BRIGHT STAR
Monday, October 22nd, 2018
Gorgeous bluegrass melodies, a leading lady’s incandescent star turn, all-around terrific supporting performances, ingenious staging, and a plot straight out of a 1930s/40s Hollywood weeper will have you crying joyful tears that Musical Theatre West has made Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star its 66th season opener.
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BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL
Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
You’d swear it was the real Carole up there singing hit after hit after hit, so spot-on is Sarah Bockel’s star-making performance as the 1960s/70s songwriting legend in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, this week’s best entertainment bet down Orange County way.
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THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
Thursday, September 27th, 2018
Cassandra Marie Murphy and Caleb Shaw are sheer perfection as the star-crossed lovers of The Bridges Of Madison County, bringing composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown’s and book writer Marsha Norman’s exquisite take on Robert James Waller’s novel to soaringly romantic life in an all too brief, just concluded three-performance-only Inland Valley Repertory Theatre run at Candlelight Pavilion.
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BONNIE & CLYDE
Monday, September 24th, 2018
Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theater makes a Broadway buff’s dreams come true with L.A.’s first major professional production of the Tony-nominated Bonnie & Clyde since its 2011 debut, not only one of Candlelight’s very best ever but one that more than merits being called “Broadway caliber all the way.”
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SHE LOVES ME
Monday, September 24th, 2018
Feuding co-workers who’ve no idea they’re secretly in love with each other make for romantic musical comedy magic in the 1963 Broadway classic She Loves Me, Morgan-Wixson Theatre’s delightful 2018-2019 season opener.
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CHICAGO
Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
Having spent the better part of the past fourteen years wowing worldwide audiences as Chicago’s Velma Kelly, Terra C. MacLeod returns to Moonlight Stage Productions to deliver a sensational star turn as Roxie Hart, the first of many very good reasons not to miss this terrific new take on an old favorite.
SPRING AWAKENING
Sunday, September 2nd, 2018
Spring Awakening has arrived at Hollywood’s Lounge Theatre in what is easily the most “high-concept” of the fourteen productions I’ve seen. Promoted as “Spring Awakening For Gun Safety” and drawing overt connections between its 1891 teen protagonists and the 2018 world we live in, this thoroughly original vision is as stunningly directed and choreographed as it is strikingly designed and powerfully performed.
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ALWAYS … PATSY CLINE
Saturday, September 1st, 2018
Cori Cable Kidder reprises her Ovation Award-nominated, Scenie-winning star turn as Patsy Cline opposite SoCal musical theater treasure Ann Myers in Glendale Centre Theatre’s Always … Patsy Cline for two hours of country music memories backed by a live band. Need I say more?
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