Annie jr. on Stage at Scarsdale Middle School this Weekend
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You don't have to go to Broadway to catch a stellar production of Annie! Annie jr. that is, will be on stage at the Scarsdale Middle School this weekend, Friday March 8 and Saturday March 9 at 7 pm. A dedicated group of young thespians, under the direction of middle school teachers Dorothy Golden, Rachele Ketterer and Celia Cuk have been in rehearsal since January, perfecting well-known musical and dance numbers including "Tomorrow" and "It's the Hard-Knock Life."
The show stars Mary Cecil as Annie, Emma Satin as the cruel Miss Hannigan, Lena Proctor as Annie's savior Grace and Robert Chappel as billionaire Daddy Warbucks. To add even more excitement to the production, Scarsdale resident Martin Charnin, who wrote the lyrics to Annie, will be in the audience to see this local rendition of his work.
Tickets are $10 and are on sale in the Scarsdale Middle School Great Hall between 11-1 on Friday and at the door Friday and Saturday nights.
Police Chief Joseph DeCarlo Urges You To Help Prevent Car Break-ins
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This information was submitted by Greenburgh Police Chief Joseph DeCarlo: Recently there has been an increase in thefts from vehicles throughout the town and more so in Edgemont. The large majority of the vehicles that were entered were unlocked. To help combat this type of crime please take notice of the following crime prevention tips.
-Lock your doors and roll up the windows: Criminals love to go window-shopping. They walk down neighborhood streets or go through shopping center parking lots looking through the windows of parked cars to see what people have left behind.
-Make sure you leave nothing of value in plain view in your car. Take valuables away with you, or put them in the trunk. If you own a sport utility vehicle, cover your valuables. Don't give thieves that kind of opportunity.
-Remove portable electronic devices such as smart phones and portable GPS navigation systems, including suction cup or beanbag type mounts. (even the visible appearance of a suction cup ring on the glass windshield can be an enticement to a thief to break in and look for the GPS system.)
-Don't leave personal identification documents such as your license, registration to vehicle or credit cards in your vehicle.
-Activate any theft deterrent device you may have.
-Park in a well lit area or under a motion detector light if available.
-If you have a garage, use it.
-Call the police to report a crime or any suspicious activity.
The First 25 People on Facebook
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Rob Fishman, a 2004 graduate of Scarsdale High School now covers the tech sector for Buzzfeed and also works as a media consultant to many leading websites. To celebrate Facebook's ninth birthday on Monday February 4, Rob interviewed Facebook's first 25 users to find out where they are now. Read about Mark Zuckerberg's earliest followers and see how some of them were forever changed by the birth of the social media sensation and others missed the boat.
25. Amie Broder
Broder, two years ahead of the Facebook founders at Harvard, went on to NYU Law School and a job at the law firm Simpson Thacher. She's now an associate at Troutman Sanders, and in 2012, was named by Law & Politics as a "rising star" in tax law.
24. Ada McMahon
McMahon lives in New Orleans, where she works as a media fellow for Bridge the Gulf, a group of citizen journalists collecting stories from the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. McMahon also blogs for The Huffington Post.
23. Billy Olson
Olson, the fourth roommate in Zuckerberg, Hughes, and Moskovitz's suite, was "an amateur thespian with an impish streak," according to David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect. In The Social Network, Olson has the bright idea of comparing students to farm animals. While his friends all went on to become billionaires, Olson took time off from Harvard and never graduated, said a Harvard official. Still, he ended up making friends with a tight-knit group of younger students, with whom he is still close, according to a former classmate. Friends said Olson had become a firefighter in his hometown of Briarcliff Manor, New York.
22. Hilary Scurlock Cocalis
Previously with the Bleacher Report, Cocalis is now the marketing manager for MiresBall, a branding agency in San Diego.
21. Greg Friedman
A trader at investment firm D.E. Shaw, Friedman met his future wife at Harvard, where they were chemistry lab partners.
See the rest of the crowd here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/robf4/the-first-25-people-on-facebook-433s
Also read a reflection on the birth of Facebook written by Rob Fishman here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/robf4/the-earliest-adopters-433s
(Full disclosure: Rob Fishman is the son of Joanne Wallenstein of Scarsdale10583.)
Booklist: What Scarsdale is Reading
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With school vacation and a three-day weekend upon us some of you will be looking for a good book to read or a movie to watch at home. Lucky for you, you live in a community of readers and a Village with a great library.
To give you some ideas about what to take out of the library or download on your Kindle, we asked Elizabeth Bermel, Director of the Scarsdale Public Library to send us lists of the most popular books and movies among library patrons.
