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with Father John Sheehan, SJ
and Woody Regan
Wednesday, December 16 - 1:30 pm
Council Senior Center
241 West 72nd Street
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Greetings!
All the great moments of life are accompanied by music, or remembered in song. Come join Father John and Woody Regan as they share the music of some of life's best moments: holiday songs, drinking songs, songs about love and marriage and children and work and country and too many wonderful events to list here.
There is no admission, but a voluntary contribution is suggested - $10 is probably a fair number. Money goes to the Council Senior Center. Come early, because last time, all the seats were filled.
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| CURRENT ACTIVITIES
Chairman of the Xavier Society for the Blind and assists at St. Malachy's Church (the Actors' Chapel). He is chaplain for the New York Athletic Club, American Legion Post 1870 (which meets on board the USS Intrepid) and the Notre Dame Club of New York. He is a member of Actor's Equity, the Episcopal Actors Guild, the Blue Hill Troupe, the Mario Lanza Society, the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, the Lamb's Club, and the Cornell Club. He is also a double Paul Harris Fellow.
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Woody has been conductor or pianist for many well-known performers, including Elly Stone, Kaye Ballard, Liliane Montevecchi, Olympia Dukakis, Donnie Osmond and David Cassidy. In collaboration with Sam Shepard he created and played the piano score of Shepard's play When The World Was Green (A Chef's Fable) which opened The Signature Theater's Shepard Season at The New York Public Theater and The Singapore Festival for the Arts. In Moscow, Woody became the first American composer to perform his own work at The Moscow Art Theater. He also composed incidental scores for many plays, including A Taste of Honey (directed by Michael Mayer) and Marvin's Room at the Crossroads Theater.
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| Chief Fr. John
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PAST EVENTS
He's been singing and performing all his life, a boy soprano, a child model, singing with the Light Opera of Manhattan, dinner theatre tours and summer stock, and a season with the great Arena Stage in Washington. He has done voice-overs, local commercials, radio, and he was Cantorial Soloist in a Jewish Temple for 2 1/2 years. As a Jesuit, he spent 12 years in Nigeria (West Africa) - he still holds two Chieftaincy titles - and almost three years in the South Pacific, in the Marshall Islands.
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 I will be leading a pilgrimage to the Holy Land from December 1 to December 10, so I wanted to send this early. I hope your holidays are filled with grace and celebration, and if you are unable to make this event (I know, it's in the middle of the day and it's a REALLY busy time of the year), I look forward to the next time I get to see you in person.
Sincerely,
Fr. John R. Sheehan, SJ
Xavier Society for the Blind
212-473-7800 |
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Father John has three CD's available. They will be available at the concert, and may also be ordered on line. If you buy them in person, they are $10 apiece, but you may take any 3 for $25 - all of one edition, or you may mix and match as you desire. Disks from the online service are $12 apiece, and may be found at
www.lulu.com
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