THE GREAT DIVIDE
Friday, July 24th, 2015NOT RECOMMENDED
The Elephant Theatre goes out with a fizzle instead of a bang with the World Premiere of Lyle Kessler’s family dysfunction-fest The Great Divide, a play so credibility-defying that not even the best efforts of director David Fofi and an excellent cast can save it—and its audience—from the dull-drums.
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FOOTLOOSE THE MUSICAL
Thursday, July 23rd, 2015
Ren McCormick is back, and every bit as hell-bent on securing his all-American freedom to dance as he was on the silver screen some three decades ago, as Laguna Playhouse gives Broadway’s Footloose The Musical an infectiously crowd-pleasing revival.
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SUBURBAN SHOWGIRL
Tuesday, July 21st, 2015
Manhattanites will be in for a treat when Palmer Davis takes her self-penned, self-performed Suburban Showgirl to the New York United Solo Festival (on 42nd Street no less) this coming November.
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JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
Monday, July 20th, 2015
Take a handsome Old Testament hero with eleven brothers envious of his Coat Of Many Colors, a Pharaoh straight out of Graceland, and an American Idol-ready Narrator, stir in imaginative direction and some of the most energetic choreography in town, and top it off with tunes written by a very young (and not yet knighted) Andrew Lloyd Webber and what you’ve got is Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s latest—and one of its very best—big-stage musicals: Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
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HAIRSPRAY
Sunday, July 19th, 2015
Chance Theater reinvents Hairspray—and brilliantly so—for an immersive, intimate, (almost) in-the-round revival unlike any I’ve seen before … and trust me, I’ve seen a bunch.
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OKLAHOMA!
Saturday, July 18th, 2015
Dance reigns supreme in Cabrillo Music Theatre’s rousing revival of the Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein II classic Oklahoma!, billed as “The Musical That Reinvented American Musical Theatre,” a phrase that still rings true nearly three-quarters of a century after it revolutionized Broadway.
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9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL
Saturday, July 18th, 2015
Working 9 to 5 may be “no way to make a living,” but watching office gals Judy, Doralee, and Violet and triumph over their sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot of a boss makes for one absolutely delightful afternoon or evening of summertime entertainment at Glendale Centre Theatre under Martin Lang’s snappy direction.
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TARZAN® The Stage Musical based on the Disney Film
Monday, July 13th, 2015
Tarzan soars. Not just Tarzan, but virtually the entire cast takes actual flight in 3-D Theatricals’ Southern California Major-Regional Premiere of TARZAN® The Stage Musical based on the Disney Film, a mouthful of a title and one humdinger of a show.
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