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CITY HALL CIRCUIT. BY JOHN F. BAILEY. FEBRUARY 18,2011 UPDATED 11:30 P.M. E.S.T. UPDATED 1:20 A.M. E.ST. February 19, 2011:

Mayor Adam Bradley resigned as Mayor of White Plains today at a news conference at City Hall at 5 PM Friday.

According to Edward Dunphy, former Corporation Counsel for the city,speaking to WPCNR this evening, the Special Election for Mayor will be supervised by the Westchester County Board of Elections. The change to county supervision, Dunphy said, is mandated by the Help America Vote Act. Two years ago if this had happened, the election would have supervised by the City Clerk, Ann MacPherson. The Special Election, if held sixty days from now, by WPCNR reckoning, would be on Tuesday, April 19, or the week after going strictly by calendar days.

With Council President Thomas Roach at his side, Bradley said he resigned to concentrate, full-time, on clearing his name in his conviction of Attempted Assault, Contempt and three charges of Harassment

Bradley said Mr. Roach would take over as Mayor at 11:59 Friday evening until a Special Election could be held in 60 days to fill the remaining two years and 8 months of Mr. Bradley’s term after the Special Election.

Bradley said he would work with Mr. Roach over the days ahead to transition him into the leadership role.

A Special Election will be held in 60 days to fill the office. Mr. Roach, of course could choose not to run in the Special Election.

The complete video of the Mayor’s news conference will be viewable on www.whiteplainsweek.com

Council President Roach told reporters that he and Bradley would be working over the holiday weekend on the transition of power. Bradley and Roach went back into the Mayor’s Office, where they met with the City’s commissioners. Roach said that he was especially concerned that work on the city’s budget proceed in a smooth, uninterrupted manner. WPCNR was told that Roach would be signing an appropriate document in the city clerk’s office and the type of swearing-in ceremony which people are accustomed to seeing is not necessary when there is a power transition.

Roach said he did not learn of the Mayor’s plans until 2:15 Friday afternoon, and he had met with members of the Common Council at city hall this afternoon to  discuss the change in power.

The City Charter states in Section 46-C:

If a vacancy shall occur in the office of Mayor, the common Council shall initiate the proceedings available to it, for the purpose of ordering a special election to be held within 60 days of the occurrence of the vacancy, unless such vacancy arises within six months of the general election (after June 1), and prior to September 20 of any year in which case the vacancy shall be filled at the general election. If the vacancy is filled, either by special election or at the general election, the person elected mayor shall take office upon election and shall serve as mayor for the balance of the unexpired term. If the vacancy is filled, either by just by special election or had the general election, the person elected mayor shall take office upon election and shall serve as mayor for the balance of the unexpired term.

WPCNR interpets this to mean, as WPCNR reported last week that the winner of the winner of the Special Election will serve the final two years and six months remaining in Mr. Bradley’s term.

One of the few non-reporters obviously informed of the event was Zelle Andrews, the National Organization for Women advocate, who has called for the Mayor’s resignation since his conviction December 9.

Andrews told WPCNR, “It’s sad. It’s a sad occasion. I think it was a necessary step for Mr. Bradley, but I’m sad that it had to happen, and I’m sure the City (Democratic) Committee of White Plains will support Tom Roach with vigor and confidence in his abilities.”

Asked if Legislator Bill Ryan  might run to get the nomination for the special election, Andrews said,”I don’t know.”

WPCNR also learned tonight from a source close to the Mayor that the Board of Ethics investigation of the Mayor now becomes a moot issue, since as of midnight, the Mayor is no longer the Mayor.

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WPCNR News and Comment by John F Bailey. February 16, 2011:

 

Stop reading right now. I would not want to spoil your day.

 

For I propose to tell you about the horror of Lara Logan.

 

You  couldn’t read about her in your local Gannett paper this morning.

 

You won’t read about the Horror of Lara Logan  until page 12 of. The New York Times this morning.

Ms. Logan is a jolting side effect of the wonderful Egyptian revolution being hailed as an exercise in the rule of the people, a “triumph” of democracy,promoted as a model of a revolution by armchair analysts of revolutions.

 

Ms. Logan is the foreign correspondent for 60 Minutes and CBS News.

 

She was  “repeatedly sexually assaulted and beaten,”  according to a news release from CBS News  issued late last night, (reported three days after it happened).

 

She was assaulted by a mob of 200 people last Friday while Egyptians were celebrating the resignation of their president, who had already left. Two hundred  persons decided to celebrate by gang raping a correspondent.

