Post-Tax Day Shows on the Central Coast of California!

As we move past the middle of April (did you get your taxes done on time?), I hope your plans include attending a few productions at any number of the theatre and live performance establishments here on the beautiful California Central Coast!

Mission Prep High School will present George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, a story about the transformation of the cockney speakingCovent Garden girl, Eliza Doolittle, into a woman poised and well-spoken as a duchess, April 20-29 at the Mission College Prep Performing Arts Center in downtown San Luis Obispo.

Directed by Jennifer Blomfield, Pygmalion features MCP senior, James McCay, in his farewell high school performance as Professor Henry Higgins.  The play, set in turn of the centuryEngland, is the story of what happens when Higgins comes across a poor, uneducated Cockney girl named Eliza Doolittle, and makes a bet that he can take Eliza from the gutters ofLondon and pass her off as a society lady, simply by teaching her the correct dialect in which to speak.  Higgins soon discovers that this task involves much more than knowledge; it involves patience and, most importantly, an understanding of affairs of the heart. 

Eddon Bordeaux and Alex Freeman have been cast as Colonel Pickering and Alfred P. Doolittle alongside Annie Peckham (Kirsten Schaffer) as Eliza Doolittle [PHOTO by Kirby Shaw of Annie Peckham, Kirsten Schaffer, and Rebekah Nolan].

For additional information please contact (805) 543-2131.

Next up for Kelrik Productions (www.kelrikproductions.com) in their Family Series is Willy Wonka, May 12 - June 3.  Sweeney Todd will be presented May 18 - June 2 as part of their After Dark Series.  And be sure to check out their Acting ABC's (ages 4 1/2 - 2nd grade), Musical Theater (grades 3-9), and Improv (grades 3-9) classes starting April 25 & 26!

SLO Little Theatre’s (www.slolittletheatre.org) next mainstage production will be Dinner With Friends through May 6, followed by The House of Blue Leaves May 25 - June 17.  Ubu's Other Shoe readers' theatre series will present BOOM! May 11 & 12.  And be sure to check out the Academy of Creative Theatre’s (http://www.slolittletheatre.org/pages/classes) children & youth theatre opportunities for this spring and summer!

The God Is Still Speaking Players (https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/92718528887), in collaboration with Bent Angel Productions, recently completed a readers’ theatre production of Our Town.  Next up is a summer musical production of Snoopy – auditions July 16 & 17, performances August 31 - September 9.

The Cuesta College Performing Arts Center (http://academic.cuesta.edu/performingarts/) will present their Spring Drama Production, Three Musketeers, April 27 – May 6.

Espressivo! Chamber Theatre (http://espressivotheatre.com/) will present The Botanical Engineers May 12 – June 10 at various locations on the Central Coast – stay tuned for locations & times.

Upcoming performances at the Cal Poly Performing Arts Center (www.pacslo.org) include Crosby, Stills & Nash on April 22, Craig Ferguson on April 24, KevJumba’s Hang Loose Tour on April 27, blue13 dance company’s Bollywood Delicious on April 28, The MET Live in HD: Verdi’s La Traviata on April 29, SLO Symphony’s Season Finale concert on May 5, and the Catalyst Quartet on May 6.

AHS Greyhound Theatre (https://www.facebook.com/events/336683296349613/) will present South Pacific April 26 - May 6 at the Atascadero Junior High School.

The Theatre at the Cambria Center for the Arts (http://artistsofcambria.com/cambriapac/index.html) will present a staged reading of Old Love with Judith Jesness and Paul Schecter April 21 & 22, and the Singing Hands Choir May 5 & 6.

The Pewter Plough Playhouse (www.pewterploughplayhouse.org) in Cambria will present Outward Bound through June 3.

Paso Robles High School Drama Department's (http://prhsdrama.com/index.html) Spring Musical will be Guys and Dolls (performances May 11-20).

Templeton Performing Arts Center (www.dancepaso.com) presents the Central Coast Dance Foundation's DreamWeaver April 27-29. 

Murder In Mind Productions (www.murderinmind.com) will present SLO Legal through May 6 at Spyglass Inn in Shell Beach.

The Spot (https://www.facebook.com/#!/hit.the.spot) will present Miller and Miller by Miller April 27-29 and May 4-6 (who knew Suzy Miller could dance AND sing?!).

Upcoming performances at the Clark Center (www.clarkcenter.org) include Arroyo Grande High School Drama Department’s Steel Magnolias April 26-28, and the Gold Coast Barbershop Chorus’ I Got Spurs on April 28.

The Great American Melodrama (www.americanmelodrama.com) in Oceano is proud to present The Three Musketeers, through April 22, along with a Blue Collar Vaudeville Revue salute to plumbers, electricians, mechanics, and many more as they work hard for the money!

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, will present Romeo and Juliet through May 13.

The Santa Maria Civic Theatre's (www.smct.org) next production will be the comedy Battle of Shallowford - performances April 27 - May 19.

The Lompoc Civic Theatre (www.lompoccivictheatre.com) recently closed its dinner theatre production of The Outrageous Adventures of Sheldon and Mrs Levine – stay tuned for what’s next!

So, regardless of what else you may have planned in the weeks ahead, I trust you will want to include attending a couple of shows at some of the live entertainment and theatre venues here on the Central Coast of California!

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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