PARK YOUR CAR IN HARVARD YARD
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Theatergoers who made the recent production of Trying a monster hit for the Colony Theatre are hereby advised to head on down to Long Beach for International City Theatre’s superb revival of Israel Horovitz’ 1981 two-hander, Park Your Car In Harvard Yard. Like Trying, Park Your Car takes two people who are different in every possible way (age, sex, education, religion, family background, etc.), puts them in the same space, and lets the sparks fly. Like Trying, affords an actor in his eighties the part of a lifetime. Like Trying, the actress playing opposite said actor gets the gift of a role so richly drawn that sinking her teeth into it proves a veritable feast, both for the actress and for the audience.
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THE ANDREWS BROTHERS
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Musical Theatre West has come up with the perfect musical for those who found last year’s Altar Boyz a bit too young and edgy for their tastes. In fact, the highly entertaining The Andrews Brothers is the kind of show which the older you are, the more you will love.
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ALL SHOOK UP
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
If there were more justice in the world of Broadway theater, All Shook Up
would now be in its third year of playing there to standing ovations. It has a
clever and very funny book by Joe DiPietro. Ken Robertson and Sergio Trujillo
came up with a bunch of sensational dances. It featured a truly star-making
performance by Cheyenne Jackson and an equally stellar supporting cast.
Most notable of all, it was built around two dozen songs made famous by Elvis
Presley, in other words, some of the most recognizable, hummable hits ever on
a Broadway stage.
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CABARET
Friday, February 8th, 2008
When a musical has been around as long as John Kander and Fred Ebb’s
Cabaret has (the original Broadway production opened in 1966), it becomes a
show that most veteran theatergoers have seen multiple times. Thus,
whenever a new production opens, it is up to the performers and director to
keep it fresh and vital. I’m pleased to report that International City Theatre’s
Cabaret features a trio of fine lead performances and a director whose
concept and vision distinguish this Cabaret from others which have come
before.
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THE PAJAMA GAME
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
Director Steven Glaudini and his talented cast do everything right in Musical Theatre
West’s terrific new production of the 1953 Broadway smash The Pajama Game. The
recent Broadway revival with Harry Connick, Jr. sparked interest in this tuneful 50s
classic, and MTW’s production makes it clear why the show remains as fresh as ever in
2007.
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TOM, DICK, AND HARRY
Friday, October 19th, 2007
Nobody writes farce better than the UK’s Ray Cooney, whose plays are a staple
of regional and community theaters across the U.S. His most recent comedy,
Tom, Dick and Harry (written with son Ray Cooney) is getting its West Coast
Premiere at International City Theatre in Long Beach, and thanks to Cooney’s
brand of nonstop mayhem, crackerjack direction by Todd Neilsen and a
sensational cast, this is a chance to see Cooney farce at its best.
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CALLING APHRODITE
Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Beauty is at the heart of Velina Hasu Houston’s new play Calling Aphrodite,
currently having its world premiere production at Long Beach’s International
City Theatre. Beauty as something divine, beauty as a thing to be envied,
beauty as something destroyed by war, beauty as a sign of hope.
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