LEND ME A TENOR THE MUSICAL

posted on July 16th, 2017 at 1:57 PM by Steven Stanley

The entire cast of zanies populating Ken Ludwig’s phenomenally popular Lend Me A Tenor launch into both song and dance in PCPA Theaterfest’s Lend Me A Tenor The Musical, one of the best Broadway shows never to have been seen on Broadway, or at least not yet.
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posted in Musical, Santa Barbara County, Theater Review, WOW!

HAIRSPRAY

posted on July 13th, 2017 at 5:50 PM by Steven Stanley

Laguna Playhouse transports audiences back to the ‘60s with its infectiously tuneful, delightfully entertaining summer staging of the Best Musical Tony-winning Hairspray.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

WELCOME TO YOUR ALTERNATIVE REALITY

posted on July 10th, 2017 at 5:36 PM by Steven Stanley

Open Fist Theatre Company gives late-night-TV-style sketch comedy an entertaining go in Welcome To Your Alternative Reality, a more-hit-than-miss collection of Trump-era-inspired sketches that could stand a trim but serves as an often quite funny showcase for company members in SNL-meets-MadTV mode.
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PARADE

posted on July 9th, 2017 at 3:09 PM by Steven Stanley

Director-choreographer Kari Hayter takes the Best Musical Tony winner Parade and reconceives it so stunningly, even those who’ve already seen the Jason Robert Brown-Alfred Uhry gut-puncher will feel they are experiencing it anew on the Chance Theater stage.
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THE ANDREWS BROTHERS

posted on July 9th, 2017 at 9:22 AM by Steven Stanley

The older you are, the more you will enjoy the journey back in time that is Glendale Centre Theatre’s The Andrews Brothers. Still, you don’t have to be seventy-plus to get a kick out of Roger Bean’s slapstick tale of three 4F stagehands who end up taking over for a trio of ailing Andrews Sisters at a WWII USO concert somewhere in the South Pacific circa 1945.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

HEISENBERG

posted on July 7th, 2017 at 2:23 PM by Steven Stanley

Tony-nominated Denis Arndt and his Broadway leading lady Mary-Louise Parker light up the Mark Taper Forum stage as mismatched misfits made for each other in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of Simon Stephens’ Heisenberg, an East-to-West Coast transfer that allows Angelinos to experience the same theatrical alchemy that only months ago filled seats on New York’s Great White Way.
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JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS

posted on July 3rd, 2017 at 4:43 PM by Steven Stanley

Great voices are what’s needed to pull off Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris, and though there is much to admire in the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble revival of the 1968 off-Broadway megahit, particularly Dan Fishbach’s imaginative direction and Anthony Lucca’s terrific four-piece combo, the cast mostly fails to do Brel vocal justice.
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THE CAKE

posted on July 3rd, 2017 at 4:17 PM by Steven Stanley

Bekah Brunstetter puts a deeply personal, delightfully down-home face on the Gay-Wedding-Cake Wars in The Cake, the gifted young playwright’s latest World Premiere dramedy, another feather in director Jennifer Chambers’ and The Echo Theater Company’s multi-plumed hats.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Los Angeles, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

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