By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO— Neil Simon and The Old Globe have had a good working relationship over the years. There was a time when Simon tried out some of his new works (Jake’s Women, Rumors) before taking them to Broadway. Last year Executive Producer Lou Spisto announced that The Old Globe would be […]
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
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
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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — The Old Globe theatre complex is a busy place these days. The Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage is hosting Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound (to be reviewed) in repertory and the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre is mounting the west coast premiere showing of Pulitzer
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Barney Cashman is frumpy, lumpy, and awkward with women. And so is John Combs, the actor who plays him in Last of the Red Hot Lovers. Coincidence? I think not. Because if there is one thing that director Howard Teichman prides himself on, it’s his impeccable casting. And with
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Cynthia Citron
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — How long did the Administration think the Pakistani government could or would let the Allies kill people in their country? True, most of the people we’re killing are as much or more of a threat to Pakistan than they are to the United States – we, after all, can leave
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Shoshana Bryen
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM–As a child in London in the 1950s I enjoyed listening to the radio on the days that I managed to persuade my mother that I was too ill to go to school. Somewhere between ‘Whistle While you Work’ and ‘Mrs. Dale’s Diary’ was a programme where someone with a German accent
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East
By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD–Cecil B. DeMille once waited five months for his peacocks to shed so that Edith Head could use their feathers in the spectacular cape that she designed for Hedy Lamarr to wear in Samson and Delilah. A tasty tidbit offered by Edith Head—in the person of Susan Claassen—at the El Portal
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Cynthia Citron
By Carol Davis CARLSBAD, Californa — The very first time I saw the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical Into The Woods was at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986 where it debuted and ran for fifty performances. It subsequently went on to Broadway in 1987 where it won Tony’s for Best Score (music and lyrics by
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By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Howard Teichman is a man who knows a crisis when he sees one. He is smack in the middle of two of them at this very moment. The first is a mid-life crisis. Not his, but Barney Cashman’s, the protagonist of Neil Simon’s play The Last of the Red
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Cynthia CitronBy Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California — The Yale Repertory Theatre production of Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground is a trip many might not want to take. For those who do, it’s at the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Stage of the La Jolla Playhouse. It is based on the 1864 novella by Dostoevsky, adapted by long time
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES –Becky sells expensive cars. Her husband Joe is a roofer. They have been married for 28 years. Their 26-year-old son Chris is still in school and lives in their basement. A demonstrably ordinary and relatively contented family. What could possibly go wrong? The play is Becky’s New Car, a dramedy
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Cynthia CitronBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — My husband died a year ago, and I need to morph myself into a single person living in a couples’ world. My landscape has changed dramatically, and, unless one has traveled that road, it is difficult to imagine what it is like. I certainly did not know
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Natasha Josefowitz
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Sometimes the most unlikely set of characters turn out to be ‘best friends’. Take for example Clyde (Steven Lone) and Jack (Brian Mackey and Connie (Rhianna Basore) and Lucy (Sara Beth Morgan) in Bob Glaudini’s Jack Goes Boating now in an entertaining, charming and yet thoughtful production at ion
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By Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California — Right out of the gate…don’t miss Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin by Christopher Curtis and Thomas Meehan (book) and Christopher Curtis (music and lyrics). It is now in its world-premiere production at the Playhouse, where it is directed by Warren Carlyle and Michael Unger. I
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast