Santa Monica Playhouse Presents the World Premiere of


 

Life, love, laughs and lots of lipstick!

WHAT

Not a parody, not a spoof, but a loving tribute to those simple days of yore from those who lived them.  “MOONLIGHT MADNESS: the 50’s musical!” is 1950’s America come alive, complete with hair spray, beat poets, true love, cheerleaders and disaster at The Big Dance! Its a toe-tappin’, finger-snappin’, be-boppin’, sock-hoppin’ world premiere Rudie-DeCarlo musical comedy about life, love, laughs and lipstick that’s guaranteed to have you dancing in the aisles as teen idol Johnnie Moonlight gyrates his way into the lives of the inhabitants of William Maxwell Andrew Beaverbrook High school in Smalltown U.S.A., and into your heart and soul as well.

WHO

Written and Directed by internationally acclaimed writing team of Chris DeCarlo and Evelyn Rudie, from an idea by Emery Bernauer for a 1950’s television pilot for his daughter

 

Words and music by E Rudie with arrangements by Matthew Wrather

 

Musical direction by: Serena Dolinsky

 

Featuring (in alphabetical order): Kim Dalton, James DiMatteo, Serena Dolinsky, Nicole Foti, Melissa Gentry, Claudia Gómez, Knoa Knapper, Kristin Levoy, Josiah Lipscomb, Kate O'Toole, Erin Perkins, Tyler Thomas, Kit Tyler and Clarke Wolfe

 

Choreography by: Cydne Moore

 

Costume and graphics design by: Ashley Hayes

 

Lighting design by: James Cooper

 

Set design by: James Cooper, Timothy Chadwick and George J. Vennes III
  WHEN  

previews begin Sunday, August 8
opens Saturday, August 14

Fridays at 8:00 pm
Saturdays at 7:00 pm and
Sundays at 6:30 pm

runs through September 26

(no tickets available Sept 3-4-5 and Sept 17-18-19)
  WHERE  


Santa Monica Playhouse
The Other Space

Directions

Santa Monica Playhouse
1211 4th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90401
 

 
  TICKETS  

$15 All Previews (July 23 through August 6)
 

Regular admission $25.00 adults
 

$20 students, teachers, seniors
and groups of 8 or more
 

$15 age 15 and younger.

  HOW

 

  

Please call: 310-394-9779 x 1
*Santa Monica Playhouse Reserves the Right to Cancel or Reschedule Performances
Without Prior Notice. Please Call to Confirm Show Dates and Times.  

 

Santa Monica Playhouse, a not-for-profit 501 (c) 3 educational corporation founded in 1960, provides exciting and entertaining dramatic and comedic, classic and contemporary live theatrical productions, Family Theatre musicals, birthday and tea parties, theatre workshops and educational programming for young people, teens and adults, create-a-play classes and Mommy and Me events for pre-schoolers, daytime and after school classes and in-service in public and private schools, private coaching, consultation, published plays for youth, cultural exchange, international touring, and community outreach, as well as theatre rental space for productions, seminars, solo shows, concerts, recitals, lectures, meetings and more.

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