BRIGHT STAR
Monday, April 29th, 2019
Christanna Rowader’s star shines bright in Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star, a Golden Era-style Hollywood weeper given the most gorgeous of bluegrass scores and just as many joyous laughs as soapy tears on the Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre stage.
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BIG FISH
Thursday, April 25th, 2019
Gorgeously scored and emotionally impactful, Broadway’s Big Fish gets a terrific regional staging at Claremont’s Candlelight Pavilion, one of Inland Valley Repertory Theatre’s most successful big-cast musicals in years.
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AUNTIE MAME
Thursday, March 21st, 2019Amanda Walker’s absolutely fabulous Mame Dennis and Lauren Mayfield’s hilariously scene-stealing Agnes Gooch are the best reasons to catch Inland Valley Repertory Theatre’s big-stage revival of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s 1955 Broadway smash Auntie Mame, that and the chance to see where its hit Hollywood screen adaptation and the Jerry Herman musical gem Mame got their start.
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NO, NO, NANETTE
Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
Roaring Twenties Broadway lives again in Candlelight Pavilion’s bubbly revival of the musical comedy chestnut No, No, Nanette, a nostalgic change of pace from the season-opening stunner that was Titanic, a sweet bit of fluff before the upcoming dramatic fireworks of 2016’s Bright Star, and a tuneful reminder that where songs are concerned, they don’t write’em like they used to.
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TITANIC THE MUSICAL
Monday, January 21st, 2019
Titanic The Musical sails into Claremont to give Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre one of its best productions ever—superb performances, gorgeous songs, first-class design, and a live orchestra to boot.
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A CHRISTMAS STORY
Thursday, December 20th, 2018
Ralphie Parker’s back for a second December at the Sierra Madre Playhouse, still wishing and hoping to find a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle BB gun under the tree, still providing audiences of all with A Christmas Story sure to both touch the heart and tickle the funny bone.
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THE ADDAMS FAMILY
Monday, October 29th, 2018
Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre welcomes the ghosts-and-goblins season with the creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky clan known as The Addams Family, providing Southland audiences with the snap-snappiest Halloween entertainment in town.
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THE GIN GAME
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018
Real-life marrieds Alan Blumenfeld and Katherine James give bravura performances as a pair of nursing home residents for whom a simple game of cards could spell either an end to solitude or a continuation of a lifetime of loneliness in Sierra Madre Playhouse’s pitch-perfect revival of D.L. Coburn’s 1978 Pulitzer Prize winner The Gin Game.
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