The Gathering Place for Great Performances at the Gateway to Woodstock, New York; Uniting Country Living with Fulfilled Expectations of Great Quality Performances; Rooted in the Founding of Woodstock: The Town, The Festival and The Destination
The Non-Profit Iconic Site of American Theatre & Music History Established 1938 as One of the First Rural Extensions of Broadway
by Robert Elwyn, A 5th Generation Member of One of Woodstock's Oldest Families
Singer/Songwriter Robert Arleo presents a New Musical
Saturday, June 6th of 2026
Show 7pm/Doors Open at approximately 6pm
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Singer/songwriter Robert Arleo has adapted his original love songs into a new musical, sure to delight and move audiences. LOVE STORIES: NEAT OR ON THE ROCKS features the universal aspects of love, including meeting, dating, wooing, marriage, separation, emotional exhilaration/ exhaustion and, yes, heartache and heartbreak. In sum, the many ramifications of the human desire to love and to be loved. The musical is set in “HADLEYS”, a fictional bar, with a group of players, each telling a story of an important love experience to “Bartender Emmy Fitzpatrick”, who listens, comments and offers advice based upon her long experience as a “bar psychiatrist of love”. As a trusted and wise sage of the human condition, Emmy does not disappoint in dispensing her knowledge of the aspects of love, gained after many years of tending bar at Hadleys, listening to tales of love as told by her uninhibited patrons.
Each story is a separate scene, 14 in total. After telling his/her story, the player sings an original song written by Robert Arleo, sure to make the audience laugh, smile, cry, remember and appreciate any good luck in love by relating their own love experience (be it neat or on the rocks) to Robert’s songs, feeling the many emotions which the power of love and music can elicit. The connection between love and music is worldwide, and LOVE STORIES: NEAT OR ON THE ROCKS will move the audience as only the music of love can.
Length: Approximately 120 Minutes plus a 15 minute intermission
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