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Review: Lucky Penny's Play-Demic Festival is a creative potpourri of modern life


JOHN HENRY MARTIN
I’d like to tell you what the best part was of Lucky Penny’s entrée into the world of pandemic era online performing arts. But how do you do that in a show composed of nothing but the best parts?
The “Play-Demic Festival” was a potpourri of drama, comedy and absurdity. Serious, touching one-act plays were interspersed with vignettes that highlighted the ludicrousness of, not only the pandemic, but modern life.
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The vignettes were from “A Book of Short Plays by Rob Broadhurst,” by Rob Broadhurst, a fact of which the audience was reminded each time before the seven vignettes. (The repetition of the playwright’s name is part of the joke.) Each one was from a Bay Area playwright. ....

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A Salute to Broadway
Sing Napa Valley is launching a virtual salon featuring songs from Broadway musicals on YouTube on Feb. 21.
It will feature songs from shows such as “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Oklahoma,” “Guys and Dolls,” “Phantom of the Opera,” “Frozen,” “Cabaret,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “The Little Mermaid,” Anything Goes,” Wicked”, “Jesus Christ Superstar,” and “The Prom.”
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Performers include Karen Brocker, Toni Chiappetta, Ben Covone, Susan Dunaway-Tsujihara, Sharron Emig, Eva Facey, Ian Frost, Karen Frost, Jeanette Fuqua, Camden Gilgallon, Shelby Lanterman, Dana Zaccone, and more. ....

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