Jamibeth Margolis and Rachel Miller are working on “Great Googley Moo,” a showcase at the Sage Theater, 711 Seventh Avenue, New York City, from Sunday to Tuesday, July 23 to 25, featuring songs written by the Ink Spots, the Drifters, Ruth Brown, and the Moonglows. The story follows the career of an integrated vocal group from the late 1950s inspired by the lives and stories of Jimmy and Bonnie Mae Guilford.##M:[more]##
When they were working on “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater in New York this past spring, they discovered their West Windsor connection.
Margolis is the daughter of Jeff and Ida Margolis of West Windsor. She is directing “Great Googley Moo.” Miller, who is stage managing the show, is a graduate of West Windsor-Plainsboro High School, Class of 2000. She is the daughter of Victor and Lynn Miller, community news editor of the WW-P News.
The showcase will be at the Sage Theater, 711 7th Avenue, New York, on Sunday, July 23, 7 p.m.; Monday, July 24, 3 p.m.; and Tuesday, July 25, 2 and 8 p.m. Tickets are $15. Visit www.greatgoogleymoo.com for information.
Juliet Martone, 11, of Plainsboro recently appeared in her fifth opera. She was on stage in NJOT’s “L’Elisir D’Amore” earlier this month at McCarter’s Berlind Theater. She has been seen in “Eugene Onegin” at McCarter Theater produced by the now-defunct Opera Festival of New Jersey, and in New Jersey Opera Theater’s “Don Giovanni,” “Ba-Ta-Clan,” and “The Marriage of Figaro.”
Two West Windsor residents performed in “The Odyssey” during a production earlier in July at the Peddie School. Emily Brickner played the role of Athena and Vijay Kottapalli, who held multiple roles, portrayed Laertes and Proteus. Brickner, a graduate of the Peddie School, studied at New York University for two years. Kottapalli, a playwright and a member of Delaware Valley Poets, has appeared in several plays and one-man shows in India.
