Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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I love writing columns that showcase people within the community that give back in some way. It could be an artist who makes sentimental pieces for their clients, a volunteer who devotes love to the people they serve or a business that keeps its clients' growth and happiness as their mission. This column is about Dawnnie Mercado-Genochio, her newly formed Tehachapi Academy of Dramatic Arts and the light she brings to Tehachapi students. Now, I have to admit – I am a bit biased here. My d...
Tehachapi Community Theatre will present an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s famous novel, “Little Women” in September. Director Monica Nadon is seeking men and women ranging in age from 13 – 70 years old to fill the following roles of this classic play: Female roles include: Jo, Meg, Amy, Beth, Marmee (Mrs. March), Hannah and Aunt March. Male roles include Father (Mr. March), Laurie, John Brooke and Professor Bhaer. The play spans four years’ time. Jo, Meg and Amy must be able to play mature young ladies in the final scene. The part of H...
First Friday on May 3 will feature the jewelry of Linda Turco at the Tehachapi Museum. Linda has been fascinated with the artistry of jewelry, beadwork in particular, since childhood. Her background as a graphic designer helped to shape her color and design ideas. After she and her husband retired to Tehachapi, her love of beadwork flourished. Linda's designs range from hand-woven beaded necklaces, bracelets and earrings, to focal stone cabochons surrounded by elaborately beaded bezels and rope...
The Tehachapi Symphony, directed by David Newby, will perform on Sunday, May 5. The concert begins at 4 p.m. at Country Oaks Baptist Church, located at 20915 Schout Rd. This year’s Young Artist Competition winner, B.J. Zheng, will perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, 1st movement. Beethoven composed the Violin Concerto in D major which premiered on Dec. 23, 1806, just two days after Beethoven finished writing the concerto. The work was commissioned by and dedicated to music director and concertmaster of the Theater an der Wien, 21-year-old Fran...
Spring will be “TPopping” Sunday, April 28, when The Tehachapi Pops Orchestra opens its 12th season with a concert in Grace Fellowship Church. TPOPS is comprised of musicians of all ages from Tehachapi and around Kern County. It includes seasoned professionals as well as students who are playing in their first orchestra. As the name implies, TPOPS plays a mixture of showtunes, light classical, jazz, rock, standards and other popular music. For this concert, the orchestra will be conducted by...
Way back in 2011, the latest news was the BeeKay Theatre mural taking place in the form of a line of Tehachapi citizens, in an earlier day, waiting to buy a ticket to the show. In the 1930s and '40s we received in the mail what was termed "The Show Bill" which gave one coming movies to be shown. One could plan their entertainment ahead. On Sunday, Monday and Tuesday we saw first run features. On Wednesday and Thursday we viewed what was termed "B" movies. Then on Friday and Saturday the kids...
First Friday on April 5 at the Tehachapi Museum will feature the opening of a new exhibit of carved wood objects by the Tehachapi Mountain Carvers club. The club, originally started by 15 people who were involved in woodcarving classes offered through the Parks and Recreation Department in 2001, applied to be a chapter of the California Carvers Guild. TMC was chartered as CCB Chapter 62. In 2010, a new woodcarving class was started at the Tehachapi Senior Citizens Center. An enthusiastic group...
Calling all angry mobs, "Young Frankenstein," presented by Tehachapi Apple Festival, will begin showing on Feb. 22. An entertaining ensemble of actors will perform the Broadway version of Mel Brook's creation. Featuring a new 10- by 20-foot movie screen you will be transported into medical labs, Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory and the Transylvanian countryside. Tickets are $20. To buy tickets or for more information about production times, visit www.tctonstage.com. TCT reminds the community that...
Join us on March 1 from 5 to 8 p.m. for First Friday at the Tehachapi Museum. A new exhibit opening in March highlights the 50th Anniversary of the Tehachapi Community Theater. Programs, posters and costumes from the past 50 years will be featured. TCT now performs in the BeeKay Theatre, a beautifully restored venue that allows for professional quality plays and musicals. The year-long celebration culminates in a Gala to be held in October. Several continuing exhibits will be ending this month,...
... and Tehachapi Community Theatre actors are going to make sure you leave the BeeKay knowing the right pronunciation. Tehachapi Apple Festival presents a Tehachapi Community Theatre production of "Young Frankenstein," beginning Feb. 22. An entertaining ensemble of actors are rehearsing multiple times a week to prepare for the Broadway version of Mel Brook's creation. "It has been a blast and really fascinating to see how everything is coming together. From costumes and props and acting ......
When your family attends the holiday production of Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol at the beautiful BeeKay Theatre, be ready for an awe-inspiring visual feast! In addition to the stunning sets that you've come to expect from a TCT show, the company has acquired a production altering new technology, the Hitachi Laser Projector. With this amazing new system, designers now have the ability to project crystal clear images from 11' diagonal to a full sized wall. This shiny new...
Did you know, the original BeeKay marquee was the first neon sign in Tehachapi when the theater opened in 1936? The City of Tehachapi had an exact (although more proportional) reproduction made for the BeeKay reconstruction in 2008. In honor of Tehachapi Community Theatre's 50th anniversary, here are five trivia questions about theater life in Tehachapi. (Scroll down below this article for answers.) Question 1: What does the BEE and the KAY stand for in BeeKay Theatre? A. Bell & Kalyan B. Beech...
