That Long Beach Opera is doing another performance this weekend – you can still go tonight at 8pm or tomorrow at 4 and see film star Michael York make everyone in the theater cry with his impassioned recital of Tennyson’s Enoch Arden (accompanied on piano by Lisa Sylvester playing Strauss), and then make everyone in the audience laugh uncontrollably (yas, I remember my post from yesterday) playing in a multmedia piece with shadow puppets, a short film starring a Superman doll (and Robin!), real puppets, a small orchestra (with a blogger!) and amazing dancers from the Rogue Artist Ensemble. York even blows up and pops paper bags – that’s not something you’ll see a major star do every day!

Seriously, it’s an amazing performance. LBO (disclosure: I’m on the board) fully did it again. If you’re looking for something to do this weekend and you want to be moved, see something you’ve never seen before … and get to shake a movie star’s hand (I kept seeing him as the Gascon d’Artagnan in Richard Lester’s great Musketeers movies).

Go buy tickets and have a great time.