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Thoughts & Musings from the mind of Carlyn Ames

STAR San Diego on HIATUS!
Back from the STUSA Festival in Baltimore…a grueling trip for many…..the show, A Swell Party, was very well received and is now being put to rest. Star San Diego members are off for summer travel and some “laid-back” time.  It has been the most difficult year in the group’s performing history and since the Cont. [...]
STAR San Diego busy preparing for Baltimore STUSA Festival!
Members of STAR San Diego are in rehearsals for the ONE-DAY ONLY performance of A Swell Party, June 1, 2008 at ECC  Theatre.  This show has been revised, revamped, recast and will be San Diego’s entry in the Senior Theatre USA Festival in Baltimore, MD, June 10-15 at Uof MBC. If you missed our performances in [...]
TICKETS on Sale Now! Don?t Miss the Party of the Year!
YOU’RE ALL INVITED to A Swell Party, STAR San Diego’s new musical production, featuring the music of C.Porter, G. Gerswin, and I.Berlin. Beautiful songs, great costumes, lots of energy and fun, this is going to be our best production yet!  Tickets on Sale now at 619-997-9055 or 619-464-3727.  R.S.V.P. right away so you won’t miss out on [...]
GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!
TICKETS for A Swell Party are on Sale Now!  Call: 619-997-9055 or 619-464-3727 for info and reservations.  An evening of gaiety and song! A 1930s “blast from the past,” with your favorites from Cole Porter, Gershwin, and Irving Berlin.  Refreshments, too!  Come join us! It’s gonna be a SWELL party!
Back to the Boards!
The cast of STAR San Diego’s upcoming production, A Swell Party, is back to rehearsals Jan. 9 after a long holiday break.  Tickets and publicity all available  as of that date.   Do check on this web site from time to time for any news and developments. And get your friends and neighbors to come join [...]
S.T.A.R. Cast looking for 1930s Costumes for Swell Party
Hi everyone!  The cast is not only busy rehearsing the show, but we’ve started scouring thrift shops and our closets for gowns, shoes, jewelry, hats, wigs, and anything we can use in the show to suggest the era of the 1930s, the setting for A Swell Party, our upcoming musical production.  Anyone who might have [...]
STAR show, A Swell Party, Rescheduled!
Hi everyone!  What a wild month!  Due to wildfires, cast absences, and show re-writes,  A Swell Party will be performed in February, ‘08.  Show changes are for much the better, so we think we will have a super production ready and on the boards by Feb.22 -24 and 29, Mar. 1,2.  Make your plans ahead [...]
STAR Finds New Rehearsal Space
Star rehearsals will now be at ECC Theatre Wednesdays and Saturdays.  Thursday eves. at Calvary Temple, 3920 Blaine Ave., San Diego. The flu and other viruses have taken their toll on the cast with someone getting sick every week.  But we carry on!  It’s early yet and things will come together as they always do despite [...]
Star loses rehearsal space!
Yes, once again, the OA theatre has lost its rehearsal space.  This seems to happen at least once a semester.  This time it is due to bureaucratic nonsense involving conflict between two CE school districts.  We were told to get out of a place we had been invited to and have used several times in [...]
Rehearsals for A Swell Party in full swing!
We finally have a talented cast of singers and performers and are into full-time rehearsals for our new musical production, A Swell Party, featuring the glorious music of George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin.  We have changed the show dates to January 18-20 and 25-27, 08, which allows us to enjoy the holidays and [...]

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