It's the "Season of Love" at the California Musical Theatre as the Broadway Musical Rent: The Broadway Tour comes to Sacramento. The musical follows a group of young artists who live in New York's East Village during the 1990s. Rent is a passionate story of friendship and love that challenges many tough subjects like AIDS, poverty, homophobia and drug addiction. Rent is a modern take on the opera La bohème, which was written by Giacomo Puccini in 1896. The show is the eighth-longest running on Broadway. Its success has been recognized multiple times, having received Tony Awards for Best Music, Best Score and Best Book, as well as Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1996.   The musical is maki

Get ready to tap your toes and remember the past. The Cosmopolitan Cabaret is celebrating Ol' Blue Eyes with My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra. The show will follow Sinatra's music from his swinging beginning in the 1940's, through the 1990's, bringing jazz, big band and swing to life. It will feature such Sinatra songs as "New York, New York," "Fly Me to the Moon," "Strangers in the Night," "I've Got You Under My Skin" and "My Way." My Way was co-created by David Grapes and Todd Olson, who are responsible for four musical revues, including ones about Johnny Mercer’s American Songbook and Tony Bennett. Their musical tributes have played in over 200 theaters worldwide. Chris McS