We saw The man who came to Dinner at the Lucie Stern auditorium. This performance starts slow but gets going by the second act. This group puts on some very fine shows at a very reasonable price. The seats are ok and the sound system could use a little updating but still a very pleasant evening

Currently playing at PAP, this production is fabulous. Time warp yourselves back to the 50s to see and hear Elvis, Jerry Lee, Johnny and Carl...

Went on goldstar.com to get discount tickets for theatreworks.org production of The Four Immigrants, playing at Lucie Stern Community Theater in Palo Alto Wednesday 130pm, half an hour before the show, and a block from the theater, all on street parking taken, in this residential neighborhood of $3.5 million homes built in the 1940s, among the most expensive in the nation.     Turn into the Rinconada Park complex, and check out one of two paved parking lots landscaped with trees and grasses.  Every one of the 100+ spots are taken, as the parking lot is shared with the Stern community center, Children's Museum, Children's Zoo, Rinconada park, Rinconada pool, and Rinconada tennis courts, besides the theater.  We wait a few minutes and one car pulls out.  Park my 1998 Honda Civic on a corner diagonal slot, and hope for the best -corner slots are the most likely cars to be hit. Walk into a series of very attractive Spanish architecture buildings, with the box office at the back.  Lines out the door for the women's bathrooms, as this audience will be primarily senior women.  No lines for the men's bathrooms.   Meet some of my fellow retired tennis friends, all Japanese-Americans, as this show will be about such immigrants, and their ancestors first hand experiences coming to this country.   Theater capacity 426 sold out, with two aisles, and no balcony.  Small stage, with staggered seating, and gentle incline, but no stadium seating.  No balcony, and the last row is about 50 feet from the stage, close enough to see the actors' faces.  Seats are thin, and require standing up to let people pass.  I luck out and get an empty seat next to me, so I can use the armrest without conflict, and hook elbows with the wife on the other side. Story of four Japanese immigrants experiences in turn of the century San Francisco, from the 1906 earthquake to the world's fair.  Colorful costumes for the women sidekicks, with vaudeville and ragtime music, from the live orchestra playing in front and below the stage.  I would have preferred more singing and dancing and less dialogue.  Story shows the cultural clashes and prejudices facing the Japanese men, as they struggle to make it in a foreign land where they are not always welcome.   Reasonably priced refreshments, including $2 sodas at intermission. No problem getting out of the theater, even trailing a senior couple moving so slowing out the door.   Later, I check up on the prices on theatreworks.org, and we paid $35 for a $73 senior seat.  Unusual pricing structure: $83 adult, $73 senior, $73 educator, $38 for people 35 and under.  Those are the prices for both the daytime and evening shows.   You Yelpers just under 35 better get moving while the going is good. We get back to the parking lot, and race out of the complex, just before the rest of the 400+ seniors get out.  My 1998 Honda Civic, the most stolen car in America, is still there, as most car thieves are of the younger generation and don't know how to drive a stick shift!

Palo Alto Players production is hilarious! Hurry to see it. Runs through May 14. Fantastic production and fun for whole family!

Felt lucky to see Into the Woods. Great sets and acting. The Lucie Stern building is pleasant. Not a bad seat in the house. Good prices. Handicap parking is almost nonexistent, unfortunately.