Despite Hurricane Sandy which stopped much of Scarsdale in its tracks for a week, the Scarsdale High School Drama Club weathered the weather and is proud to present this year’s musical Guys and Dolls November 16, 17, and 18 at Scarsdale High School. "Guys and Dolls," A Musical Fable of Broadway, is based on Damon Runyon’s fabulous stories of Broadway and is set in his mythical New York City. This musical romantic comedy is considered to be one of the greatest musicals of all time. Frank Loesser’s toe-tapping score, including fan-favorites such as “Luck Be a Lady,” “Sit Down You’re Rocking the Boat,” and “A Bushel and A Peck” is the perfect music to complement Runyon’s colorful characters.

The show has something for everyone including fun dance numbers, big laughs, and romantic love ballads. The main characters are Sarah Brown (played by Sophie Laruelle); a mission sergeant bent on fixing all the troubled sinners of Broadway; Sky Masterson (Nick Cioffi); a smooth, high-betting gambler; Miss Adelaide (Ali Whitney); star of the Hot-Box night club; and Nathan Detroit (Gavin Elwes); head of the oldest-established crap game in New York.

Nathan Detroit starts the story in a fix; he has no place to hold the crap game and he is out the $1,000 to furnish the spot. His sidekicks Nicely Nicely Johnson and Benny Southstreet convince him he should bet Sky Masterson that he can take Sergeant Sarah Brown to Havana. Meanwhile, Miss Adelaide of the Hot-Box night club is engaged to Nathan Detroit and after 14 years is more than ready to tie the knot. The four characters, along with the large cast of crapshooters, Hot Box dancers, mission girls, and Havana dancers, perform a fun and exciting, classical Broadway musical that shouldn’t be missed!

The talented cast includes: Sayeef Alam, Josh Ben-Ami, Celia Berman, Doug Berman, Molly Bookner, Ava Bradlow, Nicole Brenner, Rebecca Buchwald, Nick Cioffi, Vicky DiSalvo, Caroline Donat, Chris D'Silva, Gavin Elwes, Sunny Feinstein, Gabi Gaujean, Steven Gluck, Luis Grisanti, Caroline Huh, Rebecca Jacobs, Sophie Laruelle, Adam Lerner, Bryant Lo, Ilana Newman, Briana Orrico, Marco Pompa, Rebecca Primoff, Sydney Prince, Megan Reynolds, Sydney Robinson, Biana Rogoff, Nicole Root, India Stachyra, Jake Staffin, Ali Whitney, Alexa Winowsky and Julia Zecchini.

"Guys and Dolls" will be performed on Friday, November 16th at 7:00 PM, Saturday, November 17th at 7:00 PM, and on Sunday, November 18th at 2:00 PM. Tickets are available online at http://shsguysanddolls.eventbrite.com.

Scarsdale High School seniors didn’t let Hurricane Sandy ruin their Halloween. The seniors were originally scheduled to follow a longstanding tradition and wear costumes to school on Halloween morning, Wednesday October 31. But when the Village was knocked out by the storm, school was cancelled. Kids rescheduled their day of masquerade for the following Tuesday, November 6, and fortunately missed the Nor ‘Easter that rolled in the following day.

Here is the class of 2013 dressed up as Santas, Black Swans, Pizza Chefs, Gangstas, the Sesame Street gang, and more. Their happy faces and colorful garb are a welcome respite from power outages, snarled branches and chaos.

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The Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ) at Westchester Reform Temple are sponsoring their Annual Holiday Boutique. The event on November 29, 2012 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm features over 35 specialty vendors displaying a range of enticing, one-of-a-kind items at varied price-points, and a “CASH FOR GOLD” table. High fashion women’s clothing, designer handbags from around the world, contemporary apparel and selection of choice jewelry hand-crafted here in New York and as far away as Israel are especially attractive. There are gifts for everyone from warm to wear to delicious to eat: olive oils to taste and choose; catered, gift wrapped desserts; personalized children’s party favors and gifts; beautiful children’s clothing crafted from new, vintage and recycled fabrics; artistically designed scarves and sarongs from Asia; unusual hand knitted scarves; luxurious accessories; art bags; note paper…so many choices. Handcrafted Judaica items are especially discounted.

Emphasizing the theme that “shopping can be charitable,” the line-up of goods from local merchants to Israeli-made items gives shoppers the opportunity to fulfill personal meaningful goals as well as support vendors whose proceeds benefit children’s charities worldwide. Sales of handmade South African items help fund a pediatric HIV/AIDS clinic in Durban. Profits from the boutique benefit WRJ designated charities in Westchester and Israel.

There is no admission fee to this event, which is open to the public. Parking is also free. Checks and credit cards are accepted. Westchester Reform Temple is located at 255 Mamaroneck Road, Scarsdale, NY. For more information, please call 914-723-7727 or visit www.wrtemple.org.

A dazzling array of Judaic crafts and jewelry will be shown and sold at the annual Bet Am Shalom Synagogue Judaica Craft Show, now in its 19th year. The show begins on Saturday, November 10, at 8:00 pm and continues on Sunday, November 11, from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm. Admission is $8.00 per person (Sunday re-entry free if paid Saturday night), or $7 with the invitation card or an online voucher.

The show features hundreds of unique works in all price ranges, created by 50 artists – nearly half from Israel, the rest from the U.S. and Canada; they include many well-loved favorites along with a dozen entirely new to the show. Featured are one-of-a-kind items representing the finest in handcrafted Judaica ritual items and stunning contemporary jewelry in original designs. Visitors will also discover beautiful objects in ceramic, silver, fabric, wood, paper and other media, created for ritual, decorative and practical use in the home and synagogue.

The artists, who will be present to talk with visitors about their work, were selected by Judaica art specialists from a large pool of applicants. Also on view will be the Judaic crafts of ILAN, the Israel Foundation for the Handicapped. Local artists exhibiting include Rachel Heisler of Scarsdale and Beth Haber of Poughkeepsie.

Ann Schaffer, show chairperson, said, "Jewish tradition encourages us to create, beautify and celebrate all aspects of Jewish ritual and practice. It is a joy to see how the show’s artists creatively imbue even functional objects with meaning, in work that is always fresh and original.”

She added, "Many Judaica collectors visit the show year after year to keep current with new developments in the field, because this is the only juried show of its kind and caliber in the Northeast."

Funds from the show support the artists and Bet Am Shalom Synagogue and its vibrant role in the Westchester Jewish and wider community. Approximately 200 volunteers help with the logistics of this annual event.

Bet Am Shalom Synagogue is located at 295 Soundview Avenue (near Route 125/Old Mamaroneck Road) in White Plains. For additional information and directions please call 914-946-8851 Monday through Friday or visit www.betamshalom.org .

Samples of the artists’ work and a discount voucher may be found at www.betamshalom.org/judaica_craft_show .