If you’re in the mood for a little comic relief, this is the last weekend for “The Drowsy Chaperone,” a musical comedy by the Tred Avon Players (TAP). Paying homage to 1920’s American musicals, this Tony award winner features mistaken identities, dream sequences, an unflappable English butler, an absent minded dowager, gangsters, and millionaires.
Now is a great time to plant fall crops if you’ve got a garden plot. If planted in August, you can harvest a second crop of snaps, cucumbers and squash, peas, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, radishes, lettuce, etc. The local garden centers have a wide array to choose from; plants may be available at farmers’ markets as well.
Jazz fans impatient for the Labor Day Weekend Monty Alexander Jazz Festival won’t want to miss the Spontaneous Invention trio performing at the Avalon Saturday night. Pianist Joe Holt, tenor sax and woodwinds virtuoso Dave Schiff and percussionist Mike McShane create high energy jazz in what they call a “musical conversation.”
Friday August 24 & Saturday August 25 – 8 pm, Sunday August 26 – 2 pm: “The Drowsy Chaperone” at Oxford Community Center A reclusive New Yorker listening to a recording of a musical comedy is transported into the musical. Tickets $15 / $5 students. (410) 226-5904
Saturday, August 25 – 8 pm: Spontaneous Invention at the Avalon Theatre Stoltz Listening Room. Tickets $20. 40 E Dover St., Easton, MD 21601
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