Broadway’s Ruth Williamson stars as Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly!, the Jerry Herman-Michael Stewart musical about living life to the fullest, July 9-Aug. 1 in Santa Ana, CA.
Calvin Remsberg directs a cast that includes David Allen Jones as Horace Vandergelder, Bryan Feldman as Cornelius Hackl, Taylor Simmons as Barnaby Tucker, Viva Weber as Irene Malloy and Hannah Simmons as Minnie Fay. The revival is produced by 3-D Theatricals.

Williamson’s Broadway credits include revivals of Guys and Dolls, The Music Man, La Cage aux Folles, Little Me, plus Epic Proportions, Smile and Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. She was a Drama Desk nominee for The Green Heart Off-Broadway.

The production team for Hello, Dolly!, the 1964 musical based on Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker, at the OC Pavilion, includes producer/artistic director TJ Dawson, choreographer Kami Seymour, musical director/conductor Jerry Sternbach, production stage manager Nicole Wessel, assistant stage manager Jenny Jacobs, lighting designer Jared Sayeg, sound designer Julie Ferrin, set designer John Iacovelli, production supervisor Gina Farina, costume designer/coordinator Sharell Martin and production assistant Kiana St. Laurent.

The company also includes Garrett Deagon as Ambrose Kemper, Dani Kerry as Ermengarde, Clare Solly as Ernestina, Jay Wallace as Rudy, John N. Butz as Judge, Sheila Karls as Mrs. Rose, and ensemble members Paul Romero Jr., Ami Russ, Archer Altstaetter, Brittany Hammond, Jenny Rose Hobbs, Dennis Bendersky, Jenn Aedo, Jenna Wright, Karlee Ferreira, Kevin Ling, Maggie Howell, Michael Milligan, Nathan Wise, Neil Starkenberg, Shannon McFarland,
Stephanie Draude and Zsolt Banki.

The OC Pavilion is at 801 N. Main Street in Santa Ana, CA. For more information, call (714) 550-0880 or visit www.ocpavilion.com.

Broadway’s Ruth Williamson will star as Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly!, the Jerry Herman-Michael Stewart musical about living life to the fullest, July 9-Aug. 1 in Santa Ana, CA.
Calvin Remsberg directs a cast that includes David Allen Jones as Horace Vandergelder, Bryan Feldman as Cornelius Hackl, Taylor Simmons as Barnaby Tucker, Viva Weber as Irene Malloy and Hannah Simmons as Minnie Fay. The revival is produced by 3-D Theatricals.

Williamson’s Broadway credits include revivals of Guys and Dolls, The Music Man, La Cage aux Folles, Little Me, plus Epic Proportions, Smile and Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. She was a Drama Desk nominee for The Green Heart Off-Broadway.

The production team for Hello, Dolly!, the 1964 musical based on Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker, at the OC Pavilion, includes producer/artistic director TJ Dawson, choreographer Kami Seymour, musical director/conductor Jerry Sternbach, production stage manager Nicole Wessel, assistant stage manager Jenny Jacobs, lighting designer Jared Sayeg, sound designer Julie Ferrin, set designer John Iacovelli, production supervisor Gina Farina, costume designer/coordinator Sharell Martin and production assistant Kiana St. Laurent.

The company also includes Garrett Deagon as Ambrose Kemper, Dani Kerry as Ermengarde, Clare Solly as Ernestina, Jay Wallace as Rudy, Michael Hill as Judge, Sheila Karls as Mrs. Rose, and ensemble members Paul Romero Jr., Ami Russ, Archer Altstaetter, Brittany Hammond, Jenny Rose Hobbs, Dennis Bendersky, Jenn Aedo, Jenna Wright, Karlee Ferreira, Kevin Ling, Maggie Howell, Michael Milligan, Nathan Wise, Neil Starkenberg, Shannon McFarland,
Stephanie Draude and Zsolt Banki.

The OC Pavilion is at 801 N. Main Street in Santa Ana, CA. For more information, call (714) 550-0880 or visit www.ocpavilion.com.

SHANGHAI — Some places don’t want to be found. Just past the commuters at the Caoyang Road railway station and around the corner from the cafes, banks and clothing stores of Lanxi road, there’s a hidden alley neighborhood with a dusty sign identifying it as one of Shanghai’s model communities.

The address of the rehearsal space called Red Rock is straightforward enough — 21 Lanxi Lu, Nong No. 12 — but getting there isn’t easy It’s underneath a high-rise with laundry hanging from its windows, down a dimly lit staircase into a basement that stinks of toilets.

On a cold night in Shanghai , that was where to find The Mushrooms, a ragtag bunch of 20-somethings who might be the first Shanghai that’s band good enough to force this city of nearly 20 million to take underground music seriously.

“It’s a really, really good thing to play music,” said Yu Xuhao, 25, the band’s lead singer. “It’s nothing about politics. It’s nothing about the government. It’s about the love of it.”

The Mushrooms’ struggle is twofold: against a government that’s at best ambivalent about their style of music, and, perhaps worse for them, against a public that’s indifferent, even in a city that celebrates an aging jazz band that’s long been playing decadent pre-revolutionary tunes at the Peace Hotel .

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