san diego theatre briefs
SOLDIER SONGS San Diego Opera’s Shiley dētour Series is bringing the opera medium to a
MISS YOU LIKE HELL In its musical world premiere,Miss You Like Hell, Erin McKeown’s new work,
co-written with Tony and Pulitzer-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes and directed by Lear deBessonet, explores the relationship between a deeply imaginative teenager and her free-spirited Latina mother at the La Jolla Playhousethrough Sunday, December 4. Chance encounters with a broad range of characters during the road trip they’ve agreed to share, bring mother and daughter closer to understanding not only the things that separate them, but the things that bind them together. McKeown’s original songs are as diverse and eclectic as the American landscape they traverse, music that exudes the joy, love and frustration of being a family in a changing country. “Since commissioningMiss You Like Hellfour years ago, I have watched Quiara, Erin and Lear throw their hearts and souls into the creation of this extraordinary piece,” said Playhouse Artistic Director Christopher Ashley. “This is exactly the right time for their powerful and moving new musical that embraces our ever-evolving identities as families and Americans.”Miss You Like Hell is at the La Jolla Playhouse, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive.
For tickets and more information, call 858.550.1010 or go
tolajollaplayhouse.org.
whole new level, with their latest production Soldier Songs, taking place three nights only,Friday, November 11 through Sunday, November 13. Part multimedia and animation, part theatre, part opera and part rock-infused concert music, this new libretto by David T. Little traces the shifting realities of war from the perspective of a six-year-old boy,up to 66-year-old man. From war games and violent videos as a youth, enlistment, military service and the real-life horrors of war, to a father whose worst fears are realized with the news of the death of his son, all are adapted through interviews with veterans from five different wars. It is a chilling and realistic view of our media-crazed, war machine culture and about the nature of power in war. Eleven songs explore different aspects of each experience, ranging from rage to fear, joy and grief, asking tough questions through song and driving music. American baritone, David Adam Moore, who debuted as Mercutio in San Diego Opera’s 2010 Romeo and Juliet and returned as Silvio inPagliacci in 2014, reprises the soldier role, with Conductor Steven Schick and Director Tomer Zvulun.
For tickets and more information, call 619.533.7000 or go to
sdopera.org.
A CHORUS LINE Coronado Playhouse is taking on one of the most successful, long-running musicals in Broadway history.A Chorus Line, with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban and a book by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante, ran for 6,137 performances, making it the longest-running production in Broadway history until surpassed byCats in 1997. The musical is set on the bare stage of a Broadway theatre and centers on seventeen Broadway dancers who are auditioning for spots in a chorus line. Each dancer and the choreographer share powerful and poignant stories about what shaped their lives, why they became dancers and what it took to get where they are. The ambitions, heartbreaks and events good and bad that shaped their lives, providing powerful stories that most audience members can easily relate to.A Chorus Line runsFriday, November 4 through Sunday, December 11 at the Coronado Playhouse, 1835 Strand Way.
For tickets and more information, call 619.435.4856 or go
tocoronadoplayhouse.com.
THE MYSTERY OF LOVE AND SEX One ofThe New York TimesTop Ten Plays for 2015,The Mystery of Love and Sex,
Bathsheba Doran’s play explores the lives of two couples, from two different generations. Charlotte and Jonny have known each other since they were nine- years-old and are now fumbling into their twenties as they muddle through the adult mysteries of love, sex and desire. Charlotte’s parents Lucinda and Howard, in a marriage that is frayed at best, are also facing their own perceptions about love and happiness. Traversing years, shifting relationships and unexpected outcomes, this provocative, romantic, Southern Gothic comedy, peeks behind the curtain of sexuality and race to illuminate secrets of the heart and the fabric of a family. Of the play,The New York Times offered this, “Perfectly wonderful! It is tender, funny, packed with humanity and brimming with surprising revelations. Bathsheba Doran has written a play with such compassion and wry wisdom that I emerged from the theatre into yet another frigid day feeling warmed from within.”The Mystery of Love and Sex runs fromFriday, November 25 through Saturday, December 24 at the Diversionary Theatre, 4545 Park Boulevard.
For tickets and more information, call 619.220.0097 or go
todiversionary.org.
WHITE CHRISTMAS San Diego Musical Theatre’s production ofWhite Christ-
mas, everybody’s favorite holiday story, returns again this year to the Spreckels stage in Downtown San Diego from Friday, November 25 through Sunday, December 4. The timeless Christmas story might seem a bit early, but its message of caring for those closest to you, is so much more than just about a single Yule moment. Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have a successful song-and-dance act after World War II. With romance in mind, the two follow a duo of beautiful, singing sisters en route to their Christmas show at a Vermont lodge, which just happens to be owned by Bob and Phil’s former army commander. Irving Berlin composed timeless music and lyrics such as “White Christmas,” “Sisters” and “Love, You Didn’t Do Right By Me.” Come see “Those treetops glisten...” As you join in the holiday cheer at the Spreckels Theater in Downtown San Diego.
For tickets and more, call 858.560.5740or go
tosdmt.org.
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