After much deliberation, The Naked Stage board has decided to go ahead with the June 22 performance of “Occupant” by Edward Albee.
This show will be dedicated to Jeanne Chaussee, who always said “the show must go on.” Notes her daughter Libby: “My mother would have it no other way, death was the only reason to not do a show, and she meant only if it was the whole crew and cast. Keep your eyes open, she’ll let you know she’s there!”
“Occupant” is staged as an interview with renowned sculptor Louise Nevelson, who comes back after her death to tell it like it was.
Performance dates are Friday, June 21; Saturday, June 22 and Sunday, June 23, at 4 p.m. The box office opens at 3:15 p.m.
The Naked Stage will hold auditions for the July readings of “Do Not Go Gentle” by Susan L. Zeder on Thursday, June 27, 10 a.m. at the theater (Plaza de la Ribera on Rio Bravo 10A behind Daniel’s restaurant).
The show is directed by Robin Lawrason, who is looking for three men and four women. He is also seeking a 10-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl.
For more information or to get a digital version of the script, contact Lawrason at 766-3070 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Performance dates are July 26, 27 and 28.
Exhibit
The photo exhibit “Amanaceres de Jocotepec,” featuring images by Guillermo Aguirre, opens Friday, June 21, 5 p.m. in the Chapala city hall lobby. All are welcome.
Free fall jazz
Three talented Mexican musicians offer a performance that not only includes jazz classics from Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, and Garner and Burke, but also Brel, Leonard Cohen, Edith Piaf and more.
Taking the microphone will be Jaramar Soto, who has more than two decades of solo performances in Mexico, Canada, the United States and Europe – as well as 11 albums – to her name. Alejandro Alfaro on guitar is acclaimed as a musician, composer and arranger in both the jazz and popular music genres. Eliud Ernandes on bass earned his chops at an early age and more recently has been active as musical director in various theater presentations and collaborated with top rock, jazz and gospel musicians in Mexico.
Hear them Saturday, June 29, 7 or 9 p.m. at El Piano Rojo, Morelos 14, Ajijic. Tickets are on pre-sale for 120 pesos at Diane Pearl.
CREM summer concert
Centro Regional de Estudios Musicales (CREM) and their professional orchestra directed by Emmanuel Medeles Medina together with CREM’s Children’s Orchestra is holding its 2013 summer concert at the Auditorio de la Ribera on July 6, 7 p.m.
The program includes the “Toy Symphony” (variously credited to Joseph Haydn, Leopold Mozart, Michael Haydn and Benedictine monk Edmund Angerer), Joseph Haydn’s “Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D Major,” Wolfgang Mozart’s “Symphony No. 40” and the premier of Eduardo Garcia’s “Pequeño Retrato” (“Small Portrait”). Guest director for the event is Cuban Ailyn Urquiza Don and Saul Ibarra Ramos will be on the piano.
Tickets are 180 pesos and can be purchased at the Auditorio de la Ribera from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Chapala City Hall cultural office from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. or by calling Medeles at 766-0598. The concert benefits the musical studies of many young lakeside musicians.
ASA & kids
Kids from the Lake Chapala Society Children’s Art Program will present samples of their best artwork and talk about the impact the program has had on their lives at the July 1 meeting of the Ajijic Society of the Arts (ASA). Neill James legacy artists Jesus Lopez Vega and Javier Zaragoza will join the meeting and talk about how the program changed their lives when they were children.
ASA’s monthly meeting is held on the first Monday of the month at 10 a.m. at La Bodega.
The LCS Children’s Art Program program is free and all children are welcome. It’s held on the back patio at LCS from 10 a.m. to noon every Saturday (except holidays), rain or shine.