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DISNEY THE LITTLE MERMAID
Monday, July 15th, 2019
Under the sea is the place to be this weekend and next as Musical Theatre West delights audiences of all ages with a swimmingly performed, gorgeous-to-look-at Disney The Little Mermaid.
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THE SPITFIRE GRILL
Saturday, July 13th, 2019
Cast members doubling as the band add a fresh, innovative twist to Garry Marshall Theatre’s captivating revival of the 2001 off-Broadway musical hit The Spitfire Grill.
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THREADS
Friday, July 12th, 2019Love … and the fragility of life … tie together Jeff Locker’s serio-comedic Threads, an evening of theatrical shorts that doubles as the 2019 Summer Showcase for seventeen talented professional actors studying at Anthony Meindl’s Actor Workshop.
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THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
Thursday, July 11th, 2019
So nonstop hilarious is the latest National Tour playing a visit to the Ahmanson, The Play That Goes Wrong just might hold the laugh-a-minute record for a West End-to-Broadway comedy smash.
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MAMMA MIA!
Monday, July 8th, 2019A talented young song-and-dance ensemble and some exhilarating original choreography add up to lively summer fun at Laguna Playhouse for those who don’t mind shelling out big bucks to hear a couple dozen ABBA hits performed to canned karaoke-style backing tracks.
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RAGTIME
Monday, July 8th, 2019
Chance Theater reinvigorates the 1998 Broadway blockbuster Ragtime to thrilling effect, giving the musical flashback to early-20th-century America race-and-class relations fresh new 21-century relevance.
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THE WEDDING SINGER
Saturday, July 6th, 2019
Having recently spoofed the ’60s with Little Shop Of Horrors, Santa Monica’s Morgan-Wixson Theatre now treats audiences to the adroitly concocted blend of music, comedy, and 1980s nostalgia that is Chad Beguelin, Tim Herlihy, and Matthew Sklar’s The Wedding Singer.
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GOOD BOYS
Monday, July 1st, 2019
An explicit sex tape involving a prep school jock and a young woman decidedly not his girlfriend sets off a chain of events that will forever change the lives of one entitled Washington DC family in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s suspenseful, provocative Good Boys, now riveting audiences at Pasadena Playhouse.
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