BIG READ FINAL EVENT features live jazz music, dancing and drama!

Quincy’s finest musicians are coming together to support the 2010 Big Read: Quincy, a community wide event hosted by the Quincy Public Library featuring The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.  

Bob Havens, arguably the greatest trombone player in the world, will join Les Fonza, Ben Bumbry, Steve Parke, Bob March, Dennis Bingheim, Jesse James Mazzoccoli and David Damm to perform for All That Jazz: The Final Party, the culminating event for the 2010 Big Read.  All That Jazz: The Final Party is a theatrical performance written and produced by Connie Phillips and Valerie Hernandez of the Quincy University Theater Department. 

All That Jazz: The Final Party will take place on Friday, October 8th at 7:00 p.m. in the grand Morrison Theater, located in Quincy Junior High.  Audience members will view firsthand the inner dialogue of Jay Gatsby’s famed parties complete with music, dancing and drama.  Follow along as the journey of Nick Carraway unfolds before your eyes.  Witness his struggle with fame, fortune and the illusion of the great American dream.

This program is free and open to the public, but tickets are required.  Tickets are available by reservation only and may be picked up at the Quincy Public Library.  To reserve your ticket, call 223-1309 ext. 207.  Tickets are limited to 4 per person.

Kick-off Was A Success!

Thanks to all our Big Read participants for making our Big Read kick-off a "roaring" success!  We had about 750 Big Read fans come out to the Women's City Club on that day, including 100 Quincy Notre Dame students and about 20 Quincy University students.  All 925 copies of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald have been distributed to the community; so we are all out!  Here's a few pictures from that wonderful day: 

Don't forget to come to any of our upcoming programs.  Coming up is our Roaring Twenties Film Series on Monday, September 13 at the Senior And Family Resource Center.  We will be showing Singin' in the Rain, that classic musical with Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O'Connor.  It offers a comic depiction of Hollywood, and its transition from silent films to "talkies."

Although it was a big hit when first released, it was not accorded its legendary status by contemporary critics. It is now frequently described as one of the best musicals ever made, topping the AFI's 100 Years of Musicals list, and ranking fifth in its updated list of the greatest American films in 2007.

Please remember to register to all our Big Read programs.  As of this writing, we have 60 people signed up for this film showing.