Nichols has turned up on the other side of downtown, where he just started a new job as executive director of Tabard Theatre Company, which operates out of the intimate Theatre on San Pedro Square. Tabard, in its 13th season of producing family-friendly shows, has been steadily growing, and that’s why company founder Cathy Cassetta called Nichols to see if he’d be interested in shouldering some of the management workload. After seven years at the helm of the Rep and dealing with leadership changes and a continuous budget battle, Nichols says working with a smaller company is a new but welcome challenge.
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“I liked doing the pan-miner’s dance; it was fun,” Zoe Harvitt said. “I liked doing all of the dances to ‘Gold Dust or Bust,’ ‘Our Little Secret,’ and ‘Just One Pan Away,'” Rina Higashi said. “I liked that everyone was participating in the moves and singing,” said Maisy Richardson, who played Luzena. “I also liked all the funny parts that (the character) Becky got to say. This opportunity helped me learn that I should not be scared to go on stage and, if I mess up, it makes the play even funnier.”.
The Redwood City chapter of Young Dreamer Network — founded in 2007 by Executive Director Brian Buntz, a former Peace Corps volunteer, middle school teacher and business executive — was started in Redwood City in 2010 by Buntz and Roy Rivera, program leader, “The mission of Young Dreamer Network is to ballet slipper earrings empower promising young people to become difference makers and leaders in their communities,” Buntz wrote in an email, “We are cultivating an active group of Young Dreamers who will transform San Mateo County through their achievements, service and innovation.”..
“I’ll be frank — it was a great disappointment. Dylan in ‘Chronicles,’ his really interesting autobiography, says it was one of the bottom periods of his life. He’d lost his mojo, is what it boils down to. He was out of touch with the muse and with performing. “Dylan concedes in ‘Chronicles’ that he was not in shape to match (The Grateful Dead’s) enthusiasm. It didn’t come off. There was one show (in the New York area) where Dylan rose to the occasion. The other shows lacked a certain something. Pointing no particular fingers, I’ll just say that they weren’t as great as they should have been.”.
