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“Seasons Readings,” offering theater with a holiday theme, will be at the Westport Woman’s Club on Thursday, December 13th. The audience is invited to join cast members for eggnog and dessert at the conclusion of each program. “Seasons Readings’ promises to provide short-story readings and one-act plays that have both humor and heart,” states Carole Schweid, JIB artistic director. “Each performance will include whimsical, humorous and sentimental stories, read by professional entertainers.” In “Verna” by Paul Gallico, audiences will be treated to a story about a kindhearted — if not particularly talented — USO girl and member of a performing troupe in World War II Belgium, winning the hearts of American soldiers. Carolyn Marble (of Ridgefield) will play the title role. Carolyn Marble also will join Tom Zingarelli (New Haven) in “Santa comes to the King David” by George Cameron Grant. In this comedic tale, a distraught woman saves what she thinks is a bridge leaper in a Santa suit, discovering instead a story of unfulfilled dreams, unconditional devotion, a Kris Kringle who makes annual visits to a Jewish nursing home, and the crazy possibility that two broken hearts can indeed make one whole. Broadway veteran and Westport resident Susan Terry will read “A Christmas Memory,” written by Truman Capote. First published in 1956, this autobiographical recollection of the author’s rural Alabama boyhood has become a modern-day classic. “Rounding out the evening will be “A Celebrity’s Guide to Celebrating the Birth of Jesus” by Tina Fey and Garrison Keillor’s short story, “The Season of Letter-Perfect Families.” “With ‘Seasons Readings,’ we’ll offer audiences provocative material – just as we do with ‘Play With Your Food’ — but holiday-related and in the evening,” explains Nancy Diamond, JIB producer. “These productions will make you laugh, think and elicit empathy. It’s an entertaining and edgy addition to the mix of traditional holiday fare.”

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Please join us for the 2nd Annual benefit for Education and Hope at the Fairfield Theatre Company on Wednesday, December 12th. ‘Tis the season to give thanks and to give back. Start your holiday season off right by supporting Education and Hope, founded by Norwalk, CT native Julie Coyne in 1997. This will be another evening of memorable music and a whole lotta love that will help keep the hope of education alive for Julie’s children in Guatemala.

The show features an impressive line-up of musicians from Julie’s circle of friends, who will join together for some folk, rock, soul, and blues. Performers include: The Third Rail, Jay Stollman, PJ Pacifico and Third Sister.

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Come down to the Bruce Museum on Tuesday, December 11th for Face and Figure! Face & Figure: The Sculpture of Gaston Lachaise features key examples of the artist’s work – many on loan from leading museums, private collections and the Lachaise Foundation – that reveal the full range of his vision, with special attention to the fascinating interchange between figural work and portraiture. Gaston Lachaise (American, b. France, 1822–1935) was more than a gifted sculptor of the human body, he was one of the finest portraitists of his age.

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The Bellarmine Museum of Art at Fairfield University will be showing artwork on Sunday, December 10th. This exhibition of works on loan from the Dahesh Museum of Art celebrates the act of drawing in the 19th century, when the creation of preliminary works on paper was the cornerstone of proper academic training and art-making. Embracing a broad range of subjects, the stunning pieces in this show are united by their creators’ emphases on careful draftsmanship and extraordinary skills. Highlights include drawings by Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879), Rosa Bonheur (French, 1822-1899), Frederic Leighton (English, 1830-1896), Lawrence Alma-Tadema (British (born in the Netherlands), 1836-1912), and Alexandre Cabanel (French, 1823-1889).

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Come down to the Fairfield Theatre Company on December 9th to see John Gorka. John Gorka received his first guitar as a Christmas gift, though he alleges that his older brother stole it from him shortly thereafter. He eventually learned, instead, to play the banjo, and began performing in a folk music group at his church. He attended Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and joined the Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band which also included Richard Shindell. He later began performing solo at the Godfrey Daniels coffee house as the opening act for various musicians who toured there. These included Nanci Griffith, Bill Morrissey, Claudia Schmidt and Jack Hardy.

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On Saturday December 8 Westport-based MouseMuse Productions will continue its totally successful “Real Stories, Real People” series at The Bijou Theatre in downtown Bridgeport with a totally unique, totally inspiring one-woman show called, appropriately, “T-O-T-A-L-L-Y!” by Kimleigh Smith.

