By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Shout out another Hosanna or Mazel Tov to the gang at Cygnet. They’ve gone and done it again: producing a home run production of the Alan Menken (music) and Howard Ashman’s (book and lyrics) cult (gothic) musical The Little Shop of Horrors based on the film by Roger Corman […]
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO —Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein is Hershey Felder’s personal love letter to Leonard Bernstein. Felder, the consummate master of bringing musical genius alive by adopting the persona of the masters and becoming them has been a treat for yours truly in the past. He has paid tribute to George
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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast“Rameses – The Forgotten Star” by Christopher Woodward By Joel A. Moskowitz M D LA JOLLA, California –“Sic transit gloria mundi” (thus passes the glory of the world). Doug Henning was much admired only a few years ago. Who speaks of him now? Few would recognize the name Albert Marchinsky or Albert Marchinski. If you were told he
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Books, Poetry & Short StoriesBy Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California— While the La Jolla Playhouses Sleeping Beauty, Rose (Aspen Vincent), of the fairy tale of the same name, flutters her eyelids in an attempt to awaken (in a sleeping disorder clinic) after a nine hundred year slumber yours truly had everything she could do to keep her eyes from fluttering
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO –The last time San Diego audiences saw The Who’s Tommy performed locally was in 1992 when Pete Townshend (of the Who from 1962-1982) and Des McAnuff (former artistic director or the La Jolla Playhouse) staged its world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse. The musical soon moved to Broadway in
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Two years after surprising animator Bill Plympton with his ability to mimic Plympton’s drawing style, 11-year-old Perry Chen is making his debut at Comic-Con as the animator of a 6-minute Holocaust short, Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest. Chen will appear on a panel with his mentor
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California—It’s hard tobelieve that North Coast Repertory Theatre will be celebrating its thirtieth anniversary season in September. Over the years, yours truly has watched this little theatre grow from a corner suite in the Lomas Santa Fe Shopping Center to its current location in a larger, more accessible space. With artistic
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—This past weekend had me settled in the Uptown/Hillcrest area catching two very different shows but both worthy of mention. Diversionary Theatre and Moxie Theatre have teamed up to mount the U.S. Premiere of Canadian playwright Michele Riml’s new play Poster Boys. Just down the street @ 6th and Penn Ion
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California—Some might call director David Schweitzer’s adaptation if Henrik Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt” entertaining and they would be right. Some will agree that’s it’s pretty weird and they would be right as well. Some might look for a hidden meaning under it all and they may find that exercise well worth
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis CORONADO, California — The very first time I heard the sound track from the original album of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man was back in the good old days before surround sound, digital sound, discs, iPods, iPads, 3 D, and color TV (kinda /sorta). It was all on vinyl. A friend of ours
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—San Diego Musical Theatre has just launched its third and final show of its second season with a fine production of the dance tribute to end all dance tributes to all dancers, A Chorus Line. In 1975 the Marvin Hamlisch (music), Edward Kleban (lyrics), James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante (book) and
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By Joel Moskowitz, M D, FAPA, FAAP LOS ANGELES –Many know that Houdini was Jewish and his real name Erich Weiss, son of an itinerant Rabbi. But who is Jewish of the following? David Copperfield, Max Maven, David Blaine and Teller of the team, Penn and Teller? All of them! David Copperfield was born David
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Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodBy Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California—-When Arthur Kopit gets an idea, you can pretty much count on it being a little off the charts. Take for example his 1963 movie Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad based on the 1962 Off Broadway play that lasted 454
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO— Calvin Manson founding father and artistic producing director of the Ira Aldridge Repertory Players is mounting his latest in a series of musicals bringing African American voices to the fore; most recently Raisin’ The Rent is now in production at the Lafayette Hotel downstairs in the Mississippi Room and it
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