Love Goddess, The Rita Hayworth Musical

Created by Almog Pail

Book by Almog Pail & Stephen Garvey. Music & Lyrics by Logan Medland

Directed by Steve North. Choreography by Jacqui Jameson

Music Direction by Archie Combe

Presenting a new American musical about one of the greatest movie stars who ever lived. Considered by many to be the most beautiful woman of her day, Fred Astaire’s all-time favorite dance partner, and the bride Orson Welles wanted more than any other woman in the world, there is and will always be only one Rita Hayworth. 

Crowned the “Love Goddess” by her adoring fans, Rita Hayworth thrilled studio executives, servicemen, and movie audiences alike, generating big box office in 1940s/50s Hollywood. She embodied the American ideal of perfection with her flowing red hair, gorgeous figure, seductive on-screen image, and demure off-screen charm. Yet she struggled to identify with the bombshell image projected of her.

Originally a solo play created and performed by Almog Pail entitled Me, Myself and Rita, the show won raves from audiences and critics in Malta, Off-Broadway and London as it evolved into a full-scale musical with creative team Logan Medland, Composer (pianist for A Bronx Tale Broadway, Writer/Composer, Fingers and Toes), Stephen Garvey, Co-Writer (The Bardy Bunch, Cut Me Down), and Producer Laura Lundy of Blue Panther Productions (Broadway, Children of a Lesser God, 2018 revival- Associate Producer. Producer: Me, Myself & Rita, London, AROUSAL, The Flea Theater, New York, Dylan Brody's Driving Hollywood US/Europe tour, Ransom, Texas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, The Oy of Sex, New York).

For more information about Love Goddess and
our investor team, please contact us

info@bluepantherproductions.com

Dylan Brody's Driving Hollywood

Written & Performed by Dylan Brody
Directed by Nancy Carlin

International Tour, 2017
New York, Chicago, Barcelona, London

Witty, inventive, and always playful, Brody employs his signature structure of literary flashback and comedic callbacks to lead us through his absurdist childhood in a throwback town where the mayor begrudgingly acknowledged the family’s arrival by amending the sign at the town’s border to read: “Welcome to Schuylerville, Population 984… and some Jews,” to his early professional and artistic disappointments in the entertainment industry and on into his adult life as a comic and writer in Los Angeles. In a town where success and fame is constantly almost happening, Brody lifts our spirits and unites our common dreams in this very funny story of passion, heartbreak and a spark of hope at the intersection of art and commerce.

Sponsored by Throckmorton Theatre & Blacksmith Cellars

Originally performed at The Henry Hwang Theatre, Los Angeles 2015 

 
 

The Birds

Adaptation by Conor McPherson
Directed By: Chloe Bronzan

Pardee Home, Oakland, California 2016

Diane and Nat are strangers, trapped in a house in the countryside. They cannot leave or they will be attacked, their eyes pecked out and their bodies left to rot. They must find a way to survive, to escape their prison even as the secrets and lies between them grow deeper and more deadly.

Blue Panther Productions in association with Symmetry Theatre Company presents the site-specific Bay Area Premiere of The Birds, Conor McPherson’s adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s classic thriller in Oakland’s Pardee Home, Historic Museum & Carriage House. McPherson’s (The Seafarer) tense adaptation will keep audiences on the edge of their seats. Alfred Hitchcock fans will love this edgier version, which includes elements of his iconic 1963 horror film yet darker and more claustrophobic. 

Directed by Chloe Bronzan, Starring Robert Parsons *, Laura Lundy, Martha Brigham* and Kacey Kieta. In Association with Symmetry Theatre, Berkeley, California.

 

Sara does a solo

Written & Performed
by Sara Porter

San Francisco International Arts Festival 2016

“I’ve finally figured out what I am: a blend of fact and fiction, a moving, howling, contemporary-stand-up-dance-comedian with no secrets. I’ve also come to realize that I am as good a candidate as any for False Memory Syndrome.” -Sara Porter

Blue Panther Productions, in association with San Francisco International Arts Festival presents celebrated Canadian dancer and performance artist Sara Porter in
Sara does a Solo,  May 20 & 22, 2016.

