REMEMBRANCE: WORLD WAR ONE, A GENERATION LOST
A Dramatic Musical Presentation
It was Sunday evening, June 28th, 1914, New York City’s affluent residents were heading to the theaters to catch the Ziegfeld Follies or the Passing Show or the Metropolitan Opera. The less affluent might be going to see legendary swimmer Annette Kellermann is a movie, Neptune’s Daughter at New York’s first major movie house the Strand. In the lower East Side, the poor and immigrant families might be found sitting outside their tenements telling stories and listening to the patchwork of urban sounds as the early summer breeze cooled them.
The Atlantic Cable and the British Red Line Telegraph system were rushing news to the United States that the heir to the Austrian throne, the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia were assassinated on a good will trip to Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. To most Americans, this would be just a side reading and gossip discussion of “did you hear?” In less than ten days Europe and the world would be at war.
The American History Theater Company is proud to announce a program honoring the one-hundredth anniversary of the end of that war that took some twenty million lives. Starring San Diego’s Daniela Camilleri, the production will feature the music of the great opera, operetta and music hall composers and singers of the World War One era. Balanced with ballet and interpretive modern dance, readings from the soldiers and families who suffered through the war and the poetry of that war from the front.
Performances will be held at the Veterans Museum at Balboa Park, 2115 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101 on Friday, April 20 and Saturday, April 21. The Friday evening performance will begin at 7:30pm with tickets running $14.00 for general admission adults and $12.00 for all veterans, museum members, students, and seniors. Doors open at 6:45 with free wine and snakes.
Saturday, April 21 will be a spring benefit to raise money to help pay for the 2018 season of workshops and productions for The American History Theater. The benefit ticket will include wine and desserts from the finest bakeries and restaurants in San Diego. Everyone is welcome to come. Tickets are $40.00 per person and $300.00 per table of eight. Doors open at 6:30pm. There will be a silent auction. There will be a special salute to the men and women who work at the Veterans Museum at Balboa Park for the gift they give to our community.
Come and be a part of the music of Berlin, Puccini, Romberg, the songs from Madame Butterfly, Aida, Student Prince, La Boheme and many others. Come to hear the poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sasson, front line soldiers of that horrific war.
Order tickets at online at www.americanhistorytheater.org or by mail at Tickets, The American History Theater, 9051 Mira Mesa Blvd., San Diego, CA 92126