It was the mother of all sing-alongs.
Deno’s Wonder Wheel Amusement Park hosted its annual Mother’s Day Boardwalk Karaoke event on May 10, drawing in a chorus of mic-rocking matrons who trek to the Boardwalk every year to sing their hearts out. For many, Mother’s Day is spent with family, but one Brighton Beach grandmother joked that her karaoke tradition got her out of helping her kids move.
“I didn’t help my daughter and her husband with their new house — I said ‘Sorry, I can’t come that day. I must be on the Boardwalk,’ ” said Marie Klayman. “It becomes an addiction.”
Any day but karaoke day, Klayman would be aiding her daughter’s decampment from Brooklyn to bucolic Staten Island, she insisted.
The Brighton Beacher used the day as an excuse to stick close to home, but another karaoke crooner thought nothing of making a 25-mile trek to the Peoples’ Playground so she could take the stage.
“I pack up a bag and my chair and come to sing,” said Teresa DiBenedetto, who regularly makes a pilgrimage from upper Manhattan to the Boardwalk for Friday night karaoke during the summer.
DiBennedetto and Klayman said they love forging friendships with other singers, but emcee Dan Kingman really makes their hearts sing.
“He’s absolutely wonderful — Dan’s got a great voice,” Klayman said.
Deno’s hosts bi-monthly karaoke in May and June and every Friday night in July and August.
