By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
The Strand Theatre in Hudson Falls is undergoing yet another renovation — even as it continues staging all performances.
On Monday, Pete Sabo of Proficient Construction and Roofing and crew removed the back wall of the stage, revealing the original brick backstage wall.
The next step is to rebuild the stage eight feet back from where it was.
They’ll add two rows of seating …
By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor
Saturday, March 3, the students of the Amorak free youth music program at the Strand Theatre will give a concert sharing their progress. The concert is from 2-4 p.m. Admission is by $10 donation.
Director JoAnn Sifo took over this offering from the youth services non-profit Amorak after leader and accomplished musician Bob Bates of Hudson Falls passed away last September.
A guitarist-singer nominated …
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Chronicle Managing Editor Cathy DeDe writes: We’ve seen some fine shows and musical love-fests at the Strand Theater in Hudson Falls. The Wailers — next-generation Reggae group of Bob Marley fame — took it to the rafters, as demonstrative an audience as I’ve yet seen in Hudson Falls, on Saturday night, April 22.
Much of the show, much of the full house was up and standing, singing if not shouting …
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Read More »The Strand Theater in Hudson Falls presents “A Comedy Matinee with 90-Year-Old Marlene,” Saturday, March 4, at 4 p.m.
Marlene Osier tells The Chronicle she started doing comedy in her 60s, between acts as part of the Sweet Adelines women’s barbershop chorus. Word spread, and she paired with Patricia Joyce, the longtime Glens Falls-area resident and LARAC director, doing comedy sketches as the washerwomen “Maude” and “Gert.”
Eventually, Mrs. Osier …
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