Starlight Bowl - San Diego, CA
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The Starlight Bowl is one of at least 5 theaters in San Diego's beautiful Balboa Park and was originally built for the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition.
Waymark Code: WM9BWP
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 07/28/2010
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Located adjacent to the San Diego Air & Space Museum in the Ford Building, the Starlight Bowl (originally named the Ford Bowl) is an open air amphitheater presenting family oriented works.
Originally built for the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition, the San Diego Civic Light Opera has been operating the theater since 1945- making it one's of America's longest-running musical theater companies. If for no other reason, tourists should see a production here to witness how the actors freeze whenever a plane flies overhead...and then resume when the noise subsides. (Balboa Park has many planes flying overhead since it is in the flight path to Lindbergh Field- San Diego's main airport.)
The Theater's website at (
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For more information, see the Wikipedia article at (
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