By: Al Wicklund
MONROE The words, mannerisms and strong opinions of Eleanor Roosevelt, a president’s wife who had a political life and legacy of her own, comes to the township 7 p.m. Saturday.
Actress Joan Wolfberg will offer her version of the famed wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Monroe Township High School’s Richard P. Marasco Center for the Performing Arts.
The one-woman performance is being brought to the high school’s stage as part of a series sponsored by the Monroe Township Cultural Arts Commission.
Ms. Wolfberg, who is one of those actresses who seemingly is always working, currently is on tour doing one-woman performances on Golda Meir, the late Israeli stateswoman, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Ina Bondy, a spokeswoman for the commission, said Ms. Wolfberg has performed as part of the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater and Royal Palm Dinner Theater groups and has worked with the Actors Repertory Theater in Florida.
She also has been associated with the Florida Humanities Commission and the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities.
In addition, Ms. Wolfberg has her own company, One-Woman Productions.
Beyond Saturday’s show, the Monroe Cultural Arts Commission has two musical performances scheduled for May, both in the Richard P. Marasco Center for the Performing Arts.
On May 11, at 2 p.m., the @CT Theater Company will perform the songs of the award-winning "West Side Story," music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
The Ponds Resident Big Dance Band will perform the music of the ’40s and ’50s in the style of the Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and Count Basie bands and others of that era 7:30 p.m. May 18.
Admission is free for The Ponds Big Band. Ticket prices for the Eleanor Roosevelt and West Side Story performances will be $7.
The Cultural Arts Commission also will have two life-drawing sessions at 7 p.m. on consecutive Tuesdays, May 7 and 14, in Room 244 of Monroe Township High School.
The registration fee to draw or paint from a live model is $3.
For more information about the life drawing, call (732) 521-2111.
