The Stuff of Fantasy

Santa Barbara Symphony performing "Fantasia" - "The Sourcerer's Apprentice" 1/29/127 the Granada Theatre

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Dancing hippos, elephants and alligators, Donald Duck working for Noah to fill the ark and of course Mickey and the mops. Nearly everyone has probably seen the 1940 animated Disney movie Fantasia, and for the concert version presented by the Santa Barbara Symphony, new additions created in 1999 were added. The old favorites are there,…

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Summertime is Coming Early

Elijah Rock is Porgy and Karole Foreman is Bess in Ensemble Theatre Company's "Porgy and Bess" 1/29/17 the New Vic Theatre

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Ensemble Theatre Company is bringing “Porgy and Bess” to the New Vic Theatre this February with a re-vamped jazz adaptation of the classic George & Ira Gershwin operetta featuring a live on-stage jazz ensemble. Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Suzan-Lori Parks created this adaptation for the Broadway stage and Grammy-nominated…

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One for the Kids

David Lockington enlightens studetns at the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra Concert for Young People 1/27/17 the Granada Theatre

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Actually there were 4 Concerts for Young People presented by the Santa Barbara Symphony at the Granada Theatre last week. 4,000 4th and 5th grade students from the greater Santa Barbara area were treated to a varied and educational program by members of the SBS orchestra and visiting conductor David Lockington, who used paintings…

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Multiple Personalities

Sarah Jones as "Mrs. Levine" - UCSB Arts & Lectures 1/24/17 Campbell Hall

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There may be disorder in the world, but there is definitely method to Sarah Jones’s hilariously spot on impersonations of people who are the victims, and some perpetrators, of the chaos. Able to very convincingly portray different ethnicities and cultural “stereotypes,” Ms. Jones leads her audience into explorations of inequality and injustice so skillfully that one…

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