Early January Performances on the California Central Coast

As we come to the beginning of 2012, I trust one of your New Year's resolutions is to take in some shows at one of the numerous live performance and theatre venues here on the beautiful (and warm – continuing our pattern of highs in the 70s this week in SLO) California Central Coast!

The Spot (https://www.facebook.com/#!/hit.the.spot) in Arroyo Grande will present Songwriters at Play's Tribute to Bonnie Raitt on January 9.

Central Coast newcomer Tiana Star [photo], harmony trio Chick Tuesday, and The BlueSouls lead the list of performers for the January 9 concert.

Each act in the show takes on three songs from Raitt's 30-year catalog of blues, folk, rock and pop.  Expect to hear hits such as "Nick of Time," "Something to Talk About" and "I Can't Make You Love Me."  Songwriters at Play head honcho Steve Key will kick off the show at 7pm.

Local vocalists Melody Klemin, Gary Garrett, and Lompoc's Kelly Wildowsky are also in the Jan. 9 lineup.

Tiana Star's voice has been called "a cross between the power-pop abilities of Kelly Clarkson and the delicate control of Natalie Merchant."  Now featured on TV, film, radio, and touring colleges and music venues nationwide, Tiana Star is an artist on the rise.  In December, she moved her home base from Seal Beach to Atascadero.  www.tianastar.com

The Spot is a 50-seat theatre located at 116 W. Branch St., in the village of Arroyo Grande (next to Doc Burnstein's Ice Cream).  Tickets are $10, available in advance at www.thespotag.com.

Sorcerer Productions' (https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Sorcerer-Productions/105954829426281) I'll Be Seeing You … WWII Through the Eyes of Radio scheduled to run December 30 - January 15 at the Clark Center in Arroyo Grande has been postponed.  Stay tuned for details on future productions!

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.

The Great American Melodrama (www.americanmelodrama.com) in Oceano is pleased to present Greater Tuna running January 19 – March 4.

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) recently 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.  A dinner theatre production of The Outrageous Adventures of Sheldon and Mrs Levine opens on January 22 (reservations required) at D'Vine Wine Bar.  And then Almost, Maine will be presented at the Lompoc Civic Auditorium March 16 - April 1 (auditions January 11 & 12). 

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, 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's Piano Recital on January 6, Transatlantic Landscapes – New Music by Craig Russell on January 7, The MET Live in HD: Handel's Rodelinda on January 8, Jonathan Dimmock's Forbes Pipe Organ Recital on January 13, and The MET Live in HD: Gounod's Faust on January 15.      

The Pewter Plough Playhouse (www.pewterploughplayhouse.org) in Cambria is proud to present Wait Until Dark February 10 – March 25.

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

So, whatever you may have planned for the first couple of weeks of 2012, I hope you will want to include going to see a production (or 2?) at one of our area theatre and live entertainment establishments to support the performing arts community here on the Central Coast!

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

 

 

 

 

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