INTO THE WOODS


Master director Ken Sawyer and some tremendously talented USC student performers and designers join creative forces to give audiences a highly inventive new take on the 20th-century musical theater masterpiece Into The Woods.
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CARRIE: THE MUSICAL


Director extraordinaire Kari Hayter strips Carrie: The Musical down to basics to better reveal the heart and soul of the Broadway adaptation of the Brian De Palma horror classic, and the results, performed by an all-student cast at USC’s McClintock Theatre, are nothing short of spectacular, even minus the spectacle that’s been a hallmark of previous productions.
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A CHORUS LINE


The annual USC spring musical is back after a three-year hiatus with director Tim Dang and choreographer Cedric Dodd’s strikingly fresh take on A Chorus Line, a talent showcase for a couple dozen Trojan triple-threats on their way to the top.
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DOGFIGHT

USC freshman Lily Castle is pure perfection opposite sophomore Terry Mullany in young River Phoenix mode in Dogfight, the Louise Lortel Award-winning Outstanding Musical of 2012 and the latest example of Musical Theatre Repertory at its student-directed, student-performed, student-designed best.
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HEATHERS THE MUSICAL

Heathers The Musical proves a terrific talent showcase for the high schoolers, undergrads, and just-out-of-college triple-threats who strut their stuff at the Simi Valley Performing Arts Center in a Studio C Performing Arts staging marred only by an Opening Night lighting malfunction and the most rudimentary of sets.
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COMPANY

Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1970 Broadway classic Company proves a fabulous fit for a dozen-and-a-half theater-majoring performers and designers to strut their stuff in the most sumptuously professional a venue any university production could ever hope for, the UC Irvine-adjacent the Irvine Barclay Theatre.
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DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Leave it to Cal State Fullerton’s musical-theater majors to give audiences a Disney’s Beauty And The Beast that tops just about every professional production I’ve seen, and I’ve seen a bunch.
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THE PAJAMA GAME

Racially diverse casting skyrockets a sixty-five-year-old Broadway classic into the 21st century without sacrificing an iota of its Golden Era charm in UCI Claire Trevor School Of The Arts’ big-stage, big-talent revival of 1954’s The Pajama Game.
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