The Beach Boys and Sondheim
Guild Hall will pay homage to decades past this weekend with three evenings of music and theater, featuring the Beach Boys, the lyrics and melodies of Stephen Sondheim, and the classic Talking Heads concert film “Stop Making Sense.”
The Beach Boys will perform tomorrow at 7 p.m. Evocative of summer, sunshine, and good times, the band has been performing since the early 1960s. They are led now by Mike Love and Bruce Johnston, who will perform tomorrow along with Jeffrey Foskett, Randell Kirsch, Tom Bonhomme, John Coswill, and Scott Totten. Brian Wilson, the band’s founder, and Al Jardine and David Marks, who remain members of the Beach Boys, will not be playing.
The only tickets still available are benefit tickets ranging from $1,000 to $25,000. The price includes a dinner at a private residence, which has not yet been announced.
In a night honoring Sondheim, the renowned composer of iconic musicals like “Sweeney Todd,” “Into the Woods,” and “West Side Story,” the musical director Ted Sterling will perform Sondheim’s work accompanied by the Broadway actors Tiffany Hass and Clarke Thorell. Mr. Sterling will play the piano as Ms. Hass and Mr. Thorell sing alongside him on Sunday at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $40 to 75, $38 to $70 for members.
Next Thursday, “Stop Making Sense” will be shown at 8 p.m. The film features the band’s most well known songs from a three-day performance in Los Angeles in 1983. The tickets are $12, $10 for members.