A live stage musical will be performed at a dinner theater event Sunday, Dec. 19, at the Arcadia Masonic Center 50 West Duarte Road.
1930s/40s movie musical song writer Harry Warren
Harry Who?, the first live stage production of the 2010-2011 winter celebrity season of Theaters of Vision Productions (TOVP), features the toe-tapping, nostalgic rhythms of Harry Warren, performed by the Theaters of Vision Productions trio (Writer/Producer/Director: Lani Ridley Pedrini; Technical Director: Charles Offenhauser; Choreographer: Pamela Kay & Lani Ridley Pedrini) and a talented cast.
The program will be staged at 4 p.m., followed by a catered dinner at 6 p.m. Dinner theater ticket prices are $20.
Among Warren’s more than 800 published songs, several of which won Academy Awards, are Home in Pasadena, At Last, 42nd Street, Shuffle Off to Buffalo, You Must Have been a Beautiful Baby, We’re in the Money, Jeepers Creepers, Chattanooga Choo Choo, I only Have Eyes for You, an The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe. All were written for classic films produced by Paramount, MGM, Fox and Warner Bros. during the 1930s & ’40s.
The dinner theater will feature an elegant Art Deco ambiance, with performers clad in white gloves, top hats and tails, and musicians playing in big band style as the cast perform many of Warren’s award-winning numbers to the arrangements of Glen Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, to name a few.
Dinner theater reservations are now available by sending an e-mail to: ltlridl@aol.com or calling (626) 415-7390. When you arrive, check in with Will Call and pay at the door.
— By Scott Hettrick