AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN

posted on March 21st, 2012 at 6:48 PM by Steven Stanley


Patti. Mandy. Together. On stage. Live. In concert.
Need I say more?
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posted in Cabaret/Concert/Variety, Ventura County, WOW!

A ROOM WITH A VIEW

posted on March 21st, 2012 at 10:10 AM by Steven Stanley


E. M. Forster’s A Room With A View now comes to glorious musical comedy life at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre in a World Premiere adaptation by Jeffrey Stock and Marc Acito.
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posted in Musical, San Diego County, WOW!

ANNA CHRISTIE

posted on March 19th, 2012 at 4:32 PM by Steven Stanley

NOT RECOMMENDED

There are times when a single performance can either salvage a play or sink it. In the case of The Old Globe’s revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie, the latter is unfortunately true.
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posted in Drama, Not Recommended, San Diego County

PARADE

posted on March 19th, 2012 at 12:24 AM by Steven Stanley


Thirteen years after its Broadway premiere, Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry’s Tony-winning musical Parade at long last gets its first San Diego production—one so superbly staged and performed that it more than justifies a day trip to our neighbor to the South.
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posted in Musical, San Diego County, WOW!

WORKING

posted on March 18th, 2012 at 12:33 AM by Steven Stanley


Following its critically acclaimed revival of Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, The Production Company makes it two in a row with its sensational intimate staging of Studs Terkel’s Working, as adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical Revue, WOW!

GODSPELL

posted on March 16th, 2012 at 5:36 PM by Steven Stanley


Broadway’s future headliners display the triple-threat gifts that will one day be taking them to the Great White Way in Godspell, the latest in a series of Grade-A productions to spotlight the rising stars of Cal State Fullerton’s elite Musical Theater BFA program.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, WOW!

FIORELLO!

posted on March 13th, 2012 at 4:20 PM by Steven Stanley


Here’s a trivia question for you: What do these eight Broadway musicals of the 1950s have in common?

Plain And Fancy, Pipe Dream, New Girl In Town, Oh, Captain!, Jamaica, La Plume De Ma Tante, Take Me Along, Redhead, and Fiorello!
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posted in Concert Staged Reading, Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, WOW!

A CHORUS LINE

posted on March 12th, 2012 at 7:26 PM by Steven Stanley


The first musical to explore the intimate stories of Broadway’s “gypsies,” 1975’s A Chorus Line forever changed the face of musical theater by revealing the hopes, fears, challenges, and dreams of a dozen and a half young dancers in dialog and song, in addition to dealing with issues of race and sexuality alongside big, flashy production numbers choreographed by the legendary Michael Bennett.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, WOW!

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