The call, Saturday at Club Shampoo (Seventh and Willow Streets, just north of Callowhill Street), will be from 10 to 11 a.m. for the children, and 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. for adult roles. Bring pictures and resumes or a recent snapshot.
Top-shelf talent
The National Museum of American Jewish History has booked
Bette Midler and
Jerry Seinfeld to headline its opening gala Nov. 13, to be held in a clear-top tent on Independence Mall. The museum, which is relocating to Fifth and Market Streets, opens the next day.
No 'competition'
Praise 103.9's
Lonnie Hunter, pastor of Bethany Baptist Church in Lindenwold, will help judge How Sweet the Sound, a nationally touring gospel competition, Friday night at the Wells Fargo Center, which will determine the area's top gospel choir. But
competition is a misnomer, Hunter told me. "Everybody is behind everybody. The spirit takes the whole competition feel out of the air. It just ends up being a great fellowship." The winner - and yes, one will be chosen - will go on to the finale in Washington, D.C. Also judging will be
Hezekiah Walker of Bensalem's Love Fellowship Tabernacle and gospel legend
Marvin Sapp, who also will host the event with
CeCe Winans and
Donald Lawrence.
Media info
CBS3 has hired
Kate Bilo, a Phoenixville native, as a morning meteorologist, filling the slot vacated by
Maria LaRosa (now at the Weather Channel) and later by
Doug Kammerer (now at the NBC station in D.C.). Bilo (say it "buy-low") starts the week of Oct. 4. Since 2004, a year after her graduation from Penn State, she had worked for AccuWeather. She's married, with a toddler son.
Comcast SportsNet wants to supply a studio audience for the one-hour special Meet The Flyers, being taped Sunday at the Flyers Skate Zone in Voorhees with assorted Flyers, coaches, and team brass. Registration will start at 9 a.m. and seating will start at 1:30 p.m. The special is slotted to premiere at 9 p.m. next Thursday.
CNN's Rick Sanchez will talk up his book Conventional Idiocy on Bob Rovner's show at 1 p.m. Friday on WNWR-AM (1540).
Notes on the arts
A first for the Penn Museum: timed tickets to an exhibition, as organizers expect high demand for "Secrets of the Silk Road," making its sole East Coast stop from Feb. 5 through June 5. The box office opened Wednesday.
Bert and Ernie, in the flesh, will help volunteers collect new toothbrushes and toiletries for Women Against Abuse from 2 to 3 p.m. Friday at the Wells Fargo Center box office. The Sesame Street characters will give out discount coupons to the show Elmo's Healthy Heroes at the center next week.
Contact columnist Michael Klein at mklein@phillynews.com. Follow his blog at http://go.philly.com/insider and on Twitter @phillyinsider.
