DISNEY BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Saturday, July 21st, 2018
A luminous Susan Egan’s return to the role that made her a Broadway star is just one reason not to miss 5-Star Theatricals’ five-star revival of Disney Beauty And The Beast, though it is easily Egan’s incandescent star turn that gives the production’s two-weekend run at Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza event status.
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BIG RIVER
Saturday, July 7th, 2018
Actors Repertory Theatre Of Simi treats Simi Valley audiences to one of its best–and best-looking–productions ever, a terrifically performed revival of the 1005-performance Tony-winning Best Musical of 1985, Roger Miller and William Hauptman’s Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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NEXT TO NORMAL
Monday, May 14th, 2018
A spectacular Mazie Rudolph’s star turn as a woman struggling with manic depression is just one reason Broadway’s Next To Normal makes for one of Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center’s best.
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THE BABY DANCE: MIXED
Sunday, May 6th, 2018
Playwright Jane Anderson factors in race to her 1991 hit The Baby Dance’s already heady mix of adoption and class to give 2018 audiences a play distinct enough from its source material to merit World Premiere status, Rubicon Theatre Company’s compelling, talk-provoking The Baby Dance: Mixed.
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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Saturday, April 21st, 2018
Victor Hugo’s classic tale of the misshapen Quasimodo and the shapely gypsy beauty who wins his lonely, aching heart comes to glorious musical life thanks to Alan Menken’s gift for melody and a couple dozen of SoCal’s most multi-talented performers in 5-Star Theatricals’ The Hunchback Of Notre Dame.
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SISTER ACT
Monday, February 5th, 2018
The hills round Simi are alive with the sound of singing nuns as the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center treats audiences to the Broadway crowd-pleaser Sister Act, one of SVPAC’s best productions ever.
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HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL
Monday, January 8th, 2018
A cast and production team only just entering their 20s proves a particularly fine fit—and more than up to the task of bringing Heathers: The Musical to murderously crowd-pleasing life at Thousand Oaks’ Hillcrest Center For The Arts.
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A CHRISTMAS STORY: THE MUSICAL
Monday, December 11th, 2017
Ralphie Parker sings … and dances … and wishes as much as ever to find a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle BB gun under the tree on December 25 in A Christmas Story: The Musical, the holiday season’s most tuneful treat for kids and adults of all ages up Simi Valley way.
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