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On Saturday, March 28 at 7 p.m. musicians from the Longy School of Music will be at the Apartments at Coolidge School for a free performance. The Spring Performance will include operatic performances and selections from Broadway by graduates from the Longy School of Music. Doors open to the auditorium at 6:50 p.m. (This performance is geared toward an adult audience).
Watertown Savings Bank seeks submissions for its 14th annual photography contest.
The Neighborhood Photo Contest invites all amateur photographers to submit up to three pictures. Photographs should depict scenes of Watertown, Waltham, Belmont, Arlington, Lexington, or Newton. Submissions may be made via the WSB website: www.watertownsavings.com/photo
Twelve winning photographs will be selected, and will comprise the bank’s 2016 calendar, which is distributed free to thousands of WSB customers annually. The deadline for all submissions is April 19, 2015. In addition to appearing in the 2016 calendar, all winning photographs will be exhibited throughout the WSB branch network on their lobby digital screens.
The bank holds an annual award ceremony to recognize the winners and distribute the awards. All winners will receive an Amazon gift card. First place winner receives $500; second place $300; third place $200; and the nine honorable mentions each receive a $100 gift card. For instructions on entering the contest, please visit the WSB website: www.watertownsavings.com/photo. For more information, please contact the Marketing Department at 617-928-2336.
The Wellesley Players bring “My Fair Lady” – the hummable, quotable, wonderfully enjoyable musical for the whole family – to the Arsenal Center for the Arts stage from April 10-19. The story, the songs, the characters – you know and love them. A Broadway hit when it debuted in 1956, this fan-favorite musical has gone on to win Tony Awards, launch careers and be adapted into the Oscar-winning beloved film. The Wellesley Players brings together an award-winning team to present this beautiful musical in a manner that speaks to today’s audiences. When Professor Henry Higgins bets he can transform a Cockney flower girl into an aristocratic lady, he doesn’t anticipate that Eliza Doolittle will end up transforming him.
JAZZ @ The Arsenal returns on Tuesday, March 24, with the fan-favorite, Be-Bop Guitars, presented by the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown. Led by John Baboian, the Be-Bop Guitars features 5 guitarists from the renowned Berklee guitar faculty, plus vibes, bass, drums and trumpet for this concert of originals and standards (Gershwin, Jobim and others), with specialized arrangements for 5 guitars. Baboian has performed worldwide with his band and other musicians, including a performance with the Be-Bop Guitars at the Cape Town Jazz Festival in South Africa and has shared the stage with Frankie Avalon, Sergio Franchi, Al Martino, Ben Vereen and many more. Baboian is the director of the JAZZ at the Arsenal series. Tickets are $20; $18 for members; $15 for students, plus fees. For tickets or more information, call the box office at 617-923-8487 or visit www.arsenalarts.org
The Jazz @ The Arsenal series features a wide variety of jazz styles performed by the best jazz ensembles in the Boston area with many headed up by Berklee’s world- renowned faculty. The performances are held in the intimate Black Box Theater at the Arsenal Center for the Arts located at 321 Arsenal St.
Celebrate spring, and welcome the Easter Bunny at the Watertown Mall this month. Join the Watertown Family Network for egg coloring, stories, songs and crafts! The event will be at the Watertown Mall, 550 Arsenal St. in Watertown, on Wednesday, March 25 at 10 a.m.
All supplies will be provided plus there will be a special story and spring songs! This event is FREE and will take place near Carter’s. Easter Bunny
The Easter Bunny arrives at the Watertown Mall on Thursday, March 27 at 10 a.m.!
Watertown resident Eileen McCluskey recently had a poem she wrote about winter featured on the website of a Public Radio program. Her piece, “The Wish” was published on the webpage of Radio Boston along side with poems by David Thoreau, Jack London and Emily Dickinson. The poem appears on the page for Radio Boston’s episode titled “Darkness Snow & Ice: The Literature Inspired by Winter.” “I had originally sent it to Morning Edition as a possible commentary,” McCluskey said. “I also shared that email with a friend who works at WBUR — and he sent it to Radio Boston’s executive producer, who called me about an hour after he saw it.
A new exhibit presented by the Historical Society of Watertown will debut this weekend at the Edmund Fowle House. Last spring the Historical Society received a grant from the Watertown Community Foundation. The grant allowed us to purchase a free-standing, re-useable display screen and exhibit materials so that we may create rotating exhibits at the Edmund Fowle House. The inaugural exhibits will be unveiled on March 7 and are free and open to the public. On display in the North Parlor will be “Watertown and the Civil War” featuring a newly acquired collection, donated by one of our long-time members, Florence Jones, of transcriptions and reproductions of Civil War letters written by her great-uncle Thomas Folsom Norris, who joined the Union Army as a 15-year-old drummer boy in 1862.
Watertown High School will present The Pajama Game this month.
The musical will hit the Shaw Auditorium Stage on March 19, 20 and 21 at 7 p.m. each night. The book is by George Abbott and Richard Bissell with music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. It is based on the novel “7 1/2 Cents” by Richard Bissell. The play is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International.