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THIS PROGRAM WILL BE STREAMED LIVE FROM OUR JOHN DREW BACKYARD THEATER
Salieu Suso – Kora and vocal / Ebrima Jassey – balafon / Jimmy Mngwandi – bass / Claes Brondal- drums
Salieu Suso was born into a family of musicians from Gambia, West Africa. At the age of 8, he was trained to play the West African Harp, the 21 stringed Kora. He is also recognized as a descendant of the originator of the instrument, JaliMady Wulayn Suso. He performed throughout Africa and Europe before coming to the U.S. where he freelances with other musicians today. Ebrima Jassey, born in Namibia, West Africa, and currently residing in the Bronx, plays the balafon, a wooden xylophone. He took up learning the instrument at the age of 9 and performs with his brothers at various restaurants and colleges. He also plays as a street performer. Jimmy Mngwandi got his musical start at age 11 playing bass on the streets of Bophelong Townsip in South Africa to help his single mother. Discovered playing a guitar fashioned out of an oil tin and wood, Mngwandi made his way to Johannesburg where he quickly made his name. Today, he is among South Africa’s most sought after bassists, writers and producers, He has performed with legends like Mirium Makeba, Hugh Masekela, saxophonist David Murray, flutist Yusef Lateef, bassist Rufus Reid, Jamaican Gutarist Ernest Ranglin and Sbongile Khumalo; and written and recorded platinum CDs for Sony/South Africa, Bongo Maffin, Brothers of Peace and Simphiwe Dana’s album, Bantu Biko Street. Mngwandi has also recorded his own album, with the EMI/South Africa group Bezwaan. Claes Brondal was born in Denmark, playing the drums since early childhood. Studied with drumming greats such as Ed Thigpen, Gary Chaffee, Kenwood Dennard and others. Versatile in many styles of music – especially loving jazz, funk, Afro/Cuban, Brazilian and Rhythms of the World.
*Your purchase of one ticket is for one Lawn Circle, which can sit a party of up to two people. All lawn circles are 6 ft. in diameter and are distanced 6 ft. away from other parties. Please bring your own blankets and/or beach chairs. For more information, visit the Theater FAQ page.
Join award-winning puppeteer Liz Joyce and her cast of lovable characters for a series of puppet shows. Held in Guild Hall’s new John Drew Backyard Theater, shows explore themes of sharing, friendship, and saving the environment, as well as classic fairy tales with a twist.
Get ready to explore the world under your feet with in this underground puppet adventure; The Doubtful Sprout. Tunnel down with Worm and Sprout as they discover the mysterious life found inside soil. Along the way, kids help figure out the secrets that help Sprout grow. Award-winning puppeteer, Liz Joyce, brings this ecological wonderland to life with multiple puppetry styles, projections, and song.
Appropriate for families with children ages 3–7
*Your purchase of one ticket is for one Lawn Circle, which can sit a party of up to two people. All lawn circles are 6ft. in diameter and are distanced 6ft. away from other parties. Please bring your own blankets and/or beach chairs. For more information, visit the Theater FAQ page.
The Doubtful Sprout was funded in part by a Family Grant from The Jim Henson Foundation
Join award-winning puppeteer Liz Joyce and her cast of lovable characters for a series of puppet shows. Held in Guild Hall’s new John Drew Backyard Theater, shows explore themes of sharing, friendship, and saving the environment, as well as classic fairy tales with a twist.
Combining three well-loved stories, The Princess, The Frog, & The Pea delights audiences of all ages. A princess, a witch, an un-enchanted frog, a hoot owl and a neurotic pea are the stars of this mixed-up tale.
Appropriate for families with children ages 3–7
Please note: to better accommodate our new Backyard Theater and ensure that the entire audience can view the incredible detail and craft of each puppet, we have changed the show from Little Red Riding Hood to The Princess, The Frog, and The Pea.
*Your purchase of one ticket is for one Lawn Circle, which can sit a part of up to two people. All lawn circles are 6ft. in diameter and are distanced 6ft. away from other parties. Please bring your own blankets and/or beach chairs. For more information, visit the Theater FAQ page.
Join award-winning puppeteer Liz Joyce and her cast of lovable characters for a series of puppet shows. Held in Guild Hall’s new John Drew Backyard Theater, shows explore themes of sharing, friendship, and saving the environment, as well as classic fairy tales with a twist.
Designed for our youngest audiences, Minkie and Friends follows the tale of Minkie the Monkey and his experiences of sharing, growing, and playing with the world around him.
Appropriate for families with children ages 3–7
*Your purchase of one ticket is for one Lawn Circle, which can sit a party of up to two people. All lawn circles are 6ft. in diameter and are distanced 6ft. away from other parties. Please bring your own blankets and/or beach chairs. For more information, visit the Theater FAQ page.
