A HARMONY BOYS CHRISTMAS: LIVE FROM WAIKIKI BEACH!
Monday, December 10th, 2018
The Harmony Boys throw good taste out the window, and thank Santa for that, as Bobby, Barry, Billy, and Xian Ling Moon Harmony reunite at the Grand Kahulahani Resort And Sacred Indigenous Burial Grounds for “some Christmas cheer, some song and dance, and some very poorly researched appropriation of Pacific Island culture” in A Harmony Boys Christmas: Live From Waikiki Beach, Aaron Matijasic’s gift to L.A. theatergoers in search of politically incorrect, R-rated fun for the holidays.
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SOUTH PACIFIC
Sunday, December 9th, 2018
Intimacy isn’t a word normally associated with the Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific, just one reason the 200-seat Rubicon Theatre Company’s two-piano revival is a December must-see. Others are its superb quartet of lead performers, an all-around terrific supporting cast, direction by a gifted young Brit, refreshingly original choreography by a SoCal star, and a simply gorgeous production design, all of which more than do justice to a 20th-century American musical theater classic.
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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: A CHRISTMAS ROSE
Saturday, December 8th, 2018
Belle calls Laguna Beach home this holiday season as Laguna Playhouse and Lythgoe Family Panto treat SoCal audiences to Beauty And The Beast: A Christmas Rose, the funniest and most pop-hits-filled version yet of the classic 18th-century conte de fées.
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BUS STOP
Friday, December 7th, 2018
No one wrote about 1950s middle-America more accurately, astringently, and affectionately than “Playwright of the Midwest” William Inge, proof positive of which can now be seen in Theatre 40’s absolutely terrific revival of Inge’s 1955 gem. (read more)
A CAROL CHRISTMAS
Monday, December 3rd, 2018
A bossy, workaholic fashion mogul makes major life changes thanks to a trio of late-night visitors in The Group Rep’s World Premiere holiday musical A Carol Christmas, a tuneful Charles Dickens-inspired crowd-pleaser that with some astute revisions could well end up a regional December delight.
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JANE AUSTEN’S EMMA: THE MUSICAL
Sunday, December 2nd, 2018
If Jane Austen didn’t exactly invent the contemporary romantic comedy, she came pretty darned close, proof positive of which can be found in Jane Austen’s Emma: The Musical, Paul Gordon’s magical stage adaptation of Miss Emma Woodhouse’s misadventures in matchmaking circa 1815, now getting a picture-perfect Orange County Premiere at Chance Theater.
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ELF THE MUSICAL
Saturday, December 1st, 2018
After taking the movies by storm in 2003 and winning Broadway’s heart seven years later, Buddy The Elf has traveled by iceberg to Long Beach to offer Musical Theatre West audiences the season’s most delightful musical treat for grown-ups and kids alike.
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FINKS
Tuesday, November 27th, 2018
Joe McCarthy’s Communist witch hunts and the ensuing Hollywood blacklist may have seemed misty water-colored memories of sixty-year-old injustices when Joe Gilford’s Finks made its off-Broadway debut in the Obama-era early 2010s. Such is not the case a half dozen-years later, just one of many reasons not to miss its searing Los Angeles Premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre.
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