AOA9 birthday drawing: Drink Schenectady, Proctors, SLOC, MopCo, Perecca's, Villa Italia

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Drawing's closed! Winner's been emailed! Thank you, Bullwinkle!

It's AOA's birthday week -- and you get the presents!

Today's prize basket is focused on Schenectady...

Drink Schenectady
A pair of tickets for Drink Schenectady April 15 at the Schenectady Armory. (Tickets are $40 each.)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Proctors
A four-pack of tickets to see the stage musical version of Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Proctors May 16.

SLOC Musical Theater
A pair of season passes for the 2017-2018 season at SLOC (West Side Story, Jesus Christ, Superstar, Curtains, Sister Act).

MopCo
Five pairs of tickets for events at MopCo.

Perecca's
A $25 gift certificate for Perecca's.

Villa Italia
A $20 Villa Italia gift certificate.

CDTA Navigator card
And, as with every AOA birthday drawing this week, the prize pack also includes a CDTA Navigator card pre-filled with $20.

To enter the drawing, please answer this question in the comments:

If you created a stage show about something in the Capital Region, what would be the title?

It could be a dramatic play, a musical comedy, a one-person show, whatever. Be creative and have fun with it.

We'll draw one winner at random. That person gets the whole basket of prizes.

Important: All comments must be submitted by 3 pm on Thursday, April 6, 2017 to be entered in the drawing. You must answer the question to be part of the drawing. (Normal commenting guidelines apply.) One entry per person, please. You must enter a valid email address (that you check regularly) with your comment. The winner will be notified via email by 6 pm on Thursday and must respond by 6 pm on Friday.

Comments

..it would be the show of all capital region local food favorites, featuring mini hot dogs!

Schenectady: The Hidden Capital Region Gem

I would make a show about Jerry Jennings and Albany Politics

Cookies to 5k. Collective tales of people who train for and run their first Freihoffers run For Wonen.

Maybe an historical look at the authors and composers who have lived in the capital region!

I would create a play featuring the melo-drama of Albany's politics!

"Best Little Whorehouse on Pearl Street"
A whimsical musical about the adventures of "Legs" Diamond!

The All Over Albany Revue!!!!

Ok. Found this crazy pizza on a farm in schuylerville and it was amazing. It would also be a good haunted musical idea: Farm Pizza the Musical.

"All Summer in a Day (and puzzlingly that day happened in February)"

Without a doubt it would have to be a political story, but let's go comedic. There's enough serious crap going on these days.

Clifton Spark

A whodunnit mystery revolving around a string of arson attempts to chain restaurants.

Is it the idyllic local restauranteur Chris Victopher? The opportunistic development company U.V. MARKS looking to clear space for condos? Or just a disgruntled HVCC student that couldn't hold on to any dishwashing jobs at each of the locations hit?

Because in this bedroom town...you've got to sleep with One. Eye. Open.
*BWWWWWWWWWWAMP* (sorry, I started thinking this was a Christopher Nolan major motion picture).

Cuomo Capital Region Give Away! about how Cuomo passes up the Capital Region for the big give aways in state aid

Spit Meets Spat: When Capital Region Sculptures Come to Life

"Orange you glad I'm your Mayor" - the Jerry Jennings story

Democratic Machine 2: Gilibrand Rising!

A Tale of Three Cities: The Musical

A small ensemble dramedy. Death of a salesman meets Pee Wee's Playhouse called: "Tickets are like 500 dollars there's no god damn way"

The story of a man's slow decent into mania and madness due to his significant other constantly playing the Hamilton soundtrack on shuffle around the house.

The Two Lip Queen

Alva! A musical comedy about the life of Thomas Alva Edison a la Amadeus

a one man show
CORNING -- "The man in the Plaid Jacket"
Staring J.K.Simmons

Winter Amnesia: A never ending nightmare

Smallany is Grand, a play on words. It would be a show about all the exciting places to see, go and eat the the Capital region since many feel that there isn't much to see or do.

A high school District office...;-)

The story of how it took a transplanted downstater (Vic Christopher) to triumph over downstate regulations to bring Uber to upstate New York! It could be called Uber Over Albany...

Nipper: A love story.

A sarcastically serious documentary (a la Reefer Madness) about the evils of Road Diets.

Road Diets: a powerful narcotic in which lurks MURDER! INSANITY! DEATH!

Bikers cry for it! Commutes die for it!

A project from the Devil's Garden!

A lighthearted play revolving around the blatant corruption that has always been an integral part of Albany

Cabbies - the musical drama memorializing the soon-to-be-cabbies-of-old, and their struggles against their overly demanding customers, as transportation oversight and ridesharing services are introduced which overhaul the system and threaten the very existence of the consummate capital region cab company. The theater would have to install dirty pleather bench seating with scratched and smudged plastic barriers at eyeline, and patrons would ushered to their seats via a circuitous route (with nonsensical accelerations) to deliver multiple patrons to their destinations first.

Hamilton 2: Electric Boogaloo

The Big Thaw
The comedy about the affliction that comes over the Capital Region when the sun finally starts shining and spring has sprung.

O Albany! A show based off the William Kennedy book.

Alive at 5 AM

The show would be called Melting Pot and it would be about how immigrants made/make this place what it is (history, culture, etc.) and tell it through food.

Little Little Italy
A show all about the three Italian businesses that make up Schenectady's Little Italy section(street).

NIMBY
A horror story about a man who buys a residence in the center square and discovers his home is surrounded by bars, festivals, and people trying to have a good time.

Maybe a comedy ? Life in a pothole .

A musical, I think, one of an ambitious politician's life and loves -- and the illegitimate granddaughter who would one day be president. We shall call it:

ERASTUS!

