BRIGHT STAR
Monday, April 29th, 2019
Christanna Rowader’s star shines bright in Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star, a Golden Era-style Hollywood weeper given the most gorgeous of bluegrass scores and just as many joyous laughs as soapy tears on the Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre stage.
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HAIRSPRAY
Saturday, April 27th, 2019
Director Kari Hayter breathes such fresh new life into the Best Musical Tony-winning Hairspray that no matter how many times you’ve seen the 2003 Broadway smash, it will feel like your first.
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BIG FISH
Thursday, April 25th, 2019
Gorgeously scored and emotionally impactful, Broadway’s Big Fish gets a terrific regional staging at Claremont’s Candlelight Pavilion, one of Inland Valley Repertory Theatre’s most successful big-cast musicals in years.
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SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN
Monday, April 22nd, 2019
A hot young director-choreographer, a groundbreakingly diverse trio of lead performers, and a fresh, from-the-ground-up production design breath new life into McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s Singin’ In The Rain at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts.
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HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL
Sunday, April 21st, 2019
Few High School Musicals guarantee as much dark and twisted fun as Heathers: The Musical, a terrific talent showcase for the Musical Theater BFA majors who’ve made Cal State Fullerton their pre-professional training grounds.
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FALSETTOS
Thursday, April 18th, 2019
A freshly out New Yorker’s life before and after the AIDS epidemic wreaked havoc on his city makes for the most unlikely of Broadway musicals, and one of the most richly rewarding, in Falsettos, now moving audience to laughter through tears at the Ahmanson.
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NEXT TO NORMAL
Sunday, April 14th, 2019
The Wayward Artist opens its second season with a flawless intimate staging of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Next To Normal, as dramatically moving and emotionally potent a musical as you’ll see all year.
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Saturday, April 6th, 2019
Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen’s [title of show] provides a couldn’t-be-better talent showcase for four charismatic young triple-threats and a supremely imaginative young director, today only on Hollywood’s Theatre Row.
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