The Rising Moon Performing Arts Report - Vol 1
“Too Big to Tweet”
July 14, 2010
Upcoming Productions from a Selection of Bay Area Performance Groups
Plus Commentary: "The Staying Power of the Performing Arts"
THEATRE
EXIT Theatre, 156 Eddy St., San Francisco http://www.theexit.org/
Through August 14. Obscura – a Magic Show. Featuring award-winning theatrical magician Christian Cagigal.
July 16-17, 23-24. Left-Handed Darling by Foul Play Theatre. A freshly-devised theatrical adventure slated for production in 2011 at Foul Play's new home, The Gaiety Theatre. Thanks entirely to the generosity and support of the EXIT Theatre, this special four-night preview series will allow gathering of viewers' insight and help bring Left-Handed Darling to life.
July 24. Mark Romyn’s Thursday Night Combo. Theatre artists, musicians, and other performers try out new material at the EXIT Café.
Willows Theatre, 636 Ward St., Martinez http://www.willowstheatre.org/
Through August 1. Avenue Q. The naughty adult musical with puppets and people. Remember Sesame Street? This ain’t it.
August 16-Sept. 19. Six Women with Brain Death. The musical about women trying to cope.
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| Four of the Six Women With Brain Death at The Willow Theatre, Aug 16-Sept 19 |
Willows Theatre Youth Conservatory
July 17 & 18. Once Upon a Mattress. Performers ages 8-11. Alhambra Performing Arts Center, Martinez.
August 2-8. Footloose. Performers ages 12-18. Alhambra Performing Arts Center, Martinez.
MUSIC
July 15-18, 22-25. The 36th Annual Midsummer Mozart Festival. Artistic Director and Conductor, George Cleve. http://www.midsummermozart.org/
Eight all-Mozart concerts in 5 venues over two weekends. Santa Clara, San Francisco, Sonoma, Berkeley, San Jose.
Program I, July 15-18. Midsummer Mozart Orchestra with pianist Audrey Vardanega, flautist Robin Hansen
Program II, July 22-25. Midsummer Mozart Orchestra with pianist Seymour Lipkin, basso Jeremy Galyon
LIT SCENE
July 31& August 1. Reality is No Obstacle. Writing workshop with San Francisco Poet Laureate Diane Di Prima. In Petaluma. Info at (707) 763-4271.
FUNDRAISERS
August 9. 9th Annual Scholarship Fundraising Golf Tournament sponsored by the Hong Kong Association of Northern California. Peninsula Golf & Country Club, San Mateo. www.hkanc.com
SCENE APPLAUSE
Congratulations to Porchlight Theatre (Ross, CA) on a successful run of Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Redwood Amphitheatre at the Marin Art & Garden Center. And to Giants reliever Brian Wilson for getting through the eighth on ten pitches at last night’s All-Star Game.
COMMENTARY:
The staying power of the performing arts
We’ve read with interest the news that a now-defunct Circuit City building in San Mateo is being revived as a new headquarters for Peninsula Ballet Theatre. (SF Business Times, July 2-8.)
Quite a flip-flop from the dot com days when many small Bay Area arts organizations lost their formerly low-rent spaces to entrepreneurs with web-based dreams and piles of VC money.
Commercial real estate and the retail sector have taken some hard hits since then. Even Silicon Valley isn’t what it was in those heady days. But a ballet company is still around. The performing arts will never be “the next big thing” in this country, but they endure. When a theatre or dance company dies off, another takes its place almost immediately. And it can’t be about the money. No one ever went into the performing arts to get rich. (If you did, and were successful, give me a call from your villa in the South of France.)
The performing arts are as necessary to a society as air to breathe and water to drink. They will continue to draw the talented to their stages…and the rest of us, those of us wracked with a very human hunger for live performance, to their lumpy seats and folding chairs.
Here’s a thought for venture capitalists about to throw a few million to the next really cool concept for selling dog food online – toss a bit of it to a performing arts group. Your money will be far less wasted, and you won’t feel such a fool in the morning. -GC.
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