Late December Theatre Happenings on the California Central Coast

As we enjoy the week between Christmas and New Years, I hope you are planning on seeing a show at any one of the several live performance and theatre establishments here on the lovely (and warm – pretty much in the 70s this week in SLO) Central Coast of California!

The Great American Melodrama (www.americanmelodrama.com) is pleased to present The Holiday Extravaganza running through December 31.

Celebrate the redemption of Scrooge in a heart-warming tale of holiday magic, laugh at the zany characters in a fractured fairy-tale opera, and delight in the music of the season in a holiday Vaudeville Revue.  This is the Melodrama's most popular show of the year and is a very special family tradition designed to bring a year's worth of smiles to you and your loved ones in a great musical and theatrical experience!

The Santa Maria Civic Theatre's (www.smct.org) next production, Rabbit Hole, will run February 2-25.   

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, is proud to present Little Women, the Broadway Musical, February 16 – March 11.

The Lompoc Civic Theatre (www.lompoccivictheatre.com) has just finished presenting 2 holiday one act plays: The Cowhand's Christmas Carol and Not on This Night.  Next up is a workshop production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, January 6-8.

The Spot (https://www.facebook.com/#!/hit.the.spot) in Arroyo Grande will present All In One Music Productions' A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Foreclosure along with Spinning the Globe and a simulcast of the ball dropping in Times Square on December 31.

Sorcerer Productions (https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Sorcerer-Productions/105954829426281) will present I'll Be Seeing You … WWII Through the Eyes of Radio through January 15 at the Clark Center in Arroyo Grande.

Other upcoming performances at the Clark Center (www.clarkcenter.org) include ABBA-Mania & Night Fever – A Tribute to The Bee Gees on January 12, Michael Kaeshammer on January 20, INCENDIO and Calmenco!: Evening of Guitars on January 21, The Peking Acrobats on January 25, and Forbidden Broadway 30th Anniversary on January 27.

Murder In Mind Productions (www.murderinmind.com) will present A Dickens of a Mystery, through January 29, at The Spyglass Inn in Shell Beach (advance reservations required).

SLO Little Theatre's (www.slolittletheatre.org) next theatrical offering will be ACT's (Academy of Creative Theatre) The Little Prince will be presented January 13-29.

Kelrik Productions (www.kelrikproductions.com) is pleased to announce the first 2 productions of their 2012 BEYOND Season - a remount of the children's favorite Pinkalicious (matinee performances January 21 - February 5) and Avenue Q (evening performances January 13 - February 4).  The remainder of the 2012 Season will soon be announced!

The God Is Still Speaking Players' (https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/92718528887) recently completed their "Celebration In Song" musical variety show to benefit GALA and PFLAG.  After the Holiday Season, they will be holding auditions for either a readers' theatre production or gearing up for another musical revue in early/mid March - stay tuned!

Upcoming performances at the Cal Poly Performing Arts Center (www.pacslo.org) include W. Terrence Spiller Piano Recital on January 6, Transatlantic Landscapes – New Music by Craig Russell on January 7, and The MET Live in HD: Handel's Rodelinda on January 8.      

The Pewter Plough Playhouse (www.pewterploughplayhouse.org) in Cambria is proud to present Fascinating Gershwin! through December 31.

The Theatre at the OldGrammar Schoolin Cambria (TOGS) (http://artistsofcambria.com/cambriapac/id4.html) and Allied Arts Theatre's next production will be the romantic comedy Almost, Maine (performances January 27 - February 19).

So, whatever plans you may have for the next week or so, I trust you will want to include going to see a performance at one of our area theatre and live entertainment venues as part of your holiday plans!

Curt Miner ... your BroadwayWorld.com guy on the ground with theCalifornia Central Coast theatre "news & views" 

 

 

 

 

 

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