Friday, June 21, 2024, 8 p.m.
Nine, the Musical
1835 Strand Way, Coronado, 92118
Cost: $27
Celebrated but impetuous film director Guido Contini, succumbing to the pressures of filming his latest film epic, suffers a midlife crisis which blocks his creative impulses and entangles him in a web of romantic difficulties in early-1960s Venice. One by one, women from his past and present – including his mother, his wife, his mistress, and his leading lady – haunt, instruct, scold, seduce and encourage him until this Casanova finally learns to grow up.
Based on the 1963 autobiographical film 8½ by Federico Fellini. Music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and an inventive book by Arthur Kopit. Directed by Blake McCarty.