BECAUSE IT’S CHRISTMAS
Monday, December 9th, 2013
It wouldn’t be December in Claremont without Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s annual original Christmas musical, and this year’s, Because It’s Christmas, makes for an evening or afternoon of delightful, tuneful holiday entertainment for children, parents, grandparents, and everyone in-between.
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ON GOLDEN POND
Monday, November 18th, 2013
Cast aside any preconceived notions you might have about “community theater” and head on over to Whittier Community Theatre to catch Ernest Thompson’s On Golden Pond (a play that hasn’t lost an iota of its humor or charm since winning the Drama Desk Award as Outstanding New Play of 1979) in a production that stands comparison to what you might see on one of our local professional stages.
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SONG AND DANCE
Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
A stellar Robin De Lano and seven terrifically talented dancers made magic yesterday as Inland Valley Repertory Theatre closed its 2013 season with a two-performance only staging of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Song And Dance at Claremont’s Candlelight Pavilion
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SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS
Monday, October 28th, 2013
Scenie-winning choreographer Janet Renslow wears both director’s hat and choreographer’s chapeau this time round as Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theater presents a terrific revival of Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, the Broadway adaptation of the 1954 MGM musical movie hit.
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THE LION IN WINTER
Sunday, September 29th, 2013
It’s a classic nighttime soap, that is if Dallas or Dynasty had been set in 12th-Century England. It’s a Shakespeare history, that is if you could understand every word the actors are saying. It’s a 1960s film classic that won Katharine Hepburn the third of her four Best Actress Oscars.
It’s Peter Goldman’s Broadway flop play-turned-Hollywood hit movie, and if (as Wikipedia puts it rather ungrammatically) “The Lion in Winter is fictional and none of the dialogue and actions is historical,” it still makes for one of modern American theater’s most entertaining dramas and offers actors some of the meatiest roles of their careers—proof of which is now onstage at the Sierra Madre Playhouse.
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SWEENEY TODD
Tuesday, September 17th, 2013
Candlelight Pavilion takes its audiences on a considerably darker though no less entertaining journey than usual (with several menu items given a ghoulish though no less delicious twist) as the landmark Claremont dinner theater stages a Grade A Prime revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Weaver’s Sweeney Todd.
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THE SOUND OF MOTOWN
Sunday, August 11th, 2013
The hits of the Motor City reign Supreme in beautiful downtown Claremont as a dozen Wonder-fully talented young performers bring The Sound Of Motown to Candlelight Pavilion, entertaining audiences of all ages with over 4 dozen hits that are each and every one of them absolutely, positively Tops.
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THE KING AND I
Monday, July 1st, 2013
Following its adults-only production of The Full Monty, Candlelight Dinner Theatre now greets the summer with an entertaining revival of the family-friendly The King And I, trimmed of a few of its songs to get the kiddies (both those in the audience and those onstage) back home at a decent bedtime.
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