On Golden Pond at The Colony Theatre

On Golden Pond

The Colony Theatre
555 North Third Street Burbank

Lovable curmudgeon Norman Thayer is nearing eighty and is as tart-tongued as ever. His spirited wife, Ethel, delights in all the small things that have enriched their lives. Together, they are returning to their summer home on the lake for the forty-eighth year and are soon visited by their adult daughter, her uptight fiancé, and his rebellious teenage son. On Golden Pond is a heartwarming story about revisiting the past and forging new bonds across generations. This modern classic remains an inspiring celebration of the universal challenges we all face, and the ultimate triumphs of life, love, and family.

Thru - Aug 28, 2011

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 818-558-7000

www.colonytheatre.org

On Golden Pond Reviews

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Backstage - Highly Recommended

"...Director Cameron Watson sensitively handles the comedic and melancholic aspects of the story in equal measure. It is, however, Linden and Pickles' maturity as actors that elevates the play from soap opera to a realistic and strongly resonant depiction of the lives of these characters."

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- Melinda Schupmann

Edge - Recommended

"...The Colony Theater offers a solid staging of Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond." This heartwarming 1979 play, perhaps most familiar from the 1981 film starring Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn, chronicles what may be an aging couple's last vacation at their summer lake house in Maine."

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- Sarah Taylor Ellis

ReviewPlays.com - Highly Recommended

"...The 1981 film, On Golden Pond, was adapted from Ernest Thomson's 1979 play of the same name. Obviously, due to stage constraints, the film could "paint a better picture" of Golden Pond, Maine. But a brilliant cast performing the play at the Colony Theatre in Burbank, brings to life the characters, the plot and the feel of "seeing" Golden Pond."

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- Carol Kaufman Segal

Will Call - Recommended

"...An oldie but very goodie, describes this heartwarming play about a long married couple spending their forty-eighth summer at their beloved lake house in Maine, in the year 1979. Norman (the loveable Hal Linden) is nearing his eightieth birthday and is beginning to show his age. A little forgetful and slow of movement but irascible of tongue, nevertheless. His rock of a wife Ethel (Christina Pickles), has her hands full but she humors him affectionately and patiently and their relationship could serve as a role model for young couples about to take the plunge, before they even consider the now customary pre-nup."

- Ingrid Wilmot

On Golden Pond at The Colony Theatre

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On Golden Pond Reviews

Backstage - Highly Recommended

Edge - Recommended

ReviewPlays.com - Highly Recommended

Will Call - Recommended

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