Around & About Theater: Mime Troupe in Berkeley Parks; Woodminster opens 'Oliver!', Impact Extends 'Working for the Mouse.'
It's summer, and the Mime Troupe's back on the street--or in the
parks, anyway ... this weekend at Berkeley's Cedar Rose Park with
their new '2012--The Musical,' written by Gene Michael Sullivan with
Ellen Callas, music and lyrics by Bruce Bathol, directed by Wilma
Bonet, live band led by Pat Moran ... about corporate funding for
THEATER BAM! (some little political troupe ... ), particularly wry, as
the Mime Troupe's NEA grants have been blasted by aptly-named
Congressman Jeff Flake (R-Arizona)--Jeff should audition! This
Saturday and Sunday afternoons, band from 1:30, show at 2--for 52
seasons now, FREE! sfmt.org
Woodminster Summer Musicals opens their 45th season with Oliver! this
weekend, with a cast of 42 singing, dancing, playing the characters
right out of the Dickens tale, under the stars in the great old WPA
amphitheater in Joaquin Miller Park in the Oakland Hills, overlooking
the Bay. Preview this Thursday at 8; all tickets $10. Thursday-Sunday
through july 17, $24-$42. woodminster.com
'Working for the Mouse,' Trevor Allen's play (directed by Nancy
Carlin), expanded from his Best of SF Fringe Festival one-act
'Character!', telling what really goes on in Disneyland if you're
costumed as a big cartoon character, has been extended by Impact and
Black Box Theatres through July 16 at LaVal's Subterannean, Impact's
home. Thursdays-Sundays 8 p. m. 1834 Euclid near Hearst. $12-$20.
224-5744; impacttheatre.com
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