ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
For two and a half hours of frothy fun escapist entertainment, the Jimmy Buffett jukebox musical romcom Escape To Margaritaville (playing this week at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts) can’t be beat.
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SHE LOVES ME
Monday, February 3rd, 2020
If you’ve ever wondered how much difference a director and cast can make, then head on down to Costa Mesa to see the magic being made by David Ivers’ and company in South Coast Repertory’s epitome-of-inspired revival of the 1963 Broadway gem She Loves Me.
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MAN OF LA MANCHA
Monday, January 27th, 2020
Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre just keeps on getting better and better, proof positive of which can be found in their 2020 season opener, a top-of-the-line big-stage revival of the 1966 Broadway classic Man Of La Mancha.
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DOGFIGHT
Friday, January 24th, 2020
USC freshman Lily Castle is pure perfection opposite sophomore Terry Mullany in young River Phoenix mode in Dogfight, the Louise Lortel Award-winning Outstanding Musical of 2012 and the latest example of Musical Theatre Repertory at its student-directed, student-performed, student-designed best.
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THE LAST SHIP
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
Sting celebrates his working-class Northern English roots in The Last Ship, the pop superstar’s gloriously scored-and-sung new(ish) musical, now bringing Ahmanson audiences to their feet.
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HEATHERS THE MUSICAL
Saturday, January 11th, 2020Heathers The Musical proves a terrific talent showcase for the high schoolers, undergrads, and just-out-of-college triple-threats who strut their stuff at the Simi Valley Performing Arts Center in a Studio C Performing Arts staging marred only by an Opening Night lighting malfunction and the most rudimentary of sets.
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LITTLE WOMEN THE MUSICAL
Monday, December 23rd, 2019The March sisters come of age once more in Little Women The Musical, engagingly performed by Westchester’s Kentwood Players, though not with the caliber of voices that would make its songs truly take flight.
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ELF THE MUSICAL
Friday, December 20th, 2019Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center welcomes Christmas with Elf The Musical, the delightful, tuneful Broadway stage adaptation of the 2003 Will Ferrell family favorite.
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