Here are her tallies of the most frequently downloaded books, borrowed books and movies this month from the Scarsdale Public Library:
What Scarsdale Is Downloading:
1.Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
2. Defending Jacob - William Landay
3. Tuesday's Child - Fern Michaels
4. 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
5. Fifty Shades Darker - E.L. James
6. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
7. 15 Seconds - Andrew Gross
8. The Sandcastle Girls - Chris Bohjalian
9. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
10. The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
What Scarsdale Is Reading in Print:
1. My Beloved World - Sonia Sotomayor
2. Tenth of December - George Saunders
3. The Racketeer - John Grisham
4. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
5. Suspect - Robert Crais
What Scarsdale Is Watching:
1. Flight
2. Homeland
3. Skyfall
4. Pitch Perfect
If you want to share your recent reads with Scarsdale10583.com readers, please comment below:
Elizabeth (Beth) Bermel, Director of the Scarsdale Public Library, has been a librarian for 19 years. Before coming to Scarsdale, she was the Director of the Ossining Public Library, and worked for the San Antonio Public Library and the Queens Borough Public Library. In addition to her job, she loves reading, dogs, yoga, traveling, good food and the outdoors.
How to Tell If You or Someone You Know Is Insane from School Musical Volunteerism
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I am writing this during the most hectic week of my life, the second week of rehearsals for the elementary school play. I have been cast as a co-chair of the school play this year, and, as a method actress, I like to fill my role completely. That is why I have dropped everything, everything for my craft.
I'm like Anne Hathaway as Fantine. I'd cut off all my hair and extract a tooth, if anyone on the PTA were insane enough to ask me to do it. That's how committed I am to this production of Bye, Bye Birdie.
During production, I do not have any sort of a life outside of what happens in the school gym, which means I have to write this article frantically and in secret.
I am so into the whole thing that I call these two weeks "production."
Because I am never allowed out and I must be silent while I write, I'm the Anne Frank of volunteerism.
I mean, if word ever spread that I had smuggled a laptop into the elementary school and was writing a humorous essay during this sacred time of play rehearsal, the school board might kick me out and have me redistricted, perhaps to a horrible place, a place without a school play. And then what will become of my performance-loving children? That cannot be.
And so I only click-clack on the keys while the chorus of 90 are singing the big company numbers, which drown out the sounds I make when I laugh from rereading my own pathetic attempts at joking.
If you or anyone you know or love has ever run a school production, volunteered for such an endeavor, or been in charge of costumes, props, or tech for a school play, then you know just how insane I am right now. But, in case you aren't sure if this is you or not, here's a little quiz to take. If you can answer 'Yes' to three or more of these statements, then you have experienced School Musical Volunteer Insanity.
1. I haven't slept in three days because, when I try to sleep, lyrics from Bye, Bye Birdie (or insert name of other musical here) run through my mind in a compulsive loop that makes me friggin' batty. ("Did they really get pinned? Did she kiss him and cry? Did he pin the pin on? Or was he too shy?") The fact that my husband is sleeping soundly next to me seriously pisses me off.
2. I think I told everyone everything there is to tell, say, or do, but I can't remember now because there is just so much to tell, say, and do.
3. Last week I got a trickle of emails from my friends about lunch plans and play dates, but this week, I am getting 30 emails a day from different parents asking me if it's okay that their children wear off-white socks instead of white as per costume requirements. If I say yes, I'm a sock fairy, and everyone's hero. No means I'm a complete bitch.
4. I have not made dinner for over a week.
5. I have accidentally offended at least two individuals, been misunderstood by five others, and strained what was previously a good friendship, all in the name of helping out the school.
How did you do? I hope you scored a 3/5 or higher! Now, here's the tricky part. This quiz has a second section. Same rules. Here it is:
1. I enjoy teaching my children the musical numbers during dinnertime and I love hearing them break into song in the car or at a random place like a Chinese restaurant. (Long story.)
2. I have been working with such nice volunteers and have had fun in the way you have fun when you are pulling an all-nighter with friends in college. You are bleary eyed and crazy, but it's all good in the end when you ace the test. (Or, in my case, get a solid B plus.)
3. The emails aren't really that bad. I just made them sound that way above because I like to exaggerate and complain. In truth, it sort of makes me feel useful and important that so many people are emailing me about socks! My opinion matters!
4. I LOVE not making dinner!
5. And I LOVE the way a play comes together, just the way it should, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in good weather and in sleet, so help me Conrad. I get to play an active role in my children's memories of elementary school, and for that, in the end, I can only do one thing and, yes, I'm going to say it...Put on a Happy Face.
Break a leg, everyone!
Columnist and blogger Julie Gerstenblatt writes with humor and candor about her life in Scarsdale, her friends and family, and the particular demands of motherhood and wifedom in modern-day suburbia. Read about her new book Lauren Takes Leave and keep up with the latest from Julie Gerstenblatt here.
