GUYS AND DOLLS
Friday, October 18th, 2024
Damon Runyon’s picturesque band of New York denizens continue to delight audiences almost seventy-five years after their Broadway debut in Altadena Music Theatre’s lively outdoor revival of the 1950 Broadway classic Guys And Dolls.
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KIMBERLY AKIMBO
Thursday, October 17th, 2024
It only took me only seconds to fall madly in love with Kimberly Akimbo at the Pantages. No wonder then that David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori’s tuneful, touching adaptation of the former’s outrageously funny, deeply moving play of the same name won five 2023 Tonys including the big one, Best Musical.
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¡PASAJE!
Monday, October 14th, 2024If I were grading on good intentions alone, then J Quiroz and Asdru Sierra’s ¡Pasaje! would earn high marks. Unfortunately, this musical salute to la vida latina in South El Monte is no In The Heights.
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RENT
Monday, October 14th, 2024Jaxx Theatricals follows their Scenie-winning intimate stagings of Andrew Lippa’s Wild Party and Chess The Musical with an excitingly performed but overly choreographed revival of Jonathan Larson’s Rent.
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AMERICAN IDIOT
Thursday, October 10th, 2024
The Mark Taper Forum is back in business with an American Idiot revival so spectacular, the sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll-packed musical extravaganza ought to follow in the footsteps of Deaf West’s Big River and Spring Awakening and become a Broadway must-see.
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BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL
Tuesday, October 8th, 2024A trio of topnotch star turns are the three best reasons to catch Morgan-Wixson Theatre’s over-the-top staging of the horror rock extravaganza that is Bat Boy: The Musical. (It would help too if you could understand what the characters are saying/singing.)
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WAITRESS
Sunday, September 22nd, 2024
The winningest Broadway musical romcom since Elle Woods stole hearts in Legally Blonde finally gets its Southern California regional theatre premiere as La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and McCoy Rigby Entertainment treat SoCal audiences to Waitress.
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THE CIVILITY OF ALBERT CASHIER
Monday, September 9th, 2024
There have been a handful of musicals about the American Civil War, but probably never one as eye-opening, entertaining, or emotionally powerful as The Civility Of Albert Cashier, the truth-is-stranger-than fiction Civil War musical now enthralling audiences at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
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