Redlands Footlighters will hold auditions for Helen’s Most Favorite Day, a light romantic comedy with ‘fantasy’ overtones, on September 15 and 16 at 7:00 pm.  Auditions will be held at the Footlighters theater, located at 1810 Barton Road in Redlands. (Read on …)

Today’s theater frenzy of jukebox musicals such as Mamma Mia!, Moving Out, and Good Vibrations bring popular and upbeat music favorites from legendary recording artists to theater audiences with fun and energetic stories of love and heartbreak.  All Shook Up is no exception with its high-energy rock ‘n roll design set to the tunes of Elvis Presley.

The Candlelight Pavilion will present All Shook Up August 22 through September 28.  Elvis’s greatest hits such as “Jailhouse Rock,” “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Can’t Help Falling in Love” and more are included in the show’s score.

Visit their Web site at http://www.candlelightpavilion.com/ for details about specific show times. (Read on …)

Back by popular demand, Triple Threat Productions presents Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers Friday, September 5th, at 8pm and Sunday, September 7th, at 5pm.  This production just played to six sold out houses at the Old Town Temecula Community Theater Mercantile Building and will be showing for one final weekend at the beginning of September at the Frangipani Winery in Temecula.

This is a phenomenal production filled with this areas most talented performers, and is not to be missed.  One of Neil Simon’s most beloved plays, Lost in Yonkers is a crowd pleaser to audiences of all ages. (Read on …)

Riverside Community Players presents Leading Ladies by Ken Ludwig, a comedy directed by Patricia Scarborough.

Down on their luck, two English Shakespearean actors, touring in the Amish country of Pennsylvania, hear that an old lady in York, PA is about to die and leave her fortune to her two long-lost English nephews. They resolve to pass themselves off as her beloved relatives and get the cash. However, when they arrive in York they discover that the relatives are not nephews, but nieces! Romantic entanglements abound in Ken Ludwig’s newest farce.

Tickets – $15.00
NO LATE SEATING
No children under 5 years of age admitted

For reservations and information call: (951) 686-4030. (Read on …)

On Friday, August 22nd, 2008, The Diaries of Adam and Eve opens for a weekend run at The Grove Theatre, located in Historic downtown Upland. Eve is portrayed by Becky Broyles, who recently portrayed Esther in Star of Persia At The Grove. Adam is played by Jeremy Lewis, who was recently seen At The Grove as Frankie in the popular Forever Plaid. (Read on …)

Chino Community Young Adult Theatre presents You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, based on the comic strip by Charles M. Schulz; book, music & lyrics by Clark M. Gesner; directed by Christopher Diehl; musical direction by Joshua Himes; and choreography by Juan Torres & Derek Ashley Macumber.

Tickets are $10.  Performances will be held at the Seventh Street Community Theatre, located at 13123 Seventh Street in Chino.  Call (909) 590-1149 for reservations.

You¹re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is based on the enormously popular Peanuts comic strip created by Charles Shultz.  The musical premiered Off-Broadway in 1967 and has been delighting audiences ever since.  A successful Broadway revival was mounted in 1999.   Clark Gesner¹s tuneful score includes the title song, “The Kite,” and “Happiness.”   This production features Allison Aoun as Lucy, Andrew Gordon as Schroeder,  Zach Hallett as Snoopy, Joanna Holliman as Sally, and Justin Turrentine as Charlie Brown.

The Rancho Cucamonga Community Theatre is still looking to fill the last remaining open roles in Smokey Joe’s Café.  Final auditions will be held Wednesday August 20, 2008 starting at 5:00 pm at the Victoria Gardens Cultural Center. (Read on …)

Auditions for the musical Batboy at Chaffey College will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, August 26 and 27, at 7:00 pm in the theatre, located at 5885 Haven Avenue in Rancho Cucamonga. (Read on …)

Fontana Community Players presents How to Speak Spy, an original play written and directed by Mike Maxwell.  Performances will be held at 8443 Nuevo Ave. in Fontana.  For Tickets call 909-822-4052.

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Fontana Community Players will hold auditions for the classic play Of Mice and Men August 18th & 19th at 6pm at the Fontana Community Players theatre located at 8443 Nuevo Ave. in Fontana.  For more information call Cory Whitfield at 909-743-4744.