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Muldaur, Feiffer, and More at Guild Hall

Tue, 08/27/2019 - 14:38

What better way for Guild Hall to wrap up its summer season than with a star-studded celebration of Jules Feiffer’s 90th birthday. On Sunday evening at 7, F. Murray Abraham, Tedra Millan, Mercedes Ruehl, and Harris Yulin will perform a staged reading of Mr. Feiffer’s play “A Bad Friend,” which “resonates with painful nostalgia and honestly appraised personal history,” according to Bruce Weber’s 2003 New York Times review.

The play focuses on Rose, a teenager growing up in Brooklyn in 1953 whose parents’ membership in the Communist Party leads to recriminations and betrayal. In a New York Times interview Mr. Feiffer said of the play, which is based in part on his own family, “Nobody turned out to be quite what they said they were.”

The evening will also include candid conversation and, according to a release, “maybe a little cake.” Tickets are $30 to $75, $28 to $70 for members.

The weekend will begin with a free reception for Tom Scheerer, an interior designer whose work is noted for its clear architectural solutions and stylish, comfortable furnishings. Mr. Scheerer will sign copies of his new book, “More Decorating,” at the reception on Saturday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Mr. Scheerer grew up spending summers at his grandmother’s house on the ocean in East Hampton and still has a residence here. “More Decorating” features 16 of his latest projects, including city houses and apartments, summer getaways in Nantucket, the Hamptons, and Maine, and tropical houses in Harbour Island, Antigua, and Abaco.

Jenni Muldaur, a folk, rock, and blues singer-songwriter, will bring together a group of friends for a night of music and comedy at Guild Hall on Saturday at 8. The daughter of the folk pioneers Geoff and Maria Muldaur, Jenni has performed or toured with such music icons as Eric Clapton, Todd Rundgren, Marianne Faithful, Elvis Costello, David Byrne, Lou Reed, and Rufus Wainwright.

In fact, Mr. Wainwright, whose albums include the Grammy-nominated “Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall,” will join Ms. Muldaur on Saturday, as will Teddy Thompson, another singer-songwriter, whose album “Bella” led to a world tour with Elton John.

The humor, leavened with music, will be provided by Ukelear Meltdown, Roz Chast and Patty Marx’s ukulele band. Ms. Chast, a renowned New Yorker magazine cartoonist, and Ms. Marx, a staff writer for the same publication, are known for their disregard for rhythm and refusal to tune their instruments. Despite that, they played with Bob Dylan and Joan Baez in the 1960s and ’70s.

Tickets, which are $55 to $150, $50 to $145 for members, can be upgraded for $130 to $215 to include a private three-course dinner organized by The Star at the Maidstone Hotel at 5 p.m.


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