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Little Miss Sunshine is a musical adapted from the 2006 film of the same name, with music and lyrics by William Finn and book and direction by James Lapine.The musical premiered in San Diego, California at the Mandell Weiss Theater, La Jolla Playhouse on February 15, 2011 [1] and began performances Off-Broadway at the Second Stage Theatre in October 2013.
The Virginia Minstrels put on a full minstrel show at the New York Bowery Amphitheatre on 6 February 1843. Whitlock was the most famous of the foursome, [5] but soon all four names became well known as they toured New York and Boston. Whitlock's banjo was long-necked and four-stringed, though a fifth was added by 1844.
Westfield UTC is an upscale, open-air shopping mall in the University City community of San Diego, California. It lies just east of La Jolla , near the University of California, San Diego . The mall is served by UTC Transit Center , which is the northern terminus of the Blue Line of the San Diego Trolley .
The Mandell Weiss Theatre is a theatre located on the campus of the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, California. It was the first La Jolla Playhouse theatre, introduced in 1983. The 492-seat proscenium arch theatre, with two front rows of removable seats, is the largest theatre at the La Jolla Playhouse.
Charles Barney Hicks (died 1902) was an American advance man, manager, performer, and owner of blackface minstrel troupes composed of African-American performers. Hicks himself was a minstrel performer who could sing and play challenging roles such as the minstrel-show interlocutor or endmen. However, he was most interested in the business side ...
West was born on June 18, 1853, in Syracuse, New York. [1]He often produced and played minstrel shows with George H. Primrose, first with a minstrel troupe owned by J. H. Haverly, and later in a show known as Primrose and West starring entertainers Milt G. Barlow and George Wilson, under the management of Henry J. Sayers.
Many of these harmful characters were created for minstrel shows, the most popular form of entertainment in the United States in the 1800s. "Minstrel show entertainment was a kind of precursor to ...
Eddie Leonard (October 17, 1870 [citation needed] – July 28, 1941), born Lemuel Gordon Toney, was a vaudevillian and a man considered the greatest American minstrel of his day, at a time when minstrel shows were an acceptable and popular mainstream entertainment in the United States. [1]