\u2018Summer\u2019
\nLaDonna Adrian Gaines\u2019 mother was a Boston schoolteacher, and her father was a butcher. Not exactly the pedigree for LaDonna\u2019s international stardom, until the day she opened her mouth around age 10 to sing \u2014 and stopped the world on its axis. From Tuesday, Nov. 7, to Dec. 17, La Jolla Playhouse will present the world-premiere “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,” charting the disco legend\u2019s insane rise to popularity, which waned just as quickly prior to her cancer death in 2012 at age 63. Former Playhouse artistic director, Des McAnuff, is back in the helm for this entry, which features three actors playing Summer and more than 20 chart-toppers. The show is at the Playhouse\u2019s Mandell Weiss Theatre. Tickets can be purchased at 858-550-1010 or at www.lajollaplayhouse.org.
\nYekwan Sunwoo plays Van?Cliburn
\nAmerican piano icon Van Cliburn burst on the scene in 1958 as the first winner of the old Soviet Union\u2019s International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians \u2014 and now, the La Jolla Music Society is set to present the winner of the competition that bears his name. South Korea\u2019s Yekwan Sunwoo, gold medalist at the event held last June in Fort Worth, Texas, will perform a program featuring selections by Mozart, Schubert and Ravel on Sunday, Nov. 5 at 3 p.m. at the Scripps Research Institute Auditorium, located at 10620 John J. Hopkins Drive. Get tickets at www.ljms.org or at 858-459-3728.
\nRichard Goode
\nOn Saturday, Nov. 11, legendary pianist Richard Goode will bring a program featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Chopin, Beethoven and Schoenberg to the auditorium.
\nLa Jolla Symphony Chorus
\nA concentric path leads both forward and back \u2014 and on Dec. 9 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 10 at 2 p.m. at UC San Diego\u2019s Mandeville Auditorium, the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus will cast just such a passage with Concentric Paths, a program connecting the works of 20th-century French composer Francis Poulenc to those of his medieval countryman Guillaume de Machaut. The orchestra music of English composer Thomas Ad\u00e8s will also be presented in San Diego for the first time. Thomas Nee Commission recipient Tina Tallon will also debut a work for orchestra and electronics. The Mandeville is located at 9500 Gilman Drive. Call 858-534-4637, or e-mail boxoffice@lajollasymphony.com.
\nDia de los Muertos
\nDia de los Muertos is more than an excuse to party \u2014 it\u2019s a touchstone of Mexican culture, marking family connection and remembrance. Iconic Mexican vocalist Eugenia Le\u00f3n, known for her victory in an international singing competition two days after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, is San Diego Symphony\u2019s special guest on Sunday, Nov. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B St. downtown. She\u2019ll feature a program alongside guitarist Flavio Meneses Torres and pianist Rosino Serrano Garc\u00eda. For tickets, call 610-235-0804 or www.sandiegosymphony.org. Fabulous France
\nFrance is fabulous. We\u2019re going to go out on a limb and suggest that\u2019s why the Symphony decided to call its Nov. 11 and 12 showcase Fabulous France, featuring an army of composers from the bright and brilliant Maurice Ravel to the darkly suggestive Gabriel Faure.
\nThe Grinch
\nThe pesky ol\u2019 Grinch has been a thorn in Whoville\u2019s side for 20 years this year in The Old Globe Theatre\u2019s holiday musical\u00a0”\u00a0Dr. Seuss\u2019 How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” Then again, the proud townsfolk manage to turn him away every season as he tries to steal their gifts and generally make a mess of the holiday. Beginning Thursday, Nov. 9 and running through Dec. 24, Cindy Lou Who will do the heavy lifting once again as her kindness turns the Grinch\u2019s lump-of-coal heart to a diamond. The Globe is at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park. Tickets are available at www.theoldglobe.org or 619-234-5623.
\nThe Zoo Story
\nSite-specific theater can have its drawbacks, especially when the setting\u2019s outdoors \u2014 but this is San Diego, where it hasn\u2019t rained in 741 years except for last winter. That makes it a good time to take in San Diego Actors Theatre\u2019s “The Zoo Story,” Edward Albee\u2019s two-character treatise on the despair that runs under middle-class life. The park setting recalls Albee\u2019s love for Southern California \u2014 he served as artistic advisor to San Diego\u2019s Playwrights Project play development group until his death in 2016. The play runs at 2 p.m. through Nov. 12 at Mission Hills\u2019 Pioneer Park, 1521 Washington Place. Tickets are available at www.sdactorstheatre.net\/online or 858-268-4494.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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