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TOASTMASTERS Ragtime: The Musical ANNA KARENINA MISS AMERICA’S UGLY
Toastmasters Talk of the Town (Hollywood) DAUGHTER (Hollywood)
Ragtime: The Musical This adaptation of Tolstoy’s
Written by Terrence McNally
On Thursdays from 6:30-8:30 pm Composed by Stephen Flaherty with epic novel is staged in a It is always fascinating to
The new “Talk of the Town” Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, Based on the stylized manner that cuts to learn of the at-home
Toastmasters meetings have participants novel Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow, the heart of Anna’s familiar behavior of a famous
delivering short speeches and leaders Directed by David Lee story: the stifling marriage,
offering coaching. There will be meetings person. Barra Grant,
every first and third Thursday of the Venue:The Pasadena Playhouse, 39 the rapturous affair, the daughter of Bess Myerson,
month. South El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA throwing caution to the wind does not disappoint with
Sign up today at the Library’s Reference 91101 and, of course, the ultimate Morna Murphy Martell this play. We see the petty
Desk to insure that you receive one of the Dates: Now through Saturday, March 9 tragedy. However, British bad-mother side and the
no charge coveted seats! playwright Helen Edmundson spreads a effect it has on a vulnerable child. There
Performance Schedule: wider canvas by is poignant humor in the duel between
1890 Huntington Drive, San Marino, CA Tuesday — Friday evenings at 8:00 showing two other
91108-2595 (626) 300-0777 p.m.or Saturday at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 them for attention after the parade has
www.CrowellPublicLibrary.org women of the period passed by. It’s an entertaining show but I
p.m; Sunday at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. in marriages both wish Grant had told of her mother’s good
FREE EVENT Tickets:Prices start at $25 conventional and works as well as her selfish home
Online — PasadenaPlayhouse.org threatened. In fact, by behaviors. Bess Myerson did a lot of
By phone at 626-356-7529 focusing on three parallel stories the play excellent public work that is missing
marshallARTS Storybook Pages In person — Pasadena Playhouse Box becomes a modern appeal against female from the show – it’s in the program but
Office, located at 39 South El Molino oppression. Yet Edmundson is careful to not on the stage. As the first Jewish Miss
Gaston
Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91101 show how a man – in fact all of the men – America, she was hit with the anti-
Words by Kelly DiPucchio and pictures by can love the woman in their lives yet not Semitism that she fought against the rest
Christian Robinson Information: For more information see how callously they oppress them. The of her public life. When I was NY Bureau
on all productions at Pasadena Playhouse
Read by Connie Jackson visit PasadenaPlayhouse.org. cast are superb. Eva Chief for the Hollywood
with appearance by The Root Beer Abramian’s headstrong Anna Reporter I met Bess
Description: The great American is a torment to her husband Myerson, then NY
Bandits composer Rachael Lawrence musical has returned to LA for its first Bruce Ladd; Lauren Thompson Commissioner of Cultural
major production in 20 years. Nominated is a devoted wife betrayed by Affairs. More than a beauty
Date: Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 11am for 13 Tony Awards including Best her husband Michael Worden; queen, or TV personality,
Venue: Garry Marshall Theatre, 4252 Musical, Ragtime tells the story of three Ivy Beech is a proud girl she was a public figure
West Riverside Drive, Burbank CA 91505 families at the turn of the 20th Century challenging her conventional doing significant work.
Tickets: All ages welcome, FREE with in pursuit of the American dream. The husband Joseph Barone, while Written and performed by
award-winning score uses ragtime
reservations by visiting rhythms to paint a portrait of the people Deborah Marlowe and Garrett Barra Grant, with Monica
GarryMarshallTheatre.org or who built this country with the hopes for Botts are impressive in Piper as Myerson’s offstage
by calling (818) 955-8101 a brighter tomorrow. multiple roles. Directed with voice. At Greenway Court

Spring Concert style and piercing dramatic intensity by Theatre, 544 N Fairfax, (nr Melrose).
Heather Chesley. An Actors Co-op
Tickets: (323) 285-2078 or
production at First Presbyterian Church, www.MissAmericasUglyDaughter.com.
The Verdi Chorus Spring 2019 Concert 1760 N Gower St. Hollywood. Tickets: Free parking.
L’Amore e la Vita performing at First United Methodist Church, (323) 462-8460 or www.ActorsCo-op.org.
1008 11th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90403. Free parking. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE (Sierra
Performances: Saturday, April 6 at 7:30 pm; Sunday, April 7 at 2:00 pm Madre)
Tickets: Prices: $10.00 - $40.00 order By Phone - (800) 838-3006 or online at AMERICA ADJACENT (Los Feliz) Journalist Mitch Alborn saw his
www.verdichorus.org In this timely play, six pregnant women beloved college professor, Morrie
from the Philippines, living together in a Schwartz, on ABC-TV Nightline being
Treasures For You Morna Martell one-bedroom, one-bath unit in East interviewed about the challenge of living
Hollywood, do their best to overcome with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Mitch starts to
fears of jail and deportation. Playwright visit Morrie every Tuesday and learns
Could this be Morna Murphy Martell on the web: Boni B. Alvarez examines the promise of from him how to live life fully in the face
the year you www.theatrespokenhere.blogspot.com US citizenship, saying “As the child of of loss. The play debuted off-Broadway in
find your pot Meet in Person at Monthly Screening: Filipino immigrants, I have always been 2002 and New York magazine said:
The JFS/West Hollywood
of gold? Comprehensive Service Center fascinated by the American Dream. How “Unforgettable! No matter how well you
What would far would you go to give your child a tell the story, the play makes it more
**Theater Historian and former
that look like Hollywood Reporter, TV, Film and better future?” Directed by Jon Lawrence vivid, more shattering, more humorous.”
Rivera and produced by Gary Grossman
for you? Money, friend- Broadway Critic, Morna M. Martell and Tony Abatemarco for Skylight Larry Eisenberg is Morrie, Jackson
Kendall is Mitch. At Sierra Madre
ships, love interest, work, is a lecturer on “The Impact of Yiddish Company. At Skylight Theatre, 1816 N. Playhouse, 87 W Sierra Madre Blvd.
community service? Think Theatre on American Theatre” with Vermont, Los Feliz. Tickets & Parking Tickets: (626) 355-4318 or
about what could make you bookings in Pasadena, Manhattan Beach, info: (213) 761-7061 or www.sierramadreplayhouse.org Free
and West Hollywood. For info, email
smile all year long. dramatist2006@yahoo.com www.SkylightTix.org. parking.

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