, the & the Hoople” releases includ- acteristic. Murphy’s randy Grandma ing “Mott The Hoople at ers, he reaffirms his place in the pan- Paris’ Music Mania and David vided compliments of Espo’s Tree concert will relocate to the audi- theon of motion picture clowns who Klump serves as the freewheeling Aaron’s Quintet and Vocalist on and Crane Service. torium of Scotch Plains-Fanwood Wolverhampton Civic Hall” from have impressed audiences by playing icon in this area. the Village Green this evening An antique car show will also be April of 1972 and “Mott,” (the several of their own costars. Forever touting her own prowess High School. For more informa- in the boudoir, she spares us noth- beginning at 7 p.m. held in conjunction with the con- tion, please call the Scotch Plains continuation of the Hoople) the The plot in this sort of farcical out- Gooseberry sessions and rari- rage is just something to hang indigni- ing, and takes especially malicious Interactive hands-on music certs in the lot adjacent to the stage. Recreation Department Office at joy in taunting son-in-law Cletis (Papa and good fun with some impor- ties. ties and offenses on. Still, it behooves The concert is free to the public. (908) 322-6700. the uninitiated to know that Sherman is Klump) about his impotence. Noth- tant messages are planned in the ultimate nerd, a genius despite the ing is sacred when the Klumps gather. Joe Paris’ program. His songs mediocre stock from which he ema- But the crazy thing is, there seems cover topics such as friendship, nates. Murphy uses him, his family and to be a blanket dispensation allot- getting along, anti-drugs, safety, his friends to satirize, lovingly as well as ted Nutty Professor 2.