LEADING LADIES

posted on July 25th, 2014 at 6:23 PM by Steven Stanley

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Boys will be girls when a pair of traveling Shakespearean thespians impersonate a pair of long-lost sisters in hopes of inheriting a fortune in Ken Ludwig’s Leading Ladies, now entertainingly revived at Glendale Centre Theatre.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, Recommended, Theater Review

MARY POPPINS

posted on July 22nd, 2014 at 6:15 PM by Steven Stanley

Moonlight Stages in San Diego-adjacent Vista once again trumps L.A. and Orange Counties by offering Southland audiences the much-awaited First Regional Production of a Big Broadway Smash, this time a terrifically staged and performed Big-Stage, Big-Cast, Big-Orchestra Disney’s And Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins.
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posted in Musical, San Diego County, Theater Review, WOW!

bare: a pop opera

posted on July 22nd, 2014 at 6:05 PM by Steven Stanley

Damon Intrabartolo and Jon Hartmere’s bare: a pop opera at long last gets its San Diego Premiere—and an absolutely superb one at Diversionary Theater—fourteen years after it first impacted Los Angeles theatergoers with its devastatingly powerful take on two Catholic High School boys in love.
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LAY ME DOWN SOFTLY

posted on July 22nd, 2014 at 5:56 PM by Steven Stanley

Nobody does Irish better in L.A. than Theatre Banshee, proof positive which is now onstage as the award-winning troupe presents the West Coast Premiere of Billy Roche’s charming if minor Lay Me Down Softly.
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BYE BYE BIRDIE

posted on July 19th, 2014 at 1:55 PM by Steven Stanley

Cabrillo Music Theatre revives the 1960 Broadway classic Bye Bye Birdie with a now almost unheard-of cast of more than sixty, and though this is one Birdie that doesn’t say “Bye Bye” till two hours and fifty-five minutes after the first note of its Overture, the all-around sensational revival provides proof positive why theater lovers and local businesses must rally behind the endangered Southland musical theater mainstay that is Cabrillo. To paraphrase Irving Berlin, there’s no musical theater in Ventura County like Cabrillo Music Theater.
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FAMILY PLANNING

posted on July 18th, 2014 at 4:54 PM by Steven Stanley

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Burbank’s Colony Theatre opens its 40th Season with Michelle Kholos Brooks’ entertaining if overly familiar Family Planning, and while the World Premiere comedy’s couple of battling 70something ex-spouses will likely appeal to the Colony’s post-retirement-age regulars, particularly as brought to life by TV’s venerable Bruce Weitz and Christina Pickles, the coming year’s bolder later selections appear more apt to revitalize the Colony’s aging subscriber base than its Season 40 opener.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, Recommended, Theater Review, World Premiere

DAMN YANKEES

posted on July 15th, 2014 at 5:03 PM by Steven Stanley

Few 1950s musicals have stood the test of time as well as Damn Yankees, proof positive of which can now be seen at Fullerton’s Plummer Auditorium in 3-D Theatricals’ pitch-perfect revival of the 1955 Broadway gem.
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posted in Musical Revue, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

posted on July 14th, 2014 at 12:15 PM by Steven Stanley

La Belle et La Bête have brought their “tale as old as time” to Long Beach as Musical Theatre West offers Angelinos an absolutely sensational regional production of Disney’s Beauty And The Beast.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

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