Something marshie should do at least once his life...;-)
Laguna Beach's "Pageant of the Masters"
Dusk descends and a few stars wink through the light-washed Southern California sky. Million-dollar homes gaze down from cliffs above an outdoor amphitheater where another sellout crowd is applauding the most unusual art pageant in America. As the applause dies down, binoculars are lifted throughout the audience. Music swells, and all attention focuses stage center. The curtain opens to reveal...a painting.
Elsewhere, art imitates life, but in Laguna Beach, the Pageant of the Masters inverts the cliché. Since 1933, this arty beach town has hosted a festival of living art. The pageant features tableaus vivants &emdash; paintings, statues, murals and other artworks posed by live actors. Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Washington Crossing the Delaware, works by Monet, Millet, Van Eyck &emdash; all are painstakingly posed onstage with such exactitude that audiences cannot distinguish them from actual paintings.
these are live actors, M...
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the amphitheater is nestled in a canyon a few miles
away from Laguna's Main Beach....the smell of the Eucalyptus trees is just beautiful...and the paintings are presented backed by a huge symphony and this most fantastic narrator..
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it's really a wonderful experience...;-) |
