42nd Street Moon News

Who's the hostess with the mostes' in San Francisco? On September 26, the answer will be belted out when San Francisco's only professional musical theatre company, 42nd Street Moon (www.42ndstreetmoon.org) opens its much-anticipated 2009 / 2010 season with Irving Berlin's classic take on the Washington, DC political-and-social set, Call Me Madam starring international cabaret and concert star Klea Blackhurst in the role made famous by Ethel Merman.

As a summer extra, the Diablo Theatre Company will present a semi-staged concert version of ' Funny Girl,' the 1964 classic Broadway musical comedy that starred Barbra Sreisand and introduced a score that includes the standards 'People' and 'Don't Rain On My Parade,' for four performances beginning August 27.

As a summer extra, the Diablo Theatre Company will present a semi-staged concert version of ' Funny Girl,' the 1964 classic Broadway musical comedy that starred Barbra Sreisand and introduced a score that includes the standards 'People' and 'Don't Rain On My Parade,' for four performances beginning August 27.

The Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation presents COMEDY KABARET: 2 (gay) Comics and a Diva, featuring Eddie Sarfaty, Scott Nevins and Connie Champagne.

Multi-talented and multi-lingual singer Lua Hadar and her band TWIST will debut their new show, 'French Connection,' at The Rrazz Room, Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason, SF, Sunday September 13 at 3 PM.

The Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation presents COMEDY KABARET: 2 (gay) Comics and a Diva, featuring Eddie Sarfaty, Scott Nevins and Connie Champagne.

As a summer extra, the Diablo Theatre Company will present a semi-staged concert version of ' Funny Girl,' the 1964 classic Broadway musical comedy that starred Barbra Sreisand and introduced a score that includes the standards 'People' and 'Don't Rain On My Parade,' for four performances beginning August 27.

he sixth annual San Francisco Theater Festival, a free one-day extravaganza of 100 shows on 14 stages has been scheduled for Sunday, July 26, 2009, from 11:00 am - 5:00 pm at the Yerba Buena Gardens arts complex, including the new Contemporary Jewish Museum.

Russ Lorenson, crooner Bay Area cabaret favorite, returns to The Rrazz Room in the Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St., San Francisco, for a late night show, July 18 at 10:30 PM. The show, called After Hours, features special guest Alexandra Kaprielien.

Russ Lorenson, crooner Bay Area cabaret favorite, returns to The Rrazz Room in the Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St., San Francisco, for a late night show, July 18 at 10:30 PM. The show, called After Hours, features special guest Alexandra Kaprielien.

42nd Street Moon kicks off its upcoming 2009-10 Season with its annual fundraiser, this year titled We?re In The Money! -- Hollywood Sings Away the Depression Blues. A one-night-only event at the Alcazar Theatre on Monday, June 22, the evening salutes the whimsical, eccentric, and often, enchanted world of 1930s movie musicals ? the talking picture era.

42nd Street Moon annual fundraising evening will be called We're in the Money. Hollywood Sings Away the Depression Blues.

42nd Street Moon kicks off its upcoming 2009-10 Season with its annual fundraiser, this year titled We?re In The Money! -- Hollywood Sings Away the Depression Blues. A one-night-only event at the Alcazar Theatre on Monday, June 22, the evening salutes the whimsical, eccentric, and often, enchanted world of 1930s movie musicals ? the talking picture era.

Multi-award winning Foothill Music Theatre presents the most highly awarded show in Broadway history, MEL BROOKS' THE PRODUCERS, the musical, winner of 12 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.

42nd Street Moon annual fundraising evening will be called We're in the Money. Hollywood Sings Away the Depression Blues.

42nd Street Moon?s 2008/09 season draws to a close with Maureen McVerry starring in Cy Coleman?s rip-roaring musical treat, Wildcat, book by N. Richard Nash, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, and music by Cy Coleman. The show previews on May 7 and 8, and opens on Saturday, May 9. It runs at the Eureka Theatre through May 24.

April is the cruelest - and most hilarious - month at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, when Les Waters lets loose with another shocking script from Martin McDonagh. In 2007, the Obie Award-winning director scored a direct hit with his extended run of The Pillowman; since then, the Academy Award-winning author released his first feature film, In Bruges. Now Berkeley Rep reenlists these seasoned artists for another vicious comedy: The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Staged in the state-of-the-art Roda Theatre, this edgy farce begins previews on April 17, opens April 22, and closes May 17. BART and Wells Fargo serve as season sponsors for Berkeley Rep's 41st year of fearless theatre, and the executive producers for this show are Marjorie Randolph, Betty and Jack Schafer, and Philip and Shirley Schild.

April is the cruelest - and most hilarious - month at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, when Les Waters lets loose with another shocking script from Martin McDonagh. In 2007, the Obie Award-winning director scored a direct hit with his extended run of The Pillowman; since then, the Academy Award-winning author released his first feature film, In Bruges.

In collaboration with 42nd Street Moon, a workshop production of a dramatic new musical Shadows of Pompeii debuts at the Eureka Theatre, April 16 - 26.

42nd Street Moon today announced that the previously scheduled non-subscription program The Great Revues has been replaced with the dramatic new musical Shadows of Pompeii to run April 16 - 26, 2009. The show will be submitted in 2010 to the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Musicals. A saga of Romans living in the seaside village of Pompeii in AD 79 at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, Shadows of Pompeii was written by Bay Area playwright R.C. Staab, with music and lyrics by Keith Herrmann, the Tony-nominated composer of Romance, Romance, Onward Victoria (also featured on Broadway) and Prom Queens Unchained, an off-Broadway hit.