There is a season … and this fall was one for the reuniting of two Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Tower Player alumni for theatrical arts’ sake.
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Scene Around: RFH Marching Band Marches into a Win
And the band played and marched on … right into a big win.
Continue reading Scene Around: RFH Marching Band Marches into a WinRFH Tower Singers Get ‘Distinguished’ at NJ Teen Arts Festival
You could say that the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Tower Singers have distinguished themselves among vocal musicians.
Continue reading RFH Tower Singers Get ‘Distinguished’ at NJ Teen Arts FestivalFocus: An RFH PAS Final Bow
It was no performance.
When Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School Performing Arts (PAS) seniors got together for a banquet recently, it was more like a very real final bow to one another for a bittersweet goodbye flush with impromptu performance and love of the arts and one another.
Continue reading Focus: An RFH PAS Final BowScene Around: RFH Basie Award Winnings
And the winner is … Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) for four 2024 Basie Awards.
Continue reading Scene Around: RFH Basie Award WinningsBasie Center Cinemas Movie Theater Now Serving Alcohol
Having a cocktail at the movies just became legit at a historic movie theater in Red Bank.
Continue reading Basie Center Cinemas Movie Theater Now Serving AlcoholFocus: Rumson-Raised ‘Punk Rock Queen of the Jews’ Rossi’s Homecoming
Who says you can’t go home again?
Oh, it’s been said, but clearly not by anyone who ever knew the RFH grad and famed raging skillet full of chef, author, playwright and punk rock queen of the Jews known as Rossi. Yes, that’s a mouthful of matzo ball soup with a little “L’Chaim!” on the side.
Continue reading Focus: Rumson-Raised ‘Punk Rock Queen of the Jews’ Rossi’s HomecomingRFH Wins Big with Basie Award Nominations
They got the callback!
The 2024 Basie Award nominations have been announced; and, Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) performers, directors and crew got thunderous audition applause with 17 chances at award wins for on-stage and behind-the-scenes work in two shows.
Continue reading RFH Wins Big with Basie Award NominationsLiving the Dream: Staying Authentic with Another Memoir from RFH Grad Rossi
Does the world really need another memoir?
It’s a question with which famed New York City caterer, author and playwright of The Raging Skillet known as Rossi — we’ll get to her real name later — grappled. Originally, the wild child and Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) graduate of a different kind figured the answer was a hard “Yes.” After all, when it’s all about how a gay Jewish punk rock queen plucked the jewels out of her own crown, who could resist?
After ingesting too many opinions like a bad bowl of matzo ball soup — as if there could be such a thing — it was Rossi’s healing try at third-person fiction writing of her story that opened a buried crown-induced wound leading to a full-on bleed-out. It was when she doused the wound in hydrogen peroxide’s purifying sting that its authenticity got an air-out healing in what became her second memoir — The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews.
After all, she figured, the world could really use a good dose of what it takes to pull those jewels out of the crown of a 1981 Crown Heights experience as a not-so-good Jewish girl. Who couldn’t use a story of endurance and hope simmering under a heap of authenticity?
So, the second Rossi memoir, sans recipes and the more silly, albeit unbelievable, misadventures, was launched last week with a reading in New York. Now Rossi is coming home again to the Rumson-Fair Haven area with a reading, signing and gathering of hometown friends and townies at River Road Books in Fair Haven on Thursday, May 2, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m..
Continue reading Living the Dream: Staying Authentic with Another Memoir from RFH Grad RossiScene Around: RFH Tower Players Playing & Winning
Five, six, seven, eight … and curtain up! Every player plays. But, behind the glaring spotlight on every Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Tower Players stage performer is a lot of rehearsal and skill honing.
Continue reading Scene Around: RFH Tower Players Playing & WinningFocus: An ‘Anything Goes’ Curtain Call & Kudos
It’s been nearly a week since the cast of Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School’s (RFH) production of Anything Goes took that final bow.
Continue reading Focus: An ‘Anything Goes’ Curtain Call & KudosStaged: RFH Tower Players Tap into Cole Porter’s ‘Anything Goes’
Call it a staged Bon Voyage! The Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Tower Players are about to set sail on the S.S. American in their production of Cole Porter’s classic golden age musical Anything Goes.
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