When asked to name which shows she’s most excited about, Dixie Shulman’s monologue is like frenzied Oscar winner firing off thank-yous as the music creeps in: “There are so many great ones I forgot to mention!”
Understood. But without further ado, a starting place.
Posts Tagged: stage
Fringe Festival in Downtown Santa Cruz
The Santa Cruz Fringe Festival, which runs July 13–22 at five different venues throughout downtown, is a festival of offbeat performance. Across the globe, there are about 50 Fringe festivals that occur throughout the year. This year, Santa Cruz joins the ranks for its first annual festival.
‘A Chorus Line’ at Cabrillo Stage
In 1975, A Chorus Line shattered and rebuilt the world of musical theater. Within six months of its Broadway opening, before the world had had a chance to pick its jaw up off the ground, most of the cast went to London for the international tour. Finally, after six months of magazine covers, nine Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize, they returned to the United States. Janie Scott was 25 at the time and just starting her dancing career. When she saw A Chorus Line in San Francisco, it changed her life forever.
UCSC Grad has Rising Comedic Talent
San Francisco comedienne Lisa Geldudig produces shows that try to bring some perspective to standup beyond the typical lineup of three white guys—because, as she says, “no offense, but the comedy spectrum and audience are wider than that.”
Summertime Fun Calendar
From Civil War battle reenactments and Broadway musicals to festivals honoring mountain men and cactus, Santa Cruz looks forward to three months of nonstop entertainment.
Jewel Theatre’s ‘Blithe Spirit’ Skewers Snobs
A specter haunts the Condomine household, but the incorporeal emanation of Charles Condomine’s first wife is the spirit with which Blithe Spirit, which plays at Center Stage through May 20, concerns itself the least. Instead we are invited to laugh at the vanity, arrogance, pretense and pomp of the English middle class.
Backyard ‘Pinocchio’ Production Launched Theater Careers
A 20-foot blue whale comes floating down Soquel Creek when suddenly a rowboat carrying two passengers emerges from the mouth of the leviathan. The astonished onlookers gathered on the banks gasp at the sight, then gasp again as the boat and its passengers are sucked back into the giant maw. This drama repeats several times as the boaters paddle madly, only to be consumed again and again, until at last they free themselves from the watery beast to the delighted cheers of the people on the shore.
Weekend Guide, May 3–6, 2012
Every once in a while a weekend rolls around that is so crammed with goodness we have to tell you about all of it. This is one of those weekends—so good luck deciding how to spend it!
Dance Week in Santa Cruz
National Dance Week kicks off (pardon the pun) in Santa Cruz Thursday, April 19, at 5:30pm right outside Santa Cruz Weekly’s doors—lucky us!—with performances in front of the Civic, City Hall and the Church Street Library. And what do the organizational wizards at Dance Week Santa Cruz have in store for the dance fans of Santa Cruz?
Southern Story Charms in Santa Cruz Mountains
Lenny Magrath is having a bad day. Her youngest sister Babe is suspected of attempted manslaughter, her grandfather is in the hospital and, as an unmarried Southern belle, she’s less than thrilled about turning 30. But Crimes of the Heart isn’t all about Lenny.
