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This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant, and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the “grandchild” the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness—and slang—in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.
- Ernest Thompson
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PRELUDE TO A KISS, THE MUSICAL
South Coast Repertory (4/5 - 5/4) | |
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Kairos
David Henry Hwang Theater (4/4 - 4/28) COMEDY NEW PLAY
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What The Constitution Means To Me
International City Theatre (5/2 - 5/19) | |
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Footloose The Musical
Mira Costa High School (4/26 - 5/4)
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Spring Awakening
The Broadwater Mainstage (4/26 - 5/11) | |
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VOX Cabaret
Catalina Jazz Club (5/5 - 5/5) | |
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Camerata Pacifica Baroque: The French Dispatch
Zipper Concert Hall (4/25 - 4/25) | |
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Tiny Beautiful Things
Chance Theater @ Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center (4/5 - 4/28) | |
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DISTRACTIONS AT THE CRASH SITE: Short Plays
Theatre of NOTE (5/1 - 6/1) | |
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A View From the Bridge
Theatre Palisades (3/29 - 4/28) | |
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The Orphan's Revenge (or Abandoned at Cooper's Cross)
The Group Rep at the Lonny Chapman Theatre (10/4 - 11/10) | |
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