Among the more exotic celebrity sightings I've had in my years of attending Los Angeles theatre, probably the most double-take-inducing was none other than Stephen Hawking, whom I glimpsed under the awning outside the Taper at intermission for The Kentucky Cycle back in--what was it, 1991? So I guess I wasn't too surprised to learn that he remains an avid concert- and theatregoer, and that he's clued in that there actually are such things happening in L.A.--but I was flattered to be asked, through a friend of a friend, to recommend a few shows to the cosmologist with the cool computer voice. Of course it's not the best time of year to make recommendations, except in anticipation of new openings, but I did muster the titles School for Scandal at the Taper and Julia Sweeney's Letting Go of God, which I thought would entertain a man who titles a lecture on black holes "Does God play dice?" Too bad there's nothing by Glen Berger playing at the moment.
You could send him to the one-night-only perf of Ann Randolph's show, SQUEEZE BOX. I haven't seen it yet but she is one of L.A.'s finest, funniest performers and has been for years.
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It's this Monday the 10th at Steinway Hall & Fields Pianos on Pico w. of Bundy.
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