LEGALLY BLONDE

posted on April 15th, 2014 at 9:38 PM by Steven Stanley

The Broadway/regional theater triple-threats of tomorrow are onstage today as Cal State Fullerton’s esteemed musical theater BFA program presents an absolutely terrific staging of Broadway’s multiple Tony-nominated Legally Blonde.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

EVERYTHING YOU TOUCH

posted on April 15th, 2014 at 9:13 PM by Steven Stanley

There’s no L.A. theater quite like The Theatre @ Boston Court for challenging audiences with plays that can, when things go as right as they do in Sheila Callaghan’s initially mystifying Everything You Touch, both stimulate the brain cells and touch the heart.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Pasadena, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

THE VORTEX

posted on April 13th, 2014 at 11:28 AM by Steven Stanley

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A pair of sensational lead performances and a fabulous 1960s design are the best reasons to catch this rare revival of Noël Coward’s 1924 hit The Vortex despite a half-hour or so of cuts which make the latest Malibu Playhouse production a less-than-unqualified success.
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posted in Comedy-Drama, Recommended, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls

REST

posted on April 12th, 2014 at 12:52 PM by Steven Stanley

Native Idahoan Samuel D. Hunter once again turns the lives of ordinary folk into world-class drama in his latest play, Rest, being given an all-around superb World Premiere production at South Coast Repertory under Martin Benson’s inspired direction.
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posted in Drama, Orange County, Theater Review, World Premiere, WOW!

GYPSY

posted on April 10th, 2014 at 5:59 PM by Steven Stanley

Inland Valley Repertory Theatre continues its 2014 season midweek at Claremont’s Candlelight Pavilion with an audience-pleasing revival of one of the greatest musicals in Broadway history, Gypsy.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW!

MAMMA MIA!

posted on April 9th, 2014 at 1:27 AM by Steven Stanley

Mamma Mia! and its two dozen of ABBA’s Greatest Hits are back at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts for the first time in three years, and though this is the international smash’s first non-Equity tour, this latest Mamma Mia! comes across Grade-A professional all the way.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Orange County, Theater Review, WOW!

RUTHLESS! THE MUSICAL

posted on April 8th, 2014 at 6:03 PM by Steven Stanley

The Bad Seed met Gypsy met All About Eve met Mame met a tickled-to-death audience of musical theater lovers on Sunday as Musical Theatre Guild presented their latest, a one-night-only concert staged reading of the murderously funny cult off-Broadway spoof Ruthless! The Musical.
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posted in Concert Staged Reading, Theater Review, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

‘S WONDERFUL

posted on April 6th, 2014 at 1:12 PM by Steven Stanley

Take forty classic George Gershwin tunes, round up five stellar triple-threats to perform them, tie the three dozen-plus songs together into five mini-musicals with the wispiest of plots, add some snappy choreography from an up-and-coming Broadway whiz kid, back the whole thing up with a terrific seven-piece orchestra, and you’ve got ‘S Wonderful: The New Gershwin Musical, the latest charmer from Music Theatre West.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, Theater Review, WOW!

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