Broadway and the Bard

Lesher Center for the Arts
1601 Civic Drive Walnut Creek

Universally acclaimed stage and screen veteran Len Cariou gives full voice to an idea that he has harbored since his first prophetic Broadway season of Henry V and Applause. Combining his two great loves --Shakespeare and American musical comedy -- into one rich and diverse tapestry, Cariou's Broadway & the Bard outfits trenchant classical soliloquies and sonnets with inventive musical pairings from beloved writers on the Great White Way. The result is an 80-minute melding of superb soliloquy and memorable song by a one-of-a-kind master actor of exquisite vintage in what the Bard might refer to as "a most rare vision." You can see this unique and entertaining melding of genres at the Lesher Center for the Arts near San Francisco.