Music from around the world, from the ‘40s Big Band Song and Dance Revue IN THE MOOD, the very funny and entertaining 3 REDNECK TENORS, the ever popular Irish Rovers, Miami's hot Cuban timba band TIEMPO LIBRE, Portuguese fado singer MARIZA along with a newly added performance by the MARIACHI LOS CAMPEROS de NATI CANO who will bring the second performance season at the Balboa Theatre to a resounding close!
San Diego Theatres Presents
3 Redneck Tenors: A New Musical Adventure
Sunday, February 22, 2009, 6:00 pm
"The "3 Redneck Tenors" could have been a punch line, a gimmick - if it didn't have so much talent." -Las Vegas Sun "Laughs Galore...They can sing like angels." -Dallas Morning News
In the melodic wake of the three operatic tenors comes a new breed of tenors from more humble origins...3 Redneck Tenors: A New Musical Adventure. The musical comedy, featuring classically trained veteran artists from Broadway and world opera stages John Wilkerson, Alex Bumpas, Matthew Lord and Dinny McGuire, is like Greater Tuna meets Das Barbecu - down home laughs with big city music! Join Billy Bob, Billy Joe, and Billy Billee as they mix NASCAR with Beethoven, lite beer with Puccini and even kick up a little dust with Ave Maria Dixie! You'll travel with three singing cousins from their modest beginnings in Paris, Texas, where they discover that belting out a high C causes pigs to move faster and bar brawlers to scatter; all the way to their triumphant debut at New York's famous Carnegie Hall.
3 Redneck Tenors: A New Musical Adventure
6:00 pm, Sunday, February 22, 2009
Tickets $50/$40/$25
San Diego Theatres Presents in association with Mike Pettite Presentations
In the Mood: A Swinging 1940s Musical Revue
Saturday, February 28, 2009, 2:00 pm & 8:00 pm
"Mobbed by an unexpected outpouring of fans of the swing era, 500 people had to be turned away and hundreds more had swamped the switchboard." - The Washington Post
Swing ‘n sway to the best of the big band era as the music of the 1940s comes alive with In the Mood featuring the In the Mood Singers and Dancers with the sensational String of Pearls Big Band Orchestra with arrangements, costumes and choreography as authentic as it gets. Take a look back at life and times of the "greatest generation," as you experience the music that moved a nation's spirit and helped win a war when America was listening and dancing to the music of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Erskin Hawkins, The Andrews Sisters, Frank Sinatra and more. In the 1940s, the combination of up-tempo big band instrumentals and intimate, romantic ballads set the mood for a future filled with promise, hope and prosperity. On radio, in theaters and ballrooms, the Big Bands were drawing record crowds. Vocal groups and soloists sang a repertory of great songs, and for the last time in the 20th century, the entire country shared a common popular music. This body of song did much to sustain national morale during World War II, the pivotal event of the era. This was a time like no other in our history, a time when music moved the Nation's spirit. Come experience the swing, rhythm, jazzy, brassy, sentimental and romantic music of this important time. Bud Forrest Entertainment began touring In the Mood in 1994 following an overwhelming response from a performance on the steps of the National Archives in Washington, DC. In the Mood has performed and toured all over the U.S.A., Canada and Europe and also for one of the 2nd Clinton Presidential Inaugural Balls.
In the Mood: A Swinging 1940s Musical Revue
2:00 pm & 8:00 pm, Saturday, February 28, 2009
Tickets $50/$45/$30
San Diego Theatres Presents Tiempo Libre
Saturday, March 7, 2009, 8:00 pm
