Idolized is set in the glamorous era of early Hollywood studios with its lavish movie sets, mansions in the Hollywood Hills, and exotic Los Angeles night clubs like the Café Trocadero, Café Montmartre, and the revered Cocoanut Grove.

Theatergoers will be transported through music, sets, and costumes to a world they think they know, the Roaring 20’s, but will learn a brand new dimension of the time period…

the exotic aesthetics of Aztec & Spanish Revival as well as Art Deco & Nouveau design and fashions all inspired by California’s Latin past.

It’s a world of Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Aztec pyramids, mansion that Montezuma could call home, but influences of Spanish Revival, the architecture of European “occupation” — an aesthetic metaphor for the rise of the invading “studio system“ over the “indigenous” independent film artist.

From the dramatic opening motif of the score, we know there has been a brutal murder… Montezuma perhaps?