 

According to the CBS report, Ms.Logan  got separated from her camera crew and security,  was seized by the mob, seized, beaten, and I use the CBS words “repeatedly sexually assaulted.”

 

It was nothing new in this revolution. And less serious attacks were made on three other reporters—big names.

 

Three of the biggest names in television news  had already been attacked in their coverage of this revolution, CNN’s  Anderson Cooper,  Christiane Amanpour and CBS’s Katie Couric also reported being  roughed up, according to TMZ. 

 

CBS might have expected that this might happen again.

 

Ms. Logan  is journalist victim of Egyptian violence  number 140 since this revolution began.

 

It was not the first attack on a woman reporter either.  Brian Stelter’s article in the New York Times  today,  reported that Esquire’s website said that Ms. Logan, quote, thought her team included one security staff member when she Ms. Logan arrived in Cairo last Thursday before the worst day of her life

 

CBS in the face of 53 registered official attacks on  journalists, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists plus dozens of harassment cases and some female journalists being singled out by crowds—

 

 CBS in light of three of the biggest names in news, including their own anchor and experiencing danger –

 

Assigned only one security person, according to the Esquire website.

 

That is incredible. I hope this is erroneous and there were more.

 

I repeat, that is incredible,if true.

 

More to the point, did this camera crew that the mob separated Ms. Logan from — video her being dragged away? That’s their instinct.

 

 Does CBS  have the whole Logan attack on tape was their equipment rendered inoperative? Wait until the digital photographs of Ms. Logan’s horrible experience surface on the YouTube posted by the mobbers showing themselves in action,

 

I cannot speak for the cameramen who got separated from Logan and I’m sure they feel terrible. I hope they kept shooting, at least with their cameras, but we should see what they shot,if they shot.

 

I think  60 Minutes should just put it on the program next Sunday and run it. .

 

More suspicious,and I just thought of this Wednesday night — and this is probably just coincidental — Two hundred rowdies just happen to close in on Logan, eight days after President M’s security questioned Ms. Logan?

 

CBS  should be demanding these wild dogs be rounded up and punished. The State Department should be calling for an investigation by the army. Where’s Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Obama and our President on this issue.

 

They should round up Mubarak and question him on whether this was a planned brutal message to reporters that is hard to ignore.

 

How long did it last? Just run the tape. If CBS has the live feed out there and maybe then people might not print as they did on the first reports on AOL tagged,  wrote “Lara Logan “raped” with the word rape in single quotes.

 

There should never be quotes around the word rape. Quotes are “winks.”  They are a way squeamish editors have of lightening up a situation and making an unpleasant thing palatable and acceptable to glom over, not to make anyone feel bad. Quotes diffuse.

 

 Showing the tape hearing the audio if any was made, would perhaps take this national thing about rape to a higher realistic level.

 

In the greater picture, violence against women in general, and violence against men in general might be taken seriously if any tape, if it exists is shown.

 

Tell you why: rape and violence against women and men is a staple plot twist for American and world entertainment today and has been for decades.

 

No matter how “realistic” (here, quotes denote sarcasm) rape is portrayed in fictional books, movies and television series, its effect in this reporter’s opinion,  characterizes sexual violence as vicariously dangerous and subtly thrilling. It’s shot that way. Remember Angelina Jolie being tortured in SALT?

 

 Do you remember the rape of Tony’s girlfriend psychiatrist in The Sopranos? Remember the forcing by a drug dealer of the vice uncover policewoman to submit to him on a Miami Vice episode about 35 years ago? I remember those things. The reason I remember them is they filled me with great disgust because featuring rape as a storyline glamorized disrespect for women by tough guys, in this reporter’s opinion.

 

Now, it does not matter to Ms. Logan, how many security men she had whether she had one or 20.

 

It wasn’t enough. It took a band of women and twenty Egyptian soldiers to rescue her from God knows what.

 

This incident is another black eye for CBS News.

  

Here’s the point. The protests were going on for what a couple of weeks, three weeks. We know what they look like by now.

 

You can take pictures from overhead or a building high above the fray and zoom in with the lenses to show that. You don’t have to stick a reporter out there in the street to show how brave you reporters are and how you’re really going out there to get the story.

 

As someone in the business said to me, it’s like reporting a snowstorm by sticking your hand down in the snow and holding out the snow to the camera.

 

Lara Logan bless her brave heart went out there

 

Now she has one meaningful story to tell. If she can.

