Video Promo: Quartet by Ronald Harwood, Black Diamond Cabaret in Wimberley, January 11-18 and San Marcos, January 24-25, 2014

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During the month of January, 2014 producer and director Lee Colée will be showcasing some of her most elite senior talent with the poignant comedy

Quartet

by Ronald Harwood 

January 3-4 in Lockhart

January 11-12 and 17-18 at the VFW Hall in Wimberley

January 24-25 at the Price Center in San Marcos

Carla Daws, Judith Laird, Allan Eastwood and Larry Oliver take on the roles of four retired international opera performers and celebrities who now live in a retirement home for musicians and must come to terms with their lives after successful careers.

Whether you love opera or hate it, you will laugh and root for these four friends who discover that it isn't over when the fat lady sings!

Tickets are now online. Don't wait too long as this show is sure to sell out. People all around town are already talking about this award winning comedy.

Buy tickets here! 

Anything Goes, Lee Colee's Broadway Bound Theatre Camp at Wimberley Playhouse, June 17 - 26

The 'Broadway Bound' theatre boot camps run in Wimberley each summer by Lee Colée have become so popular that for the just-completed production of Cole Porter's 1934 musical comedy Anything Goes, she was instructing and directing a cast of 39 young persons ranging in age from 8 to 18. The turnout was so strong that she took the initiative of organizing the players into different configurations for "odd" performance dates (with the older players in the principal roles) and for "even" performance dates (with the younger members taking the leads). I attended a performance of the "even" cast, which had an extraordinary feel, very similar to that of Alan Parker's Buggsy Malone, the 1976 film in which a star cast of children including Jodie Foster and Michael Jackson did a gangster musical.

Cole Porter put a gangster or two on board the cruise ship U.S.S. American, but they were harmless or inept. The story is straight out of the Depression-era dreams of glamor and glitter, as earnest and underpaid Billy seeks to court heiress Hope Harcourt, prying her from the surveillance of her mother and from the attentions of her stuffy English presumptive fiancé Sir Evelyn Oakleigh. Mix in a missionary bishop back from China with a trio of Chinese converts, assorted pretty girls, woman evangelist-turned-nightclub-singer Reno Sweeney, and a whole lot of white-clad sailors, and you can keep the decks full of silliness and celebration.

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