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| | The Slow Drag-- a jazz musical by Carson Kreitzer
Directed by Sheila Malone
The Slow Drag is the unique story of Johnny Christmas, a jazz musician, his wife June Wedding, a sultry and sexy torch singer and their best friend Chester Kent, a singer, dancer and pianist.
Inspired by the real-life story of jazz musician Billy Tipton who upon his death in 1989 was discovered to have been a biological woman, unbeknownst to his wives and three adopted sons.
Johnny harbours a dark secret. In order to play the music he loves, Johnny has to pass himself off as a man. This is a charade he keeps up for the duration of his life and shares with no one but June, not even to his and June's three sons. It's a charade that ultimately kills Johnny.
Meanwhile, Chester, like Johnny, is also leading a double life. As a bi-racial man he has found that many doors are shut to him. If Chester denies his heritage and passes himself off as a playboy with a tan, he can play music in "White Only" establishments. If not, he's out of work. Like Johnny, he chooses the lie.
The Slow Drag is a fascinating story of three individuals who lived and lied for their music.
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| | An Ophelia's Jump Midsummer Musical production
We Will Rock You--by Queen and Ben Elton
Directed and Choreoghed by Michelle Elkin
Enjoy this production under the stars at the Sontag Greek Theater at Pomona College. Grounds open at 6:30 for picnicking and pre-show music.
No outside alcoholic beverages allowed. Snacks and beverages including wine and beer will be available for purchase at the concessions stand.
Blankets, cushions and stadium seats are recommended. Stadium seats will be available for rental at the box office.
Featuring more than 20 hit Queen songs including “Another One Bites the Dust,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Killer Queen,” “We Will Rock You,” “Somebody To Love,” “We Are the Champions,” “Don’t Stop Me Now,” and many more,
WE WILL ROCK YOU follows two revolutionaries as they try to save rock ‘n’ roll in a post-apocalyptic world. In an age where algorithms predict our every preference, WE WILL ROCK YOU is a musical for our time: a fist-pumping, foot-stomping anthem to individuality.
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| | 12 Ophelia's a play with broken songs
by Caridad Svich
Directed by Kristi Papailler
September 5-September 21
Shakespeare’s Ophelia rises up out of the water dreaming of Pop-Tarts and other sweet things. She finds herself in a neo-Elizabethan Appalachian setting where Gertrude runs a brothel, Hamlet is called a Rude Boy, and nothing is what it seems. In this mirrored world of word-scraps and cold sex, Ophelia cuts a new path for herself.
This play contains adult subject matter and language. Parental discretion is advised. | Buy Tickets |
| | In the Green
by Grace McLean
Directed by Beatrice Casagrán
November 14-December 7
As a young girl, medieval saint, healer, visionary, exorcist, and composer Hildegard von Bingen was locked in a cloister’s cell after demonstrating a preternatural sensitivity to the world around her. Sequestered with Hildegard is Jutta, a woman who has spent her life secluded in an effort to recover a whole self after deepest trauma. Under Jutta’s guidance, Hildegard attempts to reassemble her own fragmented self while her mentor proselytizes a rejection of brokenness. IN THE GREEN is a musical unlike any you’ve seen, an astonishingly sonically sophisticated saga of two exceptional women broken by the world and their journey of healing that changed history. | Buy Tickets |