Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

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

By 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

By Carol Davis VISTA, California–How does one pay tribute to an American icon who lived to be 101 years old, wrote over a thousand songs, nineteen were Broadway scores, eighteen Hollywood films scores with several nominations for Academy Awards, plus “God Bless America”, “Easter Parade” “This is The Army” and “White Christmas” and still do

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — There is nothing quite as exciting as an opera. It has all the elements you would want to see and hear in theatre. Beautiful music, dance, drama (oft times melodrama) comedy, tragedy, stunning costumes and scenery and of course acting are all combined to make this wonderful medium unique.

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — For the “Forever Plaids” their return to San Diego is a welcome sight.  Just as a short trip down memory lane the musical Forever Plaid started at the Old Globe way back in 1991. The off- Broadway musical comedy, written by Stuart Ross hit New York in 1990 and became

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Broadway/San Diego’s Burn The Floor will only be at the Civic Theatre for a short while longer. That’s a shame. It’ s a dance enthusiast’s paradise watching the company move at incredible speed with impeccable precision and style. Burn the Floor is dubbed an international ballroom dance extravaganza. It includes

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO –One thing about the musical revue Smokey Joe’s Café there isn’t much not to like about it. For those of you who might never heard the names Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, for sure you’ve heard their music. Think “Hound Dog”, “Stand by Me”, “There Goes My Baby”, “Jailhouse Rock”, “Fools