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Weekend Roundup for Dix Hills and Beyond

This weekend, visit with Santa, enjoy a family favorite show, see an art exhibit or even hear some music.

This weekend, visit with Santa, enjoy a family favorite show, see an art exhibit or even hear some music.

Holiday Happenings:

Visit the  on New Highway in Farmingdale for brunch this Sunday. Santa and Mrs. Claus will be greeting visitors in their custom-made gingerbread house. Kids can pose for pictures and take home a printed photo along with a goody bag. There will be a 100-foot brunch buffet. The cost is $25.95 for adults, $15.95 for kids under 10 and $5.95 for kids under 4. Seatings will be at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Call 631-391-9500 for reservations. Please note: Marines will be collecting new, unwrapped toys for "Toys for Tots."

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The Melville Fire Department invites residents to  on Saturday from 4-5 p.m. Santa will arrive on a fire truck in a parade with his friendly firemen friends at the Kohl's Shopping Center on Route 110 in Melville.

At the , on Round Swamp Road in Old Bethpage, celebrate the holidays the old-fashioned way, by candlelight. This Saturday and Sunday from 5-9:30 p.m. there will be 19th-century entertainment in historic buildings lit only by candlelight, as they would have been on holiday evenings during the 1800s. "Magic Lantern" shows, an 1860s Christmas tree lighting, holiday songs, period storytelling, hot apple cider, fiddle music and contra-dancing all add to the holiday spirit. There will be a holiday craft show as well in their decorated Exhibition Hall. Adults are $10, kids ages 5-12 and seniors over 60 are $7 and under 5 is free.

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Theater:

The Sound of Music continues this weekend at the John W. Engeman Theater on Main Street in Northport. A young nun, Maria, is sent to be the governess to an Austrian family of seven children and their widowed father, a naval captain, on the eve of World War II.  Maria brings love and attention to the motherless children, and shares with them her love of music, gradually capturing the heart of the stern Captain.  This family-friendly show can be seen Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 3 and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 7 p.m. Tickets are $60 and can be purchased at the box office or online.

The family favorite musical Annie is performed at two locations this weekend. Follow the adventures of the spunky, red-headed orphan as she runs away in search of her parents, and winds up celebrating the holidays with billionaire Oliver Warbucks.

At the Cultural Arts Playhouse on Old Country Road in Plainview shows are Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 4 and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 and 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at the box office, by calling 516-694-3330 or online.

At the Smithtown Center for the Performing Arts on Main Street in Smithtown shows are Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 2 & 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $18-$32 and can be purchased at the box office or online.

A Christmas Carol, the Charles Dickens' holiday classic, comes to the Patchogue Theater for the Performing Arts on E. Main Street in Patchogue. This musical, performed by the Gateway Playhouse, is set on Christmas Eve in 1843 London and is about the old miser Scrooge, the ghosts who help him transform, and the little child who touches his heart. Performances are Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 12 noon and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 and 7 p.m. Tickets are $25-$52 and can be purchased at the theater or online.

Music:

The Presents: Direct From LA - Sam Glaser in Concert on Saturday night at 6:30 p.m. Sam Glaser is a world-renowned cantor and recording artist and will be accompanied by Cantor Moshe Bear and students of the Dix Hills Jewish Center. A portion of the proceeds will go to benefit the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research. Admission is $25 per adult, $18 students 5-18 and under 5 is free. Contact the DHJC office at 631-499-6644 for ticket information.

Art Exhibits:

The  in Dix Hills continues their exhibit with Part 2 of "Double Take: A Member's Exhibition" this Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. This exhibit showcases the impressive talents of member artists. Paintings, drawings, collage, photography, print-making, ceramics, and sculpture created by the Art League's members are on display at the League's Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery. The gallery is open to the public free of charge.

The Huntington Arts Council sponsors the exhibit "Stop Action," which is on display through Jan 3 at the Art-Trium Gallery located at 25 Melville Park Road in Melville. This exhibition features the work by artist members Lillian Dodson, Alain Khadem, Frank Sposato and Marie Sheehy Walker. Each artist uses the medium of their choice to engage the viewer by stopping life long enough to give us a glimpse of the objects, elements and environments that move them to an act of creation. The gallery is open Mon. through Fri. from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Admission is free.

The Heckscher Museum of Art on Prime Avenue in Huntington continues two exhibits this weekend. First, features images of rock 'n roll stars of the past four decades by celebrated photographers.  Fifty-five images of rock and roll musicians will be exhibited from the early days of Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Chuck Berry, through the classic period of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who and The Doors, up to today's hip-hop musicians, Tupac Shakur and LL Cool J.

The second exhibit focuses on "evenings out" in a wide range of images depicting dining, dancing, music, theater and other night life scenes.  Paintings, drawings, photographs and prints from the Permanent Collection by artists such as Arthur Dove, Larry Fink, George Luks, Man Ray, Larry Rivers and John Sloan, among others, will be included. 

Both exhibits can be viewed Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission to the museum runs from $4-$8; free for members, children under 10 and certain days/hours. See website for details.

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