LADYHOUSE BLUES

posted on March 3rd, 2013 at 10:36 PM by Steven Stanley


Four years had passed since the Equal Rights Amendment was sent to the states to be ratified and three since Roe vs. Wade became the law of the land when Kevin O’Morrison’s Ladyhouse Blues first sent mid-1970s audiences back to 1919, a year after the end of World War I and the watershed year the Senate ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the vote just as the 1920s began to roar.

Andak Stage Company now revives Ladyhouse Blues under the impeccable direction of Anne McNaughton, offering L.A. audiences an all-around splendid production, one that transports us back nearly a century to the end of a decade in which the times, were (as Bob Dylan was to put it forty-five years later) most definitely “a-‘changin’.”

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posted in Drama, North Hollywood, WOW!

STAY ON THE LINE: A Rock Musical

posted on March 2nd, 2013 at 7:59 PM by Steven Stanley

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A crisis hotline center serves as the setting for Stay On The Line: A Rock Musical, a revised remounting of a 2001 Cal State Fullerton project and one that works best as a showcase for its phenomenally talented cast of mostly 20something triple threats under the direction of Crystal K. Craft and Scott Mlodzinski.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, Recommended

RIGHT TOGETHER, LEFT TOGETHER

posted on March 1st, 2013 at 4:37 PM by Steven Stanley


Longtime friends reunite in New York City for the wedding of Taylor and Zac in Will Collyer & Pamela Eberhardt’s highly promising new musical Right Together, Left Together … if only an impending hurricane and the tiny matter of Zac’s possible same-sex leanings don’t get in the way.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, WOW!

CAVALIA ODYSSÉO

posted on February 28th, 2013 at 6:28 PM by Steven Stanley


When was the last time you saw a production which featured 18 equestrians, 23 acrobats and aerialists, and 67 horses (22 stallions and 45 geldings) performing live under a 10-story-high big-top tent smack dab in the center of beautiful downtown Burbank?

Well, if you’re the editor of StageSceneLA, the answer to the above question is “Not until last night,” when the spectacularly one-of-a-kind Cavalia Odysséo opened to a standing-room-only audience dazzled again and again by its myriad of wonders.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Special Event, WOW!

ALL MY SONS

posted on February 26th, 2013 at 6:07 PM by Steven Stanley

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It takes guts for a community theater to challenge audiences accustomed to light comedic fare with a drama as stark as Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. Heck, it takes guts for any theater company to stage what may well be the greatest play of the 20th Century and do it justice.
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posted in Drama, Recommended, San Gabriel Valley

THE GRAPES OF WRATH

posted on February 25th, 2013 at 5:50 PM by Steven Stanley


For a textbook example of how to turn an epic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel into a Tony-winning play, and then make it one of the most powerful—and breathtakingly theatrical—productions around town, head on over to Pasadena to catch the gritty magic that director Michael Michetti has conjured up at A Noise Within.
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posted in Drama, Pasadena, WOW!

I’LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT

posted on February 23rd, 2013 at 2:45 PM by Steven Stanley

Things do considerably more than merely go bump in the night when Greg and Jan Sanderson leave the big city for life in a haunted country farmhouse in I’ll Be Back Before Midnight, Peter Colley’s Gaslight-meets-Deathtrap suspense thriller now getting a shriek-a-minute Los Angeles Premiere at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy-Drama, WOW!

WICKED

posted on February 22nd, 2013 at 7:00 PM by Steven Stanley


There are Broadway hits, Broadway smashes, Broadway mega-smashes, and then there is Wicked. Rapidly approaching 4000 performances at the Gershwin Theatre after nearly ten years on the Great White Way…  North American and International productions and tours galore…  And not one but two major National Tours currently visiting cities throughout North America. The Second National Tour* stopped at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center For The Arts two years ago, and now it’s the First National Tour making a four-week visit to Costa Mesa in a production that Wicked fans and newbies will not want to miss. Quite simply put, for song, dance, story, spectacle, and emotional impact, Wicked is in a class all by itself.
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posted in Musical, National Tour, Orange County, WOW!

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