Armenian Memorial Church

Armenian Memorial Church Annual Fair Features Food, Silent Auction

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The Armenian Memorial Church, 32 Bigelow Ave., Watertown, will host the 2018 Annual Fair on May 18 and 19. The Fair will take place Friday, May 18, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. and Saturday, May 19, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. Meals will be served starting at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday. The event is rain or shine. Meals will be dine-in or take-out, and include beef, chicken, or losh kebab with sauce, rice pilaf, eetch, salad, bread & drinks

Armenian Delicacies will also be available: paklava, kadayif, cheoreg, mante, & many other baked specialties. Thee will be a silent auction.

Entertainment

Watertown Children’s Theatre’s Latest Show, Assassins, Starts in May

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Watertown Children’s Theatre presents Assassins in the Black Box Theater at the Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA. Assassins, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by John Weidman.  ASSASSINS is based on an idea by Charles Gilbert Jr., Playwrights Horizons, Inc. – New York City produced ASSASSINS Off-Broadway in 1990. Orchestrations by Michael Starobin. A cast of ninth-12th graders including Watertown’s own Daniel Abadjiev, Amelia Allison, Rita Hackett and Julian Schepis explores the lives of the presidential assassins in this one act musical on May 4 at 7 p.m., May 5 at 7 p.m., May 6 at 1 p.m., May 10 at 7 p.m., May 11 at 7 p.m., May 12 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m., and May 13 at 1 p.m. in the Black Box Theater, Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St, Watertown. For more information, visit WCT’s website at  www.watertownchildrenstheatre.org or call 617-926-ARTS.Tickets are $15 each (plus fees), and are available through the link on our website at www.watertownchildrenstheatre.org or www.mosesianarts.org.

Entertainment

Watertown Cable Host Adds a Touch of Hollywood to His Show

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The host of a local cable show added a dose of Hollywood to his upcoming shows when he hosted an actor who has been in dozens of shows, including The Walking Dead, CSI and Hawaii Five-0. 

Last week, Fred Grandinetti sat in the kitchen of his Watertown home with Cuyle Carvin after the pair shot some scenes for Grandinetti’s Watertown Cable Access TV show, Drawing with Fred. They also stopped by The Comic Stop on Main Street to sign some comic books drawn by Grandinetti featuring Carvin. Carvin came up from Atlanta to be in the show. He moved there from Los Angeles because the number of shows and movies being made in Georgia has increased greatly and it improved his odds of getting parts. “They say you get one part out of 50 or 60 auditions,” Carvin said.

Entertainment

Host of CatholicTV Network Show Nominated for Boston/New England Emmy Award

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The CatholicTV Network announced that Matt Weber, host of The Lens, has been nominated for a Boston/New England Emmy in the 41st Annual Boston/New England Emmy Awards. Weber shares this honor with his unique co-host for the nominated segment: his 8-month-old daughter, Rose. On his unconventional co-host, Weber said, “My wife and I were double booked that day for things we both had to do and our childcare fell through. So, instead of trying to figure out another last minute option or having one of us cancel our commitments, I just decided to incorporate Rose into my commitment — which was hosting a TV show. So, in writing the script, I made it about Rose, multitasking, and the wisdom of my darling daughter.

Entertainment

Three Watertown Musicians Performing with Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras

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Three Watertown musicians will perform with theBoston Youth Symphony Orchestras (BYSO) during the organization’s spring concert at Symphony Hall, and one will be traveling to Germany to perform. 

The performers from Watertown are:

Name, City, State, Age, Instrument

Alexander Feltner Harrison, Watertown, MA, 17, Cello
Julia Greim, Watertown, MA, 17, Viola
Joseph MacDonald, Watertown, MA, 14, Violin *

* Denotes that student is performing with Leipzig Choirs in this April 29 Concert at Symphony Hall

The BYSO sent out the following information:

The Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras celebrates its 60th anniversary during the 2017-18 season. The mission and vision remains much the same as when Dr. Marvin Rabin started the (Greater) Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra in
1958: to encourage musical excellence in a professional and supportive environment by providing the highest quality orchestra training and performance opportunities to qualified musicians, grades K-12, while making its programs
accessible to underserved communities through financial assistance and outreach. At its founding in 1958, BYSO was a single orchestra of 80 young players. Today, it is one of the country’s most highly regarded youth orchestra programs, an organization at the vanguard of music education that serves over 600 students each year. On April 29, 2018 at 3:30 p.m. at Symphony Hall in Boston, many of BYSO’s young musicians will have the opportunity to perform in a joint concert with choral students from Leipzig, Germany as part of an international exchange and in honor of BYSO’s 60th anniversary season.

Around Town

Local Author’s Book Goes Back in Time to See What Watertown Square Looked Like

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Watertown Square may have changed significantly over the past decade, but local author Cara Marcus found out how the area near the Charles River truly transformed from an industrial center centuries ago to the commercial downtown, while researching her book Watertown Square Through Time. The heart of Watertown Square, the grassy Delta, once was the site of a grist mill where farmers brought their grain to be ground. Where a parking lot for the MBTA sits on Galen Street used to be a soap factory in the later 1800s. The book goes back to the 1630s, Marcus said. She also stated she was most surprised by how industrial the area used to be was centuries ago.

Arts

Watertown Resident Directing Local Production of Tony Winning Rock Opera

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Watertown’s Joy Lamberton-Arcolano will direct The Longwood Players’ production of the Pulitzer and Tony award winning rock opera Next to Normal. 
Longwood provided the following information about the production:
Longwood strives to share theatre that is artistically interesting, intellectually stimulating and socially compelling.  We want you to leave the theatre full of questions and conversation. Next to Normal is an ideal vehicle for these guiding principles as we get to peek inside the life of Pinterest obsessed DIYer Diana, a “normal” suburban housewife with bipolar disorder “trying to keep the plates all spinning”.  We are immersed in her interactions with her architect husband Dan, who believes he can build his family to perfection, her genius daughter, Natalie, who struggles to find peace and escape from her mother’s manic episodes in classical music as well as in her relationship with Henry, her new boyfriend, a jazz improvisationalist. Diana also has an ideal mother-son relationship with her first born, Gabe, who plays in a jazz band, on the football team, and still has time for Key Club (and his Instagram feed).  In the midst of her busy family life, Diana also spends quality time with her psychopharmacologist. Next to Normal opens April 19th and runs until the 28th. Part of Longwood’s 20th season, will be at the Chelsea Theatre Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea, MA 02150.

Dancing With the Stars

Tickets Available for Watertown’s Dancing With the Stars, Benefiting the Schools

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Watertown’s Dancing With the Stars, benefiting education in town, will be held on May 11, 2018 and features community members competing on the dance floor at the Hellenic Cultural Center. The Rotary Club of Watertown has taken over the event that was started by the Watertown Education Foundation. The Rotary Club sent out the following information:

Join the Rotary Club of Watertown for an evening of cheering on your favorite local stars as they strut their stuff in Dancing with the Watertown Stars! A portion of all proceeds will support education in Watertown. Have a great time AND support an amazing cause!