December Holiday California Central Coast Theatre Opportunities
By: Curt Miner Dec. 07, 2010
As the Holiday Season of December continues, a number of theatrical gifts and treats await our California Central Coast audiences.
SLO Little Theatre (www.slolittletheatre.org) will present their current main stage production, Nuncrackers: the Christmas Musical, through December 19.
Join the Little Sisters of Hoboken for their first Christmas "TV Special." This uproarious addition to the Nunsense series features songs including: "Twelve Days Prior to Christmas," "Santa Ain't Comin' to Our House," "We Three Kings of Orient Are Us," and "It's Better to Give than to Receive!" Nuncrackers will make you laugh out loud and tug at your heartstrings. This fun-for-the-whole-family holiday musical is the perfect way to insure your holiday season is merry and bright!
And then you won't want to miss a staged reading of the hilarious Mrs Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge on December 22 & 23, directed by Jill Turnbow!
The God Is Still Speaking Players (follow them on Facebook), in collaboration with Bent Angel Productions, has just closed its run of a staged reading of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood. What's next? A readers' theatre production of The Diary of Anne Frank is planned for the first weekend in March, and Nunsense Jamboree in September. Stay tuned for audition dates and details.
Upcoming performances at the Cal Poly Performing Arts Center (www.pacslo.org) include The Nutcracker by The Civic Ballet December 11 & 12, the Blind Boys of Alabama: Go Tell It on the Mountain on December 16, Cuesta Master Chorale: Voices of the Season December 18, and the popular Forbes Pipe Organ Holiday Concert & Sing-Along on December 19..
The North County Dance & Performing Arts Foundation (http://classactdance.com/nutcracker) will present The Nutcracker Ballet at the Templeton Performing Arts Center December 10-12.
The Pioneer Players (www.pioneerplayers.org) presented a "special project." Always ... Patsy Cline, at Centennial Park in Paso Robles for 2 performances in September. Stay tuned for what they'll be doing next!
The Houselights Theatre (www.houselightstheatre.org) is looking for a new place to call home ... got any suggestions? Details concerning their next show are TBD (and where it will be held).
The Pewter Plough Playhouse (www.pewterploughplayhouse.org) in Cambria has announced that their next production will be The Glass Menagerie, directed by Nehemiah Persoff, with rehearsals beginning in November and performances in January and February. Contact Mr Persoff at (805) 927-3877 (leave a message) or email the theatre at audition@pewterploughplayhouse.org to schedule an audition.
The Theatre at the Old Grammar School (TOGS), also located in Cambria, closed Rosann Balbontin's Bridging the Gap in September. Contact Theatre Director, Jeff Mar, at KRKJFRZ@aol.com to find out what their next project will be.
Murder in Mind Productions (http://murderinmind.com) will present Golden Girls: Meet Blanche's Niece, at the Spyglass Inn, located at 2703 Spyglass Dr in Shell Beach, through January 30. Reservations are required.
Upcoming performances at the Clark Center (www.clarkcenter.org) include Arroyo Grande High School's Almost Maine December 9-12, A Rita Coolidge Christmas on December 12, the Studio of Performing Arts' The Grinch Who Stole Christmas on December 18, the 3rd Annual Community Christmas & Holiday Sing-Along (where I will make an appearance as a singing Santa!), and The Best of the ORIGINAL Legends Series December 31 - January 15.
Ryan Cordero (rccor385@gmail.com) and Sorcerer Productions (check them out on Facebook) recently closed their very successful production of Forever Plaid, at the Clark Center (www.clarkcenter.org) in Arroyo Grande as part of their inaugural season of shows. Next up is Drowsy Chaperone - auditions December 13-15, performances April 1-24.
The Great American Melodrama (www.americanmelodrama.com) in Oceano is proud to present their annual Holiday Extravaganza production of A Christmas Carol, along with an original fractured fairy tale and Holiday Vaudeville Revue, through December 31.
The Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts (www.pcpa.org), the Central Coast's Resident Professional Theatre Company, located on the Allan Hancock College Campus in Santa Maria, presents the high Flying Musical Peter Pan through December 23 in the Marian Theatre.
The Santa Maria Civic Theatre's (www.smct.org) next production, Doubt, will run February 4-26.
So, as you continue your Holiday gift shopping - why not consider the gift of a live theatre performance somewhere on the California Central Coast for someone on your list ... even you?
Curt Miner ... your BroadwayWorld.com guy on the ground with the California Central Coast theatre "news & views"
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