AVENUE Q
Sunday, January 15th, 2012
Avenue Q has arrived on Broadway—at 202 N. Broadway in Santa Ana, that is—making for just about the best musical theater news in town, particularly since the Theatre Out downscaling of the Tony-winning Broadway smash is just about as perfectly staged as an intimate-theater musical can be.
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HAIRSPRAY
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
The smash hit Broadway musical Hairspray has arrived at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center in an intimate staging so all-around terrific, it’s hard to know where to start singing its praises.
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HAIRSPRAY
Saturday, January 7th, 2012RECOMMENDED
Following more than six years on Broadway, a pair of National Tours, and numerous regional theater productions, the smash hit musical Hairspray is at last being licensed to community theaters across the land, the better to spread its message of love and acceptance and equality to cities large and small. Moorpark’s High Street Arts Center is first out of the gate this year with a production which, while no match for MTW’s nigh-on perfect Equity staging this past November, nonetheless offers numerous delights to Ventura County audiences.
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CHICO’S ANGELS # 2 LOVE BOAT CHICAS
Friday, January 6th, 2012
“This just in at our news desk. International superstar Charo narrowly escaped an attempt on her life tonight when backup dancer Bunny took the bullet intended for the Queen Of Cuchi-Cuchi just as she was belting out the last note of “I’ve Got The Cuchi In Me.” Sources inform us that the Spanish diva has hired none other than Chico’s Angels to investigate.”
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STATIONS: A Los Angeles Holiday Story
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
The gifted young artists of Boom Kat Dance Theatre, creators of the Ovation-nominated, multiple Scenie-winning Neverwonderland, are back at Santa Monica’s Miles Memorial Playhouse with the perfect Christmas gift for theatergoers in search of that illusive Holiday Spirit.
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IRVING BERLIN’S WHITE CHRISTMAS
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
We Angelinos may not be waking up to snow on our lawns this Christmas season, but snowflakes (or a close equivalent of them) will be falling on L.A. and Orange County heads throughout December at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts, where the National Tour of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas has just settled in for a three-week visit.
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SOME LOVERS
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Burt Bacharach is back, and the Old Globe’s got him—in Some Lovers, the master composer’s first original musical since 1968’s Promises, Promises, and as gorgeously tuneful and romantic a show as you’re likely to see this or any other holiday season.
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HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS
Monday, December 12th, 2011
The Grinch has been stealing Christmas for the past fifty-four years, ever since the now classic Dr. Seuss children’s book first hit the stands, yet who would have thought then that the curmudgeonly cave-dweller with a heart “two sizes too small” would go on to conquer the small screen (in a 1966 animated special featuring the voice of Boris Karloff as the Grinch), the big screen (Jim Carrey played the hairy Green One in 2000), and even Broadway (in musical theater form in 2006 and ’07)? Not even Dr. Seuss himself could have imagined such a future for his 1957 picture book.
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