SWINGING INTO SEASON 'THE JUNGLE BOOK,' OTHER FEATURES SET.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE - Community theater and music performances, Shakespearean plays and film travelogues are part of the Palmdale Playhouse's 11th season. Mayor Jim Ledford and the Palmdale cultural arts/theater manager, Dea McAllister were dressed as Tarzan and Jane - in honor of the playhouse youth theater camp's upcoming performance of ``The Jungle Book'' - when they made the season announcement on Tuesday. The 11th season will start Sept. 3 with Lucie Arnaz Lucie Désirée Arnaz (born July 17, 1951) is an American actress. She is the daughter of actors Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and is the sister of actor Desi Arnaz, Jr. When asked why her name is not spelled like her mother's Lucie replied: "My Dad chose the name. , daughter of comedienne Lucille Ball, and the presentation of the theater's Medici Medici, Italian family Medici (mĕ`dĭchē, Ital. mā`dēchē), Italian family that directed the destinies of Florence from the 15th cent. until 1737. Award to veteran activist George Palermo. Through next summer, there will be more than 40 shows by touring entertainers, city groups, the Palmdale Repertory Theatre repertory theatre Production of several different plays in a single season by a resident acting company. The plays chosen may be classic works by famous dramatists or new works by emerging playwrights, and the companies that perform them often serve as a training ground for and Desert Opera Theatre. The lineup includes jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon Nnenna Freelon, (b. July 28, 1954), is an American jazz singer, composer, producer, and arranger. She has been nominated for five Grammy Awards for her vocal work,[1] in an Oct. 22 tribute to Billie Holiday Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), born Eleanora Fagan and later nicknamed Lady Day (see "Jazz royalty" regarding similar nicknames), was an American jazz singer, a seminal influence on jazz and pop singers, and generally regarded as one of the as part of the ninth annual Harvest Moon harvest moon, full moon occurring nearest to the autumnal equinox, about Sept. 23. During harvest moon the retardation (later rising each night) of the moon is at a minimum because of the relation of the moon's path to the horizon. Festival, Oct. 21-23. The State Street Ballet of Santa Barbara will perform ``Carmen'' on Feb. 14, and a St. Patrick's Day concert March 17 will feature Celtic musicians Colcannon col·can·non n. An Irish dish of mashed potatoes and cabbage, seasoned with butter. [Irish Gaelic cál ceannan : cál, cabbage (from Old Irish, from Latin caulis) + . The theater's ninth annual Children's Festival Oct. 1-2 will let youngsters make crafts, draw in chalk on the theater sidewalks and hear an American Indian legend told by puppets in ``Coyote Tails.'' A western-style sit-down dinner and dancing on Nov. 19 will be part of singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphey's ``Cowboy Christmas Ball,'' which will raise money and collect nonperishable food for the South Antelope Valley Emergency Services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' food bank. The 10th annual Shakespeare Festival April 17-23 will include the State Street Ballet performing to Felix Mendelssohn's music in ``A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and a touring troupe, Will & Company, performing ``Merchant of Venice'' and an adaptation of ``A Winter's Tale.'' A complete season schedule is on the city Web site at www.cityofpalmdale.org. For general theater information, call (661) 267-5684. The box office at the theater, 38334 10th St. E., is open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. The box office telephone number is (661) 267-5685. ONLINE UPDATE: www.cityofpalmdale.org CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color) Theater manager Dea McAllister and Mayor Jim Ledford play Jane and Tarzan, above, while children playing Mowgli and jungle wolves, top, back them up Tuesday in a little hamming to promote the Palmdale Playhouse's season. (3 -- color) Felicity Landa, 13, and masked Eli Crane, 15, play a scene from ``Tricker's Treat'' as part of a program Tuesday promoting the upcoming season at the Palmdale Playhouse. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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