on stage this month
by brad hart ASSASSINS The nation’s most notori- Comic genius Ken Ludwig’sMoon Over Buffalo is
coming to Coronado Playhouse fromFriday, March 20 through Sunday, April 19. In the madcap comedy tradition ofLend Me a Tenor,Moon Over Buffalo centers on George and Charlotte Hay, fading stars of the 1950s. At the moment, they’re playingPrivate Lives andCyrano de Bergerac in rep in Buffalo, New York. On the brink of a disastrous split-up caused by George’s dalliance with a pretty ingénue, they receive word that they might get one last shot at stardom: Frank Capra is coming to town to see their matinee, and if he likes what he sees, he might cast them in his movie remake ofThe Scarlet Pimpernel. Everything that could go wrong does go wrong, abetted by a visit from their daughter’s clueless fiancé and hilarious uncertainty about which play they’re actually performing, caused by Charlotte’s deaf, old stage-manager mother who hates every bone in George’s body. With a plethora of pratfalls, slamming doors aplenty, and backstage shenanigans,Moon Over Buffalo is a fast-paced, hilarious screwball comedy in the old tradition, and a valentine to the stage and the larger-than-life personalities that inhabit the world of the theatre. Fun fact:The 1995 production marked the triumphant return of Carol
Burnett to the Broadway stage, after a 30-year absence. That year, Burnett received a Tony Award nomination for her role as Charlotte Hay.
coronadoplayhouse.com or 619.435.4856
Anthony Giardina’s play is a fascinating and timely look at family politics through a family in politics. In 1979, Washington, D.C. was a place where people still talked to each other, and where adversaries fought it out on the Senate floor and then smoothed it out over drinks and hors d’oeuvres. But it was all about to change. In this plot spanning 30 years and six presi- dentialadministrations, Hester Ferris throws
Georgetown dinner parties that can change the course of Washington’s politics. But when her beloved son suddenly turns up with an ambitious Reaganite girlfriend and a shocking new conservative worldview, Hester must choose between preserving her family and defending the causes she has spent her whole life fighting for. Coachella Valley Repertory’s new production ofThe City of Conversationcomes to the stageWednesday, March 11 through Sunday, March 29in Cathedral
City.cvrep.org or 760.296.2966
ously successful and would-be presidential assassins inspire each other to dreadful acts in this multiple Tony Award-winning theatrical tour-de-force from John Weidman and Stephen Sondheim. East West Players, the nation’s longest-running profes- sional theatre of color and the largest producing organization of Asian-American artistic work, presentsAssassins fromThurs- day,March 12 through Sunday, April 5. A darkly comic play, Assassins is the 12th Sondheim musical mounted by East West Players in its 54-year history of producing theatre in Los Angeles. This wickedly subversive spectacle explores the national fixation on celebrity and its violent intersection with the American dream. All performances of Assassins will be staged at the David Henry Hwang Theater at the Union Center of the Arts in Little Tokyo.
eastwestplayers.org or 213.625.7000
AN EVENING WITH SUTTON FOSTER
Sutton Foster, fresh off a triumphant sold-out run at New York’s famed Cafe
Carlyle, comes to San Diego for a one-night-only performance onSaturday, March 21. Foster will fill Copley Symphony Hall with her rich and joyous vocals in this cabaret performance featuring Broadway and pop music favorites. The award-winning actor, singer and dancer has performed in 11 Broadway shows and originated roles in the Broadway productions ofThe Drowsy Chaperone, Little Women, Young Frankenstein, Shrek The Musical, and her Tony Award- winning performances inAnything Goes andThoroughly Modern Millie. Fun fact:When she was 15, Foster auditioned for the cast of Disney Chan-
nel’sMickey Mouse Club. Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears made the show, but Foster did not.
sandiegosymphony.org or 619.235.0804
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