 

Just tell us why she should have to do that, wiseguy,you might ask.

 

I do.

 

CBS has not told us Ms. Logan’s condition, except to say she was recovering.

 

CBS has not reported what physical injuries she’s suffering.

 

Will she be ever be able to report again,  speak again?

 

This is really disrespect for their own reporter now, unless Ms. Logan’s family wanted CBS to suppress the injuries which we can understand.

 

CBS was incredibly cryptic about putting out the news on this.

 

How can you send your reporters into the melee without protection?

 

How can you do that, of course, we reporters just have this nose for news that lands us in hot water, 

 

Really bad people that you encounter in real life are not like the really bad people in movies and unfortunately everybody should wake up to this fact.

 

Mobs are dangerous. No matter what they stand for. Demonstrations have been encouraged by the news networks for years. The more violent,  the more network coverage they get.

 

Demonstration coverage for years has consisted of sending reporters out into the crowds to get the feel of the spirit of the protest. Sending reporters out there puts them in the clutches of a mob.

 

This whole question of protesting and using the dynamics of the mob to achieve things has been glorified and encouraged over the decades by television, they, because it’s a visual story, it’s organized hoopla. It’s an easy call for them.

 

However, what do they focus on?

 

The fires,the looting, with gory detail, (remember Detroit?) and the violence, and talking heads pontificate without credibility, while brave reporters are put out there with very little forethought by their bosses to their safety, at least in this case, that appears to be the case.

 

CBS has a lot of explaining to do.  And hides behind “no further comment out of respect for the family?”

 

If I am a member of a national labor organization representing on-air talent that does news reporting, I would make this a cornerstone of the association agenda, and I would put security right at the top of the list. 

 

They focus on the violence and here is this horrible, horrible experience of Ms. Logan, the danger of the mob of inciting criminal elements to do what they want to do, whether it’s stealing statues from the Egyptian Museum thousands of years old or taking the opportunity to rough up and rape reporters representing American news organizations.

 

It’s all about the hatred folks.

 

This is a grotesque story folks. It puts out there one of the great mainstays of television series scriptwriters for decades, the threatened female, but it makes it a blunt, dirty reality.

 

Watch TV any night: we can see strong, intelligent, gutsy heroines  constantly threatened with criminal elements in series, and men attack them, subtlely suggesting strong women have it coming.

 

Well, last Friday a real such person was attacked viciously in a “repeated sexual assault” was the words that CBS news used, which is actually really blunt for them.

 

Now.

 

How this goes forward raises a lot of questions. With 140 journalists attacked during this exercise in toppling yet another long line of tyrants whom we’ve supported over the years they’re going be other events like this. Should reporters cover them differently?

 

 Do we need it? Do we need to send reporters out there to get the story put interpreters, etc. at risk. Do we need to do that, yes we do, however, they have got to protect reporters better.

 

Of course there is going to be the word that she knew the risks, and she took it.

 

She did not know the risks.

 

You never know what the risks are things can turn ugly. Instantly.

 

That is apparently what happened from CBS news sketchy report released to the Associated Press last night indicated.

 

She was rescued by some women in the crowd and some soldiers, according to CBS release. Well, we salute them for coming to her aid. A bit too late, but they did, and it’s to their credit, risking their lives.

 

 Let me assure you this goes out to all women and men entering dangerous professions that can put them in real danger. You really need to take care yourself out there. Be careful out there.

 

As a reporter fighter for truth, justice and the right, you’re more important than the story because if something happens to you, there is no one left to write the next story.

 

Now for Ms. Logan, personally, I cannot put myself in her shoes right now. However, this is one of the first times a reporter, world-known personality has been put in a situation where she can describe with the candor and bluntness of  a reporter exactly what it means to be sexually assaulted repeatedly what kind of mental scars it carries.

 

Blow-by-blow.

 

She would dispel once and for all the hideous myth perpetuated by the media that sexual assault is glamorous, as portrayed on film and on television. Supposedly, rendering a realistic creation of violence of it, but I don’t think you can ever really do that because it’s acted.

 

Ms. Logan, unfortunately, now knows firsthand the horrors and she may not wish to go into details, but for the sake of women and men out there I encourage her to hold a news conference when she’s willing and able to talk about this to tell what happened. How it affected her. She will not know for several weeks whether she has contracted a sexual disease. 

 

CBS could’ve been a little more praiseworthy  of Ms. Logan in that release. They didn’t paint a picture of  her career. They did not recount the awards she has won. They did not recite some of the scoops. They just reported that she was repeatedly sexually assaulted. They gave her no respect for her bravery.

