WINTER HEATS UP WITH SPECIAL EVENTS
As “Beach Blanket Babylon” producer Jo
Schuman Silver ruminated in this section (see page 2), she was bowled over when her late-night New Year’s Eve audience booed “Donald Trump” as he and his BBB-size orange-hair hat took the stage.
But she’s keeping the Donald, along with Melania, all his kids and son-in-law Jared Kushner, too, as a special new year segment (led by the late Prince) amid this decadeslong revue that stars an EssEff-based Snow White who travels the globe to find her prince.
Schuman and her talented cast cleverly transformed this clan into the Von Trump Family Singers, and the rewritten “Sound of Music” lyrics are fall-out-of-your-seat funny.
Donald” opens with: Let me entertain you / Let me tell a lie / Let me send a few tweets / Some nasty and “screw you” tweets / Just kiss the truth goodbye.
Introducing his wife, Melania, an ample-busted vixen version of the Julie Andrews character, he stares at her chest and croons, “These are just two of my favorite things.”
Then his dirndl-dressed children arrive and belt out the famous “Do Re Mi” ditty — with cleverly rewritten lines sich as “Dough, like cash, we’ve got a lot.” And ends with, “Laws, he’ll change them every day / “T” for Trumps, we’re here to stay / That will bring us tons of “Dough, Dough, Dough, Dough.”
And that brings us, in the early days of this new year, to other hot tickets.
1 If you haven’t yet made it to FOG Design + Art Fair, then head over Jan. 15 to Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion for your final chance to ogle the modernist and contemporary marvels featured in this fantastic experience dreamed up by designer Stanlee
Gatti and a host of mad modernists. Even if you don’t shop, for just $25 at the door, Sunday will also feature a stellar inconversations starring art world luminaries. At noon, artist Niki Haas, industrial designer Yves Béhar, Cooper Hewitt senior curator Ellen Lupton and San Jose Museum of Art Curatorial Affairs Deputy Director S. Sayre
Batton discuss “A Conversation on Beauty: Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial.” At 2 p.m. “The Culture Gesture” will be dissected by curator and artnoir co-founder Larry OsseiMensah and painter-sculptor Zio Ziegler. 1 Amid this art-filled week, gallerists
Gretchen and John Berggruen have now officially reopened in their new 10 Hawthorne St. digs (across the street from the Howard Street entrance of SFMOMA) redesigned by their daughter, architect Jennifer Weiss.
To inaugurate the new space, the Berggruens curated an exhibition, “The Human Form” (through March 4), featuring more than 60 works by 20th century masters such as Henri Matisse, Lucian Freud, Edward Hopper, Kiki Smith and Pablo Picasso. 1 Dinner ducats for the Jan. 18 SFJazz Gala,
honoring Zakir Hussain, are, alas, sold out. However concert-only and After-Jam postparty tickets (starring Snarky Puppy jazz ensemble joined by musicians David Crosby and Red Baraat) remain. 1 Prior to the February unveiling of the chic updo at Tiffany on Union Square (which remains open during renovations), the storied jeweler is a major sponsor for the San Francisco Ballet Jan. 19 gala, “Ever Magical.”
And magic was in action at a recent gala pre-party inside Tiffany where diamonds (and sapphires, silver jewelry, timepieces, bangles rendered in rose and 18K gold, etc.) were everyone’s best friend.
Off the revamped second floor, Tiffany Northwest VP Tom Carroll revealed a littleused outdoor patio. Set with furniture and framed by a living wall and open sky, we instantly imagined a cheese cart. But instead of fromage, we suggested to Carroll, perhaps staff could entice shoppers by wheeling around a contraption brimming with Champagne, Holly Golighty danish and diamonds.
Ballet gala performance tickets and most dinner packages are sold out, but after-party tickets ($125 and up) and 33 Encore dinner tickets are still available. Call (415) 8652000 or go to www.sfballet.org/gala. 1 Not traveling to D.C. to attend the Jan. 20 inauguration? Neither are we. But some stalwart San Franciscans, led by Kaitlyn Krieger and her husband, Instagram cofounder Mike Krieger, have planned an evening of encouragement (along with dinner,
entertainment and Stanlee Gatti designs), “Take Back the Ball: A Night of Hope and Action,” at Bimbo’s 365 Club. The ball will benefit organizations dedicated to the future of our democracy, including the Fighter Fund, Emergent Fund and Groundswell Rapid Response Fund. For tickets or more info, go to www.takebacktheball.org/tickets. 1 For 15 years running, journalist Linda Schacht Gage has expertly organized the annual Authors Dinner benefiting the Berkeley Public Library Foundation. It’s always a swell soiree, held at the historic Central Public Library, filled with auteurs of all stripes.
But on Feb. 11, the pages will turn on Schacht, who after raising millions for the foundation and library branch improvements and programs, is the event honoree and receives the foundation’s highest honor, the Fred and Pat Cody Award. For tickets, go to http://bplf.org/event/authors-dinner.