UP
SPEED
Autumn’s Harvests
There will be cars galore at
the Chase Center this October,
and a “rock star” preview of
new cars and trucks for 200 8.
Summer’s over and the year is starting to
wind down, but plenty of experiences
still wait to be had along the Northeast
Corridor—and Amtrak is your ticket to
all the fun. If Broadway musicals are your thing, you
can take your pick from The Producers, The Wedding Singer or Hairspray. Oscar-winner Kathy Bates
returns to the stage in the world premiere of a play by
Terrence McNally. (“I’d like to give it one more shot
while I can still remember my lines,” Bates says.)
Enjoy the soothing sounds of jazz during two unique
events; experience Blue Man Group; test-drive before you buy at an auto show featuring cars and trucks
of today and tomorrow; check in at places that feel
like home; find a cool way to ride the rails, and so
much more. Be sure to note the discount rail fares to
select destinations. There’s no end to where Amtrak
can take you. —Compiled by Michael Hammett
Black ties and cool rides:
The First State’s first major
car show rolls into the Chase
Center on the Riverfront in
October. The fuel-injected
fun begins with an exclusive
Black Tie Gala on Oct. 5 and
continues through the weekend. The Delaware Auto
Show offers a “rock star” preview of the most anticipated
cars and trucks rolling off the
lines for 2008 and provides a
glimpse of concept cars that
will be hitting the road in the
next few years. Oct. 5– 7.
delawareautoshow.com.
DELAWARE
GardenFair: For three
days in September, Winterthur Museum & Country
Estate—Henry Francis du
Pont’s 175-room mansion
and accompanying thousand
acres in the heart of the beautiful Brandywine Valley—
becomes a marketplace for
garden enthusiasts looking to add a little pizazz to
their own private paradises.
Explore an array of plants,
tools, garden art, crafts and
antiques from the country’s
top nurseries, artisans and
suppliers. Plus, enjoy celebrity lectures, demonstrations
and how-to workshops. Sept.
14– 16. winterthur.org.
Garden enthusiasts have
their green thumbs full with
a plethora of activities at the
Winterthur Museum & Country
Estate fair.
Maverick artists: On Sept.
23, Waking Dreams: The
Art of the Pre-Raphaelites,
returns from a two-year international tour to its home at
the Delaware Art Museum.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of middle-class British artists who
banded together in 1848 to
overthrow the staid conventions of the English art world
(not an easy task). The brotherhood drew images from
legends and myths but did not
believe in idealizing beauty at
the expense of truth. Instead,
these artists depicted their
imaginary images with the
exactitude of commissioned
portraits. delart.org.
Still producing: Mel
Brooks’ The Producers,
winner of a record 12 Tony
Awards, storms the DuPont
Theatre stage for a week of
nonstop musical fun, Oct. 16-
21. The show The New York
Times called “a blissful
spectacle that will leave you
delirious” follows the over-the-top antics of Leo Bloom
and Max Bialystock as they
sing and dance their way
through one of the greatest
scams in show business history. duponttheatre.com.
