Sonny Fox Hosts "Broadway to Brooklyn"
Saturday, October 24th, 7:30 p.m.
"Wonderama" host Sonny Fox will be visiting P.S. 217 next month to host "Broadway to Brooklyn." Fox, born in Brooklyn in 1925, attended the school in the 1930s. (Coincidentally, P.S. 217 opened the year that Fox was born.)
Fox served as the host of several iconic children's shows on Channel 5 (WNEW-TV) in the 1950s and 1960s:
"Wonderama," an award-winning, four-hour show on Sunday mornings that he hosted from 1959 to 1967, and "Just for Fun," which broadcast for two-and-a-half hours on Saturday mornings from 1959 to 1965.
Fox
will regale listeners with interesting stories and personal
recollections about some of the
great composers and lyricists of the 20th century and the Broadway songs
or film scores they created that are so familiar to many.
Last year, Fox published his book But You Made the Front
Page: Wonderama, War, and a Whole Bunch of Life. The title comes from a comment his mother made in 1977 when she read in the New York Post that her son had been laid off from his job as vice-president of children’s programming at NBC.
"I was staring balefully at the headline when my assistant said, 'Your mother’s on the phone.' I said, 'Ma, I got fired.' She said, 'Yeah, but you made the front page!'"
The fund raiser is for Friends of
P.S. 217, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit that raises money for the school's arts programs. Impressed by the arts programs that the school offers to its
students, Fox volunteered to do a fund raiser to support these
programs.
Tickets to the performance cost $25 each. A limited number of VIP
tickets will be available for $100 each; they include a private reception
with Fox before the show and a signed copy of But You Made
the Front Page. Purchase tickets by using the form at http://fo217.org/events.
Location
P.S. 217
1100 Newkirk Avenue
(between Coney Island Avenue and Westminster Road)
Ditmas Park, Brooklyn
