SHOWS/ACTIVITIES I WANT TO SEE AM THINKING ABOUT SEEING PLANNING TO SEE PLANNING TO THINK ABOUT or wish I could.
So far, unfortunately, this is my most inactive page. I don't think I saw any of the shows listed and did not updated it regularly as planned. Somehow I never end up looking for events to list or attend; perhaps because life has been busy enough lately. So I may delete those unattended events soon, but will leave them for now as a reminder.
However, the reason I am here is because I am about to post something new - the recently announced schedule for the upcoming season at the wonderful Hollywood Bowl. But how? I was hoping I could turn each listing into a photo and make a photo album on FB of those events I found of interest. Nope. I could link or post the web site on my FB page but I wanted to add either the schedule, the calendar, or a list of events I found of interest. However, there is no link to post the calendar or schedule. So I went back to basics, copied the schedule, pasted it into a Word Document which I saved as well as converted to a PDF document. I am hoping I can just perhaps paste it here, not sure. I took a screen shot of the page but where is it? I will look for it now. So far I know of no way to link or post a document from my computer onto my blog or FB without cutting and pasting.
February 7, 2013
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2013
Season Schedule
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Time/Venue
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Event/Series
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Artists/Program
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May,
2013
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Saturday,
May 25 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
LEASE EVENT: Fleetwood
Mac
Lease Events |
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June,
2013
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Saturday,
June 8 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
LEASE EVENT: Andrea
Bocelli in Concert
Lease Events |
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Saturday,
June 15 |
3:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
LEASE EVENT: 35th
Anniversary Playboy Jazz Festival
Lease Events |
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Sunday,
June 16 |
3:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
LEASE EVENT: 35th
Anniversary Playboy Jazz Festival
Lease Events |
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Saturday,
June 22 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Opening Night at
the Bowl
Special Concerts |
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Sunday,
June 23 |
7:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
She & Him •
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
KCRW's World Festival 2 |
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Saturday,
June 29 |
6:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
LEASE EVENT: 24th
Annual Mariachi USA Festival
Lease Events |
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Sunday,
June 30 |
7:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Reggae Night XII -
Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley
KCRW's World Festival 1 |
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July,
2013
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Tuesday,
July 2 |
7:30pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Josh Groban July
4th Fireworks Spectacular
Special Concerts |
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Wednesday,
July 3 |
7:30pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Josh Groban July
4th Fireworks Spectacular
Special Concerts |
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Thursday,
July 4 |
7:30pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Josh Groban July
4th Fireworks Spectacular
Special Concerts |
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Friday,
July 5 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Warner Bros.
presents
Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II Weekend Spectaculars - Friday 2 |
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Saturday,
July 6 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Warner Bros.
presents
Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II Weekend Spectaculars - Saturday 2 |
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Tuesday,
July 9 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Tilson Thomas
conducts Mahler
Classical Tuesdays 1 |
Michael
Tilson Thomas,
conductor
Kiera Duffy, soprano Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon, music director |
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Wednesday,
July 10 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Queen Latifah • Roy
Ayers
Jazz at the Bowl 2 |
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Thursday,
July 11 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Tchaikovsky's
Fourth
Classical Thursdays 1 |
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Saturday,
July 13 |
7:30pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Grease Sing-A-Long
Special Concerts |
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Sunday,
July 14 |
7:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Rodrigo y Gabriela
KCRW's World Festival 2 |
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Tuesday,
July 16 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Elgar's Cello
Concerto
Classical Tuesdays 2 |
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Wednesday,
July 17 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Sergio Mendes •
Herb Alpert & Lani Hall
Jazz at the Bowl 1 |
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Thursday,
July 18 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Symphonie fantastique
Classical Thursdays 2 |
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Friday,
July 19 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Pink Martini
Weekend Spectaculars - Friday 1 |
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Saturday,
July 20 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Pink Martini
Weekend Spectaculars - Saturday 1 |
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Sunday,
July 21 |
7:30pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Pink Martini
Sunday Sunset Concerts |
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Tuesday,
July 23 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
The Rite of Spring
Classical Tuesdays 1 |
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Thursday,
July 25 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Pines of Rome
Classical Thursdays 1 |
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Friday,
July 26 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Chicago: The Musical
Weekend Spectaculars - Friday 2 |
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Saturday,
July 27 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Chicago: The Musical
Weekend Spectaculars - Saturday 2 |
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Sunday,
July 28 |
7:30pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Chicago: The Musical
Sunday Sunset Concerts |
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Tuesday,
July 30 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Piano Partners
Nonpareil
Classical Tuesdays 2 |
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Wednesday,
July 31 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Props to Pops: Dr.