Porter turns her writing on herself, devising the piece as a fearless account of what we all face: the aging body and the reflective mind. After two decades as a dancer – creating distinctive, quirky pieces – and a career as dance writer, Porter stands at the collision of the two: an interplay of fact and fiction, memoir and fantasy, confession and caricature. With a penchant for humor and a sharp eye to visual design, Porter creates a world where intimacy and pathos, hilarity and beauty co-exist in the physical stories she tells about life as an artist and a parent. Part memoir, part stand-up comedy, part dance performance, Sara does a Solo is unlike anything else. A bold and beautiful account of mid-life.

 

The Oy of Sex

Written and Performed by Alicia Dattner
Directed by Tom Bentley-Fisher

Sheltler Studios, New York City 2016

San Francisco’s Blue Panther Productions presents the New York premiere of award-winning Bay Area comedian Alicia Dattner’s solo show The Oy of Sex!  Performances at THE BRIDGE@Shetler Studios for just three weeks, March 29-April 17th, 2016.

Directed by Tom Bentley-Fisher, this fast-paced, laugh-out loud “romantic" comedy about love addiction has has won awards all over the West Coast and has been a sell-out in the Hollywood Fringe Festival, San Francisco Fringe Festival & The Marsh Theater. 

Using true stories from her life, Dattner shares a recipe for disaster: take one virgin, two boyfriends, several dozen lovers, half a dysfunctional family, and one comedian. Bake 15 years, sprinkle a pinch of polyamory, serve hot, and voila! The result is this raw, breathtakingly funny show about love addiction directed by Tom Bentley-Fisher. “Best Comedian," SF Weekly & SF Bay Guardian,, “Best of the Fringe," Hollywood Fringe Festival/Cafe Arts Award, “Best Storyteller," New York United Solo Festival, “Goofy, messy, and fun!” Pick of the Week -SF Weekly, “Best of the Fringe” & “Best Female Solo Act” -San Francisco Fringe Festival, “Pick of the Week” -SF Chronicle “What’s Hot Pick of the Week” feature -ABC 7.

 

Dinners With Augie

Written by Scott Charles, Directed by E.M. Hodge

Antiquite Maison Privee, Sacramento, California 2015

After suffering a devastating heart attack, Arthur Valentine is forced to confront his own mortality. In a series of conversations with his doctor, he begins to experience visions he cannot explain that take him on a journey deep into the metaphysical world. Half-dreaming, half-awake, he makes an extraordinary discovery about the unshakable bonds between past and present. Playwright Scott Charles is the author of The Call Girl's Dilemma, Chamber of Love, The Dark Waters, and The Glass Slipper Polka. Antiquite Maison Privee, Sacramento, California, 2015.

The Call-Girl's Dilemma
& The Chamber of Love

Written by Scott Charles, Directed by John Byrd

Zephyr Theatre, Los Angeles 2015

A stage reading of Bay Area playwright Scott Charles’ new short plays The Call-Girl’s Dilemma, and Chamber of Love, directed by John Byrd. 

Zephyr Theatre, 7456 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles,  January 18, 2015. Two smart, sexy new short plays by Bay Area playwright Scott Charles at Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles. Directed by Los Angeles director/playwright John Byrd and starring acting duo Dan Fagan and Laura Lundy-Paine, the stars of the recent New York production of Virago Theatre Company's AROUSAL and The Lover at The Flea Theater. 

The Call-Girl's Dilemma
She’s a former call girl. He’s an ex-client who never left. Together, they've created a powerful new company. Now his career is on the rise and his business partners want her gone. Boy meets girl? Not exactly. A sensual and provocative look at love, lust & forbidden fruit.

Chamber of Love
Lisa and Carter have been married a long time. They have a great deal to argue about, and both are fiercely passionate about what they believe. Will these feelings ever resolve? The real question is: should they? See what happens when they visit the Chamber of Love. Because sometimes, you need a higher authority.