 

Really an amateur, lame effort by p.r. on this release.

 

But of course, she’s a brave, brave person and she was attacked by people who were not brave.

 

They were not patriots.

 

 Let us not forget that the people who commit sexual assault are just very small, insignificant people.

 

They deserve no respect.

 

They usually commit sexual assault, particularly violent sexual assault because they like to do it.

 

They like to do it.

 

That’s all I have to say, while one other thing, Those TV News directors have got to be more careful. Pay more attention to security of their reporters  because too often these days, reporters are the targets.

 

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WPCNR County Clarion-Ledger. From the Westchester County Board of Legislators.(Edited) February 15, 2011:

The Board of Legislators unanimously approved a local law to establish a County stormwater management program Monday.

The legislation provides a mechanism for the County to work with local governments to plan and fund projects to alleviate regional flooding.  “Stormwater overflow is a problem that knows no boundaries. 

It is a regional problem requiring a regional solution” said Board Chairman Ken Jenkins (D-Yonkers). “The time has long passed for the County to step forward and lead the effort to address stormwater management.”

 

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“This is a landmark piece of legislation,” said Legislator Judith Myers, who has actively participated on the County’s Flood Action Task Force since its inception in 2007.  “This codifies the great work done by the Flood Action Task Force over the past 3 years and provides a regional plan for stormwater management on a watershed basis.”

The new program includes development of a watershed-based stormwater management plan, the implementation of a county program to match funds for municipal stormwater projects, and the creation of watershed advisory boards. 

Legislators see planning according to major drainage basins and sub-watersheds as key to addressing regional flooding concerns.  “Capital budget dollars have been included in the approved 2011 Capital Budget to further the County’s work with individual municipalities on this effort,” noted Myers. 

The legislation calls for the County to collaborate with local municipalities to identify historic and current areas of flooding and prioritize responses. 

“This is landmark legislation.  It’s not only a necessity, it’s an opportunity.  We have kept the law flexible so that there is local input to guide the Legislature in what each region finds necessary,” said Legislator Michael Kaplowitz.  “We have involved  all the stakeholders, including most of the  municipalities,  in crafting this  key piece of legislation , which is reflected in the fact that the law sets forth a process for the County to work with local governments to tackle a problem  that does not adhere to the boundaries printed on a map.   This is a classic example of the importance of County Government in its regional role. ”

“While it is a formidable challenge, this County program will help mitigate the devastation we have witnessed from flooding.”  John Nonna added, “it’s vital that we act to address this serious menace to the health, safety and welfare of the people of Westchester

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WPCNR Common Council Chronicle Examiner by John F. Bailey. February 14, 2011:

 

There are no strings attached to the safer grant that would enable White Plains to bring back nine laid-off firefighters for the next two years.

 

FEMA, government agency issuing the grant that enables the city to bring the firefighters back, has no stipulation they would have to be retained beyond the two years.

 

However any new firefighters brought on would have to be retained for three years. 

 

Presently,according to Firefighter union president just one new fireman would have to be hired and trained; one former laid-off firefighter has already come back, and the seven laid-off firefighters could be rehired for two years under the $1.9 million grant from SAFER.

 

The Council  may not have the guaranteed money for the year three (2013-14) after the nine firefighters are brought back to keep them, unless the city revenues take an approximate $1 million upturn that it can use to keep the firefighters on the payroll in 2013-14. I shared what I do. There is.

 

The Federal Emergency Management Administration confirmed to WPCNR Friday that the SAFER grants of $1.9 million awarded the city of White Plains, for the purpose of rehiring firefighters who were laid off last May had no long-term implications beyond the two years for which the grants are not affect if the firefighters, the city brings back were previously laid off by the city.

 

FEMA issued this statement to WPCNR Friday afternoon:

 

“Grantees that are rehiring laid off firefighters do not have to commit to retaining the safer funded firefighters beyond the two-year period of performance. For newly hired firefighters, the grantee must maintain the firefighters for the two-year period of performance, with a commitment to retain the newly hired firefighters for one year after the completion of the period of performance.

 

Previously, the Common Council balked at bringing back the nine firefighters laid-off ten months ago. The rehiring of the “May Nine” is now made possible by a $1.9 million grant acquired for the city of White Plains by Rep. Nita Lowey and Senator Charles Schumer. T

 

The Council has said it is seeking more information from the city before they accept the grant and rehire the firefighters.

