CALVIN BERGER
Sunday, February 19th, 2023
Get ready to fall head over heels for Calvin Berger, both the lovestruck teenager played ever so winningly by Frankie A. Rodriguez and Barry Wyner’s tune-packed high-school-musical take on Cyrano de Bergerac, now captivating audiences at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
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tick, tick… BOOM!
Saturday, February 18th, 2023
International City Theatre opens its 2023 season with a powerhouse, terrifically performed tick, tick… BOOM!, a musical glimpse into Jonathan Larson’s creative and personal life before Rent (and his premature demise at the age of 35) made him a Broadway legend.
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9 to 5
Monday, February 13th, 2023
Musical Theatre West has another major hit on its hands with the stage adaptation of the 1980 movie smash 9 To 5, the tantalizing tale of a trio of resourceful secretaries who put their sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot of a boss in his place while serving up a heaping helping of Dolly Parton songs along the way.
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RIDE THE CYCLONE
Sunday, February 5th, 2023
A carnival sideshow mechanical fortune teller informs six Saskatchewan teens who’ve just been hurled to their deaths that one of them will be given a second chance at life in the decidedly odd but infectiously entertaining Ride The Cyclone, now being given a sensationally performed and designed California Premiere at Anaheim Hills’ Chance Theater.
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GREASE
Sunday, January 22nd, 2023
McCoy Rigby Entertainment pulls out all the stops to serve up a couldn’t-be-better Grease at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, astutely cast, adroitly directed, arrestingly designed, and entertaining as all get-out.
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PROMISES, PROMISES
Monday, December 26th, 2022A pair of thoroughly winning romantic leads brighten The Group Rep’s 99-seat revival of the 1968 Neil Simon-Burt Bacharach-Hal David Broadway hit musical Promises, Promises, though an instance of historically incompatible gender reassignment does the production no favors.
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AIN’T TOO PROUD
Friday, December 16th, 2022
The Temptations give those Jersey Boys some pretty stiff competition for all-time best Broadway bio-musical in Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of The Temptations, now making a triumphant return to the Ahmanson following its Tony-winning New York run.
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CHRISKIRKPATRICKMAS
Monday, December 5th, 2022
Rapper-turned-movie star Marky Mark plays Angel Clarence to a former boy bander’s down-and-out George Bailey in Chriskirkpatrickmas, Alison Zatta and Valen Shore’s clever, tuneful, utterly winning mash-up of It’s A Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol, and the international phenomenon that was *NSYNC.
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