![]() San José Stage has a full offering of theater coming up the rest of the year, including the Guggenheim’s original musicals Thanks for Playing! The Game Show Show, and The Meshuga Nutcracke r based on Yiddish folk tales and set to Tchaikovsky’s famous music. Scott is a Santa Clara University graduate, as are several members of the cast, and the family are long-time Santa Clara Valley residents - like many in the show’s cast.Ĭomet’s remaining performances are Thursday, June 1 through Sunday, June 4. Three-decade-old Guggenheim Entertainment is the creative brainchild of husband-and-wife team Scott and Shannon Guggenheim and Scott’s brother, internationally-known opera singer Stephen Guggenheim. The music runs the gamut from Russian folk tunes, to Western classical music, to blues and electronic dance music. Guggenheim Entertainment’s production is fast-paced, and brings the audience right into the show with innovative staging. It is exuberant, melodic, and full of colorful characters brought to life by an outstanding cast. Pierre Bezukhov, War and Peace’s central character, isn’t at the center of this story but makes an important discovery about himself that drives much of the rest of the novel.īut this bare bones summary tells you little about the show. Comet takes up one of these: the story of how Natasha Rostova becomes infatuated with the dissolute Anatole Kuragin breaks her engagement and plans to run off with Kuragin. The award-winning show - which ran both on and off Broadway - made its West Coast debut at San Jose Stage, the theatrical production arm of Guggenheim Entertainment, which operates 3Below theaters in downtown San Jose.Īlthough “ War and Peace” has become an unfortunate synonym for “long and boring ” the novel, in fact, contains several stories that are anything but. San Jose Stage is extending the run of its latest production Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 through this weekend. San José Stage Extends Run of Audience-Pleasing Show The suggested donation is $20, part of which will support Livable Sunnyvale. You can hear more of Belew’s music on YouTube. In 2015, Belew performed Modest Mussorgsky’s bravura piano suite, Pictures at an Exhibition, at Santa Clara’s Triton Museum of Art to rave reviews. Belew won the competition and became serious about music. He was an indifferent music major in college until a teacher suggested he enter a state piano competition. In high school, he neglected his studies to work as an animator in Japan. A native of Indiana, the Japanese-American Belew grew up in a Navy family and moved to Santa Clara in 2011 to be near his father.īelew’s path through the education systems of two countries was anything but conventional. ![]()
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