John’s Tribute to Louis Armstrong
Jazz at the Bowl 2 |
Dr.
John
The Blind Boys of Alabama, special guests Terence Blanchard, guest trumpeter Nicholas Payton, guest trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, guest trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, guest trumpeter Wendell Brunious, guest trumpeter Additional special guests to be announced |
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August,
2013
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Thursday,
August 1 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Haydn’s “London”
Symphony
Classical Thursdays 2 |
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Friday,
August 2 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Tony Bennett
Weekend Spectaculars - Friday 2 |
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Saturday,
August 3 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
To Be Announced
Weekend Spectaculars - Saturday 2 |
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Sunday,
August 4 |
7:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Headliner to be
Announced
KCRW's World Festival 1 |
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Tuesday,
August 6 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Grimaud plays
Brahms
Classical Tuesdays 1 |
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Wednesday,
August 7 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Steve Martin •
Preservation Hall Jazz Band • Madeleine Peyroux
Jazz at the Bowl 1 |
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Thursday,
August 8 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Grimaud plays
Brahms
Classical Thursdays 1 |
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Friday,
August 9 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
An Evening with
Willie Nelson & Family
Weekend Spectaculars - Friday 1 |
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Saturday,
August 10 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
An Evening with
Willie Nelson & Family
Weekend Spectaculars - Saturday 1 |
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Sunday,
August 11 |
7:30pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Dudamel conducts
Verdi’s Aida
Sunday Sunset Concerts |
Los
Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Liudmyla Monastyrska, Aida Jorge de León, Radames Ekaterina Gubanova, Amneris Eric Owens, Amonasro Stefan Kocan, Ramfis Jordan Bisch, King Janai Brugger, High Priestess Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon, music director |
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Tuesday,
August 13 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Dudamel Conducts
Verdi's Requiem
Classical Tuesdays 2 |
Los
Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Julianna Di Giacomo, soprano Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano Vittorio Grigolo, tenor Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, bass Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon, music director |
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Wednesday,
August 14 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
An Evening with
Natalie Cole
Jazz at the Bowl 2 |
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Thursday,
August 15 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Dudamel Conducts
Verdi's Requiem
Classical Thursdays 2 |
Los
Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Julianna Di Giacomo, soprano Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano Vittorio Grigolo, tenor Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, bass Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon, music director |
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Friday,
August 16 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Tchaikovsky
Spectacular with Fireworks
Weekend Spectaculars - Friday 2 |
Los
Angeles Philharmonic
Robert Moody, conductor Santa Clara Vanguard Drum & Bugle Corps, marching bands Pacific Crest, marching bands |
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Saturday,
August 17 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Tchaikovsky
Spectacular with Fireworks
Weekend Spectaculars - Saturday 2 |
Los
Angeles Philharmonic
Robert Moody, conductor Santa Clara Vanguard Drum & Bugle Corps, marching bands Pacific Crest, marching bands |
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Sunday,
August 18 |
6:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Smooth Summer Jazz:
Dave Koz & Friends Summer Horns Tour 2013
Special Concerts |
Dave
Koz
Mindi Abair, special guest Gerald Albright, special guest Richard Elliot, special guest Additional artists to be announced |
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Tuesday,
August 20 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Itzhak Perlman:
Eternal Echoes
Classical Tuesdays 1 |
Los
Angeles Philharmonic
Itzhak Perlman, violin Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot, tenor Klezmer Conservatory Band, Hankus Netzky, Music Director and Russell Ger, conductor |
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Wednesday,
August 21 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Buddy Guy • Funky
Meters
Jazz at the Bowl 1 |
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Thursday,
August 22 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Magnificent
Mendelssohn
Classical Thursdays 1 |
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Friday,
August 23 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Kristin Chenoweth
Weekend Spectaculars - Friday 1 |
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Saturday,
August 24 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Kristin Chenoweth
Weekend Spectaculars - Saturday 1 |
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Sunday,
August 25 |
7:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Goat Rodeo
KCRW's World Festival 2 |
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Tuesday,
August 27 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
The Russian
Resistance
Classical Tuesdays 2 |
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Wednesday,
August 28 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Wayne Shorter 80th
Birthday Celebration
Jazz at the Bowl 2 |
