By Charlene Baldridge | Downtown News
July and summer is in full swing.
Make memories and enrich your midsummer by making time for music and theater.
Embarcadero Marina Park
This month San Diego Symphony Summer Pops features Roberta Flack (7:30 p.m. July 6-7), Doc Severinsen (7:30 p.m. July 8), Legend of Zelda (8 p.m. July 12), The Temptations (July 13-14), Tribute to the Beatles (July 24), Peking Acrobats (7:30 p,m, July 20-21), Music of ABBA (7:30 p,m, July 27-28) and Dave Koz (7:30 p,m, July 29). Embarcadero Marina Park South (S. Harbor Drive and Park Blvd.), $18-$76 depending on location (everything from champagne cabaret to blankets and beach chairs, certain restrictions apply, see web site for tickets and parking suggestions), www.sandiegosymphony.org or (619) 235-0804. See Top Story by Downtown News contributing writer Kai Oliver-Kurtin and Editor Morgan M. Hurley.
Broadway at the Civic Theatre
Presented by Broadway San Diego, the tour of Stephen Schwartz’s worldwide hit musical “Wicked,” the story of Oz before Dorothy dropped in, continues through July 15. It is followed July 24-29 by the Broadway tour of the lively Tony Award-winning “Memphis,” set in the ‘50s.
7 p.m. Tues-Wed, 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m/ Fri-Sat, 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. Sundays, Civic Theatre, 202 C Street, Downtown San Diego, www.broadwaysd.com, www.ticketmaster.com (619) 570-1100.
Shakespeare at The Old Globe
The Old Globe Shakespeare Festival (“Richard III,” “As You Like It” and “Inherit the Wind”), continuing in rotating repertory through September 30 in the outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre, adds “Divine Rivalry” (July 7-August 5 in the Old Globe Theatre), a play that concerns the 16th century rivalry between artists Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci.
Lowell Davies Festival Theatre and Old Globe Theater at Conrad Prebys Theatre Center are located at 1363 Old Globe Way, Balboa Park, tickets range $29-$95, for more information and showtimes, visit www.theoldglobe.org or call (619) 23-GLOBE (5623).
San Diego REPertory Theatre
July 14-August 12 In partnership with San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts, San Diego Repertory Theatre presents a new production of Luis Valdez’s groundbreaking musical, “Zoot Suit,” called a muscular mix of historical fact and agitprop fiction, directed by Kirsten Brandt with choreography by Javier Velasco.
7 p.m. Tues-Wed, 8 p.m. Thur-Sat, 2 p.m. Saturdays and selected Sundays, Lyceum Stage, San Diego Repertory Theatre, 79 Horton Plaza, San Diego, $32-$57 (students $18), www.sdrep.org or (619) 544-1000.
Charlene Baldridge moved to San Diego from the Chicago area in 1962. She’s been writing about the arts since 1979, and has had her features, critiques, surveys and interviews included in various publications ever since. Her book San Diego, Jewel of the California Coast (Northland Publishing) is currently available in bookstores. She can be reached at [email protected].
