The smash Broadway hit “Jersey Boys” is having its West Coast Premiere beginning December 1 st at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco. “Jersey Boys” is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons and how this group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the biggest American pop music sensations of all time.

When I heard that the movie Sister Act had been turned into a musical, I thought it seemed like a good idea that would make a good show. After going to the Pasadena Playhouse, I realize it was a “perfect” idea that makes a fantastic show! The production sparkles with fun, zest, and disco!

“Slava’s Snowshow” is an internationally acclaimed theatrical experience that has its Los Angeles premiere over the holidays. It’s a spellbinding show that blends the art of clowning with stunning spectacle and inspiring visual images and fantasy. Filled with humor, poignancy, and imagination, it uniquely captures and entertains the child in all of us.

What a fantastic time we had at all the places we went! Marilyn gives a colorful rundown of some of Orange County’s most popular destinations:

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New Orleans for the Christmas holidays! Why – you ask? Isn’t it still under water? Isn’t everything closed? Isn’t it empty? The answer is no, no and NO. Instead, think go, go, and GO!

(By Marilyn Anderson & Dennis Lanning

It’s that time of year when winter weather leads to dry skin and dry hair. Don’t have time or money for the spa treatment? Not to fear. You can treat yourself to the spa treatment right in your own home. Your kitchen has just what you need!

( Written By Lisa A. Trimarchi)

A Jerry Seinfeld episode sums this article up perfectly. Seinfeld had a barber who never cut his hair to his satisfaction. One day, while in his barber’s chair, he saw a new barber who was much better—his barber’s nephew. Jerry was always too scared to complain about his hair. One day, after yet another bad haircut, he snuck off to get his hair done by the new barber. He crossed enemy lines. What happened next? His old barber found out and went ballistic. Sometimes the fear to confront a less than adequate stylist is not always unfounded.

(Written By Kaylene Peoples )

The Christmas season is upon us, and while it is often disparaged as being too commercialized, I believe that is just a way for us to be less and less introspective about how even now in this day of commercialism we still find ways to bond with one another. We find ways to show we care throughout the year. We do. It’s simply more popular to put ourselves down and say we are a cold, unfeeling people who care only for ourselves. That simply is not true.

(Written By Lisa Trimarchi)

(That Would Make Great Christmas Gifts)

Lee Lemon Peoples gives her holiday book gift-giving recommendations

…That is what I remind myself when I stand nude in front of my full-length mirrors studying my hump: size 12 is the new two…size 12 is the new two… size 12 is the new two. O. K. Fine – it should be the new two. Now even though a lady doesn’t reveal her true size (or some bull like that), I’ll admit it – I’m a six-slash-eight. But I will say that I floated in the double digits almost immediately as I turned 21; a time in a gal’s life when she has the ticket to buy alcohol herself before bar hoppin’ and clubbin’, all the while looking forward to a midnight drive-thru at Del Taco with her favorite friend.

(Written by Elana Pruitt)