DISNEY THE LITTLE MERMAID


The volunteer performers lighting up the James Armstrong Theatre stage give the pros a run for their money in Torrance Theatre Company’s dazzlingly designed, imaginatively directed, and delightfully performed big-stage, live-orchestra production of Disney The Little Mermaid.
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IT’S ONLY A PLAY


Torrance Theatre Company closes its 2023-24 season with the most impeccably cast, directed, performed, and designed of the three productions I’ve seen of Terrence McNally’s backstage comedic gem It’s Only A Play.
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KINKY BOOTS

Torrance Theatre Company follow’s last summer’s professional-caliber The Addams Family with the 2013 Tony-winning Best Musical Kinky Boots, though this time round the results are considerably more mixed.
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THE ADDAMS FAMILY


Torrance Theatre Company’s finger-snappingly fabulous The Addams Family redefines what a community theater can accomplish with a crackerjack volunteer-actor cast and just as much talent behind the scenes.
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LITTLE WOMEN THE MUSICAL

The March sisters come of age once more in Little Women The Musical, engagingly performed by Westchester’s Kentwood Players, though not with the caliber of voices that would make its songs truly take flight.
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HAIRSPRAY

Director Kari Hayter breathes such fresh new life into the Best Musical Tony-winning Hairspray that no matter how many times you’ve seen the 2003 Broadway smash, it will feel like your first.
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42nd STREET

Palos Verdes Performing Arts welcomes a fabulous lead cast and twenty of L.A.’s most precision tappers for their crowd-pleasing revival of Gower Champion’s 1980 Broadway megasmash 42nd Street.
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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

Inspired casting choices and Broadway-caliber production values make the latest from 3-D Theatricals the all-around best of the six Young Frankenstein’s I’ve seen in the seven years since its National Tour arrived first brought Transylvania to L.A.
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