“T-O-T-A-L-L-Y!” is a powerful and true story, a one-hour theater piece, written and performed by Kimleigh Smith who spent the first 10 years of her life in Japan before moving to Kansas. “Smith will take the audience on a journey that has been called, “totally uplifting, totally heartbreaking, and totally powerful,” said MouseMuse producer Ina Chadwick. “Kimleigh Smith called me two years ago after a friend told her about MouseMuse’s flagship storytelling programs. I didn’t have an appropriate venue for her extraordinary solo show. When we teamed up with The Bijou, Kimleigh Smith was the first person I called. We are very lucky to get her here from Los Angeles. It’s a one time deal.”

Smith, who was a cheerleader at Emporia State College and went on to the Miss Kansas Pageant, will have you howling in your seats in hysteria while clutching your heart. Her story is an honest attempt to inspire everyone to find their own strength, as she found hers after a bad turn of events after a football game, where she had been certain she’d snagged the quarterback’s heart. However, she was gang raped by the “hero” and a few of his friends.

Like many rape survivors Smith suppressed her rage by saying, “That’s okay, that’s alright,” and then getting on with her life. The journey of facing what happened and reclaiming her paralyzed body is at the heart of

“T-O-T-A-L-L-Y!” “The story of “T-O-T-A-L-L-Y!” is inspirational, entertaining as all get out, and truly worth seeing,” says David Vining of www.nytheatre.com. He continues by writing, “Kimleigh Smith’s presentation is polished, honest, and specific, down to her own shiny superhero-themed program. See this great performance.”

“T-O-T-A-L-L-Y!” won Kimleigh Smith top honors in New York’s International Fringe Festival in 2010 and Hollywood’s 2010 Fringe Festival. “Thanks to Smith’s superhuman vivacity, her blistering sense of humor,

“T-O-T-A-L-L-Y!” is among the best of Theater Asylum’s Hollywood Fringe,” wrote Steen Leigh Morris of LA Weekly.

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A musical sound that is as unique as it is uplifting and unclassifiable. The Voices Cafes presents The Kennedys on Friday, December 7.

You just don’t listen to The Kennedys once. Believe me. I tried. Their music is as varied and innovative as it is infectious and begs being experienced over and over again.

Maura and Pete Kennedy’s career spans two decades from their early days in Austin, Texas to a just completed European tour.

Pete is a one-person band playing electric and acoustic guitar, Fender bass, electric sitar, Rickenbacker 12-string jangler, ukulele, mandolin, and banjo. He also performs both lead and background vocals and writes much of their music.

While Pete twangs away Maura paints musical landscapes with her crystal bell voice sometimes sweet and soulful, sometimes urgent, but always soothing. Primarily the lead vocalist, she’s also ready to mix it up with Pete on acoustic and electric guitars, and uke.

Pete does the music and Maura is the self-expressive lyricist.

Their sound is as unique as it is uplifting and unclassifiable.

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Follow a festive path illuminated by more than 20 lighthouses – creatively built using everything from yarn and stained glass to coffee-creamer cups and personal computers – during the 11th annual “Festival of Lighthouses” at The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk. The lighthouses were built by local artists, and visitors can follow these homemade beacons through the galleries and then cast a vote for their favorite. The lighthouse that gets the most votes wins $1,500.

“They’re beautiful. They’re funny. They’re clever. They’re intricate. They’re exquisite,” the Aquarium’s marketing director, Chris Loynd, said of this year’s lighthouses. “Every year, we’re blown away by the time and effort that people put into designing and building these lighthouses.”

Entries in the display this year include a lighthouse made of intricately cut pieces of stone, a lighthouse that makes a foghorn noise when a lever is pressed, and a lighthouse that comically represents the 12 days of Christmas. (For the partridge in a pear tree, look for a photo of the bus used on TV’s “The Partridge Family.”) At least one lighthouse is modeled after a real light – the famous West Quoddy Head Light in Lubec, ME.

Besides the $1,500 top award, other prizes are: $750 for second place, $375 for third; $300 for fourth; $225 for fifth; and $150 for sixth. Winners will be announced at an evening reception on Jan. 25. The display is free with Aquarium admission, through Jan. 21, 2013.

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