GODSPELL
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Broadway’s future headliners display the triple-threat gifts that will one day be taking them to the Great White Way in Godspell, the latest in a series of Grade-A productions to spotlight the rising stars of Cal State Fullerton’s elite Musical Theater BFA program.
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THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
Here’s a question I’d like census takers to ask the next time around. Is there anyone in America who hasn’t seen The Sound Of Music, either its 1964 movie adaptation—the third biggest moneymaker in film history when adjusted for inflation—or any one of a gazillion regional, community, or school productions of the Rodgers And Hammerstein classic?
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ELEMENO PEA
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Blue collar meets upper crust in of Elemeno Pea, Molly Smith Metzler’s hilarious, perceptive culture clash comedy, now making its West Coast debut at South Coast Repertory.
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ROOMS: a rock romance
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
The burgeoning punk music scene of the late 1970s provides the setting for the Outer Critics Circle Award-nominated ROOMS: a rock romance, whose exhilarating West Coast Premiere proves once again that Chance Theater is unmatched as Orange County’s finest intimate theater.
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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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LONESOME TRAVELER
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
There’s a hootenanny down yonder in Laguna Beach these days as the Laguna Playhouse presents the Rubicon Theatre production of Lonesome Traveler, a nostalgic trip down folk music memory lane, from the early part of the 20th Century to the mid-‘1960s, when the screeches of Bob Dylan’s electric guitar at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival signaled the end of an era.
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AVENUE Q
Sunday, January 15th, 2012
Avenue Q has arrived on Broadway—at 202 N. Broadway in Santa Ana, that is—making for just about the best musical theater news in town, particularly since the Theatre Out downscaling of the Tony-winning Broadway smash is just about as perfectly staged as an intimate-theater musical can be.
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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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