SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE – THE MUSICAL
Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
The movie that turned Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan overnight into America’s romantic comedy sweethearts now makes a sparkling transition from film to stage as the Pasadena Playhouse presents the World Premiere of Sleepless In Seattle – The Musical.
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NEXT TO NORMAL
Sunday, June 2nd, 2013
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical Next To Normal gets its very first locally-produced Southern California production at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, directed by the SoCal genius that is Nick DeGruccio and featuring some of our most brilliant L.A.-area talents. Need I say more?
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PAINT YOUR WAGON
Saturday, June 1st, 2013RECOMMENDED
Downey Civic Light Opera concludes its 58th (and sadly last) season with a production that once again illustrates what DCLO and the illustrious Marsha Moode do best—even with a second-rate musical like the largely (and justly) forgotten 62-year-old chestnut that is Lerner & Lowe’s Paint Your Wagon.
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SOUTH PACIFIC
Saturday, May 25th, 2013
Director-choreographer Valerie Rachelle makes a stellar Glendale Centre Theatre debut with as fine an in-the-round production of the legendary Rodgers & Hammerstein classic South Pacific as you will likely ever see, one that strips away the cobwebs to reveal just why the legendary team’s third Broadway smash remains one of the greatest musicals ever.
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THE FANTASTICKS
Friday, May 24th, 2013
Sometimes it takes magic to make magic, or at least such is the case with South Coast Repertory’s exhilarating, eye-popping new staging of The Fantasticks, a revival that even those who’d put the record-breaking off-Broadway smash on their list of least-favorite musicals can enjoy. (I know, as I am one of them.)
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THE FULL MONTY
Monday, May 20th, 2013
Those out-of-work Buffalo factory workers have taken their Chippendales-style strip show to Candlelight Dinner Theater, and the result is the San Gabriel Valley musical theater event of the season.
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CHESS
Thursday, May 16th, 2013
Though Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus’ Chess may now and forever remain a musical that “needs work,” there are ample reasons to catch Tim Dang’s multiethnic revival of the West End hit at East West Players, not the least of which is the singular opportunity to see Chess Not In Concert—but rather as a fully-staged production, with performances, direction, choreography, costumes and lighting all combining to make for a thrilling evening of theater, despite its source material’s undeniable flaws.
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PARADE
Monday, May 13th, 2013
3-D Theatricals commemorates the one-hundredth anniversary of the death of thirteen-year-old Georgia factory worker Mary Phagan, along with the kangaroo court that subsequently found Jewish Northerner Leo Frank guilty of her murder and the lynch mob that ultimately robbed Frank of his own life, in its all-around phenomenal T.J. Dawson-directed revival of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry’s Parade.
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