Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—OK, You want some respect, ladies? Head down to the San Diego Repertory Theatre and pop in to Dorothy Marcic’s Respect, A Musical Celebration of Women and you will get an earful! Four local and highly respected musical talents, Nancy Snow Carr, Leigh Scarritt, Lisa H. Payton and Kelsey Venter sing

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO— (If) life could be a dream, Sha-Boom we could all go back to our high school days and relive the past, ‘Hey nonny ding dong, alang alang …’ Roger Bean’s The Marvelous Wonderettes with musical arrangements by Brian William Baker and Michael Broth’s orchestrations is currently being given a “Sugar

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO– Overall, I consider myself one lucky gal. How many of us can boast of seeing endless hours of theatre; some good, some bad and some ugly and then having the privilege of sharing that experience by writing about it? And just to carry that theme a bit further, how lucky can

 By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—Burt Bacharach and Steven Sater have given San Diego audiences a new holiday show. The jury is still out as to whether it will become an annual happening like, say, How The Grinch Stole Christmas. It is after all based, loosely, I might add on the classic O. Henry tale The

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Call me a snob, it matters not. Trailer Park humor was never high on the list of ‘tickle my funny bone’ laugh o’ meter comedy scale. Some nights it just doesn’t pay to get dressed, leave the warm fuzzy comfort of my home sweet home, fight the downtown traffic (that

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — It didn’t take the observations of a rocket scientist to see the comparisons between the ‘Occupy San Diego’ movement outside the Civic Theatre and the 44-year-old (but revised) smash hit of the late 60’s Hair. Here’s what the young folks protesting the Vietnam war in the 60’s were railing

By Carol Davis   SAN DIEGO—Somewhere between reality and romanticism is the space in which the Candelaria Family lives. Somewhere is also the title of one of Leonard Bernstein’s reflective ballads from his popular West Side Story and it is also the title of Matthew Lopez’s brand new world premiere comedy drama now being given a

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–Jerry Herman’s Mame is one of those oldies but goodies that hasn’t been around the San Diego musical theatre scene for over thirty years. With book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, and based on the novel by Patrick Dennis and the play Auntie Mame Herman’s familiar music (Hello Dolly

By Carol Davis ESCONDIDO, California — It mattered not that the actors in the Dale Wasserman (Book), Mitch Leigh (Music) and Joe Darion (Music) mega musical hit of the 1965 Broadway Production, Man Of La Mancha, based on the 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, by Wasserman were also the musicians in this current offering of

By Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California—I can’t remember when the last time was that I had such fun in the theatre as I did the night I attended the North Coast Repertory Theatre’s production of Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Tenor. I know, it’s supposed to be funny. It is after all a farce. But