MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
It takes you thrillingly by surprise, that first glance at Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins onstage together, and from then on the excitement never lags in Million Dollar Quartet, Tony-nominated as Best Musical of 2010 and now touring the country, its latest stop at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center For The Arts.
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COME FLY AWAY
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
The dance moves of premier choreographer Twyla Tharp and the vocals of Ol’ Blue Eyes himself combine to captivating perfection in Tharp’s Come Fly Away, brought to vivid life by a troupe of extraordinary young dancers and an onstage big band to rival the best of Nelson Riddle, Billy May, or Neil Hefti.
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IRVING BERLIN’S WHITE CHRISTMAS
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
We Angelinos may not be waking up to snow on our lawns this Christmas season, but snowflakes (or a close equivalent of them) will be falling on L.A. and Orange County heads throughout December at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts, where the National Tour of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas has just settled in for a three-week visit.
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SHREK THE MUSICAL
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Forget any preconceived notions you may harbor about Shrek The Musical being just another animated movie-turned-Broadway musical or a show designed only for tiny tots. With book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire (the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Rabbit Hole) and music by multiple award-winning Jeanine Tesori (Caroline, or Change, Thoroughly Modern Millie), Shrek The Musical is a smart, funny, tuneful musical treat whose fresh new non-Equity tour, now playing at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center For The Arts, puts it at the top of my list of favorite recent Broadway hits.
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WEST SIDE STORY
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
As any Broadway buff will tell you, there’s Broadway pre-West Side Story, and everything else since then.
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MAMMA MIA!
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Is there any show in the world that can rival the success of Mamma Mia!? Since its 1999 World Premiere in London’s West End, there have been at least 30 “sit-down” productions across the globe. Sydney, Las Vegas, Madrid, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Paris, and Oslo are just a handful of the cities where Mamma Mia has “sat down” and stayed for months or even years. Then there are the tours, beginning with the First U.S. tour that played the Ahmanson back in 2002, stretching up to the musical’s four current tours—North American, European, Japanese, and Korean. As for Mamma Mia!’s Broadway run, just a couple weeks ago it hit 4000 performances and counting. All this is to say that a) you shouldn’t expect your local CLO to mount its own production in the foreseeable future and b) if you want to see Mamma Mia! live on stage, you’d better head on down to Costa Mesa where the North American tour is making an all-too-brief one-week stop.
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9 TO 5
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Violet, Doralee, and Judy, the trio of office gals made famous by Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Jane Fonda in 1980’s 9 To 5 are back—in a re-directed, re-choreographed, re-designed National Tour of the Broadway musical which world premiered a few years back at the Ahmanson.
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