Seen here closing out the 2009 Season, President Tom Becker will offi cially open the 2010 Season with the traditional Three Taps of the Gavel before Morning Worship at 10:45 a.m. Sunday.

TOP PHOTO: Henry Shuler, 7, of Charlottesville, Va., searches for crayfi sh in the creek under Thunder Bridge June 16.

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A whole new season to discover.SEE INSIDE FOR PREVIEW STORIES COVERING EACH OF CHAUTAUQUA’S FOUR PILLARS.

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“Jersey Boys” is about overcoming the odds, remembering where you come from and maintaining the importance of loy-alty and family. Yet it transcends the story of Frankie Valli & the

by Joan Lipscomb SolomonStaff writer

What does it mean to be a person of faith in the 21st century? Week One’s chap-lain, the Rev. Alan Jones, tackles this quandary head-on. In fact, his theme for the week is “The Never-ending Conversation: Being a Person of Faith in the 21st Century.”

The chaplain’s sermon at 10:45 a.m. Sunday in the Amphitheater introduces the series with “The Burn-ing Bush: Saying the Unsay-able.” In Exodus 3:1-14, God answers Moses’ request for identifi cation by saying, “I am that I am.”

At the 5 p.m. Vesper Ser-vice on Sunday at the Hall of Philosophy, Jones will share his personal faith jour-ney. The series returns each morning at 9:15 Monday through Friday in the Amp.

Monday’s message ex-plores “Life in the Spirit: Education for Freedom.” St. Paul implored his followers,

Giving old songs a ‘new life’

by Laura McCrystal | Staff writer

When the original cast members of the Broadway musical “Jersey Boys” sang together for the fi rst time, they were strangers and the show did not even have a script, but they realized their voices blended together well.

Now, more than four years later, Christian Hoff, J. Robert Spencer, Michael Longoria and Dan-iel Reichard are touring as The Boys in Concert, living out the same story they told in the musical, and bringing their story to Chautauqua at 8:15 p.m. Saturday on the Amphitheater stage.

Original cast of Broadway’s ‘Jersey Boys’ hits on popular music from the ‘60s

of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons featured in “Jersey Boys,” The Boys in Concert also surprise fans with oth-er popular music from the 1960s. They bring their own energy and excitement to interpre-

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Jones

Chaplain addresses 21st-century faithJones to incorporate personal faith journey

in Philippians 2:1-11, to “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.”

At 7 p.m. Monday at the Turner Community Center, Jones will dedicate the new labyrinth. He draws on his experiences with that medi-tation form at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, where he is dean emeritus, and at France’s Chartres Cathedral, where he is an honorary canon. This event is open to the public, and those attending will need to bring gate passes.

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One of Chautauqua Institution’s most pop-ular lecturers, Roger Rosenblatt, returns for another appearance as host and modera-tor for the Week One morning lecture series, “Roger Rosenblatt and More Friends.” The weeklong conversa-tion will demonstrate the literary giant’s mastery of getting to the heart of the story.

Jim Lehrer, Alice McDermott, Alan Alda, Anne Fadiman and Marsha Norman

will join Rosenblatt to explore the humor, pathos and ideals of contemporary literary arts at 10:45 a.m. on the Amphitheater stage.

Rosenblatt will also serve as Chautauqua Literary & Scientifi c Circle author for the CLSC Roundtable/Lecture on Thursday in the Hall of Philos-ophy to present his book Making Toast: A Family Story.

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Roger Rosenblatt and More Friends

Week One reprises hugely popular theme

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Photo courtesy of Christian Hoff

The Boys in Concert will sing the “Hits of the ’60s” in the Amphitheater Saturday night. Left to right: Tony nominee J. Robert Spencer, Michael Longoria, Daniel Reichard and Tony winner Christian Hoff.

“It’s cool to go out there and represent a time we identify with even more than our own generation.”

— Christian Hoffmember of The Boys in Concert

Four Seasons, on whom the musi-cal is based, said Hoff, who played Tommy DeVito in the original pro-duction.

“It’s also bigger than us,” Hoff said. “We know that loyalty and family is everything. And we haven’t forgotten where we came from — ‘Jersey Boys’ — but we are taking that loyalty and looking to-ward the future.”

“Jersey Boys” won several Tony Awards and the original soundtrack of the show became a Grammy Award-winning plati-num album, but the four perform-ers eventually left the show and

took their careers in different di-rections. They reunited at the be-ginning of 2010 to open their tour as The Boys in Concert.

Within a month of beginning their tour, they had weekly shows booked across the country through February 2011. The group is in transition to a new name, The 4 Hitmen, and hopes for a lifelong career together, Hoff said.

“It’s just been amazing to get back together,” he said. “We missed singing together. And our friend-ship.”

Although they attract audi-ences who want to hear the songs

tations of songs from The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Monkees, Motown and more.

Most recently, they created a nine-minute medley of Motown music, which brought fans to their feet in Atlanta last weekend. Spen-cer, who played Nick Massi in the Broadway production, said it is his favorite number to perform.

With a variety of music from the 1960s, The Boys in Concert have created a show that appeals to au-diences of all generations.

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