Coronado Playhouse and Pickwick Players have joined forces to bring James and the Giant Peach, opening Friday June 9th and running until Sunday July 2nd, 2017 at Coronado Playhouse. After the success of A Year with Frog and Toad in 2015, Coronado Playhouse and Pickwick Players are continuing their tradition by staging another great musical adaptation of a classic children’s book. The award-winning – and Oscar-nominated – musical theatre writing partnership of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Dogfight, Smash! and La La Land) teamed up with the highly respected educator and playwright Timothy Allen McDonald (Willy Wonka and The Adventures of Flat Stanley) to adapt Roald Dahl’s popular and slightly surreal 1961 book.
CPH and Pickwick have assembled an all-star creative team in director Teri Ang, musical director Michael Anthony and choreographer Alisa Williams. A San Diego Junior Theatre director with wealth of experience working with student actors and theatre for young audiences, Ms. Ang was an obvious choice to direct this piece, having previously directed Little Mary Sunshine for Pickwick Players. Michael Anthony has musically directed many shows for Coronado Playhouse including last season’s smash-hit Seussical the Musical. Ms. Ang and Mr. Anthony are joined by Alisa Williams who has worked frequently for both CPH and Pickwick both on stage and as choreographer. She choreographs the production that features both adult and child actors and continues the tradition of producing theatre for young audiences.
James and the Giant Peach tells the story of James Henry Trotter who lives with his two aunts who are ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He’s very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. At the end of the garden a peach starts to grow and grow and grow. Inside that peach are seven very unusual insects – all waiting to take James on a magical adventure of enormous proportions.
Tickets range from $20-$27 and are available through Coronado Playhouse’s Box Office at (619) 435-4856 or online at www.CoronadoPlayhouse.com.
Community Partners – United Way of San Diego
Community Theatre is made by, with, and for the community in which it is performed. Coronado Playhouse is committed to pursuing community theatre in the truest sense of the words by giving back to the people of San Diego County and using our public platform to help those in need. During the run of James and the Giant Peach we are partnering with United Way of San Diego.
James and the Giant Peach. A Co-Production between Coronado Playhouse & Pickwick Players in an effort to bring exposure and donations to this excellent organization that supports families in San Diego to ensure their children emerge as successful, productive participants in our community. For more information, please visit www.UWSD.org
Special Events
Opening Night Members’ Mingler
Friday, June 9th at 5:30 pm (please note earlier time)
Playhouse members are invited to a hosted Happy Hour at CPH for drinks and appetizers before every opening night of each new main-stage production to mingle with fellow theatre lovers and enjoy the ambience and excitement of opening night.
Not a member? Not a problem! Membership starts at just $50 and can be purchased in advance or at the event.
