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QUEENS WEEKLY, MARCH 15, 2020
Courtesy of the Frank Sinatra School
BY GRANT LANCASTER
Students at the Frank Sinatra
School of the Arts in
Astoria are starting their
two-weekend run of iconic
musical Hairspray on
Thursday.
The musical tackles
race relations in 1960s
Baltimore and features
famous musical numbers
like “Good Morning Baltimore”
and “You Can’t Stop
the Beat.”
Performances run
March 5-7 and March 12-14,
with one show at 7 p.m. on
Thursdays and Fridays and
two shows at 2 p.m. and 8
p.m. on Saturdays.
General admission tickets
are $25 and tickets for
students and seniors are
$15. Musician and painter
Tony Bennett opened the
Frank Sinatra School of
the Arts as a public performing
arts school in
2001 in Astoria, Bennett’s
hometown. The school
also receives support from
Exploring the Arts, a nonprofit
that Bennett and his
wife started.
IHOP set to open
at the Bay Terrace
Shopping Center
BY JENNA BAGCAL
Breakfast lovers rejoice.
IHOP will soon come to the
Bay Terrace Shopping Center.
According to a spokesperson
for the Cord Meyer
Development Company,
which owns the open-air
mall, the eatery will replace
the former Lasia restaurant
at 211-33 26th Ave.
Word of the pancake joint’s
arrival first emerged on
Facebook at the end of February.
Cord Meyer could not
confirm when IHOP plans
to open but said that it will
operate in the space next to
the Express clothing store.
The news comes on the
heels of store closures and
management changes at
the shopping center.
The IHOP will join two
other Queens locations,
one in Flushing and the
other in Jamaica.
IHOP, which is an acronym
for “International
House of Pancakes” opened
its first location in Los Angeles
in 1958. Since 1958,
the breakfast food purveyors
have opened over 1,800
locations across the United
States and worldwide.
Astoria school presents limited run of ‘Hairspray’