SHADOWGRAM OFFICIAL ONLINE DARK SHADOWS
NEWS UPDATE # 309
Hello, Dark Shadows Fan,
ShadowGram (SG), The Official Newsletter & News Source for Dark Shadows (DS) announces the following key breaking news in this Official DS News Online Update "bulletin."
**** DS FESTIVAL WEEKEND - JUNE 28-29, 2014:
--- Updating: Hotel sleeping rooms availability
--- Clarifying: Saturday Only – Children’s half-price rate
--- Special Opportunity at legendary Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
**** LYNDHURST ESTATE FEATURED IN NEW MOVIE OPENING FEB. 14
*** UPDATING: DS FESTIVAL’S “2 DAYS AT COLLINWOOD” WEEKEND
SG Update # 308 (2-5-14) gave recent new information about this upcoming DS event in Tarrytown, NY (25 miles north of midtown Manhattan).
*** Sat., June 28 – 12 noon to 9:00pm – “Day at Collinwood” activities will be held at the Lyndhurst Estate, where the 2 DS movies (1970 & 1971) were filmed. After events end at Lyndhurst at 9:00 pm, fans can then join guest Sharon Smyth Lentz (DS’ Sarah Collins) at the nearby Tarrytown DoubleTree Hotel, where she will share ghost stories during an “Afterglow No-Host Party.”
Sun., June 29 – 11:00 to 5:00 – “Luncheon & Afternoon with the Stars” activities will be held at the Tarrytown DoubleTree Hotel, a short distance from the entrance to Lyndhurst.
**** PLEASE NOTE: SG CLARIFICATION - CHILD PRICE FOR LUNCHEON
Admissions for each day: These Adult prices as given are correct:
Sat. June 28: Lyndhurst Day - $40
Sun., June 29: Luncheon & Afternoon - $50
Sat., June 28: Lyndhurst Day
Child Price is correct: Children under 13 - $20 (Half-Price of Adult Rate)
Price clarification:
Sun., June 29: Luncheon & Afternoon
Child Price is $50 per child (same as adult) (There is no reduced price for Child’s Lunch)
All Luncheon attendees will receive a DS Gift Bag.
SG regrets any confusion. Thank you.
PLEASE SEE SG UPDATE # 308 for important and complete information about registering to attend for either day or for both days.
The Festival’s general mass mailing is being sent now to fans on the Fest postal-mailing list. It highlights the Tarrytown Weekend and has the official order form to register for the Weekend. It also includes information about DS merchandise, SG, autographed books and audio dramas, and more.
If you are not on the Fest mailing list, or if your postal-mail address has changed in the past year, please send your current address and a SASE (Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope) to the Fest to receive the mailing:
Dark Shadows Festival
P.O. Box 92
Maplewood, NJ 07040
*** DS WEEKEND UPDATE: HOTEL SLEEPING ROOMS
The Tarrytown DoubleTree Hotel is where all Sunday events will be held. It is about a mile (approximately 5 minutes by car/taxi) from Lyndhurst Estate, where all Saturday activities will be held.
The DoubleTree Hotel is at 455 S. Broadway, Tarrytown, NY 10591.
The hotel asks SG to share that a limited number of sleeping rooms now are available at a reduced rate.
PLEASE NOTE: These additional sleeping rooms must be reserved for both Fri. & Sat. nights (June 27-28). Those 2 nights are required for this special rate of $179 (+ tax) per night.
To get this 2-night minimum / $179 rate, you MUST call the hotel directly or go online at the following phone number / online address.
You MUST mention the new reservation code DS2 to receive the discount room rate.
Direct Double Tree Hotel phone: 914-631-5700
Reserve online at:
http://doubletree3.hilton.com/en/hotels/new-york/doubletree-by-hilton-hotel-tarrytown-TERHIDT/index.html Once the DoubleTree fills its available sleeping rooms, fans can make reservations at nearby hotels, each a short car or taxi ride from the DoubleTree, Lyndhurst, and Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Here are 2 possibilities. You also may search online for other nearby hotels / motels.
Hampton Inn, 200 W. Main St., Elmsford, NY 10523. 1-914-592-5680.
http://hamptoninn3.hilton.com/en/hotels/new-york/hampton-inn-white-plains-tarrytown-ELMNYHX/attractions/index.html Westchester Marriott Hotel, 670 White Plains Rd, Tarrytown, NY 10591. 1-914-631-2200.
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/nycwe-westchester-marriott/ *** DS WEEKEND UPDATE:
FAN TRIP TO NEARBY SLEEPY HOLLOW CEMETERY
After the Fest Weekend events conclude at the DoubleTree Hotel at 5:00 on Sun., June 29, fans are welcome to join an “Optional No-Host Fan Field Trip” to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery for a special one-hour guided tour.
Sleepy Hollow itself is the next town north of Tarrytown, also on Route 9N (Broadway). The cemetery is about 3 miles from the DoubleTree.
There is a significant DS connection: Opened in 1849, the 85-acre cemetery was a filming location for the first DS movie, HOUSE OF DS. Scenes shot there were:
--- Willie Loomis (Fest Weekend guest JOHN KARLEN) invades the Collins Family Mausoleum, inadvertently releasing the vampire Barnabas Collins from his secret resting place.
--- The Collins Family attends the funeral for “vampire” Carolyn Stoddard (Fest Weekend guest NANCY BARRETT), which is “officiated” by DS’ JERRY LACY as the reverend.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is at 540 N. Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591. 914-631-0081.
info@sleepyhollowcemetery.org ((The Doubletree Hotel is at 455 S. Broadway and Lyndhurst is at 635 S. Broadway, both in Tarrytown.))
The cemetery will extend its regular Sunday hours and will offer a one-hour tour (for $8.00 per person) to accommodate fans who wish to visit as a group at 5:30 pm on Sunday evening, June 29.
Fans may carpool or share a 10-minute taxi ride to and from the DoubleTree Hotel and the cemetery.
In order to see how much fan interest there is in this optional Sunday evening activity, those who'd like to tour the historic cemetery are asked to please kindly send a * brief * confirmation email to
Shadowgram@aol.com no later than March 15, please.
Please indicate approximately how many adults / children would be in your party.
SG Online Updates will report plans as they develop and are confirmed.
The Fest and ShadowGram appreciate your cooperation in this.
*** “WINTER’S TALE” MOVIE SPOTLIGHTS LYNDHURST
To see Lyndhurst on the big theater screen, the new movie “Winter’s Tale” was filmed inside the mansion and on the estate grounds and surrounding area. Lyndhurst represents “a fortress-like mansion” on NYC’s Upper West Side. It opens nationwide on Valentines Day, 2-14.
The romantic fantasy-mystery plot seems to have a definite DS flavor. There is a sense of “a love so strong that time doesn’t matter” for a man who “somehow finds himself still alive 100 years later.” Some early critics’ comments: --- “A magical realism sort of story…. Oscillating between the time span of a century, this mysterious tale of love is about a burglar who falls in love with a dying girl and wants to interfere with currents of time to win her back to life.” --- “A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.” Official publicity: “Set in a mythic New York City and spanning more than a century, it is a story of miracles, crossed destinies, and the age-old battle between good and evil.” Rated PG-13.
A Warner Brothers featurette “Winter’s Tale: A Love Story for the Ages” explains more about the film, its themes, and its “magic.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc5Bt5-vOsQ Official website:
http://www.winterstalemovie.com/The 2˝-minute theatrical trailer is at
http://www.warnerbros.com/movies/in-theaters-coming-soon/winter-s-tale/2ac11d26-057d-4103-867e-857e966b9219.htmlMarcy Robin
