MISALLIANCE
Sunday, September 19th, 2010
South Coast Repertory opens its 2010-2011 season with a deliciously staged and performed revival of George Bernard Shaw’s 100-year-old comedy Misalliance, a production so all-around splendid that it makes one of Shaw’s earliest plays seem half its age—or even younger.
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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
When the very first Broadway musical for which you write book, music, and lyrics wins a record-breaking twelve Tony awards and runs for over 2500 performances, what do you do for an encore?
If you’re Mel Brooks, your follow-up to The Producers is Young Frankenstein, and though the comic master’s sophomore musical ran less than 500 performances, it’s nonetheless a tuneful, laugh-filled treat for Brooks fans and horror buffs alike.
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SOUTHERN BAPTIST SISSIES
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010RECOMMENDED
Growing up Southern Baptist is no piece of cake for the four title characters in Southern Baptist Sissies, the fifth production of Theatre Out’s 2010 season.
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IN THE HEIGHTS
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
When West Side Story premiered on Broadway in 1957, one might have assumed that sometime over the following half century, another hit Broadway musical would center on Latino life in New York City, or on Latino life anywhere for that matter. It would, after all, make sense for a musical as revolutionary as West Side Story to engender others that followed its ground-breaking example, right?
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RING OF FIRE
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
Johnny Cash fans will be in country music heaven through August 1 as FCLO Music Theatre present Ring Of Fire: The Music Of Johnny Cash. Correction: make that music fans, pure and simple. Singer-songwriter-icon Johnny Cash transcended easy classification, blending rock and roll, rockabilly, folk, and gospel, making this production a musical event of the first order.
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LIFE COULD BE A DREAM
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
When Roger Bean’s Life Could Be A Dream opened at Los Angeles’s 99-seat Hudson Theatre last summer, I wrote, “Don’t be surprised if the show is still running a year from now. Rave reviews and enthusiastic word-of-mouth should guarantee full houses and standing ovations for months to come.”
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HELLO, DOLLY!
Friday, July 9th, 2010
When was the last time you saw a production of Hello, Dolly!?
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THE WHO’S TOMMY
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
The Chance Theater tackles its most ambitious musical yet with The Who’s Tommy. Under Oanh Nguyen’s inspired direction, the resulting production is quite possibly the Chance’s most thrilling musical ever, topping even last year’s Hair for visual and audio excitement. With state-of-the-art sound, lighting, and video design and a couldn’t-be-better cast, The Chance’s The Who’s Tommy (quite a mouthful) achieves the nearly impossible. It replicates the rock concert/rock theater experience in a 49-seat house. Spectacle and intimacy in equal measure—I can’t recall another show quite like it.
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