Taxi Crabs: A musical comedy about taxi service in Albany

Potholes - A Tragedy

The Dog on the Roof

The Egg on Your Face
A hilarious comedy

show set with albany's local eats, mini hot dogs, fish fry

It would be about the kickball league I play in, Empire State kickball. Very entertaining.

Twenty to anywhere.

A film, Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for the Plaza, in which Mothra is hatched out of The Egg and—after its larva forms a cocoon around the Corning Tower and transforms into a giant moth—battles Godzilla. In the dramatic conflict, Empire State Plaza is destroyed. Mothra flies away to rest her wounds. Godzilla is tired as well and, after accidentally knocking down the 787 elevated highway, ramps, and South Mall Arterial, takes a long nap by the Hudson. While sleeping, he dreams of a peaceful world and is inspired to change his ways. After he wakes, he joins Albany residents to clear away the remains of the Plaza, restore the urban grid, and build affordable townhouses, shops, and city services, healing the Rockefeller wound. Stay tuned for the sequel, when Mothra returns . . .

Splendor in the Tulips

Beneath the shadow of the Robert Burns statue

Helderberg 911!

The Oldest Profession in Troy, a musical set in Mame Faye's brothel on 6th Ave

Greater Capital Region: Three rough around the edges upstarts named "Al, Schen, and Troy" go through life despite the pressures and taunts of those around them. A thrilling story that will leave you speechless as they learn to survive living on nothing but doughnuts, BBQ, and Moroccan food

"All the Bars of Saratoga".... the musical!

Egg City

Underneath the Egg - Best Kept Secrets of the Capital Region

"Death Cab for a Cutie"...a dark comedy about a trying to get anywhere in the Capital Region when you can't drive because you've had surgery or too much to drink and either way the cabbie is drunk anyhoo if they show up.

I think a one man show featuring Henry Hudson saying what he went through to get here and what he envisioned for the areas futures

Mud Season

A magical show taking place in a fantastical world of oversized tulips. Think Alice in Wonderland meets Wizard of Oz meets the Tulip festival.

When Uber Gave You A Lyft - The Rural Hipster Struggle (is Real)

Leave it to Beverwyck

spencer

"Hipster Paradise" the story of Troy NY

"I'm from New York...no not the city"

Tulips in May

Potholes and snow: an Albany Winter

The Haunted Capitol

Albany Politics

Love on Lark :)

Here Lies Benedict Arnold's Foot - a Hamilton style Arnold treatment about his heroism (Saratoga) and betrayal.

The Grog Shoppe of Horrors!

Hot Air - the story of a crazed scientist who discovers how to how to turn the exhalations of politicians into fuel

Tulip Queens

The Tale of the Marketable, Jobless Millennial

Rocky & Erastus - a play about the building of the Empire State Plaza

The Troylet: Duchamp's Greatest Fountain

Potholes galore!

Gunshot, Firework, Blown Tire? - story of" young adults" learning how to "survive" outside of the familiar suburbs they grew up in.

Rivers that Tie and Divide

That's Small, Benny!
A rollicking musical about the history of Arbor Hill from the 1900s to the present, with tapdancing military men highlighting Albany's contributions to WWI and II.

Well this is an actual story....I'd like to see a play about my little block which was once part of the Underground Railroad and later on a speakeasy in my neighbors basement with a tunnel leading in to my house! Troja Underground!

The Weather here isn't great...

"Dominoes Falling"

Where the Canal Ends

"TryOut in the TriCities" -- a musical history of local sports teams!

Schenectady: A Spark to Pierce The Dark

The Nippertown Follies!

::Saratoga Socialites::

A Musical telling of old and new money in Saratoga. Mary Lou Whitney versus Michele Riggi.

Angela Lansbury and Kristen Chenoweth are set to star.

Tastes Like Swill, But You'll Drink it Anyway:

The Politics of Albany Brewing, from Killian Van Rensselaer to Dan O'Connell

(based on information I learned from AoA and Craig Gravina on the Bad Boys tours)

Includes a pint at intermission.

The Veteran Panhandler Monologues

Albany is for Derby: History of Albany All Stars Roller Derby

10 Things I Hate About Albany- The musical. A musical satire poking fun of all the complaints people constantly lodge about Albany, which in actuality is a great place to live in so many ways.

Beer cider and food. The local tour of the capital region by way of my stomach

"More Marble, More Problems: A Very Special Evening With Nelson Rockefeller" [A one-man show exploring Rockefeller's relationship with Albany]

The Plaza: How to Kill a Neighborhood in 10 Easy Steps

Death of a Nine Pin

The Fourtunate One's comedy movie that follows a couple for a year. They are both State workers so they have enough time off to enjoy all that the capital region has to offer . It was given an R Rating only because of the language used during the Saratoga Race Track season.

A Romeo and Juliet spoof storyline feauturing the Malozzi and Mazzone families.

21 Club movie is about four guys that have one drink in twenty one of the Capital Regions best bars in one night

Striped Jumpsuit ...a drama about Capital Region Politicians that go to jail

Chinese Nazi: The Soup Nazi of Troy

Rental Noobs - comedy & drama

Downtown troy from the ghetto to the gentrified hipster mecca

Downtown troy: from ghetto to gentrified hipster mecca

A Romeo and Juliet spoof storyline feauturing the Malozzi and Mazzone families.

The ghosts of the ruling dutch in Albany Rural Cemetery come back to discover the present (as would the forgotten poor/immigrants - buried there in unmarked graves). In the present political climate, lots of lessons about greed and good ensue...It's gonna be inspiring, I'll let you that.

Oh, I forgot the title:
Rise of the Almshouse

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