Master Storyteller Brings 'Sleepy Hollow' to Salem After Parade

By David Jonathan Lavin

September 27, 2019

Salem, MA – Ichabod Crane and the ghost of the headless horseman are set to gallop from Sleepy Hollow into Salem this October 3 immediately following Salem’s annual Haunted Happenings Grand Parade, thanks to the Hudson Valley’s Master Storyteller Jonathan Kruk.

Delighting audiences with his spellbinding solo-performance of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in Salem for four 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 capacious neoclassical sanctum of Tabernacle Church located on Washington Street in Salem’s enchanting downtown.

Hailed as the combined talent equivalent of Patrick Stewart and Robin Williams in one, Mr. Kruk spiritedly retells the classic romance horror story at Tabernacle’s reverberant 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 entrances audiences with his theatre of the imagination and lively character portrayals to summon the infamous ghost of the hollow.

Resurrected at Tabernacle’s revivalist sacrarium modeled after London’s Metropolitan Tabernacle and befitting of the Irving legend first written in 1819, Kruk materializes Legend amidst the autumnally adorned streets of Salem 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 3, 2019

Time: 8:00pm-9:15pm

Tickets: $25 (in advance or at the door)

Where: Tabernacle Church in Salem, 50 Washington Street, Salem, MA 01970

For more info, go to: https://jonathankruk.wixsite.com/legendofsleepyhollow