A Tehachapi Christmas tradition is returning to Fiddlers Crossing. Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," read by Tehachapi's own Alex Zonn, will be presented twice at the venue this month, on Saturday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 16, at 3 p.m. First published in 1843, "A Christmas Carol" is the story of a bitter old miser named Ebeneezer Scrooge and his transformation resulting from a supernatural visit from the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, and the Ghosts of...
When your family attends the holiday production of Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol at the beautiful BeeKay Theatre, be ready for an awe-inspiring visual feast! In addition to the stunning sets that you've come to expect from a TCT show, the company has acquired a production altering new technology, the Hitachi Laser Projector. With this amazing new system, designers now have the ability to project crystal clear images from 11' diagonal to a full sized wall. This shiny new...
A group on the BeeKay Theatre mural shows us three generations looking quite happy as they stand in line waiting to see the movie. The painting portrays Lena Hayes and her two daughters, Sody and GayLee as children standing with their mother. Two other children are in the picture. They are Sody's two children, Tim and Cindy, also pictured as kids. Sody's memories of her home town seem to fit in with that line of town folk waiting to buy a ticket. Here are a few of her memories. Lena Hayes, the m...
In September, Tehachapi Community Theatre (TCT) held its popular 10-minute Playwrights' Festival at the beautiful BeeKay Theatre. Playwrights from Kern County, Los Angeles County and the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights were asked to submit plays based on the theme "Past, Present, Future." The top eight plays that were chosen to be produced were directed and acted by TCT members. At the end of each performance, the audience voted for their three favorite plays. Winning the Gold Quill, first...
There's no denying, the Tesla is a pretty cool car. Its sleek design and use of clean energy makes it quite desirable. But what can make Tesla even cooler? Tehachapi Community Theatre and a lil' small town charm, of course. On Oct. 13, TCT actors volunteered to help create a spec ad with Director Daniel Kepler at our local Burger Spot in Downtown Tehachapi. Kepler is a VFX Editor and has worked on a number of Marvel movies including, "Black Panther," "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Avengers: Age...
Standing fourth in line in the BeeKay Theatre Mural one will see two more "old timers," Mildred and Bud Cummings. It would take volumes to include the history of the Cummings family, but I will include information that will certainly put Bud and Mildred in the annals as one of Tehachapi's earliest settlers. In 1849 a young teenage Austrian boy, named George, stowed away on a ship headed for California. This would have involved the ship traveling the North Atlantic Ocean, the South Atlantic...
Hold on to your broomsticks, it's almost Halloween! To celebrate, the BeeKay Theatre will again be transformed into the BooKay! On Saturday, Oct. 20, the Tehachapi Pops Orchestra (TPOPS) will offer musical tricks and treats in two hour-long performances, at 4 and 7 p.m. As in prior years, the concert will be presented in partnership with the Tehachapi Community Theatre (TCT). Alex Zohn, of TCT, will return for an encore performance of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven," with music composed by BooKay...
From a comedic look at biblical times to a 1940s detective story to an era when time travel is possible, the eight playwrights' whose 10-minute plays are being produced in Tehachapi Community Theatre's 9th Playwrights' Festival have embraced this year's theme of "Past, Present, Future." Who will be the winning playwright of this year's festival? That's where you, the audience, come in. After each performance, the audience votes for their three favorite plays in the festival. It's always...
The "adult in the room" is defined as the person in the group who makes level-headed decisions. The adult is the one we look to for wise, measured thinking. The adult is the emotionally, mentally mature person who may serve as a guide and mentor to the younger ones. The adult archetype holds true in many cases, however, at "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" playing at the BeeKay Theatre, the adults in charge are equally as kooky and off-the-wall as the kids. Rona Lisa Perretti (played...
For a moment, bring to mind your adolescent self. Your fifth/sixth grade self. Your 11/12-year-old self. Do you recall the confidence and self-assurance that you radiated to the world? Remember feeling so comfortable in your own skin? Recollect how socially adept and uber cool you were? Yeah, me neither. For most of us, the adolescent years were a perfect storm of raging hormones, awkward bodies and emotional angst. For six of the actors in TCT's next musical production, "The 25th Annual Putnam...
Any self-respecting fan of Alfred Hitchcock will instantly recognize the title of TCT's next production, "The 39 Steps". However, that same fan may be surprised to find the stage play of Hitchcock's thriller to be an unexpected cocktail of espionage and mistaken identity poured over a bare-bones stage of free-flying props and furniture, then served up with a twist of wild slapstick. Cheers! This award-winning comedy calls for the entirety of the 1935 film to be performed with a cast of only...
Tehachapi Community Theatre (TCT) will hold its annual Drama Day Camp in July. "Campers" will have fun while learning the basics of acting for the theatre. They will learn theatre games that are not only fun but help build confidence in performing. They will also learn about stage direction, blocking, diaphragmatic breathing, auditioning, monologues, skits, theatre etiquette and much more! The week-long camp will end with actors performing what they have learned for family and friends. Choose...
Alfred Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" opens at the BeeKay Theatre on June 1, bringing a trainload of laughter in this spoof of Hitchcock's 1935 thriller film. Although the script for the stage comedy is almost identical to the film script, it's in the madcap playing that the comedy springs to life. Four actors portray all the roles under the direction of Karl Schuck. Schuck has made a speciality of comedy since joining Tehachapi Community Theatre in 2005, playing the wacky neighbor in Neil Simon's...
