Welcome Home
Sunday, May 17, 2026
1:00PM-4:00PM
WE ARE OPEN!
Let’s celebrate this incredible milestone by welcoming the community to our campus for the first time since the completion of the Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center.
This is your opportunity to explore, take tours of the new theater center, and get a first taste of what it’ll feel like to enjoy a live performance from the new seats.
Schedule of Events
1:00PM Season Pass Holders Tour
1:30PM Public Tour
1:30PM Best in Show
2:00PM Public Tour
2:30PM Overtures
3:00PM Public Tour
3:30PM Prologue
3:30PM Public Tour
Overtures: 2:30 pm
About the Salt Cracker Crazies
The Salt Cracker Crazies jug band, formed in 2010 in Astoria, Queens, continues to delight and transfix New York City area audiences with our unique and impertinent issue of exclusively acoustic jug, string, and vintage hokum chestnuts from the 1920's and beyond -bathtub distilled to a fiery concoction that goes down sweet -and kicks like a mule. Boasting an evolving livery of musical common-law spouses expanding and contracting like a cajun accordion over the decade-plus tenure of the band, our current Salt Cracker Crazies sextet roster resembles a veritable police blotter of NYC area musical scofflaws, snake charmers, chorus girls, and confidence men: Throat Cancer Jefferson coaxes strange melodies from the 5 string banjo; Ticklebritches Burnett forges twice-told truths from a resophonic guitar; hot mama Rusty Buttons commences to rubbing the washboard and potpourri; Cowboy Roy Lacroix wrestles bold rhythms from brushes and snare; Roebuck Redbone "cleans up" with washtub bass; hot mama Liquory Splitz shakes loose the forbidden fruit. Joining also on celebrated occasions: fiddle conjurings from Confetti Tornado; and jug rumination by Spitzyfitz Fitzpatrick. All heretofore concerned lift voice and sing with unabashed ardor for this evergreen musical idiom we call the blues.
Band features Frank Gresham, Joe Jung, Laura Dillman Frank, Jennifer Logue, and Michael McComiskey
