October 25–November 3, 2024 – 6 performances only!

The Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts in Oakland

Music and lyrics by Neil Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe, book by Heather Hach, based on the 2001 film of the same name

LA sorority girl Elle Woods has it all – beauty, brains, and Bruiser the chihuahua. When her perfect boyfriend dumps her and she follows him to Harvard Law School, she discovers she has a passion for something way more fabulous than clothes – justice! Filled with heart, memorable songs, dynamic dance numbers, and a stereotype-defying heroine, Legally Blonde shows the audience that being true to oneself never goes out of style.

https://ymtcbayarea.org/2024-2025-season/

ABOUT LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL

Music and Lyrics by LAURENCE O’KEEFE and NELL BENJAMIN
Book by HEATHER HACH
Based on the novel by AMANDA BROWN and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture

HARVARD’S BELOVED BLONDE TAKES THE STAGE BY PINK STORM IN THIS FUN, UPBEAT STORY OF SELF-DISCOVERY.

Based on the smash hit movie, Legally Blonde: The Musical follows the transformation of Elle Woods from a pink-loving SoCal sorority girl to a Harvard law student, all on her own terms. In this new production of the fabulously fun, award-winning Broadway musical, our blonde heroine tackles all obstacles, and educates us all on staying true to our dreams through rousing songs and dynamic show-stopping dance numbers. This feel-good musical comedy will be the most fashionable ticket in town and is so much fun, it should be illegal!

https://www.rayoflighttheatre.com/legally-blonde

EVITA

Lyrics by Tim Rice
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Originally Directed by Harold Prince

Directed by Bill English
Music Direction by Dave Dobrusky
Choreography by Nicole Helfer

 
Choreography by Nicole Helfer

WINNER OF 7 TONY AWARDS INCLUDING BEST MUSICAL AND BEST SCORE

“ANOTHER WINNER FOR SF PLAYHOUSE! A SENSATIONAL ENSEMBLE CAST.” – BROADWAY WORLD

“THOROUGHLY ENJOYABLE WITH FIRST RATE ACTING, MEMORABLE SONGS AND SINGERS, SNAPPY CHOREOGRAPHY, AND STYLISH COSTUMES. I ENJOYED EVERY MINUTE.” – THEATRIUS

“EVITA IS THE GREATEST MUSICAL THE UK HAS EVER CREATED.” – THE STAGE

PLAY DETAILS

The Tony Award-winning musical Evita charts young and ambitious Eva Perón’s meteoric rise from poor illegitimate child to the most powerful woman in Latin America. Told in part through the lens of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, Evita recounts the incredible story of Argentina’s matriarch as she rallies the heart of a nation to bring about a new era in Argentine history.

https://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/2023-2024-season/evita/

Kinky Boots is a high-energy, heartwarming musical that tells the story of Charlie Price, a young man who inherits his family’s struggling shoe factory. In a twist of fate, he partners with the fabulous Lola to save the business by creating a line of high-heeled, thigh-high boots for drag queens. This heartwarming and inspiring story has unforgettable characters, catchy music, and dazzling choreography.

Tickets

https://www.mountainplay.org/shows/ticket-information/

The hit musical by DAN GILLESPIE SELLS and TOM MACRAE

“A JOYOUS PUNCH IN THE AIR ABOUT FOLLOWING YOUR DREAMS AND BEING YOURSELF!”
-TIME OUT

Jamie New is sixteen and lives on a council estate in Sheffield.
Jamie doesn’t quite fit in.
Jamie is terrified about the future.
Jamie is going to be a SENSATION.

Inspired by true events, Everybody's Talking About Jamie follows Jamie New, a teenager from Sheffield, who dreams of life on stage. While his classmates plan their livelihoods after they leave school, Jamie contemplates revealing his secret career ambition to become a fierce and proud drag queen. Supported by his brilliant loving mum and surrounded by his friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies and steps out of the darkness, into the spotlight. This ‘Funny, outrageous, touching’ (Daily Telegraph), musical sensation is to be experienced by all the family and not to be missed!

With an original score of catchy pop tunes that will ‘blow the roof off the Theatre’ (Mail on Sunday) by lead singer-songwriter of The Feeling, Dan Gillespie Sells and writer Tom MacRae (Doctor Who), this ‘Sparkling coming-of-age musical’ (The Times) will have everybody talking about Jamie for years to come.

Sixteen: the edge of possibility. Time to make your dreams come true.

BASED ON A TRUE STORY:
Once upon a time, there was a 16-year-old boy who had a secret he wanted to tell…

So, he approached a documentary filmmaker as you do, and asked if they would help him tell it. The resulting documentary was seen by a theatre director and it inspired him to create a musical. A producing regional theatre backed him. He then bumped into a famous musical theatre star who introduced him to a well-known pop composer who was working with a lyricist and book writer. The theatre put on the production. A major producer saw it and offered them a West End theatre.

This new British musical, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, ran in the West End’s Apollo Theatre from October 2017 to September 2021.

Fairy tales really do come true.

Join us this May as we bring back to our Throckmorton Stage the immensely talented Throckmorton Youth Company in another wildly popular and beloved musical, Fiddler on the Roof. With its incredible music, cast of characters and rich history, this story is ultimately a universal tale of love, tradition, tolerance and a changing world. Based on a collection of short stories written by Sholem Aleichem (real name Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich), Fiddler on the Roof follows the family of Tevye and the Jewish community of Anatevka in 1905 Russia during a time of political unrest and oppression and how this small community (shtetl) experienced daily life and the ultimate struggle of finding “home”.

CAST

* Performs 5/10, 5/12, 5/ 18, 5/23, 5/25

^ Performs 5/11, 5/17, 5/ 19, 5/24, 5/26

Tevye…..* Bennett Taubman, ^Jordan Smith

Golde…..* Liris Robles,^ Madeline Basich

Tzeitel….. *Ava Jensen, ^ Merrill Cover

Motel….. *Jacob Wulfstat, ^Finn Davis

Hodel….. *Noa Weis, ^ Hannah Canin

Perchik….. *Felix Maxwell, ^Liev Bruce-Low

Chava….. *Siena Wyman, ^ Riley Cover

Fyedka….. Parker Hall

Shprintze…..*Jamie Haynes, ^ Leah Hockin

Bielke….. *Sarah Wulfstat, ^ Ella Handelman

Yente….. *Sonia Lake, ^Reyes Lake

Grandma Tzeital/Ensemble….. *Maya Donalds, ^ Helen Kay

Fruma-Sarah/Ensemble….. Eylse Faherty

Lazar Wolf….. Tony Morales

Rabbi…..Graham Davis

Mendel..... Desi Davis

Mordcha..... Hayden Haveland

Shandel..... Bella Martinez

Avram..... Liyah Handelman

Sasha/ Ensemble..... Lily Green

Boris /Ensemble..... Cayla Haynes

Nachum..... Saiya Woodruff

Yussel..... Louise Workman

Priest/Ensemble….. Tallula Rice

Constable….. Ryan Camou

Fiddler….. Emma Erikson

Ensemble: Emma Calkins, Eva Lafky, Naomi Mai, Sam Garfinkel, Josie Stout, Anya Lamb, Nola Barreiro, Moose Fong, Gracie Leimseider, Rocky Williams, Mira Wulfstat, Harlow Sparks-Pescovitz, Elizabeth Nadler, Indigo Carducci

Find Tickets at

https://ci.ovationtix.com/35161/production/1198204