Monday, November 18th, 2024
Broadway couldn’t deliver a more magnificent 60th-anniversary Fiddler On The Roof revival than the big-stage, big-budget Jason Alexander starrer now dazzling audiences at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.
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Tags: Jerome Robbins, Jerry Bock, Joseph Stein, La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, Los Angeles Theater Review, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, Sheldon Harnick
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Sunday, September 22nd, 2024
The winningest Broadway musical romcom since Elle Woods stole hearts in Legally Blonde finally gets its Southern California regional theatre premiere as La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment treat SoCal audiences to Waitress.
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Tags: Adrienne Shelly, Jessie Nelson, La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, Los Angeles Theater Review, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, Sara Bareilles
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Sunday, June 2nd, 2024
Get ready to stand up and cheer director Glenn Casale’s ingeniously reconceived, spectacularly staged revival of Disney The Little Mermaid at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, the absolute best of the now eight productions I’ve seen of this most enchanting of musicals.
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Tags: Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, Los Angeles Theater Review, McCoy Rigby Entertainment
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Sunday, April 21st, 2024
The wait is over! Twenty years after its La Jolla Playhouse debut and five years after a handful of U.S. theaters were finally given the rights to stage it regionally, Jersey Boys at long last gets the homegrown production SoCal audiences have been waiting for, and a spectacular one it is at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.
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Tags: 3-D Theatricals, Bob Crew, Bob Crewe, Bob Gaudio, Frankie Valli, La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, Los Angeles Theater Review, Marshall Brickman, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, Rick Elice
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Monday, January 22nd, 2024
Take the movie that set Julia Roberts on the path to superstardom, stir in twenty of the 1980s and ‘90s’ Greatest Hits, give the mix a contemporary sensibility and a dynamite triple-threat cast, and you’ve got Mystic Pizza (The Musical), a surefire La Mirada Theatre hit.
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Tags: La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, Los Angeles Theater Review, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, Sandy Rustin
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Sunday, November 12th, 2023
“It’s Too Late” “So Far Away” “You’ve Got a Friend” “(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman” “I Feel The Earth Move” “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?”
If these six megahits don’t have you itching to spread the word about Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, then Sara Shepard’s star turn as the woman who wrote and performed some of the mid-20th century’s Greatest Hits most definitely will.
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Tags: Barry Mann, Carole King, Cynthia Weil, Gerry Goffin, La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, Los Angeles Theater Review, McCoy Rigby Entertainment
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Sunday, October 8th, 2023
Three star-caliber performances, several topnotch supporting turns, and some exciting Latin dance numbers designed to get you On Your Feet! do their best to overcome the substandard production values given The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan’s non-Equity tour at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts.
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Tags: Alexander Dilenaris, Emilio Estefan, Gloria Estefan, La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, Los Angeles Theater Review, McCoy Rigby Entertainment
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