Quick tip: ‘Buddy’ is back
Revival of musical about rock icon Holly continues in Chula Vista
OnStage Playhouse fires up the perennially popular 1989 jukebox musical "Buddy — The Buddy Holly Story," with Noah Zuniga-Williams starring as the bespectacled rock pioneer who churned out such enduring classics as “Peggy Sue,” “That’ll Be the Day” and “Words of Love.”
'Buddy — The Buddy Holly Story'
When: 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays.
Where: OnStage Playhouse, 291 Third Ave., Chula Vista.
Tickets: $25
Phone: (619) 422-7787
Online: onstageplayhouse.info
Director Teri Brown’s production of this ode to Holly (who died at 22 in the 1959 plane crash that also killed Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper) comes complete with a live band — members of the Beatles tribute act The Rollers.
The show (written by Alan Janes) also features Jared Alatorre, Randy Coull, Edgar Diaz-Gutierrez, Anthony Donovan, Wesley Etienne, Austin Gatus, Anthony Hanna, Kelly-Noelle Henry, Carlos Hernandez, Philip John, Carly Messig, Stephanie Nesbitt, Jerry Young and Dawn Marie Zuniga-Williams.
The production, which is proving a hot ticket, runs through Aug. 6.
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