Lakeside Living – March 2024

Don Beaudreau

Email: wbeaudreau@aol.com

From the Lakeside Living Editor: Please note that deadline for submission of notices about a local cultural, civic, or charitable event is the first day of the month, an entire month BEFORE the article can appear in El Ojo Del Lago. Appropriate notices should include the name of the event, its location, date(s), time, and cost (if applicable). Please include a high-resolution photo if possible. But no lengthy articles, please! Send such information to me directly at wbeaudreau@aol.com  Thank you. Don Beaudreau

ART IN THE GARDEN, LAKE CHAPALA SOCIETY

Friday March 8, and Saturday March 9, 10am to 3pm each day

Free admission. Parking on the Lakefront.

This is the largest and last LCS art event of this high season until October 2024. Profits from the artist participation fees will benefit the LCS community outreach programs.

These shows highlight handicrafts and art from the Chapala and Ajijic area, giving a needed venue for local Mexican artisans and artists who do not typically have opportunities to sell their art. There will be over 70 artisans and artists, (plus the LCS Children’s Art Program) selling original art, including art cards featuring the kids’ work.

This show covers the entire LCS grounds front and back. Remember to explore, or you could miss some of the show!

For more information, please contact Danielle Pagé by Whatsapp at 333-808-0324.

2024 Winter/Spring

Productions and Presentations

See the Lakeside Little Theatre website for further details and ticket information: lakesidelittletheatre.com

MAINSTAGE LIVE THEATRE PRESENTATIONS:

The Price

By Arthur Miller

March 1 – 10, 2024

Directors: Monnie King and Peter King

Cast: Brian Fuqua, Brian Kaulback, Peter King, Tammy Shanley

Life is full of consequential decisions. The Price is a play about the impact on two brothers of decisions made 30 years before. How have their lives and their relationships been affected? Can the consequences of those decisions ever be undone?

After the Great Depression, Victor Franz gave up college to support his father. After 30 years, Victor returns to sell his parents’ estate. His wife, Esther, his brother Walter, and a canny, 90-year old Russian furniture dealer have their own agendas. Victor must finally deal with his sacrifice.

Discover how their father’s fate during the Great Depression shaped their lives and choices. This timeless masterpiece moves from serious to light-hearted drama, and offers intense dialogue, complex characters, and a realistic setting.

Tartuffe by Jean Baptiste Moliere

April 5 – 14, 2024

Directed by Lynn Phelan

Translation by Christopher Hampton

Tartuffe, a religious charlatan, worms his way into Orgon’s household, blinding him with his religious “devotion”, all the while planning to seduce his wife and disinherit his children. Lechery. Greed. Hypocrisy. Just as common and hilarious today, in Christopher Hampton’s modern-English translation of Tartuffe as they were in Moliere’s 17th Century Paris.

NEW YORK METROPOLITAN OPERA PRESENTATIONS:

La Forza del Destino (Verdi)

March 18 and 19, 4:00pm

Approx. runtime: 4:22 [2 Intermissions]

Romeo et Juliette (Gounod)

April 20, 21 and 22, 4:00pm

Approx. runtime: 3:31 [1 Intermission]

La Rondine (Puccini)

May 4 and 5, 4:00pm

Approx. runtime: 2:47 [1 Intermission]

Madama Butterfly (Puccini)

May 25, 26 and 27, 4:00pm

Approx. runtime: 3:15 [1 Intermission]

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE PRESENTATIONS:

Good

March 16-17, 2024  4:00 pm

David Tennant (Doctor Who) makes a much-anticipated return to the West End in a blistering reimagining of one of Britain’s most powerful, political plays. As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a good, intelligent German professor, finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences.

Frankenstein

April 27-28, 2024  4:00 pm

Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the increasingly desperate and vengeful creature determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal.

LAKE CHAPALA ORCHESTRA

Pops Spectacular Comes to Lakeside!

Two Performances on Saturday, March 16,  2pm and 4:30 pm

Lakeside Presbyterian Church, 250 San Jorge, Riberas.

Tickets are $350 each and can be reserved by email at LCCOtickets@gmail.com Early booking is strongly advised as all LCO concerts sell out quickly.

If you like the magic and excitement of orchestral pops concerts then

the Lake Chapala Orchestra (LCO) has just the event for you on Saturday March 16. Michael Reason, the orchestra’s conductor, has created a “Pops Spectacular” concert.

The multi- media experience will feature great movie themes (complete with film clips), Broadway hits, much loved songs from The Beatles, Burt Bacharach, Abba and many more.

The guest vocalist will be Andrea Perez Romero.

Ms Romero is the lead singer for the Klaus Meyer Big Band in Guadalajara and is well known to local audiences for her charismatic performances.

The orchestra will field their full 57-piece orchestra in what promises to be a fun-filled musical and visual experience.

Friday, March 29, Saturday, March 30, and Sunday, March 31

Dinner with Friends, Winner of the Pulitzer Play for Drama in 2000, by Donald Margulies. All shows are at 4:00 p.m. Tickets are $200 pesos. RESERVE NOW at barestagetheatre2018@gmail.com 

Join us at our new location, San Lucas #19, one block down from the Catholic Church on the lake side of the Carretera in Riberas del Pilar.

Door and Bar open at 3:00 pm. Parking is available in the church parking lot. All bar proceeds go to Operation Feed. Seats are held till 3:50 pm.

What happens when intertwined lives split apart? This and other aspects of friendship and marriage are explored with humor and pathos in Dinner with Friends, a comedy-drama.

As the play opens, food writers, gourmet chefs, and happily married couple, Gabe and Karen, are finishing preparations for a dinner party with Tom and Beth, their best friends of many years. When only Beth arrives, it’s obvious that something is on her mind and eventually she reveals that she and Tom are getting a divorce.

This revelation has a seismic effect on each of the four individuals and starts them on personal journeys that lead them to new revelations about themselves, their marriages, and their friendships. We follow the couples back in time to Martha’s Vineyard where Gabe and Karen first introduced Tom, Gabe’s fraternity brother, and Beth, Karen’s best friend. Over the course of the play, both couples are seen at different ages and stages of their lives and what initially seems a rather conventional glimpse at the perils of breaking up becomes an original examination of the terrors of staying together.

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Tangled Threads Fiber Art Show and Sale

Saturday, March 23, 10-2 pm, Lake Chapala Society, 16 de Septiembre #16A in Ajijic.

Each artist brings their own perspective and style from folk to pictorial to abstract to traditional. You’ll find everything from quilts and embroideries to up-cycled clothing and home decor. There is something for everyone.