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Providence businesses still struggling a year after the R.I. Convention Center was forced to close due to COVID-19
With the field hospital closed, but equipment still being stored in the Convention Center, local businesses wonder whether theyâll be able make it through more months without the usual crowds
By Alexa Gagosz Globe Staff,Updated March 10, 2021, 6:00 a.m.
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Ruth Ferrazzano owns Murphy s, which is an Irish-American pub and New York-style deli that has been open since 1929.Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff
PROVIDENCE â For the last 40 years, people would flock to Murphyâs Pub starting at 9 a.m. on St. Patrickâs Day. The Irish pubâs owner, Ruth Ferrazzano, would watch them gathered on Fountain Street, wearing layers of swinging emerald-colored Mardi Gras beads, four-leaf clover pins, and shades of green that ranged from chartreuse to a shadowy seaweed.
Navigant Credit Union Announced As Title Sponsor Of KINKY BOOTS As Part Of Experience PPAC Program
From March 1 - 12, high school students throughout Rhode Island will be able to virtually watch the Tony-winning musical in their classrooms or at home.by BWW News Desk
J.L. Lynn Singleton, President & CEO of the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC), has announced that Navigant Credit Union is the title sponsor of KINKY BOOTS, as part of PPAC s Experience PPAC program.
From March 1 - 12, 2021, high school students throughout Rhode Island will be able to virtually watch the Tony Award-winning musical in their classrooms or remotely at home, at no charge. High school teachers are invited to register for Experience PPAC s presentation of KINKY BOOTS at ppacri.org/outreach/experience-ppac
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“You’ve never heard anything like this!”
That was a common refrain in the early 1920s when the grand movie palaces across the country began to introduce audiences to a new musical invention: the theater pipe organ.
A century later, the same may soon be said at the city of Medford’s historic Chevalier Theatre, where the installation of a 1922 Wurlitzer theater organ is approaching completion.
The theater pipe organ was an early 1900s creation of a British inventor and telephone engineer, Robert Hope-Jones. He called his instrument a Unit Orchestra, because it was designed to imitate and sound of a full orchestra – some 300 instruments worth – at the hands (and feet) of just one person: the organist.
Providence Performing Arts Center Taking Scholarship Applications
I’m a person of the arts. Well, I’ve dabbled, and that s what life is all about – seeing something you like and giving it a shot in some capacity. Some would say the best time to do your dabbling is in your youth. If you’re harboring some real talent for the stage, you almost have to give it shot.
If you’re between the ages of 11-14 and a Rhode Island student, then the Community Outreach Committee of the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) has an opportunity for you. At a minimum, what you learn will make a great story for your TikTok.