THE LAST FIVE YEARS

posted on June 17th, 2011 at 7:37 AM by Steven Stanley

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His story starts with their first meeting and ends with a farewell note left behind with his wedding ring. Her story begins when she finds the ring and reads the note. Only at the halfway point do the two 20something characters’ onstage lives coincide; only then do they sing to each other, look each other in the eyes, touch.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Recommended

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER: THE SONGS OF DAME SHIRLEY BASSEY

posted on June 16th, 2011 at 12:31 AM by Steven Stanley


Jennifer Leigh Warren and Shirley Bassey are a match made in entertainment heaven, or so you will discover in Diamonds Are Forever: The Songs Of Dame Shirley Bassey, Warren’s one-woman tribute to Britain’s most successful female artist ever.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical Revue, WOW!

CHLOE TUCKER

posted on June 15th, 2011 at 10:03 PM by Steven Stanley

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ETHAN LE PHONG 2011

posted on June 15th, 2011 at 9:54 PM by Steven Stanley

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JAMES MICHAEL LAMBERT

posted on June 15th, 2011 at 9:44 PM by Steven Stanley

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BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL

posted on June 13th, 2011 at 12:24 AM by Steven Stanley

If it weren’t for the Musical Theatre Guild, Southern California audiences might never have had the chance to see and hear bygone Broadway shows like this season’s 70, Girls, 70 (1971), Little Me (1962), and One Touch Of Venus (1943), or last season’s Stop The World, I Want To Get Off (1962), Fade Out Fade In (1964), High Spirits (1964), and Irma La Douce (1960)—and for that, musical theater fans owe MTG a sincere debt of gratitude.

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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Concert Staged Reading, WOW!

A MEMORY OF TWO MONDAYS

posted on June 12th, 2011 at 6:58 AM by Steven Stanley


“Attention must be paid to such a person,” declares Linda Loman at the end of Arthur Miller’s 1949 masterpiece Death Of A Salesman, eulogizing a husband who woke up one morning to find that the thirty-four years he’d spent as a traveling salesman had been for naught.
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posted in Drama, West Side/Beverly HIlls, WOW!

THE TROUBLE WITH WORDS

posted on June 11th, 2011 at 6:54 AM by Steven Stanley


“If I could find the words… If I could speak my heart. If I could open up… If I could sing my love…”

Anyone wondering who the next Jason Robert Brown, William Finn, or Adam Guettel might be need look no further than Hollywood’s Actors Circle Theatre where Gregory Nabours’ The Trouble With Words has just opened to standing ovations.
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