Anything Goes News

Patti LuPone has been known as a first-rate belter ever since she encouraged the peasants of Argentina not to cry for her.

Yes, OK, one more encore, if you please. Joelle Adamson, the dynamite beauty who starred as the classy Hope Harcourt in San Clemente High's award-winning April production of Cole Porter's "Anything Goes," is staging a benefit concert Tuesday night at Casa Romantica, and she's bringing some of her trophy-loaded Triton co-stars along with her for a ...

If you would like to see Debbie Reynolds still singing and dancing up a storm at age 77, she's doing just that right now with her one-woman show breezing along daily until May 10 at El Portal Theater in North Hollywood.

Tina Klatt, a booster mom if there ever was one, has been in charge of makeup, hair and the wigging that have added so much to San Clemente High's presentation of "Anything Goes," a smash of smashes that climaxes its spectacular six-performance run with one more for the road Saturday night at Triton Center.

First things first, I'm nominating Hilary Klatt, Brian Ivie, Joelle Adamson, Chris Maze, Lisa Feierman and A.J. Wolf - all of them - for Highest Achievement medals at the coming-soon 2009 MACY awards gala.

The sweet serenades and happy songs of spring are still all around us as good old April races into the home stretch.

For the last eight weeks, San Clemente High School's Theater Arts team has been working to turn the Triton Center on campus into an ocean liner where madcap antics liven up a transatlantic voyage.

Ed Beveridge, obviously pushing for MVP honors as Booster Dad of the Year, is back on the PR beat with the announcement that he will stick around to make all the noise he can about the Capistrano Valley Christian School theatricals, even though his wife, Jo, has left the program.

Mitzi Gaynor phoned to chat about this week's first-time-ever Blu-ray release of "South Pacific." But she talked about so much more.

Spring has sprung again officially and so forth, as you may have noticed yourself, what with the big grin on the calendar's face Friday.

Someone buy Mary Ann McAvoy McKerrow a drink. She deserves one or three after her classy, brassy and all-too-sassy turn as Reno Sweeney in the Naples Players' happy-go-lucky production of the Cole Porter ...

The high school musical is a string of teachable moments, with songs and dances to learn and sets to build.

With so much going on, it doesn't help that February, ambushed by the Romans and even ancient Greece, is the shortest and obviously quickest month of the year.

When singer and comedian Rita McKenzie was asked to do a show about the legendary Ethel Merman, she was lukewarm about the idea.

Ethel Merman, born Ethel Agnes Zimmerman, belted out her first notes in Astoria, Queens, on Jan.

ARTIST M. Louise Stanley draws on classical themes for her large acrylic paintings featured in "Risking Ridicule " in the Main Gallery at the Sanchez Art Center.

Before Steven Zawel came out of retirement to teach theater at the Solomon Schechter School of Westchester in Hartsdale four years ago, he had a few questions for his prospective headmaster, Elliot Spiegel.

Cover art for the "Ethel Merman: A Life" Brian Kellow celebrates the paperback release of his acclaimed book about the life of the late Ethel Merman Dec.