THE POETRY SOCIETY OF SANTA MARIA invites all to read poetry, sing songs, or just express themselves every other Wednesday 6:30 p.m., Coffee and Company, 245 Town Center West, Santa Maria. More info: 928-6492, coffeencompany@yahoo.com.
Worth The Drive
THE GREAT AMERICAN MELODRAMA presents its annual “Holiday Extravaganza” featuring three plays: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Sleeping Beauty, and the Holiday Vaudeville Review showing through Dec. 31. Call for times, Great American Melodrama, Highway 1, Oceano. More info: 489-2499, americanmelodrama.com.
MURDER IN MIND PRODUCTIONS presents its interactive murder mystery dinner theatre production of “The Golden Girls-Meet Blanche’s Niece” Sundays through Jan. 30 5 p.m., Spyglass Inn Restaurant, 2703 Spyglass Drive, Shell Beach. $48.95. More info: 489-3875, murderinmind.com.
A NEW YEARS EVE “COMEDY BASH!” features comedians Leland “Cotton” Brown, Dave Thomason, Vahe Hova, Bob Fernandez, and others Dec. 31 at 8 and 10:30 p.m., SLO Grange Hall, 2880 Broad St., SLO. $20. More info: 543-0639, joyk344@hotmail.com.
THE CLARK CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS presents Mary Meserve-Miller’s “Best of the ORIGINAL Legends Series” featuring actors performing as Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, and Ray Charles Dec. 31 through Jan. 15 call for times, Clark Center for the Performing Arts, 487 Fair Oaks Ave., Arroyo Grande. $35, $20 for students. More info: 489-4196, jamie@clarkcenter.org, clarkcenter.org.
CAL POLY presents “The MET Live in HD: Verdi’s Don Carlo” directed by Nicholas Hytner Jan. 2 at 2 p.m., Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center, Cal Poly, 1 Grand Ave., SLO. More info: 756-2787, pac.calpoly@gmail.com.
This article appears in Dec 30, 2010 – Jan 6, 2011.