The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Can there be too much fun? Nope! And the director, cast and crew of Lakeside Little Theatre’s recent staging of “The Drowsy Chaperone” proved it.
Velvet-voiced and amazingly versatile, Jorge Acosta has a huge following at his weekly shows at The Palm — El Piano Rojo’s sister club in Puerto Vallarta — where he often introduces new talent to the room. And since he presented Polish soprano Beata Stankiewicz a few weeks ago, folks just can’t get enough of her angelic powerhouse voice.
The all-time longest running off-Broadway musical, “The Fantasticks,” is set to be revived again in Ajijic, directed by a veteran of the San Francisco production and featuring the same trio of local, young singers-actors who, as the show’s producer Jayme Littlejohn says, “enchanted” Lakeside audiences last fall.
The Scotiabank Northern Lights Music Festival has been outstanding so far, and there are still a few opportunities left to experience what has become a bellweather musical event at Lakeside.
In the Judy Show playing at El Piano Rojo, internationally acclaimed impersonator Michael Holmes combines outrageous comedy and great musical standards in an hysterical parody of Judy Garland that will have you begging for more.
VIVA la Musica has arranged bus trips to Guadalajara’s Teatro Degollado for Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra performances, which begin at 8:30 p.m. on Fridays and 12:30 p.m. on Sundays.
Local artist Efren Gonzalez has been designated as the new director at the Centro Cultural de Ajijic (CCA).