 

Joe Carrier, President of the firefighters White Plains Local 474, told WPCNR Friday that there were no obstacles or downside to bringing back the nine firefighters. Carrier told WPCNR, the city would be getting its full complement of firefighters of 159 men for the price of 150, if the Council accepts the grant.

 

Currently, Carrier said the city has at its disposal at any one time: 5 engines, 2 trucks and one emergency response unit. If the nine firefighters laid off are brought back, this would increase the city response availability to 5 engines 3 trucks and the emergency response unit.

 

Asked if the lack of the one frog affected firefighting performance, Carrier said, “It definitely puts us at a disadvantage.”

 

Asked if this affected the Bengal Tiger fire in July, Carrier said that fire could only be contained, eventually destroying half a block,  because the fire department was responding to another fire at the Con Ed station, when the Bengal Tiger fire started.

 

Carrier said that Lowey and Schumer had worked hard to get the grant for White Plains through the safer program and the Council should bring the firefighters back as an issue of safety, because it would cost the city nothing to do so.

 

Changing of the guard.

 

Joe Carrier reported that the firefighters union has begun labor talks with the city, with a preliminary meeting on February 20 and the next scheduled meeting March 7.

 

Carrier said that these talks were exploratory and that the fire union has not crafted any proposals to the city, yet.

 

Carrier also volunteered the information that his brother Jim, is no longer is president of the police union, the new president of the White Plains and Police Benevolent Association, the negotiating unit for the police is Robert Riley.

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WPCNR Stage Door Theatrical Review by John F. Bailey, February 11, 2011:

 

Hey Mom, hey Dad snow got you down? Tired schlepping kids to activities, slipping on ice? Climbing ski slopes to put change in the parking meters?  Back aching from shoveling?  If you have one more snow you’ll go insane?

 

Look! Down there on the White Plains Performing Arts Center big stage. It’s a housewife! It’s a superheroine in tight jeans instead of tights! It’s The Hausfrau!

 

Who, in the secret identity of Bess Weldon,  mild-mannered housewife from Portland, Maine, is here to save you moms (and Dads) with children in The Passion of the Hausfrau.

As a 2011 version of “Our Gang”-like music introduces the show, The Passion of the Hausfrau captures your interest from the first segment when The Hausfrau is taking kids to the supermarket and they don’t want to go(remember that torture?)  You can catch Ms. Weldon in last two showings of  The Passion of the Hausfrau at White Plains Performing Arts Center, Saturday at 8 and Sunday at 2.  

Ms. Weldon holds on and sells every scene on the “Momma Coaster”– the creative metaphor that co-author Nicole Chaison has created to symbolize the never-ending drama of everyday motherhood and fatherhood, sustains your interest  throughout. What a Ride it is! 

 

About  20 different scenarios are portrayed by Ms. Weldon in this show. They are breezy, dramatic, to the point where you feel the pain and sense of frustration of the housewife, but never losing that feeling of amusement. It’s a fine line here that Ms, Weldon tightropes. She rides the Mommy Coaster and never jumps the track.

Chaison, the author, Weldon, the Co-writer/actor, and Annette Jolles, the Co-Writer/Director have  cut a sophisticated, punchy script delivering pathos that’s palatable, understanding that is not sentimental, and still genuinely originally funny, that is (for a change} really laugh-out-loud funny. It captures the joy of  babies in spite of their perpetual aggravating idiosyncracies.

Ms. Weldon, solid in the role, brings back snippets about your marriage and raising children.  Hausfrau is a Valentine show  giving young lovers and the newly married a textbook on how to handle and what you can expect when the + sign comes up on the baby tester.

The Hausfrau, more than any show here since the WPPAC revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, delivers the genuine guffaw; the open mouthed wonder of, well, what is going to happen next.

The mark of a good comedy is delivering the real laughs with a peppy message: It takes a superheroine and a superhero that can keep her sanity and Weldon, with the mugging of the late Gilda Radnor, the over-the-top faces of Lucille Ball, and the zaniness of Imogene Coca harnesses this script. She paints understanding and meaning in the parent chaos that will almost make you want to go back to baby days again – to discover yourself as the heroine in this “must-see” does. (Almost.)

That’s The SuperPower of The Hausfrau. She’ll bring back the passion of your life, your kids and your era.

