A CHRISTMAS CAROL

posted on December 22nd, 2024 at 12:24 PM by Steven Stanley


Frederick Stuart’s reinventive star turn as Ebenezer Scrooge tops the reasons why my third time seeing A Noise Within’s A Christmas Carol felt like experiencing this holiday spectacular for the very first time.
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posted in Pasadena, Returning Production, Theater Review, WOW!

MADAME SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL MUSICAL

posted on December 19th, 2024 at 5:06 PM by Steven Stanley


The holiday season’s penny-pinchingest gender-swapped skinflint is back, and once again belting her stone of a heart out, in The Nocturne Theatre’s all-around fabulous reprise of last year’s Scenie-winning Best World Premiere Musical, Madame Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Musical.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Returning Production, Theater Review, WOW!

OY! TO THE WORLD ~ CHRISTMAS WITH A TWIST!

posted on December 16th, 2024 at 11:20 AM by Steven Stanley


A couple dozen of your all-time holiday favorites get performed to perfection in OY! To The World ~ Christmas With A Twist!, back for its second December at the El Portal Theatre and once again celebrating a great big bunch of Christmas classics with one very special thing in common. Jewish songwriters wrote them all.
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posted in Musical, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

ONCE UPON A MATTRESS

posted on December 14th, 2024 at 12:36 PM by Steven Stanley


A supercharged lead performance by triple-threat extraordinaire Sutton Foster and Amy Sherman-Paladino’s freshly adapted book are just two reasons to celebrate the December arrival at the Ahmanson of Once Upon A Mattress direct from its Broadway run.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Presented Production, Theater Review, WOW!

TROUBIES’ HOME ALONE-LY HEARTS CLUB BAND

posted on December 10th, 2024 at 10:17 AM by Steven Stanley


The Troubies are back with one of their most entertaining holiday shows ever, Troubies’ Home Alone-ly Hearts Club Band, a Troubadour Theater Company mash-up of the movie that made Macaulay Culkin a pint-sized star and the album that helped establish the Beatles as arguably the most ground-breaking band in pop music history.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical Spoof, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

JANE AUSTEN’S EMMA: THE MUSICAL

posted on December 9th, 2024 at 10:16 AM by Steven Stanley


The meddling matchmaker you can’t help but love has returned to Chance Theater for the holidays—and in finer, feistier fettle than ever—in Mandy Foster’s incandescent star turn as Emma Woodhouse in the captivating return engagement of Chance’s 2018 holiday treat, Jane Austen’s Emma: The Musical.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Returning Production, Theater Review, WOW!

SANTASIA – A HOLIDAY COMEDY

posted on December 8th, 2024 at 10:45 AM by Steven Stanley


Santasia – A Holiday Comedy is back at Sherman Oaks’ Whitefire Theatre for its 25th annual mash-up of  madcap SNL-style skits, clever Claymation videos, hilarious Broadway musical parodies, nostalgic Christmases memories, and Brandon Loeser in drag, the best possible news for audiences seeking holiday comedy rated R-for-language and H-for-heart.
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posted in Comedy, San Fernando Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

MRS. DILBER’S CHRISTMAS CAROL

posted on December 8th, 2024 at 10:40 AM by Steven Stanley

It’s a clever, promising premise, and were it given less over-the-top treatment, Arthur M. Jolly’s Mrs. Dilber’s Christmas Carol just might be a winner, but excessively broad performances squander much of the good cheer Jolly’s script might otherwise inspire. (It would help too if you could understand more than half of what the actors are saying.)
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, Theater Review

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