Three Dog Night play Westbury's theater-in-the-round on Thursday, Nov. 19

Danny Hutton leads the band into the Long Island room built around a revolving stage, with Chris Trapper opening, in a year that brought both loss and a new album in the works.

At Westbury, there is no bad side of the stage, because the stage turns. Three Dog Night play Flagstar at Westbury Music Fair on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 8 p.m., with Chris Trapper opening.

Tickets are available through Ticketmaster, and the room holds 2,800. It is the first of three straight New York-area nights for the band: Morristown, N.J., on Nov. 20 and Brooklyn on Nov. 21.

This has been a heavy year for the band's story. Chuck Negron, one of its founding vocalists, died on Feb. 2 at 83, after what was reported as a bittersweet reunion with Danny Hutton, the group's other surviving founding member. Hutton continues to lead Three Dog Night on the road with guitarist Michael Allsup and the band, touring regularly across the U.S. and Canada.

There is also new music in the works. Hutton has talked about a studio album titled *Enter*, the band's first in nearly 40 years, recorded at Canyon Hut, a studio his sons co-own. No release date has been confirmed. In the same St. Pete Catalyst interview, Hutton said he had even asked AI why the band isn't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — a sign he hasn't stopped thinking about the group's place in the story.

At Westbury, there is no bad side of the stage, because the stage turns.

Chris Trapper is a familiar face on these bills. He opened for Three Dog Night on their 2023 dates and is billed again as the special guest across this November swing, including Morristown and Lowell.

The building is half the reason to go. The Music Fair started in 1956 as a theater-in-the-round under a tent, put up by partners Frank Ford, Lee Guber and Shelly Gross on a former industrial site in Westbury after they had launched the Valley Forge Music Fair in Pennsylvania. In 1966 the tent gave way to an enclosed theater-in-the-round that let it run year-round, built with seating for 2,870 around a circular, revolving stage. It has carried several names since — North Fork Theatre in 2005, Capital One Bank Theatre in 2008, NYCB Theatre at Westbury in 2010 — and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame has inducted it as a venue.

What to know before going: there are no seats far from the stage at Westbury, the stage rotates during the set, and an 8 p.m. Thursday start leaves room for the drive home.

Some bands you see once for the songs. At Westbury, you get the songs from every angle.

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