What if William Shakespeare was a bad guy? Conceited, conniving—something rotten? That’s what happens in Something Rotten, the Karey Kirkpatrick/Wayne Kirkpatrick/John O’Farrell 2015 musical, now playing as a Good Company Players production at Roger Rocka’s Dinner Theater through January 18.
It’s Autumn. November, to be specific. The green leaves of the Valley are finally turning to the colors of Fall. The Great Food search explored pumpkin treats last November, so this month’s travels feature apples. And so, welcome to . . . The Apples of Fall.
TEN TIMES—Ten times the Good Company Players have staged various productions of A Christmas Carol at the 2nd Space Theatre. They’re at it again, and it’s a Christmas miracle.
The 2023 adaptation of the 1843 Charles Dickens novella surprised audiences when they realized that the story was being told by two homeless characters.
October is a time when all the spooky comes out—decorations, costumes, and movies. I have compiled a small list of some of my favorite spooky. They may be thought of as horror movies, but they aren’t blood-and-guts fests. These are films I have seen, which leaves out some popular films like Monster Squad and Hocus Pocus. Most of these are pretty old, and not too violent. (I have a problem with slasher-monster-jump scare films.)
“I Could Have Danced All Night,” “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?” “With a Little Bit of Luck,” “On the Street Where You Live,” “Get Me To the Church On Time,” “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face,” “The Rain In Spain,” and more. All classic songs from My Fair Lady, the Lerner-Loewe musical that the Good Company Players have staged for the sixth time at Roger Rocka’s Dinner Theater, running through November 16. Did GCP do a good job of honoring the legacy of this workhorse of the musical theatre? GCP—You Did It!
Burgertime, Burgertime, Burg-Burg-Burgertime! Yes, the Great Food Search is back with another set of oh-so-good places where you can burger out as summer turns to fall.
Hold on to your garlic! Vampires have taken over the Good Company Players’ 2nd Space Theatre! You’ll die laughing at Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, running through October 19.
My wife and I have traveled the Valley, doing irreparable damage to our gastrointestinal tracts, searching for the best burgers, and there are a lot of them—too many for one Great Food Search, so we present .... Burger Time (Part 1).
There is magic on the stage (and girls in Princess outfits in the audience) at Roger Rocka’s Dinner Theater for the Good Company Players’ production of Disney’s Frozen: the Broadway Musical.
My wife and I love to travel the world, but we can’t afford it, so . . . we travel on our stomachs, eating food from different cultures. Cuisines from many parts of the world can be sampled without leaving Central California. The Great Food Search has featured Mexican food, Italian, Vietnamese, Hmong, Mediterranean, and now . . . Indian.
