Hey, the California Pops Orchestra is doing a radio-style show. Perfect for the entire family -- since it's a radio format, you don't have to look up, so the kids can text the whole time!Just kidding, Kim.
Anyway, lots of radio going around. First the L.A. Theatre Works troupe at Stanford on Jan. 27 with a radio play about Robert Kennedy and the civil-rights movement. I had an interesting interview with the producing director, who was a student finishing a paper on Kennedy and watching him on TV that fateful night in L.A. The play will have an element that typical theater doesn't: a sound-effects guy on stage with a table of equipment. When the script calls for a cocktail, sound-effects Nick drinks a drink. Loudly, one presumes.
Then, the California Pops Orchestra, under the baton of Palo Alto's Kim Venaas, presents its "Big Broadcast Show of 2010" on Feb. 21 in Los Gatos. This will be a musical variety show, 1930s radio style. Performers include the Pops' Zucchini Gulch Xylophone Trio (say that five times fast) and Bumblebee Buglers. Ann Gibson will sing and South Bay impersonator Matt Helm will pretend to be Dean Martin, Sean Connery and Jimmy Stewart. He better bring his eyebrows. I've seen them online and they're impressive.
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