WOODSTOCK FRINGE in collaboration with the PHOENICIA PLAYHOUSE present a new cabaret show performed by WALLACE NORMAN with music direction and arrangements by PAUL DUFFY, and stage direction by HANK NEIMARK. This "Stroll Down a Dusty Musical Road" is a very personal one for Wallace, one where he revisits his most important musical influences and mentors. This journey begins with Norman's earliest musical memory, from when he was 10 years old, stopping for a time with his many years working with the Off-Off Broadway theatre company Golden Fleece, The Composers Chamber Theatre, pausing briefly at the Eugene O'Neill Cabaret Conference and continuing to the present. Music performed will include songs from the musical theatre, traditional songs, and a set of songs written for Wallace from his Off-Off Broadway days. The program finishes with a set of songs by the great Jacques Brel.
This program is a joyful collaboration among three Hudson Valley artists, Wallace Norman, music director and pianist Paul Duffy and stage director Hank Neimark. Please join us at the historic and venerable Phoenicia Playhouse on the first weekend of May.
Tickets available at the door or in advance here: https://our.show/woodstockfringe-songsmostlyofthetheatre
May 1st 2026 (Friday Evening)
Doors @ 6:30 pm / Show @ 7:00 pm
May 2nd (Saturday Matinee)
Doors @ 1:30 pm / Show @ 2 pm
May 3rd (Sunday Matinee)
Doors @ 1:30 pm / Show @ 2 pm
@ The Phoenicia Playhouse - 10 Church Street, Phoenicia NY, 12464
Learn more @ https://www.woodstockfringe.org/
No orangutans were harmed in the making of this production.
WALLACE NORMAN (Performer) is an actor, playwright, director, and singer. He has appeared in more than sixty-five productions in Regional, Off-Broadway, Stock, Hudson Valley theaters, was a soloist at Carnegie Recital Hall and sang at the Eugene O'Neill Cabaret Conference. A denizen of the Off-Off Broadway arena in NYC, he is also the founder and Producing Artistic Director of Woodstock Fringe. For a decade the Fringe produced the annal Woodstock Festival of Theatre and Song at the Byrdcliffe Theater. Norman is the author of a solo play called BROTHER’S KEEPER which he has recently performed to critical acclaim in Dublin, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Byrdcliffe Theater in Woodstock, at the Phoenicia Playhouse and the Moses Gun Theatre Group in Danbury, CT. He is thrilled to dust off and again don his cabaret fedora.
HANK NEIMARK (Director) In recent years Hank has been very active in the Hudson Valley theater scene. He is especially proud of his work in 2025 as director of the acclaimed production of Mark St. Germaine’s DANCING LESSONS for Performing Arts Of Woodstock (PAW) and will direct PAW's March 2026 production of Andrew Bergman’s comedy SOCIAL SECURITY. Hank was co-director of Woodstock’s popular Summer Shakespeare Festival under the aegis of the Bird-On-A-Cliff Theater Company and he directed their production of BAKERSFIELD MIST in 2002. A STROLL DOWN A DUSTY MUSICAL ROAD is Hank’s first production at Phoenicia Playhouse and he is eagerly looking forward to directing a production of two one-act plays by the venerable Luigi Pirandello in the late fall of this year at this very same theater.
PAUL DUFFY Born in Dublin, Ireland to a somewhat musical family. Father was an amateur musician, grandmother a professional singer (musical theater, opera). Music was always in the home. When I was a young child, my father would sit me down and play classical records while pointing out the various parts of the orchestra and how they functioned; I could differentiate the sound of the oboe from the clarinet at age 5. Took piano lessons at age 7, but I wouldn’t practice; more fun playing outside. Took up guitar at age 11, inspired by the work of The Beatles and R&R. When I was young, the Beatles were a phenomenon, like nothing that had come before. Soon switched to piano, studying by ear, learning harmony from Lennon-McCartney compositions. Played in various pop and dance-bands, guitar/keyboards/trumpet, through high-school. Briefly attended Royal Irish Academy of Music after graduating HS, while continuing to play professionally. Moved to NYC, studied jazz. Still learning.
