Weekend Picks: A Loverly Weekend

From London to Newark, they will be dancing all night at NJPAC, which brought to New Jersey the 50th Anniversary London production of My Fair Lady, with original British cast members Christopher Cazenove and Lisa O’Hare — Professor Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle. Through Sunday, www.njpac.org for show times and tickets.

We know of two other stage spectaculars. At the Mayo Center for the Performing Arts in Morristown the collaborative dance company Pilobolus, with its “unique weight-sharing” choreography, has a performance Saturday at 8 p.m. 

And at Princeton’s McCarter Theater Jason and the Argonauts search for the Golden Fleece in Argonautika, critically acclaimed for a “wondrous set” that features monsters, nymphs, demons, ships at sea. There are weekday and weekend performances through April 6.

On Easter Sunday, two traditional New Jersey Easter parades. Asbury Park’s 73rd annual kicks off at 1:30 and Atlantic City’s 132nd at 2 p.m.

More Shore things beckon this first weekend of spring, as amusement parks and boardwalk entertainment piers are offering half price sales. From north to south, you can try Point Pleasant, Seaside Heights (www.funtownpier.com or www.casinopiernj.com) and Beach Haven.

And if you want to be outdoors elsewhere, the New Jersey Audubon Society is sponsoring spring hikes to find birds and other living things newly awakening to life. The walks are scheduled at several Audubon sanctuaries Saturday including Scherman-Hoffman in Bernardsville, the Plainsboro Preserve, and the Rancocas Nature Center in Mount Holly. They are all listed at www.njaudubon.org/Calendar/caldate.html.

Finally, jump start your weekend with a laugh by listening to Debra Galant read from her new book Fear and Yoga in New Jersey — that’s tonight at  7 p.m. at Café Eclectic (444 Bloomfield Ave. in Montclair). Debra, the very funny co-founder of baristanet.com, wrote this second novel about a stressed-out Jersey yoga teacher (www.debragalant.com) whose son re-awakens to Judiasm and wants a Bar Mitzvah, just as her husband is fired, and her parents in Florida are threatened by a hurricane.

And you thought you were stressed — relax and enjoy the weekend!

Tags: Atlantic City | Morristown | Princeton | New Jersey Performing Arts Center | Seaside Heights | Asbury Park | Beach Haven | Point Pleasant | Easter

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