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Thursday,
August 29 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Beethoven’s Third
Concerto
Classical Thursdays 2 |
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Friday,
August 30 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
John Williams:
Maestro of the Movies
Weekend Spectaculars - Friday 1 |
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Saturday,
August 31 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
John Williams: Maestro
of the Movies
Weekend Spectaculars - Saturday 1 |
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September,
2013
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Sunday,
September 1 |
7:30pm
Hollywood Bowl |
The Big Picture: A
Night at the Oscars
Special Concerts |
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Tuesday,
September 3 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Mozart and
Beethoven
Classical Tuesdays 1 |
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Thursday,
September 5 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Music by Glass –
Dance by Diavolo
Classical Thursdays 1 |
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Friday,
September 6 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Blue Man Group
Weekend Spectaculars - Friday 2 |
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Saturday,
September 7 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Blue Man Group
Weekend Spectaculars - Saturday 2 |
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Sunday,
September 8 |
7:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
ABBA Fest
Special Concerts |
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Tuesday,
September 10 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Rachmaninoff and
Gershwin: Romantic Favorites
Classical Tuesdays 2 |
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Wednesday,
September 11 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
George Benson: An
Unforgettable Tribute to Nat King Cole • Dianne Reeves
Jazz at the Bowl 1 |
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Thursday,
September 12 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Czech Mates
Classical Thursdays 2 |
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Friday,
September 13 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Fireworks Finale:
Earth, Wind & Fire
Weekend Spectaculars - Friday 1 |
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Saturday,
September 14 |
8:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Fireworks Finale:
Earth, Wind & Fire
Weekend Spectaculars - Saturday 1 |
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Sunday,
September 15 |
7:30pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Fireworks Finale:
Earth, Wind & Fire
Sunday Sunset Concerts |
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Saturday,
September 21 |
7:30pm
Hollywood Bowl |
Sing-A-Long Sound of Music
Special Concerts |
Melissa
Peterman,
host
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Sunday,
September 22 |
7:00pm
Hollywood Bowl |
M83 with the
Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
KCRW's World Festival 1 |
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Friday,
September 27 |
7:30pm
Hollywood Bowl |
LEASE EVENT: Keith
Urban
Lease Events |
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SONS OF ETTA: A Tribute to Etta James featuring Donto James, Thelma Jones and Jimmy Z will perform at Marsee Auditorium on Saturday, December 1st.
El Camino College Center for the Arts
Marsee Auditorium
16007 Crenshaw Blvd,
Torrance, CA 90506
Ticket Office Phone: 310–329–5345 or Toll Free 1–800–832–2787
elcamino.edu/commadv/centerforarts/
www.sonsofetta.com
Marsee Auditorium
16007 Crenshaw Blvd,
Torrance, CA 90506
Ticket Office Phone: 310–329–5345 or Toll Free 1–800–832–2787
elcamino.edu/commadv/centerforarts/
www.sonsofetta.com
“Anything Goes” December 11 – January 6 at the Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles Music Center http://www.centertheatregroup.org/tickets
This is a review of an original world premiere musical based on the music of the Flaming Lips about an artist’s battle against cancer featuring pink robots.
“Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” November 6-December 16, La Jolla Playhouse – here is a link to the LA Times review with pictures.
latimes.com
Review: 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots' sounds thrilling, at least
The Flaming Lips-inspired score is the highlight of the literary-challenged 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots' at La Jolla Playhouse.
By Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times Theater Critic9:35 PM PST, November 19, 2012
http://www.lajollaplayhouse.org/
http://www.lajollaplayhouse.org/yoshimi
LA JOLLA — Futuristic theatrical effects are deployed like a hypnotist's pocket watch in "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots." But the real mesmerizing aspect of this new musical at La Jolla Playhouse, inspired by the music of the psychedelic rock band the Flaming Lips, is the way it sounds.
Our ears are delighted at a higher level than our eyes — or our minds, for that matter. The show's sophistication lies in the floating lyricism of its score, which can be categorized in that Tower Records-era indie catch-all known as "alternative rock." The visual imagination is seductive, but in a manner that can seem shallow for a work chronicling in surreal fashion a young woman's desperate fight against cancer.
You either go along with the premise — a Japanese American artist's battle with lymphoma is transformed into a war against flying robots — or you balk at its New Age underpinnings. Count me in the second category, though the ride through a night sky swarming with alien creatures is often exhilarating.
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Inspired by the music of the Flaming Lips, the show incorporates songs from several albums, including of course the critically acclaimed "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots." The sublime orchestrations are by music director Ron Melrose, who frequently collaborates with Des McAnuff, the show's director and probably the most knowledgeable theater artist on the planet when it comes to bringing concept albums to the stage.
