Lyric Light Opera of the Northwest’s summer showcase presents “Annie Get Your Gun,” a sure-as-shootin’ musical favorite opening tonight.
The musical features Irving Berlin’s classics such as “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” “I’ve Got the Sun in the Morning” and “Doing What Comes Naturally.”
The show is a brawling boy-meets-girl buckshot rivalry, but love finally triumphs when Annie proves that, yes, you can get a man with a gun.
The play opens tonight in Mount Vernon and will also be presented in Kirkland.
Cast members Lyrica Mueller, Kevin Pitman, Ryan Edwards and Ric Shallow round up this spirited production directed by Brenda Mueller and co-directed by Leslie Asplund.
“Smoke on the Mountain”: This hit bluegrass gospel musical returns for Taproot Theatre’s 30th anniversary season, opening tonight.
The Great Depression has rolled into rural Mount Pleasant, N.C. With the town in need of renewal, Pastor Mervin Oglethorpe orchestrates an evening sure to lift the spirits of his congregation. After being waylaid when their bus overturns, the Sanders family arrives in a flurry at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church’s first “Saturday Night Sing.”
The family’s misfortunes become cause for celebration. With bluegrass renditions of traditional hymns, intertwined with the endearing life stories of all five Sanderses, the joyful evening uplifts and entertains even the most stalwart church members.
The 2006 revival is produced under the direction Scott Nolte. The cast features Aubrey Bean, Kevin Brady, Allen Cox, Theresa Holmes, Loni Kappus, Edd Key and David Anthony Lewis.
“Smoke on the Mountain” was the most produced musical in the United States between 1991 and 2001 and has been performed on 250 stages across the nation.
Conceived by Alan Bailey and written by Connie Ray, “Smoke on the Mountain” was the result of two Southern natives writing about the humor of being a Southerner, mixed with the experience of growing up in the church. “Our intention was to do a piece about a church home,” Bailey said. “People see their church as another home, their church family as another family. And we wanted to re-create the love and closeness many churches have.”
“Pirates of Penzance”: The Seattle Gilbert &Sullivan Society’s production of “Pirates of Penzance” opens tonight at Seattle Center.
There will be 13 performances of “Pirates” over three weekends, including matinees on the three Saturdays.
The artistic staff is led by producer Mike Storie, stage director Christine Goff and music director Bernie Kwiram, who will conduct the 40-person cast and the 28-piece orchestra.
This team has assembled a cast of singers, actors and musicians that include local talk-show host Dave Ross as the Major General; Andrew Parks, professor of voice from Pacific Lutheran University, as the Pirate King; and Cristina Villareale, lead soprano, as Mabel.
Shakespeare in the Park: GreenStage is celebrating its 18th birthday as some teenagers do – hanging out in the park on a warm summer night, picnicking, cavorting and causing just a touch of trouble.
For GreenStage, that trouble comes in the form of some classic Shakespeare including, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and a creatively condensed version of all three parts of “Henry VI.” Who could resist?
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Andrew Park (left) and Dave Ross in “The Pirates of Penzance.”
Civic Light Opera of the Northwest is performing “Annie Get Your Gun.”
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