MOTOWN: THE MUSICAL

posted on December 20th, 2017 at 11:53 AM by Steven Stanley

Twenty-five years of Motown history and nearly five-dozen Top 40 hits performed by twenty-two triple-threats to rival Broadway’s best make for one fabulous Motown: The Musical, now playing at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center For The Arts.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

THE NUTCRACKER

posted on December 17th, 2017 at 11:41 AM by Steven Stanley

Gorgeous and spectacular, Long Beach Ballet’s The Nutcracker is back in town, its 35th-annual edition featuring a trio of gifted guest artists backed by over two-hundred dancers young and older, the 60-piece Long Beach Ballet Orchestra, and a production design that will have you oohing and aahing at wonders not limited to a Christmas tree that grows to magnificent proportions, Rebel The White Arabian Horse, cannonball blasts, and a sleigh that takes flight as fireworks shower from above.
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posted in Dance, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW!

MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET

posted on December 16th, 2017 at 11:20 AM by Steven Stanley

Pasadena Playhouse fills this year’s holiday slot with a “live radio play” adaptation of the 1947 movie classic Miracle On 34th Street, a charmer, make no mistake, but more stocking stuffer than a full-fledged Christmas gift to follow the back-to-back brilliance of Our Town and King Charles III.
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ALADDIN AND HIS WINTER WISH

posted on December 15th, 2017 at 10:58 AM by Steven Stanley

Aladdin rubs his lamp and holiday magic gets made as Laguna Playhouse presents its third-annual Lythgoe Family Panto, the absolutely fabulous Aladdin And His Winter Wish.
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posted in Musical Spoof, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: A CHRISTMAS ROSE

posted on December 15th, 2017 at 9:06 AM by Steven Stanley

Belle discovers the beauty beneath a monster’s fur and horns as never before in the family-friendly holiday treat that is Beauty And The Beast: A Christmas Rose, the sixth Lythgoe Family Panto to visit Pasadena and the first to play the historic 2,997-seat Pasadena Civic.
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A CHRISTMAS STORY: THE MUSICAL

posted on December 11th, 2017 at 4:25 PM by Steven Stanley

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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ASHES TO ASHES

posted on December 11th, 2017 at 2:02 AM by Steven Stanley

A divorced couple must spend 16 days, 21 hours, and 32 minutes in each other’s company or forfeit the $955,000,000 they’ve been bequeathed in Ashes To Ashes, Debby Bolsky’s entertaining, mostly successful screwball romcom, a World Premiere guest production at the Odyssey.
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posted in Comedy, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, World Premiere

DISNEY BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

posted on December 10th, 2017 at 1:28 AM by Steven Stanley

Some stellar lead performances and groundbreaking diversity in casting are the two best reasons to catch CASA 0101, TNY Productions, and El Centro Del Pueblo’s 99-seat staging of Disney Beauty And The Beast even without a key factor in the original Broadway production’s 5461-performance run, a production design sumptuous enough to inspire oohs and aahs.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Theater Review

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