Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 87

B2 rm "7" jti ii McWinner The multitalented multi Crammy-winning Bobby McFer-rin takea hia four-octave range to Tillea Center Brookville at 8 tonight Ticketa are (25 $35 (45 call 516-299-3100 or visit wwwtilleacenterorg CM Crossword Challenge Across 1 Hofktra University Student Center north aide of Hempstead Turnpike Hempstead 2 Charity: Christa House Dows 1 Tomorrow 10 am to 6 pm 2 Entry fee $55 spectators free 3 516-877-2616 The Write Stuff The annual "Meet the Book Fair is at Southampton College on Montauk Highway with 90 local writers signing their books Tom Wolfe whose books include "The Right gets the John Steinbeck Award The festivities run from 4 to 7:30 tonight Admission is $25: call 631-287-8347 In Hunting-ton blacklisted actress Betsy Blair below signs her memoir "The Memory of All at 3:30 pm Sunday Tickets to see Blair who eventually starred in with Ernest Borg-nine at the Cinema Arts Centre are $850 $7 seniors students call 631-423-7611 wwweinemaartscentreorg- i I I 4 i Ii Black Cinema at the Parrish The Southampton Museum has a weekend festival that covers "race from as long ago as the 2 Os to the contemporary "All About A dance party follows kickoff at 8 A weekend pai to the 25 Lane aeries is $15 call 631-283-2118 for reservations and information Lollywood Plays Brookvllla A selection Stars" from Paid- Lahore-based film industry wiQ -ha singing anH Hanging at a special night tonunrow at 7 Tickets for the evening at lilies Center with Khushboo and others are $50 $100 and $200 CaU 516-2994 3100orgotowwwtiUescenterorg n-k-jFikuiMrnn-' TT' -r-r- -ii WweeweMweiHi- A Met Before Highlights MOVIES 2X2" B3 Blue Car" BH Dancer B8 "The Uuia McGuire Movie" B9 B9 FOOD DAY Dinner Tonight B45 Eats: Gianni's Bar A Grill B45 Dining News A Note B45 MUSIC DANCE Pearl Jam B3 Big Gigs B34 The Artaria B35 With the Band B35 Hot Spot B37 Dance Clubs B37 Bright Eyes B39 Local Sounds B41 B43 THEATER B2 Cast Calls B22 B22 "West Side Story" B23 MUSEUMS ART Brown: Portraits in Jess Blues and Other B31 Small world it? Mendes and Peters recast the classic BROADWAY REVIEW STfSY Book by Arthur Laurents music by Jule Styne lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Directed by Sam Mendes with lets and costumes by Anthony Ward choreography by Jerome Robbins and additional choreography by Jerry Mitchell Lights by Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer musical supervision by Patrick Vaccarieilo Shubert Theatre 44th Street west of Broadway Seen at preview By Linda Winer aTArrwnmui anticipation had its own sound it would have to include the spontaneous applause that swept over each iconic Broadway melody during the overture of preview of The overture This waa not the sort of crowd that would permit itself to sing along but the thrill of recognition Never Get Away From Coming Up kept releasing itself in ripples of tender supportive delirium It is hard to remember a revival that arrived with more anxiety and affection than this which opened last night at this Shubert Theatre with the controversial notion that the iprototypically piquant Broadway baby Bernadette Patera would make' an unlikely' but ideal jU mi a arJit Hi issSsf Namdar Unite An Uuu John Dossstt Bemadatta Patera and Tammy Blanchard in the new revival of Also Inside MWfHMM Bridge Cornice Dear Ab by Events B28 B26-27 B24 B18 esssssaeteesseseesssseeMssM choice to play the backstage monster-mom created by Ethel Merman And despite or perhaps because of the negative buzz around Sam Mendes vision for the beloved 1959 masterwork the house seemed infused with the uncharacteristic scent of theater people rooting for success Wo would love to report that the hope waa justified Perhaps Mendes after his smashing rethinkin hiaiOscM iX'DlJu ilUif- IDlI' dlwi ing of and hia brilliant decade leading Warehouse had to blow hia streak sometime We just wish it happened with Hia production is by no means a disaster If is merely a conventional ordinary stolidly professional and routine retelling of one of the last and one of the most important of the fcjiUULiMSLSS5 Family Filmgoer B4 Comer B19 Kidsday B29 Movie Clips Timetable B4 Pussies eoseeeseeeeeeeeseassasseeeeeeeeess B28 lUdlO eeeeeeesoeaesessafeeeeeeeMeess B49 Tptovifljofl ieWMnyiwnMMyyP4fr61 Video BSBsbassheesAeMfirfMbAa B51 JJ a it'i tibi.