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Did you just open a show? Is your band playing somewhere? Are you staging a dance recital? Sponsoring an event? Let us know. Send photos and/or information to: The Hudson Current, P.O. Box 3069, 1400 Washington St., Hoboken, NJ 07030. Or fax to: 798-0018. Or e-mail us at hudsoncurrent@hotmail.com Tada!, the theater company created by Weehawken resident Janine Nina Trevens, is celebrating its 16th anniversary with Sweet Sixteen, a new musical revue featuring the favorite and most memorable music numbers from the more than 20 original works presented by TADA! over the past 16 years. The production will run from March 10 through 26 at the TADA! theater, 120 West 28th St., Manhattan (212-627-1732). TADA!’s resident ensemble is made up of kids aged 8 to 18 from New York and New Jersey. Music Among Friends Coffeehouse is back, this time with Pamela Novick, she of Celtic, baroque Middle Eastern influences, and Andrew Vladeck, he of the slide banjo playing style. They’ll play at the Shannon Lounge (106 1st St., Hoboken) at 9 p.m. on Saturday, March 11, after an opening set by Laurie McCallister, she of the honest, sweet style. The Music Among Friends Coffeehouse is a monthly event with an hour of open mic shenanigans preceding it (sign up for that starts at 7:30). For more information about Music Among Friends, call 659-6300. Weehawken resident Ben Goldman’s art shows up next at New Jersey City University as part of an exhibit with Lennon Jno-Baptiste called Sign Language. In the works featured in the show, Goldman takes a humorous look at the contemporary condition of visual bombardment, mixing disparate references from Japanese Anime and Ukiyo-e prints, Renaissance masters, crime photos, nature calendars, Sigmar Polke and David Salle. Jno-Baptiste’s paintings use iconic images from 19th century black minstrels engaged in hyper real situations with modern characters and body parts. Artists Fred Wilson and Jim Goss will conduct galley tours of their works at the Jersey City Museum (on the fourth floor of the Jersey City Library, 472 Jersey Ave., 547-4514) on Wednesday, March 15. Goss will lead visitors through his exhibition Skin Deep from 6 to 7 p.m. at the museum. Wilson, whose designs for the New Jersey Transit Light Rail Station at the Jersey City Medical Center are being exhibited, will discuss his working process and final designs from 7 to 8 p.m. The Jersey City-based Hudson Shakespeare Company is celebrating its first anniversary at OLC Victory Hall in Jersey City with nine special performances of The Fantasticks, the off-Broadway show that’s been running since 1960. The show, with book by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt, tells the story of a boy and girl who fall in love because they think their parents disapprove of the match (but of course their parents don’t disapprove and it’s all a charming theatrical ruse). It also brought us the song “Try to remember” and originally starred Jerry Orbach from Law & Order and Dirty Dancing. A portion of this production’s proceeds will go to the renovation of Victory Hall. Performance dates are March 3 through 19 at OLC Victory Hall (186 Grand St., Jersey City). Call 943-4482 for more information. Have you recovered from Super Fat Tuesday yet? Please share your hangover remedies by emailing us at hudsoncurrent@hotmail.com.