But Broadway By The Bay’s production, running weekends through Aug. 30 at the Fox Theatre in Redwood City, will likely be best remembered for introducing this Tony to Peninsula theatergoers. With Tom Cruise-good looks and an angelic voice, Nikita Burshteyn is the real deal. The instant he comes on stage and starts to sing, the audience knows he has that indefinable something special that could — and should — translate into a solid future in theater. He’s a natural actor as well as star-quality singer, and not too shabby in the dancing department, either. Lucky Maria, even if only for, you know, a very short while.

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Vanessa Muñoz Diaz worked for three years with Mesfin cleaning restrooms in the Cars Land area of Disney California Adventure theme park. She moved to Illinois last year to find a better paying job, but the friend whose name she lovingly likened to Winnie the Pooh stays on her mind. She said a few days ago: “I saw a car the other day covered in snow and went to clean the passenger side just to see if anyone was in there. “That’s how paranoid I am that somebody might die in their car.”.

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San Mateo County History Museum. Playing Grown-Up: Toys from the Harry P. Costa Collection, through Dec. 31, 2012. Toys from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s that allowed children to mimic the activities of adults, such as a pedal-car fire truck and airplane, Tonka work trucks, an electric 1929 Lionel Stove & Oven, a G-men Fingerprint Set, a “Miss Friday” mechanical doll and a Lionel train. “Romance of the Rail,” oil paintings by Burlingame artist Fred Sinclair, Jr. of trains that have traveled on the Peninsula. May 8 through Sept. 9. San Mateo County History Museum, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City. $3-$5; free to Association members. www.historysmc.org or 650-299-0104.