In 2011 Broadway by the Bay moved to the Fox Theatre located at 2215 Broadway Street in Redwood City, California and it has been performing there ever since. In 2010, composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown offered classes and performed a concert to help fundraise for Broadway by the Bay's Youth Theatre Conservatory, which offers performing arts experiences to local children. The Actors, ushers and some of the musicians are volunteers. Broadway by the Bay today īroadway by the Bay is a not-for-profit corporation that produces four full-scale musical theatre productions each year. In 1999, a decision was made to gradually change the name to Broadway by the Bay to more accurately reflect the group's focus on Broadway-type musicals instead of light operas. In 1983, the Board of Directors expanded the focus of the company and changed the name to Peninsula Civic Light Opera. The San Mateo Community Theatre became a non-profit organization in 1978.
Broadway by the bay 2012 professional#
The company continued to produce musicals each year, and later productions mixed professional and semi-professional talent with amateur singers and dancers, increasing the quality of the shows. This remained the home of the company until 2011.
The performances were given at the auditorium at San Mateo High School, later known as the San Mateo Performing Arts Center. Hunt returned as a director for the 1967 production of West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. The production was a success and encouraged SMCT to produce more musicals. The performances were moved to the little theater at the College of San Mateo. Once again, the cast and orchestra were drawn from high school and college students throughout San Mateo County. For the first time, in 1966, SMCT presented a classic Broadway musical: Oklahoma! by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Ton, the drama director at Capuchino High School, and Ben Denton, the choral director at Aragon High School. Although Campagne returned, he was joined by a staff that included Kenneth L. Members of the cast of the 1966 production of Oklahoma!Īfter presenting the three Gilbert and Sullivan operas, the San Mateo Community Theatre moved in a different direction. Pinafore, which played at Hillsdale and one performance at La Honda Music Camp. In 1965, Anthony "Duke" Campagne, the band director at Hillsdale High School, worked with Lynch on a production of H.M.S.
In the summer of 1964, Hunt and Lynch collaborated on The Mikado, again at Hillsdale High School with an additional performance at the camp. Hunt conducted a small orchestra of musicians from San Mateo County. The cast of high school and college students included a future international opera singer, soprano Luana De Vol. The first production was Patience, in August 1963 in the little theatre at Hillsdale High School, with an additional performance at La Honda Music Camp. Randolph Hunt and Robert Lynch were the directors for the first two summer productions at Hillsdale High School, both of which were Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Randolph Hunt (1925-2011) as music director and Robert Lynch as drama director, at Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, California. In June 1963, the San Mateo Recreation Department established the San Mateo Community Theatre, with Dr. Each summer, that program employed the talents of young musicians, singers, and actors to produce primarily Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, which were staged at the camp site in Jones Gulch near La Honda, California. 1.1 First productions: Gilbert and Sullivanīroadway by the Bay is an outgrowth of a San Mateo Recreation Department program that originated in the 1950s as "La Honda Music Camp", in Jones Gulch, near La Honda, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains.