New Touches Embellish Enchanting “A Christmas Carol” Musical Now at Sierra Madre Playhouse
By Fran Syverson It’s Christmastime from the moment you enter the Sierra Madre Playhouse. Carolers outside the Playhouse fill the air with familiar tunes. Garlands festoon the foyer, a faux living room corner graces the hall, and 1800-ish décor takes us back to an earlier era. ’Twas that era in which Charles Dickens lived and [...]
“The Rainmaker” to Beguile Us at the Sierra Madre Playhouse
Can he really make it rain?—this handsome dude who happens to drop by a farmhouse one day just as the Currys are standing at their windows, scanning the skies for even the barest hint of clouds. He says he can. Says he’s done it before, in the midst of terrible droughts, worse’n this ‘un. ‘Course [...]
Playhouse Hosts “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever”
You remember being in the children’s Christmas Pageant at your church, don’t you? The kids all dressed up like shepherds, wise men, angels or fuzzy sheep…girls vying for the role of Mary…the boys all ducking, looking the other way when the Sunday School teacher chooses this year’s Joseph…. Your proud parents and grandparents beaming at [...]
“The Foreigner” Arrives at the Sierra Madre Playhouse
Such mystique a foreigner can bring to a small town full of folks who’ve never had the chance to travel to other countries! Charlie Baker is endowed with that mystique when he arrives at Betty Meeks’s fishing lodge in Georgia. In actuality, Betty is the one who does the endowing. She’s never traveled nor met [...]
