Posts by Welton Jones
Judy Garland Heads Toward End of the Rainbow
There’s nowhere but down for Judy Garland at the end of her career and Eileen Bowman gently guides us there in the Intrepid Theatre’s ‘End of the Rainbow” at the Lyceum Space downtown.
Read MoreSomewhere, the Phantom’s Still At The Opera
So they say ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ has grossed over $6 billion worldwide, beating even blockbuster movies. And it’s still going strong in London and New York. But there apparently is still business in U.S. touring, even for a trimmed down version with a chandelier less than menacing.
Read MoreVreeland and Ruehl at the Old Globe, A Study in Scarlet
Broke, fired and 70, the legendary fashion editor Diana Vreeland must choose between obscurity and a job in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mercedes Ruehl prowls like a panther through the story at the Old Globe…
Read MoreOld Globe Has Plenty Dancing and Donna McKechnie Too
A full buffet of dances styles, stories and settings spills over the Old Globe Stage for ‘In Your Arms,’ a musical memory play graced by the presence of none other than Donna McKechnie, who won musical immortality in ‘A Chorus Line.’ The original.
Read MoreThe Man Behind the March, An Ode in La Jolla to Bayard Rustin
Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream but the world heard it thanks largely to the labors of a black, openly gay, ex-communist, Quaker draft=resistor kept, for various reasons, in the background. Now Bayard Rustin is getting his ode…
Read MoreSD Rep Opens 40th Season With Southern Odyssey ‘Violet’
In the sullen south of the early 1960s, a sweetly intense young woman is on a Greyhound Bus quest to find a television evangelist who will wipe away her childhood scars with a miracle
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