THE NINTH ANNUAL CELEBRITY SONNETS
October 18, 2010 at the Old Globe Theatre, Balboa Park
Celebrity Presenters:
Jenni Prisk, Motivational Speaker & Writer, is emcee
- Vox Nobili, a capella Renaissance singers featuring Queen Elizabeth I (Tara Pool) and Mary Queen of Scots (Susan Abernethy) are the pre-show openers
- Common Ground Theatre Academy, Monique Gaffney, Director
- Jason Connors & Band
- Vanessa Dinning, Artistic Director SDSS
- Jonathan Dunn-Rankin, Actor/retired Newscaster
Cameron Hamnquist 13-year-old bagpiper- Tom Hall & Kevin Six, Actors/Playwright/Director
- Steve Jensen, Actor/H.S. Teacher & Prof. Yoshiko Higurashi, Head of Japanese studies at SDSU (husband & wife, she will do in Japanese)
- Austyn Myers, Actor, 14- year old star of Brighton Beach Memoirs & other surprise cast members
- Profs. William A. & Lila Nericcio, Dept. Heads at SDSU (some Spanish)
- Susanna Peredo, Actor, Singer. (one in French)
- Zandra Rhodes, International Fashion Designer, Opera costume and set designer
- Kirsten Giard, MA Theatre Production and Design Director, Valhalla Theatre Arts, & California Theater Teacher of the Year
- San Diego Civic Dance Company, Andrea Feier Director. Performing Bollywood dance, Reader recites in Hindi
- Leigh Scarrritt Productions, 30 performers, ages 7-17
- Cynthia Stokes, Opera director
- Tangocentrics, Director Susan Lake & Dave Rivas, Actor/Reader, & Argentine Tango dancers.
What some said:
Great event last night! ..... This seemed like a particularly great mix of performers and it made for a highly satisfactory evening. One of the things I love most about the event is hearing why people choose the sonnets they do and it always seems that there's a sonnet flavor for everyone.
That is a really cool event. Loved the rock band doing Shakespeare!
Sonnets were the best yet I thought. There were 400 people there? That's FANTASTIC...
Tonight's Celebrity Sonnets...... awesome!
Magnifique tu as ete incroyable. J'en ai encore la chair de poule!
Fantastic performance last night !! We loved it !
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