The Northeast Theatre’s Spruce Street Cabaret Presents “Music in My Soul”

A Step Back in Time…

Judy Jaymes loves to time travel, and she’ll happily take you along. Her time machine is a song, and she makes the journey effortless by the way she sings it. On Saturday, October 28, 2006 at 4 p.m. she will transport you half a century back in time, as part of The Northeast Theatre’s Spruce Street Cabaret. You don’t need a living memory of the big band era songs that are featured in her cabaret performance, Music in My Soul, to appreciate them. The songs are so fresh and vivid that you’ll wake up the next day expecting headlines about Harry Truman.

It is particularly appropriate for Judy to be singing these songs in what is now the Performance Space at the Jermyn — and what used to be the main ballroom for the Hotel Jermyn — for that room is filled with the musical ghosts of the great. Many of the most celebrated singers of the 40’s and 50’s performed there: Tony Bennett, Frank Sinantra, Rosemary Cluney, and others of their caliber. Scranton was where the best artists of the day tried out their acts. The expression was, “if you can play Scranton, you can play anywhere”, and a lot of very talented performers took that phrase absolutely to heart; they tempered their musical souls on the audiences of this coal town because if they could reach the heart of a miner with a song, they could conquer the world.

Ms. Jaymes will be communing with that tuneful spirit as she weaves a bond with her own present day Scranton audiences (now much friendlier than they apparently were in the past) with a repertoire of music celebrating the release of her new CD. She invites you to listen to songs you remember (or not) with new ears and an open heart, and to rediscover a time when music was sweet even, if life was not always easy.

Music in My Soul is presented by The Northeast Theatre’s Spruce Street Cabaret on October 28th at 4 p.m., Performance Space at the Jermyn, 326 Spruce Street, Second Floor, in the heart of Downtown Scranton.

Tickets are $10 general and $5 for students 25 and under. Tickets may be purchased at the box office Wednesday through Saturday 3:00 p.m. until curtain, by phone at 570-558-1515, or online at www.thenortheasttheatre.us