9 posts tagged “mountain view”

update: review by the Merc

We're going to see this next tuesday 10/10/06 but you can get a deal this Wednesday & Thursday:

Special $12* Ticket Offer for Dessa Rose
Wednesday, October 4 at 8 pm
Thursday, October 5 at 8 pm

To purchase $12 tickets:  You can order online at   
http://www.ticketweb.com/user/?regionfiltered=sfbay&query=schedule&venue=mvcpa
or print out this offer and bring to the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts box office before the show  
* includes $2 Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts Facilities Use Fee

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we loved this show, check my post about this when we saw it last month...
Special $12* Ticket Offer for M. Butterfly
Wednesday, September 20 at 8 pm
Thursday, September 21 at 8 pm

To purchase $12 tickets:  You can order online at   
http://www.ticketweb.com/user/?regionfiltered=sfbay&query=schedule&venue=mvcpa
or print out this offer and bring to the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts box office before the show  
* includes $2 Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts Facilities Use Fee

Hmmm... just bought season tix but this would have been an interesting option, not to have to buy tix to every show:

$30 membership for discounted tix, and access to the preparties and fundraisers.

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Amazing to think Francis Jue played this role 14 years ago here...  I remember seeing it in San Francisco at that time, and I'll bet it was a Theatreworks production, albeit in San Francisco.

A decade and a half helps me appreciate the pain of this play much more.  Back then, I was a angry young college student and only saw the anti-imperialist politics as the ruling part of the play.

This time around, Jue seemed much more intense, less lilting butterfly than asian tiger.  I'm a romantic at heart, much like Rene Gallimard, and after a decade of marriage I wanted to believe that Song Liling wasn't in it just for survival - due to the Communist Chinese gov't demands.  I wanted to believe that Song Liling was in love as well with Rene.  I confess it was hard for me to do so until the very last words of the play, although my wife felt it earlier.

This enactment was more powerful than the first memory i have of the play - either acted or at my first reading of the script.  Somehow I appreciate more the sacrifice of Rene for Song, however selfish and illusory, I can feel that more now -- kids and that aforetomentioned decade do that to you.  You live for a certain construct of identities that you're drawn to, and if those identities are broken it's hard to look past it.  Song's pleading for Rene to be more like a woman really resonated with me - to place the relationship first - to love the person and transcend the fantasy.  That's so hard.  I want so much for my wife to be content, but that's just not possible for now.

I hope it's not another decade before I have the opportunity to see this again.  The issues brought up are so timely, with our war in the middle east ensconsing daily the "other" in our faces.  It's suprisingly ambivalent to me in this viewing, much less the anti-imperialist political statement, and much more a love story, however angry and edgy Song is...  It's really beautiful.  Marc Capri as Rene made it that for me today, and Francis Jue brought realism to cut the dreamy sweetness.

Update: Rosemary from TheatreWorks sales (650-463-7106) sold me on a 5 show tuesday deal... great deal of 50% off since Tania's registered as a homeshooling teacher (her Stanford masters in Ed helped) & I've lectured at Stanford Medical Informatics, works out to be even better than the $10 discount we got off tickets this show since we'd seen Brooklyn Boy.  We've seen so many shows I figured we'll keep seeing every Theatreworks show for now... since we can't make it up to the city.

M Butterfly

I enjoyed this chick musical, and ironically tania less so.  I loved how the musical theme reminded me of the tune GrooveLiliy uses in their song about their RV travails in Striking 12.  The women sang with conviction, passion, and a hollywood-meets-musical smooth style.  Papa slept thru a lot of it though...

Vanities

Tania, papa & i are going tomorrow night, not much more than the movies (which run almost $10 nowadays), call them, the web link has been disabled:

Special $12* Ticket Offer for
Friday, July 14 at 8 pm
Saturday, July 15 at 8 pm

THE SHOW MUST CLOSE ON JULY 16^TH!  

Don’t miss your chance to see the show The Mercury News calls “perfectly cast” and the Metro calls “high and hilarious”!

VANITIES, A New Musical
Book by Jack Heifner
Music and Lyrics by David Kirshenbaum
Directed by Gordon Greenberg

TheatreWorks:  June 21 – July 16, 2006
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts http://www.theatreworks.org/venues.htm

Chronicling the comic journey of three vivacious Texas teens from cheerleaders to sorority sisters to housewives, liberated women and beyond, this tangy tale of coming-of-age in the '60s and '70s is a musical scrapbook of an era that had to be lived to be believed. With a tunefully evocative score by David Kirshenbaum (Summer of '42) and Jack Heifner's hilarious adaptation of his long-running off-Broadway smash, Vanities offers a snapshot-sharp portrait of the lives, loves, disappointments, and dreams of best friends caught up in times that are a-changin'.

Starring Megan Hilty from Broadway’s Wicked, Leslie Kritzer from Broadway’s Hairspray and the off-Broadway production of The Great American Trailer Park Musical, and Sarah Stiles from Broadway’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

To purchase $12 tickets:  You can order online at   
http://www.ticketweb.com/user/?region=sfbay&query=schedule&venue=mvcpa
or print out this offer and bring to the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts box office before the show  
* includes $2 Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts Facilities Use Fee

Spread the word! Please pass this along to a friend.

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