Master Storyteller Brings 'Sleepy Hollow' to Salem After Parade

By David Jonathan Lavin
September 5, 2018

Salem, MA – Ichabod Crane and the ghost of the headless horseman are set to gallop from Sleepy Hollow into Salem this October 4 immediately following Salem’s annual Haunted Happenings Grand Parade, thanks to the Hudson Valley’s Master Storyteller Jonathan Kruk.

Delighting audiences with his haunted solo-performance of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in Salem for three years running, and annually performing over sixty sell-out shows of Legend in New York at Sleepy Hollow’s Old Dutch Church, Kruk brings Washington Irving’s ghostly tale this year to the cavernous sanctum of Grace Episcopal Church located on Essex Street in Salem’s charmed McIntire District.

Hailed as the combined talent equivalent of Patrick Stewart and Robin Williams in one, Mr. Kruk spiritedly retells the classic romance horror story at Grace’s perfectly Gothic Revival sanctuary, donned in a bespoke frock and accompanied on eerie organ by Jim Keyes. Brom Bones and the startling ghost of the Woman in White even make appearances, as Kruk’s sonorous voice and poetic persona marry to his Brooklyn-inspired Dutch accents to figure the skittish schoolteacher and his coquettish love interest, Katrina Van Tassel, just in time for Halloween.

Featured on ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS’ Sunday Morning and the BBC, and hailed as the leading expert on performing Washington Irving, Kruk’s delivery of the heart-pounding American classic enchants audiences with his theatre of the imagination and lively character portrayals to summon the infamous ghost of the hollow.

Resurrected at Grace’s medieval-like sacrarium befitting of the Irving legend first written in 1819, Kruk materializes Legend amidst the autumnally adorned Federalist structures decorated for the season of the witch – the acephalous Hessian welcoming yet another opportunity to spook the Yankee schoolteacher and wreak a night of Salem havoc in advance of All Hallow’s Eve.

Best for ages ten and older.

Performance one night only.

When: Thursday, October 4, 2018
Time: 8:15pm-9:15pm
Tickets: $25 (in advance or at the door)
Where: Grace Episcopal Church, 385 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970

TICKETS ONLINE:
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HAUNTED HAPPENINGS POSTING:
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Contact
For more information about this event, please contact:
Jane Eskelund, Grace Episcopal Church
385 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970
Web: www.gracechurchsalem.org
Phone: (401) 486-0877