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Review: A Little Night Music – Hillbarn Theatre Company
The night smiles three times
May 12, 2013
By Ande Jacobson
Hillbarn Theatre Company’s latest offering is A Little Night Music which opened on Friday, 10 May. This highly acclaimed Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler musical, suggested by the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, follows the lives and loves of several mismatched couples in early 20th Century Sweden. As Sondheim recalls in his memoir Finishing the Hat, director Harold Prince once described A Little Night Music as “whipped cream with knives.” An apt description as the plotline is both sweet and sharp. Sondheim claims he focused on the knives and spent his energy pursuing his dream of writing a “Theme and Variations,” in this case, using a metric theme, or more specifically a triple-meter theme exploring the myriad options available to him beyond the waltz. [Continue Reading]
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Review: Miss Saigon – Palo Alto Players
East meets west in “Miss Saigon”
April 29, 2013
By Ande Jacobson
Palo Alto Players (PAP) tackles a classic story with their production of Miss Saigon, by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, and Richard Maltby, Jr., which is based on Giacomo Puccini’s tragedy, Madama Butterfly, about a doomed romance between an Asian woman and her American GI lover. The modern version keeps the drama and concept on which Puccini’s opera was based but modernizes the story and brings it to Vietnam, and PAP makes a valiant effort to stay faithful to the script. Overall, it’s a production worth seeing in spite of a few shortcomings. [Continue Reading]
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Book: REMEMBERING MOM AND DAD
Published February 2013
By Ande Jacobson
In REMEMBERING MOM AND DAD, I make the jump from analyzing the stories to telling them. The book is a collection of essays and short stories written over time remembering Bayla and Jerry Jacobson. The stories include personal recollections from my experience along with the retelling of numerous events related to me in conversations over the years. Some of the stories included are: “Music in the House”, “The Parenthood Plunge”, “The Jacobson Pet Parade”, “Disney Days of Summer”, and many more. Interested?
Purchase the print edition online on CreateSpace or Amazon or in person at Leigh’s Favorite Books in Sunnyvale, CA.
Purchase a digital copy in Kindle or Nook formats.
Read the full Introduction.
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