It was a lot

There’s the theater! As my dear wife Karen and I approached our destination down South Salina Street, the new marquee outside the Landmark Theatre sure looked nice. How many times did I take these steps anticipating a show back in the day, I thought? Many times. Many steps. Always much faster heading back toward the…

DeSantis Orchestra pumps up our holiday spirit

Maria DeSantis entertains her community. Maria DeSantis, her fantastic orchestra and a steady line of special guest performers know how to rekindle the holiday spirit, A joyous crowd drank in 25 holiday selections from the Syracuse ensemble Sunday night at the Landmark Theatre, moving the Christmas-show string started by orchestra founder Mario DeSantis to an…

I didn’t turn into a pumpkin

My dear wife Karen really, really wanted to see Cinderella The Musical. She asked quite nicely if I’d accompany here to the beautiful Landmark Theatre in downtown Syracuse, two day’s after Valentine’s Day. Date! I told her I might even break out in song. “Oklahoma!” I started in the living room of A Bitty Better.…

Shine on, almost Harvest Moon

I was hit with this startling sight in downtown Syracuse when my dear wife Karen and I stepped out of the Landmark Theatre after seeing Jersey Boys Friday night. I believe we were one night past the official Harvest Moon here in the Northern Hemisphere. I know it was a beautiful nearly full moon over…

Love, Love Me Do, for Beatlecuse and Orange

Paul Davie plans long and works hard to put on the annual BeatleCuse show in Syracuse’s Landmark Theatre. The promoter and musician picked Saturday night as the date for the third edition of his merge between a large and talented collection of the city and its surrounding area’s best musicians and a couple of special…

A dress-up party at the Landmark feels right

We skipped my dear wife Karen’s office party last year. For some reason. Saturday night we put on the nice clothes, drove the 3 1/2 miles downtown from the Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, and mixed and mingled with her co-workers from the Syracuse Media Group in the beautifully restored Landmark…

Beatlecuse proves to be an excellent match of city, music

Why would dozens of Central New York’s finest musicians get together on a cold February night in the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse to play Beatles music? Because they can. I mean, they really, really can. Beatlecuse 2015 on Friday night proved for the second year running that when you set these all stars of several…

All-Beatles show will visit ‘Abbey Road’ this time around

This year’s Syracuse Beatles spectacular will send its all-star cast out on the Landmark Theatre stage to deliver the goods from the memorable album “Abbey Road.” The name of the evening is “Beatlecuse,” and it’s the work of Paul Davie and his My Generation Music Promotions Company. Davie also plays guitar and bass and sings…

Bernie Williams, at the park and in the theater

Bernie Williams would rather talk about his current pursuit as a guitar player than his past career as an all-star center fielder with the New York Yankees, publicist Steve Fortunato said while setting up my phone interview two days ago. I can respect that. During a very invigorating phone conversation yesterday, Bernie Williams told me…