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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RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA
Sunday, December 4th, 2022
No matter how many times you’ve seen Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella on TV, on DVD, or in regional or community productions over the years, get ready to relish the hilarious new life Douglas Carter Beane’s fresh new book breathes into the 2013 Broadway revival of the 1950s live TV classic, now playing at Long Beach’s Musical Theatre West.
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INVINCIBLE – THE MUSICAL
Saturday, December 3rd, 2022
Power ballads and rock classics made famous in the ‘80s by the legendary Pat Benatar provide the pulsating soundtrack to Invincible – The Musical, Bradley Bredeweg’s edgy, exhilarating take on Shakespeare’s Romeo And Juliet, now getting its World Premiere at The Wallis in Beverly Hills.
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ANNIE
Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
Even the grimmest of economic times can inspire the most cheerful, delightful, and tuneful of musical comedy treats. Case in point, the Broadway musical smash Annie, now spreading Christmastime tidings of hope and joy at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
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RENT
Monday, October 31st, 2022
Jonathan Larson’s Rent surrounds the audience quite literally in Coeurage Ensemble’s stunningly groundbreaking, entirely sold-out reinvention of the much-revived 1996 Broadway classic.
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INTO THE WOODS
Saturday, October 29th, 2022
Master director Ken Sawyer and some tremendously talented USC student performers and designers join creative forces to give audiences a highly inventive new take on the 20th-century musical theater masterpiece Into The Woods.
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ONCE ON THIS ISLAND
Friday, October 21st, 2022USC’s all-student Musical Theatre Repertory opens its 2022-2023 season to engaging effect with Once On This Island, Lynn Ahrens’ and Stephen Flaherty’s magical musical tale of star-crossed island lovers.
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DAMN YANKEES
Tuesday, October 18th, 2022
Lesli Margherita’s Tony Award-caliber triple-threat star turn as Lola tops the list of reasons to celebrate Musical Theatre West’s 2022 revival of the 1955 Golden Era musical classic Damn Yankees.
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