For Immediate Release: 4-01-16
Contact: Dan Heiserman
619.847.0054
Email: info@LookingGlassSD.org
The Big Bad Wolf on Trial! You Decide
His Fate.
“The Big Bad Musical” is a howling court room comedy
where the most memorable group of fairy tale characters testify both for and
against the Big Bad Wolf on his wrong doings. The audience is the jury and
votes his guilt or innocent at the end. Presented by Looking Glass Theater on the campus of the First Unitarian Universalist Church
of San Diego in Hillcrest, April
29-30 and May 6-7 at 7:30 p.m. Suggested donation is $16
at the door and $13 advanced on-line tickets at www.LookingGlassSD.org. Students and military $10.
“The Big Bad Musical” book by Alex Strum with music
and lyrics by Bill Francoeur, creator of the popular musical, “The Enchantment of Beauty and the Beast”.
The play’s co-directors are Gay Hybertsen and Les GrantSmith.
The Wolf (Myles Luber) faces plaintiffs Little Red Riding Hood
(Ingrid Brinton), the Three Little Pigs (Everardo Aguilar, Eduardo [Eddie]
Reidel and Rosalie Reidel), The Lawyers are the Fairy Godmother (Andrea Newall)
and the Evil Stepmother (Maxine Levaren). The Judge is played by Jeff Duncan.
Other characters in the play are Grandmother Riding Hood (Kia
Bordner), the Woodsman (Mike James), the old Shepherd (Grant Ferrier), and his
son, The Boy Who Cried Wolf (Rile Grant). The Wolf has a
pack with the back-up singing group, the “Wolfettes “(Kate Webb, Crystalinda
White and Sierra Gore).
The orchestra is lead by Ardath
Schaibly on piano. Eric Hybertsen plays saxophone with Jason Votaw on banjo. Dierdre
Lonergan performs guitar and cello.
A Chili Dinner for $20 will be held on Friday, May 6 at 6 PM at the church. Price
includes admission to the show. The proceeds benefit The California Wolf Center
in Julian. The center is dedicated to the
recovery of wolves in the wild lands they once roamed, through conservation,
education and research. The Center will make a presentation at the dinner
and have an information table set up during the run of the show. Tickets
available on www.LookingGlassSD.org.
Looking Glass Theatre was founded in 1986. “The Big Bad Musical” is its forty-ninth show
. In the last four years the group has also produced “Seussical”, “Nunsense”, “Once
Upon a Mattress”, “8”, “Spoon River
Anthology”, “You’re A Good Man,
Charlie Brown”, “The Enchantment of
Sleeping Beauty” and “Laramie Project: Ten Years Later”. In recent years they have staged “Oliver”,
“Fiddler on the Roof”, ”The Most
Fabulous Story Ever Told” and “Jeffrey”.
The First Unitarian
Universalist Church of San Diego campus, at 4190 Front Street, is wheelchair
accessible. To reach the campus from I-8, take Hwy 163 South. Exit on
Washington West. From I-5, exit Washington (East). From Washington go North on First
Avenue (one way). Turn left on Arbor Street when First Avenue ends. Go one
block. Entrance to the parking lot is directly across from the UCSD Medical
Center main doors. Parking is free. See www.LookingGlassSD.org for
interactive map.
Looking Glass Theatre
4190 Front Street San
Diego, CA 92103
Phone: 619-298-9978
Website: www.LookingGlassSD.org
Facebook: “LookingGlass
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email: info@LookingGlassSD.org