Two months in the past, Tyler Tafolla concluded a 10-year run as a performer at SeaWorld San Diego. Now he’s prepared to indicate San Diego audiences what else he’s obtained up his sleeve.
Tafolla has rented out Diversionary Theatre for a weekend to stage two performances of his magic-infused musical “Scott Robbins and the Touring Present,” which he created, scored, directed, produced and he stars in because the title character. There can be two performances at 8 p.m. Nov. 11 and 12. Tickets are $10 and might be bought at instagram.com/scottrobbinsnewmusical.
Set in 1935 within the American Nice Plains states, it’s the story of a younger man on the run who pretends he’s a famed magician to get employed by a touring circus. Finally he finds a way of neighborhood and residential among the many circus performers. Eight actors will play greater than 100 roles. The solid consists of Kelly Prendergast, Shaun Conde, Jordan Brownlee, Cameron Blankenship, Anna Duchi, Isabella Pruter and Russell Clements.
Tafolla created the full-length musical in 2017 whereas learning theater on the AMDA School of the Performing Arts in Los Angeles. It went on to be carried out on the New York Theatre Pageant: Summerfest, the place it was nominated for an award. Within the years since, Tafolla has reprised the present a number of instances across the nation, together with at Groundworks Theatre Arts in Poway in 2019. Go to tylertafolla.com.
‘Outsiders’ tickets on sale at LJ Playhouse
The La Jolla Playhouse has opened ticket gross sales for the primary 4 weeks of its world premiere musical “The Outsiders,” which can run Feb. 19 by way of April 2 on the Mandell Weiss Theatre on the UC San Diego campus.
Impressed by S.E. Hinton’s 1967 coming-of-age novel and the 1983 movie by Francis Ford Coppola, “The Outsiders” is a few gang of teenage boys in 1967 Oklahoma who battle to beat their hardscrabble roots and survive. The musical incorporates a e book by Adam Rapp, music and lyrics by the duo Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Probability) and Justin Levine and route by Danya Taymor. For tickets, go to lajollaplayhouse.org/present/the-outsiders.
Dani Diaz and Ramon Villa in Scripps Ranch Theatre’s “Excessive Dwelling Makeover,” opening Nov. 11.
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SRT presents ‘Excessive Dwelling Makeover’
“Excessive Dwelling Makeover,” a play that had a studying at San Diego Repertory Theatre’s 2020 Latinx Play Pageant, can be offered in a full manufacturing this month at Scripps Ranch Theatre.
Written by Texas playwright Makesha Copeland, the 2021 play is a few Mexican-American household in Texas who’re auditioning for the now-defunct ABC TV actuality present “Excessive Dwelling Makeover,” the place struggling households had been chosen to have a lavish new dwelling constructed for them at no expense. Parts of the play can be in Spanish.
The play can be directed by Olivia Espinosa in her firm debut. The solid consists of Dani Diaz, Leticia Bombardier, Ramon Villa, Tamarin Ythier and Javier Guerrero. Performances are at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and a couple of p.m. Sundays, Nov. 11 by way of Dec. 4, on the campus of Alliant Worldwide College, 9783 Avenue of Nations, San Diego. Go to scrippsranchtheatre.org.
‘Hamilton’ ticket lottery introduced
Consistent with “Hamilton” producers’ long-established coverage of increasing entry to the musical to all earnings ranges, 40 tickets can be offered by digital lottery for $10 every for each efficiency of the present throughout its run on the San Diego Civic Theatre Nov. 9 by way of Nov. 20. The digital lotteries for upcoming performances will shut at midday Thursday. Tickets are void if resold, just one entry is allowed per particular person and every winner should buy as much as two tickets. To enroll, obtain the “Hamilton” app from the Apple App Retailer or the Google Play Retailer.
Kragen writes about theater for the San Diego Union-Tribune. E-mail her at [email protected].