Atlantic City Weekly

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Labor Day Weekend may be the unofficial end to summer, but Ocean City isn’t letting the season fade away quietly. In fact, they’re sending the season off with music. Cole Porter music, to be exact.

Starting Sunday, (Sept. 5) with performances also on Tuesday Sept. 6th and Wednesday Sept. 7th, The Ocean City Pops and the Ocean City Theater Co. team up to present Porter’s Anything Goes at the Music Pier.

The show takes place on a cruise ship in the 1930s and is a musical farce. Porter’s score includes several American standards such as “It's Delovely,” “Friendship,” “I Get a Kick out of You,” and more.

William Scheible conducts the POPS Orchestra as shipboard shenanigans, terrific tapping, spectacular costumes, contagious music  and hilarious comedy comes to life on stage with a cast of professional singers, dancers and actors from across the country.

Kelly Swartz, a graduate of New York University serves as Choreographer with Staging Direction by OCTC Artistic Director, Michael Hartman. Kelly Martin an accomplished pianist and Music Director will over see music for the cast.

Tickets are $20/$15 and available at the Music Pier Box Office. Call 525-9248 or visit www.ocnj.us. Show times are at 7:30pm.

The city also couldn’t let one last chance at summer silliness go by. The annual King and King of Plop contest begins on Fri., Sept.3 at 11am on the 9th St. Beach adjacent to the Music Pier.

Contestants will be asked to fall theatrically  (and in slow motion) to the sands. The man and woman performing the most original renditions will be crowned the “King and Queen of Plop.”



After the winners are named, all contestants will hold hands and plop in mass in a display of goodwill. Registration starts 10:30am on the 9th St. Beach adjacent to Music Pier.

Entry is free and prizes will be awarded. All participants receive a Plopping Certificate to document that they were in the unique event and to impress the folks back home.
609-398-4662.

Saturday, Sept. 4 LSO begins a series of farmer’s markets that will be held every Saturday in September and October. Fresh produce from area farms will be available at City Hall Annex Parking Lot, 901 Asbury Ave., from 8am-1pm. For information, call
398-4662.

Performing Arts
Sunday Sept. 5
C.S. Lewis Drama
Ocean City Tabernacle, 5th & Wesley Ave.  Performance by David Payne portraying C. S. Lewis. Admission is free.7pm. Call 399-1915 or visit www.octabernacle.org.

Sunday Sept 5 and Sept 7 to Sept. 8
O.C. Theater Co. - Anything Goes
Music Pier, Moorlyn Terrace & Boardwalk, Ocean City. Rounding out the 2010 Summer Season of the Ocean City Theatre Company  and the Ocean City POPS, is the musical comedy, Anything Goes.  $20/$15. 7:30pm. Call 525-9248 or visit ocnj.us.

Attractions

Ocean City Arts Center
1735 Simpson Ave., Ocean City. Mon.-Fri. 9am-9pm, Sat. 9am-3pm, Visit oceancityartscenter.org or call 399-7628.

Ocean City Fine Arts League
608 Asbury Ave., Ocean City. Aug.: Beach to Bay. 10am-6pm daily. 814-0308 or oceancityfineartsleague.org.

Ocean City Historical Museum
1735 Simpson Ave., Special 2010 exhibit “Buckets of Fun: Sand Pails & Beach Toys”
Free. Call 399-1801 or vist ocnjmuseum.org.