Jazz and Mel Brooks
The Lady Blue Saxophone Quartet will perform a program of jazz standards and seasonal music on Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton. The group's concerts combine talent, musical training, inventiveness, and humor.
"The Career and Films of Mel Brooks," a talk by Greg Blank, a Long Island-based filmmaker, film historian, and lecturer, will take place at the library on Monday at 6 p.m. The presentation will range from Mr. Brooks's early days as a Borscht Belt comedian and performer to his iconic comedies, including "Young Frankenstein," "Blazing Saddles," and "The Producers."
Holiday Market
NEW DATE AND TIME: Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Due to inclement weather expected on Saturday, Madoo has postponed its Merry Madoo event to Sunday.
The Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack will be open Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for Merry Madoo, its annual holiday market. Offerings include Madoo-grown paperwhites, lady apple pomanders with vintage velvet ribbons, fresh-cut boughs, pottery from Mae Mougin, and more. Gretchen Comly, Layer, and Local Wool Company will be among the vendors.
The free event will also include chestnuts roasted over an open fire (for those "Christmas Song" fans), hot mulled cider, and, after noon, vin chaud.
Albee’s ‘Zoo Story’
Our Fabulous Variety Show, the nonprofit performance and arts education organization, will launch a new theater initiative, the Staged Series, with readings of Edward Albee’s “The Zoo Story” on Tuesday and Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Clubhouse in East Hampton. The series, which aims to provide adult actors with performance opportunities, will continue through the winter..
Starring Edward Kassar and Joe Pallister, the one-act play concerns two characters, Peter and Jerry, who meet on a bench in New York’s Central Park. Isolation, loneliness, miscommunication, and dehumanization in a materialistic world are among Albee’s themes.
The doors will open at 6, and attendees can buy food and drinks at the cash bar before the show. Admission is free, but donations will be welcomed.
