CAT KID COMIC CLUB THE MUSICAL
Monday, November 25th, 2024I’m not a kid, so maybe take this review with a grain of salt, but after last year’s delightful Dog Man: The Musical, this holiday season’s Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical at the Kirk Douglas Theatre comes as a major letdown.
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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Saturday, November 23rd, 2024
CASA 0101 triumphs like never before with the musical stage adaptation of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame in a production that more than holds its own against L.A.’s most prestigious 99-seat theaters.
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LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
Tuesday, November 19th, 2024Pasadena Playhouse’s five-year-long winning streak of Broadway musical revivals comes to a crashing halt with Sam Pinkleton’s ill-conceived take on the 1980s Jerry Herman-Harvey Fierstein classic La Cage Aux Folles.
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Monday, November 18th, 2024
Broadway couldn’t deliver a more magnificent 60th-anniversary Fiddler On The Roof revival than the big-stage, big-budget Jason Alexander starrer now dazzling audiences at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.
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FIRST DATE
Sunday, November 17th, 2024
Chromolume Theater is back after a six-year hiatus with a sparklingly performed intimate revival of the smart, funny 2013 Broadway romcom musical First Date.
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IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT, TYLER PRICE!
Friday, November 15th, 2024
An inspired creative team take what might seem unlikely subject matter for a musical and transform it into It’s All Your Fault, Tyler Price!, a feel-good celebration of friendship and family now entertaining and uplifting audiences at the Hudson Backstage Theatre.
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PACIFIC OVERTURES
Monday, November 11th, 2024
Stephen Sondheim fans could not wish for a more spectacular pick-me-up from post-election blues than East West Players’ Broadway-couldn’t-do-it-better production of Sondheim and John Weidman’s rarely-revived 1976 classic Pacific Overtures.
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ADVENTURES IN THE GREAT BEYOND
Monday, November 11th, 2024Cute, fun, silly, and too slight to be of any major consequence, Tom Chiodo and Joe Nedder’s Adventures in the Great Beyond serves primarily as a showcase for Nedder’s catchy melodies and the World Premiere musical’s highly talented cast, in particular a charismatic 20something fivesome who reveal Grade-A vocal chops as the devotees of a quirky desert-dwelling New Age guru named Krishamarti.
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