PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT

posted on February 18th, 2018 at 10:56 PM by Steven Stanley

Two-dozen disco-era hits provide the sing-along, dance-along soundtrack to the international smash Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert, and if the latest from Celebration Theatre doesn’t lend itself to downsizing like The Boy From Oz and The Color Purple, this unexpected celebration of family and its three unlikely Australian hero(in)es provide more than enough reason to cheer.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

THE CHOSEN

posted on February 14th, 2018 at 5:23 PM by Steven Stanley

Friendship has rarely felt so good or hurt so bad, nor have father-son relationships caused more joy or pain than they do in Chaim Potok’s exquisite coming-of-age novel The Chosen, adapted for the stage by Aaron Posner and Potok and now making an absolutely superb Fountain Theatre debut.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, WOW!

HIGH SOCIETY

posted on February 13th, 2018 at 6:09 PM by Steven Stanley

The Philadelphia Story meets Cole Porter in the rarely-produced High Society, and though hardly one of Broadway’s Greatest Hits, its one-night-only Alex Theatre revival once again proved Musical Theatre Guild a master of the concert staged reading.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Concert Staged Reading, Theater Review, WOW!

VIOLET

posted on February 12th, 2018 at 3:49 PM by Steven Stanley

A physically scarred young woman takes a road trip towards healing and redemption in Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley’s New York Drama Critics’ Circle-winning 1997 off-Broadway musical Violet, streamlined for Broadway in 2014 and now opening Chance Theater’s 20th-anniversary 2018 season in an intimate staging that is as imaginatively directed as it is powerfully performed.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF JURASSIC PARK

posted on February 11th, 2018 at 3:46 PM by Steven Stanley

Three sequels and counting, forty-three video games so far, five different theme park rides, comic books galore… Jurassic Park just keeps on entertaining, and never more so than at Rockwell Table + Stage where executive producer/writer Kate Pazakis and her all-Equity cast of triple-threat musical theater zanies have once again gathered to spoof a Hollywood movie classic like it’s never been spoofed before in The Unauthorized Musical Parody Of Jurassic Park.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical Spoof, Theater Review, WOW!

IRONBOUND

posted on February 10th, 2018 at 11:08 AM by Steven Stanley

A dark cloud may seem to follow Polish immigrant Darja across New Jersey, but that doesn’t stop Marin Ireland from lighting up the stage like nobody’s business in the West Coast Premiere of Martyna Majok’s astringently funny, surprisingly affecting Ironbound, now getting a superb West Coast Premiere with its original off-Broadway leading lady joining it for its five-week visit to L.A.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

KINKY BOOTS

posted on February 7th, 2018 at 3:37 PM by Steven Stanley

The 2013 Tony–winning Best Musical Kinky Boots is back in town at Orange County’s Segerstrom Center For The Arts, crowd-pleasing, transformative, and packing enough emotional punch to bring even the hardest-hearted theatergoer to tears and cheers.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

SISTER ACT

posted on February 5th, 2018 at 6:21 PM by Steven Stanley

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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posted in Musical, Theater Review, Ventura County, WOW!

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