TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: The Sound of Music at the Candlelight Pavilion Theater

Sunday, March 24, 2013

The Sound of Music at the Candlelight Pavilion Theater

The Sound of Music at the Candlelight Pavilion Theater, Claremont

We had dinner and enjoyed the musicale The Sound of Music at the Candlelight Pavilion in Claremont, click below to get to their site. Our friend, Kim Holmquist, also known as Kim Blake, played the Mother Superior and did an excellent rendition of Climb Ev'ry Mountain and other songs.

The pictures that follow show:
top - Kim Blake
next l-r: Kim Blake, Patrick Culbertson, Doug Noble, Hilary Walling
next l-r - Merwyn Bergquist, Cecilia Brainard, Lauren Brainard
next l-r - Lauren Brainard, Mike Ross, Linda Ross, Kim Blake

We had a lovely dinner before the show, and we had dessert during the intermission. The food was great; the performance was top notch. I highly recommend it - act soon because it's been running and ends on 3/30/13. Here's their official writeup:

http://www.candlelightpavilion.com/asp/Site/WhatsPlaying/NowShowing/index.asphttp://www.candlelightpavilion.com/asp/Site/WhatsPlaying/NowShowing/index.asp

THE SOUND OF MUSIC

Show Dates: 2/8/2013 - 3/30/2013

The Candlelight Pavilion is proud to bring back what is undoubtedly the most beloved musical of all time, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music. The story is a timeless one: Maria joins the von Trapp family as a governess, only to find that Captain von Trapp’s militaristic ways have left his seven children sorely lacking in warmth and love. While Maria teaches the children to sing and play, she begins to become the mother they were so sorely lacking, and the Captain begins to see her in an entirely different light. Based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, many songs from the musical have become standards, such as “Edelweiss,” “My Favorite Things,” “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “Do-Re-Mi,” and the title song, “The Sound of Music.” “…strangely gentle charm that is wonderfully endearing. The Sound of Music strives for nothing in the way of smash effects, substituting instead a kind of gracious and unpretentious simplicity.” The New York Post

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tags: theater, The Sound of Music, Kim Blake, Candlelight Pavilion, musicale

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.