Landmark on Main Street will host a lineup of headline performers this month, beginning on Friday, April 20 with the 8 p.m. show, Look Both Ways Before Talking: The Second City Returns to Landmark.
Since opening its doors in Chicago back in the early 1950s, The Second City has produced 57 years of cutting-edge satirical revues while launching the careers of comedy superstars Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray and more. Edgy, thought-provoking and always spectacularly funny, The Second City is celebrating nearly six decades so they know a thing or two about the power of the spoken word.
Look Both Ways Before Talking makes a full-course banquet of the tasty verbal tidbits that have us all thinking twice about dinner table conversations. No need to avoid politics at family dinners or de-friend your old high school pals — The Second City dives right into the touchy subjects you’re thinking about, but are afraid to say out loud… or online.
On Saturday, April 21 at 7 p.m., Landmark will host VoicePlay, seen worldwide on season four of NBC-TV’s “The Sing-Off.” This Orlando-based group recreates the orchestrated sound of an entire musical production with nothing but the human voice. What began as a street corner act has evolved into an internationally-acclaimed touring sensation that must be seen (and heard) to be believed. Port Washington’s own Schreiber High School A Capella Choir will open the show.
Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn, the 2017 Canadian Songwriters’ Hall of Fame inductee, comes to the Jeanne Rimsky Theater on Tuesday, April 24 at 7:30 p.m.
One of Canada’s finest artists, Cockburn has enjoyed an illustrious career shaped by politics, spirituality, and musical diversity. His remarkable journey has seen him embrace folk, jazz, rock, and world beat styles while traveling to such far-flung places as Guatemala, Mali, Mozambique, and Nepal, and writing memorable songs about his ever-expanding world of wonders. “My job,” he explains, “is to try and trap the spirit of things in the scratches of pen on paper and the pulling of notes out of metal.”
Cockburn’s 2017 release, Bone On Bone, was inspired by his musical contribution to a documentary film about the late, seminal Canadian poet Al Purdy, and includes the brilliant “3 Al Purdys,” a six-minute epic that pays tribute to Purdy’s poetry.
Rounding out the week will be a free Conversations on Main Street event, Arshay Cooper: Sugawater. Cooper’s life is a study in determination, discipline and the power of sports to overcome extreme life challenges. His recent memoir, “Sugawater,” tells a very personal story that resonates with youth and adults alike.
Arshay grew up on the west side of Chicago rife with gangs and crime. Rejecting the gang life, he joined the first all-black high school rowing team at Manley Career Academy, a move that Arshay claims “saved his life.” After rising to team captain and graduating high school, he dedicated two years of his life to AmeriCorps, helping thousands of high school students complete 40 hours of community service before graduating.
In 2002, he enrolled at the Le Cordon Bleu Chicago. Over the next decade, he had a very successful career in the food business before returning to his true passion — working in the inner city, where he coached the Chicago Youth Rowing Club, served as a public school chef instructor and youth mentor, organized rallies for the Stop the Violence’ movement, and founded programs to assist in keeping kids off the street.
Today Arshay works closely with the East Side Indoor Rowing Program that he founded in 2016, serves on the board of Row New York and Hope Culture, and travels the country working as a motivational speaker. Arshay’s talk at Landmark will include an audience Q&A and his book will be available for purchase.
For more information about any of these April events, call 516-767-1384 or go to www.landmarkonmainstreet.org. Tickets are available through Landmark’s box office, 516-767-6444.
Landmark on Main Street is located 232 Main St. in Port Washington.
