Busy, Busy, Busy.

12-16-12 SHORT HILLS: Hectic Holiday Happenings Highlighted by HJF. Where to start? We went to the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart for their annual carol sing. It’s a great venue with great music and, if you like carols, the CD is available on their website, www.cathedralbasicilia.org. That was Wednesday, I think.

Thursday we were off to Brooklyn for the Packer Middle School performance of ‘The Little Mermaid’. It was opening night and the audience was agog with excitement. The taut and compelling dramatic and emotional content of this theatrical offering was almost too much to bear for some of the younger attendees. Granddaughter Lucy was dominating as Queen Triton.

BTW granddaughter Maggie’s and her friend, Hope’s, music video has become a You Tube hit that has had over 120,000 views in a week. It can be seen, heard and downloaded at: http://wesinghappysongs.bandcamp.com/track/gangnam-style-cover You could also Google ‘wesinghappysongs’.

Saturday was back to the city for ‘A Prairie Home Companion’, Garrison and the gang were good as ever. Itzhak Perlman played a subway violinist on Guy Noir. After the show we dined at BXL with Leesa and Roger, our theater companions.


Cathedral Basilica Carol Sing, lit up and candlelit.

Queen Triton.

'A Prairie Home Companion' warms up.

Times Square with lots of Santa's.