Our 2024 Season includes 2 musicals, plays, a world premiere, cabaret shows, and lots of great music at the OJP Music Lounge!
Spring/Summer 2024
OJP Music Lounge
Upland
$15 (plus one drink minimum)
PEANUT ALLERGY ALERT
OJP does not allow any outside food or drink on the premises, especially any peanuts or peanut products.
May 11 at 7:30pm
Alligator Wine and Both Sides Now
A Tye-Dyed Benefit Concert for OJP
The new band in town is Alligator Wine. This dynamic bunch of tie-dyed dudes plays some of your favorite hippie rock!
On May 11, Alligator Wine will perform music from the Grateful Dead and other iconic rock at the OJP Music Lounge as a fundraiser to benefit OJP artistic and community programs.
The evening will also feature opener, Both Sides Now, featuring Kim Eberhart styling some of your favorites from the 60s and 70s. Joni Mitchell, Mamas and Papas and more!
Wear your favorite tie-dyed duds to get a free popcorn.
OJP Music Lounge
Upland
$15 (plus one drink minimum)
PEANUT ALLERGY ALERT
OJP does not allow any outside food or drink on the premises, especially any peanuts or peanut products.
May 25 at 7:30pm
PIERRE ENGLEBERT
Pierre Englebert played in bands in high school and college in his native Belgium before putting away his guitar for more than three decades and focusing on his family and career as a college professor. His kids grown up, he returned to his music and started composing again in 2019, and has since released five albums, which combine pop-rock, classical and singer-songwriter influences, with a focus on melody, original chord progressions, and rich harmonies. His lyrics are humorous, touching, and thoughtful. His entertaining solo public performances mix music with comedy and storytelling.
“Political scientist turned songwriter: Pierre Englebert Brings humor and heart to the stage… In his concerts, Pierre switches effortlessly between guitar and piano accompaniment, and takes his audience on an emotional journey through his songs. Whether it’s a hilarious moment or a touching piece that brings tears to the eyes, Pierre’s live performance are always a mesmerizing experience… [an] unforgettable night of music” (Pasadena Now, Feb 8, 2023)
OJP Music Lounge
Upland
$40 (plus one drink minimum)
PEANUT ALLERGY ALERT
OJP does not allow any outside food or drink on the premises, especially any peanuts or peanut products.
June 1 at 7:30pm
Andres Vadin & Audrey Babcock bring you
Beyond carmen
An homage to Bizet’s Carmen mezzo-soprano Audrey Babcock weaves legends of the Old World into a 21st-century musical tapestry that spans generations and genres—from classical to tango, medieval to modern. With musical partner, guitarist, arranger, composer Andrés Vadin.
“Carmen. There is no more iconic woman in Operatic history. She is so singled out that her image has become mainstream and is synonymous with the Femme Fatale. There is no image, no legend, no creature, more riddled with weaponized femininity then our beloved, Carmencita. Carmen’s origin story is rich—it has been written that the author of the original novella, Prosper Mérimée, derived his inspiration for this illusory gypsy from a real-life Sephardic Jew. Though Jews were exotic at the time, Gypsies had a more solid reputation for nefariousness and made a more daring choice for his Parisian newspaper-reading audience. With Beyond Carmen we will explore her Sephardic roots, singing in Ladino or “Judeo Spanish”, similar to ancient Castilian Spanish. We will play with the rhythms, textures, and accents of the marginalized people of the diaspora, and most of all we will sing and cry out for the misunderstood experience of being fiercely female in a time that saw a woman’s strength as something dangerous, dark, and destined for annihilation.”
Claremont Lincoln University
Claremont
$125 Members
$150 Non-members
PEANUT ALLERGY ALERT
OJP does not allow any outside food or drink on the premises, especially any peanuts or peanut products.
June 15 at 5:30pm
OJP June Jump Gala
Blue Bayou
Ophelia’s Jump rings in the summer with it’s gala fundraiser and concert featuring dinner by Gourmet Gourmet, terrific silent and live auction items including distinctive getaway vacations, artwork, a year of VIP parking at the theater and much more. Capped off by a Linda Rondstadt retrospective concert performed by:
Molly Billman, Beatrice Casagran, Candida Celaya, Janette Combs, Chris Gomez, Caitlin Lopez, Randy Lopez, & Liana Veratudela.
Table of 8 for Members– $1000
Table of 8 for Non-Members— $1200
Table sponsors will be listed in the program.
Sponsorship opportunities available. Help support Community based theatre and theatre education.
Sontag Greek Theater
Claremont
$35
PEANUT ALLERGY ALERT
OJP does not allow any outside food or drink on the premises, especially any peanuts or peanut products.
July 11, 13, 19, 21 8pm
OJP MIDSUMMER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL IN CLAREMONT
KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTLE
A joyful celebration of the universal capacity to improvise, this delightful Elizabethan comedy is a rough and rowdy romp filled with Music and Merriment!
Sontag Greek Theater
Claremont
$35
PEANUT ALLERGY ALERT
OJP does not allow any outside food or drink on the premises, especially any peanuts or peanut products.
July 12, 14, 18, 20 8pm
OJP MIDSUMMER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL IN CLAREMONT
LA TEMPESTAD
A story of betrayal, forgiveness, and magic, OJP’s adaptation of The Tempest, La Tempestad, is told in the original Shakespearian text with interspersed Spanish. The magic of the island’s spirits (Orishas) is exercised through afro-Cuban music and dance. Director/Adaptor Beatrice Casagrán is joined by Cuban musicians and composers Andres Vadin (guitar) and Arturo Stable (percussion) who will compose, arrange and perform afro-cuban influenced music for this most musical of Shakespeare’s comedy. This production is going to be an energetic and vibrant retelling of Shakespeare’s story from a fresh perspective.
OJP Music Lounge
Upland
$20
PEANUT ALLERGY ALERT
OJP does not allow any outside food or drink on the premises, especially any peanuts or peanut products.
July 27
Lisa Sanders & Brown Sugar