CHESS
Monday, September 17th, 2007
Those who attended last night’s Chess benefit (for Broadway Cares Equity
Fights AIDS) expecting “just a concert” were in for a dazzling surprise. What
had been advertised as “Chess in Concert” turned out to be a fully staged,
fully choreographed, fully off-book production of the 80s Broadway hit. And
what a production it was!
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HAIR
Saturday, September 15th, 2007
The year was 1968.
16,592 American soldiers lost their lives in Vietnam, the greatest number of
casualties for any year of the war. At home, assassins’ bullets killed Bobby
Kennedy and Martin Luther King. 10,000 or more enraged Americans
protested the Vietnam War outside the Democratic convention in Chicago,
leading to hundreds of arrests and police-inflicted injuries.
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A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
A musical at South Coast Repertory is a rarity, and in the case of the currently
running A Little Night Music, it is a cause for celebration–well cast, beautifully
performed and (especially in the second act) gorgeous to look at.
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CESAR AND RUBEN
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
It’s not often that a musical can entertain, inspire, and educate, but Cesar and
Ruben is just such a musical. Writer, director, costar Ed Begley has taken a page
out of recent California history and fashioned one of the most moving pieces of
theater I’ve seen.
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TALES OF TINSELTOWN
Friday, May 11th, 2007
This delightfully silly visit to Hollywood in the 1930s is sure to be a crowd pleaser for the Co-Op. Matt Lutz and Gwen Hollander delight as smalltown movie fans Elmo and Ellie (he wants to write screenplays, she wants to be a star) who meet cute and bicycle cross country to NGN (not a typo) studios where fame awaits.
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