SOUTH PACIFIC
Sunday, April 22nd, 2018
No matter how many times you’ve seen Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific (I myself am at nine productions and counting), you might just feel you’re experiencing it for the first time ever at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, so thrillingly performed and gorgeously designed is this 69th-anniversary McCoy Rigby Entertainment revival.
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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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THE MOUSETRAP
Sunday, April 15th, 2018
West End audiences have been keeping the murderer’s identity top secret for a record-breaking 27,000-plus performances, and now Angelinos can check out Crown City Theatre Company’s spiffy revival of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap to see why 65 years’ worth of Londoners keep on going back for more.
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SIGNIFICANT OTHER
Friday, April 13th, 2018
The gay guy finally gets to be Julia Roberts (or Janeane Garofalo circa The Truth About Cats And Dogs) in Significant Other, Joshua Harmon’s smart, funny, bracingly sardonic romcom now getting a terrific East Coast-cast West Coast Premiere at the Geffen.
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VOTE, PRAY, LOVE
Monday, April 9th, 2018
Charismatic, multitalented L.A. musical theater performer Ryan O’Connor recalls the most challenging year of his life in story and song in his terrifically entertaining musical memoir Vote, Pray, Love, now playing Sundays and Mondays at the Celebration.
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NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT
Monday, April 9th, 2018
The Twenties roar and Gershwin tunes soar as Musical Theatre West gives L.A. its first taste of the 2012 Broadway delight that is Nice Work If You Can Get It.
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THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
Friday, April 6th, 2018
A ragtag team of pint-sized spellers make musical theater magic at Burbank’s Grove Theatre Center as Domino One productions debuts its imaginatively directed and choreographed, delightfully performed intimate staging of the 2005 Broadway hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
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THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE
Monday, April 2nd, 2018
A dysfunctional family in mourning makes for unexpected holiday hilarity and heart in Jami Brandli’s Through The Eye Of A Needle, a humdinger of a Road Theatre Company World Premiere.
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