I know. One hilarious vignette brought back memories of exactly what Weldon  was talking about when daughter Dora,was scribbling a magic marker on the walls . I can remember an incident that is similar when my little creative daughter and her friend carved their initials  on a priceless antique.  That is all part of the wonderful world of raising kids.

 

Ms. Weldon is The Hausfrau, rivets you with one scene after another that could seem eerily similar to many incidents in many marriages and family experiences on her every word as she goes through scenarios of motherhood that anyone who has ever been a mother or dad raising children will instantly recognize. See yourself and remember incidents in your raising children that will make you laugh and even conjure up memories.

 

 It is a unique show, based on a graphic novel created by Nicole Chaison. It’s easily the funniest new production, we’ve seen at the WPPAC.

 

The set gains lots of laughs from the original drawings by Nicole Chaison, the original author of the graphic novel from which this play was developed. Very funny cartoons, drawn by Chaisson of the Mommy Coaster illustrate the points of Ms. Weldon’s monologue, which goes on for an hour and a half. It’s genuine laughter. You won’t have to chime in with polite chuckles.

 

WPCNR is pleased WPPAC reached out and invited us. The Passion of the Hausfrau is the kind of good new work that needs exposure and if this is going to be the mission of the theatre, Hausfrau (which has performed in Portland, Saco, Lewiston, Brunswick,Lanesboro, all in the state of Maine, and in Portsmouth,New Hampshire) needs exposure. The music composed by Hans Indigo Spencer sounds like a Sit-com, and it may soon be one or a movie if some producer has the intelligence to pick the show up and get a option on it. It’ll be a huge hit.

 

Bring Bess Weldon too,  an actress who is just so believable in the part. The audience can identify with this woman. Bess Weldon  is the real deal.

 

She delivers a fast-moving very short hour and a half without interruption. The incidents go on and on – not missing a nuance: fighting with the kids in the car fighting with the kids in the supermarket in during your mother’s acid criticisms of the way you manage your home. The delightful memories of your grandmother. The joys of pregnancy. The jealousy and the pang of perhaps losing the career you thought you once would have had and how you can recapture it.

 

I mean, Ms. Weldon’s imitation of the deadpan husband’s, “Hey, hon, how you doing?” will bring sheepish grins to any husband. Well, it is so typical. Anyway, I chuckle as I write this, but this is unlike a lot of shows you will see.

 

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 The unique thing about this is if you’re a young couple thinking about having children. This may scare you off. On the other hand, it points out the real pleasures to be had in a family, how a person can grow and find themselves and perhaps find their true mission.

 

Sometimes she talks and she delivers her lines a little too fast and we miss one or two, but that may simply be due to timing, and my hearing. The lines are so good. The production is quite sharp. It does not drag

 

 How the passion of the hausfrau came to be is a story all in itself. Two housewives,living in Portland.  Nicole Chaison, one of them, a writer who draws a lot and comes up with the graphic novel. Another, Weldon says, hey, can I do a play about your work? You know  what? They do. And it’s funny and it’s good. They hook up with the director,Jolle and they do this show.

 

Call Buddy Fidler!

 

Where is Mr. DeMille? They’re ready for their close-up!

 

And get me Sondheim for the score.

 

And you Mr. and Mrs. White Plains can say you saw it when The Passion of the Hausfrau got its start.

 

To inquire for tickets about Saturday evening’s show and the Sunday matinee contact, WPP a C at 877-548-3237 or contact the box office before the show, the box office phone is 3281 600 extension 13 or go to the WP PAC website at www.wppac.com

 

 

WPPAC Footlights:

 

Sunday evening after the  matinee performance of Hausfrau, The WPPAC will present its annual fundraising gala at 6 PM, honoring  Margaret Preston of U.S. Trust Bank of America Private Wealth Management.

The evening begins with a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception and silent auction which includes a wide range of items from sports memorabilia to family vacation and entertainment options, restaurant, spa and hotel certificates and designer jewelry to cultural and sporting events.   The program for the evening will be the award ceremony followed by a Gala musical performance hosted by Tony Award^®  and Emmy Award^® winner (and new WPPAC Board member), LaChanze (The Color Purple).  Joining LaChanze will be Broadway performers Carter Calvert (It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues), Darius de Haas (Rent), Kecia Lewis-Evans (The Drowsy Chaperone),  Cady Huffman, (Tony Award^®  Winner, The Producers), and J. Robert Spencer (Jersey Boys and Tony Award^®  nominee, Next to Normal) as well as Jazz Vocalist and International Recording Artist, Gregory Generet. Regular tickets are $125.