ON YOUR FEET!

posted on August 23rd, 2018 at 11:37 PM by Steven Stanley

Love and family, tragedy and triumph, and música, música, música propel the immigrant American dream as lived by the one-and-only Gloria Estefan in On Your Feet!, now evoking justified cheers at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

posted on August 21st, 2018 at 9:58 AM by Steven Stanley

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo’s classic take on Beauty And The Beast, arrives at Moonlight Stages in a powerfully acted and gorgeously sung production that is, make no mistake, not the kids-friendly Disney musical some parents might be expecting despite the presence of half-a-dozen or so songs from the 1996 animated movie hit.
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posted in Musical, San Diego County, Theater Review, WOW!

MAMMA MIA!

posted on August 19th, 2018 at 6:44 PM by Steven Stanley

Fresh new direction/choreography and a look infinitely superior to the Broadway/Tour design that audiences have been seeing since Mamma Mia! first opened back in 2001 are several big reasons to welcome the international megasmash’s arrival at 3-D Theatricals’ stunning new home, the Cerritos Center For The Performing Arts.
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posted in Gateway Cities, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

YELLOW FACE

posted on August 18th, 2018 at 2:53 PM by Steven Stanley

Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang blurs fact and fiction in the most devilishly clever of ways while tackling issues of racism and race in his 2007 off-Broadway hit Yellow Face, now provoking gales of laughter, plenty of post-performance discussion, and an unexpected tear or two at Beverly Hills Playhouse.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG

posted on August 17th, 2018 at 12:32 PM by Steven Stanley

Ingenious staging and a talented young cast make Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along, a guest production at the Colony Theater, the summer’s brightest musical comedy surprise.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE CRUCIBLE

posted on August 13th, 2018 at 2:35 PM by Steven Stanley

The Topanga hills prove the ideal setting for Theatricum Botanicum’s gut-punchingly powerful revival of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the first of the six Crucibles I’ve seen to get everything right.
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posted in Drama, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

DREAMGIRLS

posted on August 11th, 2018 at 4:59 PM by Steven Stanley

With its dazzling costumes, pizzazzy lighting, and above all its sensational talent both on stage and off, Cupcake Theater’s Dreamgirls more than holds its own against its multimillion-dollar predecessors.
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posted in Musical, North Hollywood, Theater Review, WOW!

DORIS AND ME

posted on August 10th, 2018 at 10:46 AM by Steven Stanley

Scott Dreier brings Doris And Me, his captivating musical tribute to Hollywood’s all-time number-one female star, to Burbank’s Colony Theatre for two hours of movie-and-music nostalgia to do Doris Day proud.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Cabaret/Concert/Variety, Theater Review, WOW!

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