McAnuff, who shaped the story with the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, seems to enjoy the freedom of working in that space between music video and book musical. The electric fluidity that he brought to his recent revival of "Jesus Christ Superstar" and his landmark production of "The Who's Tommy" is certainly on full multimedia display here. And back at his old haunt, where he's director emeritus (his unstoppable production of "Jersey Boys" surely sealed his Playhouse legacy), McAnuff seems intent on dazzling us with glitzy galactic spectacle.
The scenic imagery, a combination of Japanese anime and a loopier version of "Star Wars," is relentless. The design team — which includes Robert Brill (scenic design), Basil Twist (puppetry), Sean Nieuwenhuis (video and projections), Paul Tazewell (costumes), Michael Walton ( lighting) and Steve Canyon Kennedy (sound) — has fashioned an extraordinary kaleidoscope, dominated by a cast of actor-controlled robots, including one 14-foot baby that looms over the action like a giant killer. And a group of ace musicians, conducted by Jasper Grant, one of the keyboardists, sets it all in motion to a lush, full sound.
But the awkward narrative tension between the seriousness of the subject matter and the fanciful way the allegory is realized never goes away.
A hipster painter with a penchant for white canvases featuring a blob of yellow, Yoshimi (Kimiko Glenn) is healthy when we first meet her. She's in a relationship with Booker (Nik Walker), an investment broker, and trying her best to keep her computer graphics designer ex-boyfriend, the romantically dogged Ben (Paul Nolan), at bay.
Then, out of nowhere, Yoshimi collapses. Booker launches into "Mr. Ambulance Driver" from the Flaming Lips' album "At War With the Mystics." And her hospital nightmare, which gets visually transmogrified into a three-dimensional video game (complete with Bradley Rapier's hallucinatory choreography) begins.
Doctor Petersen (the capable Tom Hewitt in a thankless role) informs her that her body is attacking itself with mutant lymphocytes: "These pink cells are the enemy. They must be defeated."
What results can be described as a chemotherapy fantasia. Ben sums it up for us in "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Part I": "Those evil-natured robots/They're programmed to destroy us/She's gotta be strong to fight them/So she's taking lots of vitamins."
The spoken vocabulary isn't always this basic. There are words in "Pink Robots" you wouldn't normally expect to hear in a musical — words that would stop even Stephen Sondheim dead in his tracks. "Immunotherapy," "synthetic antibodies" and the names of medical procedures I'm too much of a hypochondriac to repeat contribute to the show's odd blend of space-age fantasy and clinical realism.
La Jolla Playhouse is getting a reputation for developing musicals that don't act like musicals. Earlier this year "Hands on a Hardbody," a show about a contest for a pickup truck at a Texas auto dealership, had its premiere here and is now headed to Broadway despite the choreographically challenging fact that the characters must maintain one hand on the vehicle to win it.
PHOTOS: Arts and culture by The Times
Thinking in an untraditional way is precisely what's needed at a time when the American musical has reverted to cheesy movie adaptations and jejune jukebox contraptions. But the literary sensibility behind "Pink Robots" is markedly inferior to its visual imagination. This show needs a book writer, STAT.
The basic outline of the story is clear enough, but the details can be fuzzy or cramped or, in the case of Yoshimi's parents (played by John Haggerty and Pearl Sun), stereotypical. The romantic turmoil is treated in the imagistic shorthand of a Madonna video. And then there are lines ("You know, there is evidence that love actually has the ability to heal") that had me flipping through the program to see if inspirational author Louise L. Hay had a hand in the work's creation. (It's not the sentiment so much as the banality of expression.)
Nolan, who was Jesus in McAnuff's production of "Jesus Christ Superstar," anchors the show with a bohemian clownishness that contains a searching lyricism. Glenn is exquisite to look at and listen to, though Yoshimi is treated too picturesquely, like a suffering doll. Walker brings sympathy to a character who can't bear to witness what he's helpless to change.
It's the singing of these performers, rather than their acting, that stirs up the emotions — just as it's the haunting sound of the show, rather than its dazzling sights, that has stayed with me. If you want to go to a deeper place with "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots," you'll have to close your eyes and travel there via your own imagination.
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'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots'
Where: La Jolla Playhouse's Mandell Weiss Theatre, 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla
When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays-Wednesdays, 8 p.m. Thursdays-Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays. Ends Dec. 16.
Tickets: $15-$100
Contact: (858) 550-1010
Running time: 2 hours, 20 minutes
charles.mcnulty@latimes.com
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