October Sky
1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, 92101
Cost: $29 - $92
Kevin Depinet's set is great. An arch over the stage could be an arch, or the entrance to a mineshaft, or the arc of a rocket. As are Markus Maurette's fizzling rockets as four lads from a coal mining town in West Virginia experiment with jet propulsion. The original story, by Homer H. Hickam, Jr, inspires. But the book and music for October Sky are relentlessly inspirational. Most songs are in the epic mode. The barriers -- a disapproving community forced to labor in the mines; an adamant father -- could be huge. But the musical knocks each down when the time comes. The creators turned a courageous story into a tidy fable for Saturday morning TV.
When
Ongoing until Sunday, October 23, 2016
Hours
| Sundays, 2pm & 7pm |
| Tuesdays, 7pm |
| Wednesdays, 7pm |
| Thursdays, 8pm |
| Fridays, 8pm |
| Saturdays, 2pm & 8pm |