…begins at 8:30 PM.

Co-Producers/Co-Directors: Susan Edwards Martin & Paul Wong
Music Direction by Sam Kriger

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THE HOLIDAYS ON STAGE & SCREEN

Thursday, November 20, 2025, at the Catalina Jazz Club,
6725 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028.

Dinner at 7:00 PM; the performance…

...only job almost 30 years before retiring. Also, I would be back on stage, a resumption of a creative journey that continues to this day. And just a few years after that, I would meet Tomm, now my husband of almost 36 years. Life is a strange but wonderful journey! #worldtravel #worldtraveler

... that couldn’t last forever, and maybe the decision to take the trip at all was a subconscious realization that I needed to get away from my previous life to make sense of my future life. Within a few months I would take a position on staff at a local medical center, not knowing it would be my...

...retrospect, I think I used academic success to combat feelings of inadequacy growing up as an ethnic minority in a predominantly Caucasian society as well as gay in a fiercely homophobic society. And with the added shadow of AIDS, I think it was easier to put all my energy into my studies. But...

...telling me “Your big conflict in life will be a plethora of fortunate choices.” And I had largely put my personal life on hold for 10 years. On one hand, I had been busy pursuing my undergraduate degree, medical school degree and internship/residency programs over the previous decade. But in ...

...decade of academic studies leading to my medical degree, I had discovered a renewed urge to explore the creative world of musical theatre, especially after binging on theatre the previous 2 weeks in London and New York. But loving the medicine too, I more fully understood Yip Harburg once ...

...of the world outside of the United States. But I had also learned a lot about myself, arriving home as a much more calm and confident young man than the one that had departed LAX 228 days prior with a better understanding of the maxim “it’s the journey, not the destination”. After more than a...

...had changed me in ways that I wouldn’t realize until years later, maybe even until now. Physically, I had started and ended in the same place geographically. But in a way, I had traveled around the world to search for and to find… me. Of course, I had seen, experienced and learned about much...

...strange to pay for the flight on the plane itself. Also surprisingly, the plane was half empty which made it even more comfortable. Arriving at LAX, my mother walked right past me in baggage claim without recognizing me at first. Maybe it was the dark tan, but I also think the long journey ...

guide was an amusingly entertaining wisecracker as the iconic sites of New York like the Statue of Liberty and the UN building floated by. After a T-bone steak lunch, the trip to Newark Airport was uneventful for my flight on People’s Express, where check-in was also easy, although it was a bit...

...and enjoyable as BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS. But mostly, I spent a lot of time just reflecting on the long journey I had taken. #worldtravel #worldtraveler

...after 40 years, I remember my friends who didn’t survive and wonder how the rest of us did. One day at a time, and a little luck, I guess. #worldtravel #worldtraveler

...in 1981 (back when AIDS was referred to as GRID, or Gay Related Immune Deficiency) so the play hit home directly. This was still in the era of public and governmental apathy towards the disease when the gay community was still largely ostracized by a large portion of society. Looking back ...

...right), I attended a performance of AS IS, a groundbreaking play at the time for its frank and unapologetic look at a slice of gay life in the era of AIDS, featuring John Hadary. I had been the primary hospital physician for one of the first PWA’s (Person With AIDS) in Los Angeles as an intern...