Dunmore sisters featured in annual “Nutcracker” production

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This year’s performance of “The Nutcracker” will feature a sister act from our borough of Dunmore. Catherine Conway (kneeling left), Mae Conway (kneeling right) and Elizabeth Conway will be a part of the company presenting the Ballet Theatre of Scranton’s 41st production of “The Nutcracker.”

To date, “The Nutracker” has been staged 270 times, and 4,800 regional dancers have taken the stage to bring this Christmas gift to the community.

This year, Elizabeth Conway will take on the role of the Sugarplum Fairy, reprising her role from last year. Also featured in the production will be Selena Knowlton as Clara and Kegan Lance as the Nutcracker Prince.

BTOS and Marywood University will present the annual free performances of “The Nutcracker” Dec. 26, 27 and 28th at Marywood’s Sette LaVerghetta Theatre. There will be shows at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. each day.

Free tickets for the general public will be available two hours prior to the specific performance at the Marywood box office.

PLEASE NOTE: A maximum of 4 tickets per person per performance will be distributed on a first-come first-served basis.

Interested in becoming a Nutcracker sponsor? Seating benefits come to all those who support this annual holiday tradition! Visit www.balletscranton.org or call 570-347-2867  

Marywood University Presents Summer Concert

Marywood University’s music, theatre, and dance department presents the Marywood Summer Festival Band in a concert of traditional American band repertoire on Sunday, July 19 at 7:00 p.m., in the Sette LaVerghetta Center for Performing Arts located on the university’s campus. The concert is free and open to the public.

Cody Messersmith, a junior music education student at Marywood, and Anthony Fortuna, an alumnus of the University, will be the featured soloists, playing the tuba and the bassoon respectively. The concert will also include the overtures from “The Poet and Peasant” by Franz Van Suppé and “The Barber of Seville” by Gioachino Rossini, as well as show tunes and marches from the American band literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

For additional information on Marywood’s Summer Festival Band Concert, please visit http://www.marywood.edu/mtd/events, or call(570) 348-6268.