Free Clean Money, a collaborative piece by Katherine McMahon and Ray Angry, is an outdoor art installation and performance that will debut at Guild Hall of East Hampton, NY during the Phase 4 reopening in New York State. Exploring the powerful emotional response triggered by money, “Free Clean Money” evaluates the perception of value, privilege, and the ethics associated with a dollars’ origins and who has access to it. It is an exploration into the freedom that money offers as well as the mental and societal barriers it imposes. “Free Clean Money,” presented outdoors at Guild Hall, will feature $500 of the artist’s own money on silver platters while a composition entitled “The Protest” by Ray Angry plays on loop. The money is on offer to visitors of the exhibition with no other conditions. The dollars will be routinely disinfected by the artist. This project contends with the individual’s hardwired attraction to money, the hoarding of wealth and an attempt at detachment from it. It is an exploration of the principle of reciprocity and the quandaries that arise when money is offered in unconventional ways, devoid of any obligation of repayment. Presented in the wealthy enclave of the Hamptons, the piece will also function as a social experiment and an opportunity to expand and transform the participants sense of place.
If you missed the brilliantly acted, hilarious and romantic virtual reading of Same Time, Next Year by Academy and Emmy Award winner Julianne Moore and Academy nominated and Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe award winner Alec Baldwin, you are in luck, for one month, the performance will be available for online streaming to be watched online anytime, anywhere from July 17 through August 16, 2020. Running time of the program is 90 minutes. The cost of streaming is $9.99, and proceeds from this on-demand offering benefit Guild Hall, the Hamptons legendary hub of arts, entertainment, and culture, greatly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic but undeterred in creating art by any means necessary.
The online premiere took place on Sunday, July 12 with tickets at $100 per household. Under the direction of fellow actor and friend, Bob Balaban, Baldwin and Moore brilliantly reprised the roles of George and Doris, lovers who meets annually for 26 years as their individual lives evolve and mature. The real life friendship and rapport between Baldwin and Moore was palpable and transcended the medium. Dozens of viewers to the premiere heaped praise on the actors and the direction:
They succeeded, not only as impossibly charming and emotionally gripping, but as a rare glimpse into the commitment each actor felt for his//her craft, especially when done in service to a beloved institution. –Jody
Now you can catch the same program at your convenience with the knowledge that your rental is supporting Guild Hall.
Julienne Moore photo by Brian Bowen Smith. Alec Baldwin photo by Marco Vacchi.
Join Chairman of the Board Marty Cohen, Executive Director Andrea Grover, Museum Director & Chief Curator Christina Strassfield, John Drew Theater Artistic Director Josh Gladstone, and The Patti Kenner Fellow in Arts Education Anthony Madonna to learn all about the revamped 2020 Summer Season at Guild Hall.
Free with required registration. Private Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours before the meeting. Please be sure to sign up for a free Zoom account ahead of time.
We look forward to seeing you there!
For any questions, please contact Membership and Special Events Associate Manager, Leta Mumgaard, at lmumgaard@guildhall.org.
One of the most popular romantic comedies of our time, Same Time, Next Year ran four years on Broadway, winning a Tony Award for lead actress Ellen Burstyn. It remains one of the world’s most widely produced plays. The plot follows a love affair between two people, Doris and George, married to others, who rendezvous once a year. Twenty-five years of manners and morals are hilariously and touchingly played out by the lovers.
The performance will benefit Guild Hall and launch our new vision for the 2020 Summer Season with a focus on restarting the local creative economy through collaborations with regional artists, musicians, and performers, online and offline.
“Delicious wit, compassion, a sense of humor and a feel for nostalgia.” The New York Times
“Genuinely funny and genuinely romantic.” New York Post
After you purchase your tickets a link to the reading will be emailed to you 24 hours prior to the reading.
Join David Leopold as he takes us on a tour of the Hirschfeld Century, an 82-year era in which Al Hirschfeld both recorded and defined so much of popular culture, especially through his drawings of productions on Broadway and in Hollywood. He was there at the birth of television and captured its first half-century. He recorded more popular music than any MP3, CD, LP, or wax cylinder ever did. His drawings of dance are among his most accomplished works. Leopold has spent 25 years studying Hirschfeld’s work, the first 13 as Hirschfeld’s Archivist, visiting him in his studio once or twice a week. In addition to curating exhibitions at the Library of Congress, the Field Museum in Chicago, and the Academy of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles among others, he is the Creative Director of The Al Hirschfeld Foundation. His book, The Hirschfeld Century: A Portrait of the Artist and His Age (Knopf), has been called by The Washington Post, “An instant classic.” Booklist declared, “Leopold emulates the economy and fluidity of Hirschfeld’s drawings in this star-studded, anecdote-rich, critically clarifying, and thoroughly enlightening portrait of the portraits.” His illustrated talk will show you rarely seen images as well as old favorites, and will include a post-show audience Q&A moderated by Josh Gladstone, Artistic Director of the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall.
A link to the live broadcast will be emailed to ticket holders in their confirmation receipts and again 24 hours in advance of the show.
