A more felicitous match-up of subscriber base and material than Girl of My Dreams, the new original musical at Issaquah's Village Theatre, is hard to imagine. This flashback-framed nostalgia piece set amidst the world of Wold War II USO performers receives it West Coast premiere at the Village, where it was also workshopped and developed in the past few years. Packed with hummable '40s pastiche tunes by Peter Ekstrom and agreeable lyrics by Ekstrom and Steve Hayes, directed and choreographed with snap and sharp fidelity to the period by Steve Tomkins, and loaded with talented performers very familiar to Village audiences, the show seems destined to draw crowds (especially those 40 and over) during its runs in both Issaquah and Everett.
They remember. They remember what they are fighting for.
A church in Washington state is adding a dash of Broadway flair to the Bible by sponsoring a musical on the well-known parable of the prodigal son.