Starlight Bowl at Balboa Park (San Diego, CA)
The hilarious Broadway musical Triumph of Love is performed at the Starlight Theatre as a grand-scale period piece with big dresses and big hair, plus clown-like characters from the commedia dell'arte. The story follows a princess who cheats and lies, dons disguises and even resorts to dressing as a man to be near the one she loves.
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When the gods search for a "good" person in the Chinese city of Setzuan, they find only greed, dishonesty, and selfishness. Except for Shen Te, a local prostitute who helps all those in need. They bestow a gift of money upon her in the hopes that she will teach benevolence to her fellow villagers; instead she is left in the wake of the begging townsfolk. Playwright Bertolt Brecht's comedic morality play questions society's notions of wealth, status, and good fortune. Learn More
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Balboa Park's beautiful outdoor amphitheater has been home to Starlight Musical Theatre's summer shows since the late 1940s -- but back then the actors didn't have to coordinate with airplane noise. The 4,000-seat bowl is in the flight path to Lindbergh Field, and it's a San Diego tradition for the actors to freeze in their pose in mid-song as the planes pass overhead.
Website: http://www.starlighttheatre.org/triumph.htm
A musical based on a play by French playwright Marivaux, Triumph of Love premiered on Broadway in 1997 starring Betty Buckley, F. Murray Abraham, and Susan Egan. The story has high style, high notes and high comedy combined with a clever adaptation.
Love can make a woman do strange things. Like lie about her past. Or give up her career for the man she loves. Or throw off her princessly raiment and disguise herself as a young man in order to infiltrate the guarded "men only" palace compound of an exiled prince she admired from afar, who is secretly plotting to murder her and usurp her throne. Such is the tale of this tongue-in-cheek musical.
Book by: James Magruder
Lyrics by: Susan Birkenhead
Music by: Jeffrey Stock
Based on the play by Marivaux
Since its inception, Starlight has presented 59 seasons of musical theatre productions for the entertainment of more than four million San Diegans and visitors. These seasons have encompassed nearly 1000 productions of 120 different musicals, ranging from the operettas of Gilbert & Sullivan and Jacques Offenbach, the Rodgers & Hammerstein classics Carousel and South Pacific, favorites of the 50's and 60's such as West Side Story, Guys & Dolls, and Peter Pan, and the contemporary Broadway blockbusters A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls, Follies and Phantom of the Opera.