INTO THE WOODS
Monday, April 11th, 2016
Cal State Fullerton’s musical theater majors once again prove themselves some of American’s Most Promising triple-threats in CSUF’s splendid big-stage revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into The Woods.
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SISTER ACT
Monday, April 11th, 2016
The convent is alive with the sound of disco as on-the-lam nightclub chantoozie Deloris Van Cartier teaches the nuns of The Holy Order of the Little Sisters of Our Mother of Perpetual Faith a lesson in Booty-Shaking For The Lord in Sister Act, the most all-around entertaining Musical Theatre West premiere in years.
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CHILDREN OF EDEN
Saturday, April 9th, 2016
An onstage cast of fifty multitalented musical theater performers, an absolutely exquisite production design, and above all what may well be Stephen Schwartz’s most gorgeous score (Wicked included) add up to a glorious Children Of Eden, now being given the kind of Grade-A professional staging you’d be hard-pressed to find anywhere other than Cabrillo Music Theater.
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RAGTIME
Sunday, April 3rd, 2016
The Ragtime revival currently touring the U.S. may not be the already trimmed-down Marcia Milgrom Dodge-version that scored the director-choreographer a 2010 Tony nomination. (The non-Equity cast is even smaller by 25%, the creative team behind its much scaled-down production design is new for the tour, and Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s songs are performed to prerecorded tracks.) Nonetheless, under Dodge’s inspired hand, this Ragtime turns out to be every bit as powerful as any of the half-dozen I’ve now seen.
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THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF TOLUCA LAKE: THE MUSICAL
Saturday, April 2nd, 2016
You’ve heard of The Real Housewives Of Orange County, The Real Housewives Of Atlanta, The Real Housewives Of New Jersey, The Real Housewives Of You Name It. Now meet The Real Housewives Of Toluca Lake in Molly Bell’s hilarious, tuneful, show-stoppingly performed musical spoof of the ten-year-old Bravo franchise, currently delighting audiences at The Falcon Theatre in where else but beautiful downtown Toluca Lake.
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A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Friday, April 1st, 2016
In a 180-degree stylistic turn from last year’s Grease (USC’s most crowd-pleasing big-stage musical in years), the School Of Dramatic Arts revives Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s A Little Night Music so exquisitely that only its cast’s youth distinguishes it from the best of professional revivals.
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DREAMGIRLS
Sunday, March 27th, 2016
Spectacular design, inspired direction and choreography, and above all one electrifying star turn—elements that together made the 2010 National Tour of the legendary Dreamgirls one for the ages—have been reassembled at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts to make for the big-stage, big-budget Dreamgirls revival its fans have been waiting for.
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tick, tick… BOOM!
Saturday, March 26th, 2016
Jonathan Larson’s years as a starving artist (before Rent went on to become a 5,124-performance Broadway megasmash) get brought to tuneful, emotionally potent life in After Hours Theatre’s electrifying revival of Larson’s tick, tick … BOOM!
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