CHICAGO
posted on March 9th, 2011 at 3:54 PM by Steven Stanley
When a Broadway musical settles in for a long run on the Great White Way, it’s a pretty sure bet that your local big city CLO won’t be producing its own regional production for a good long while. That’s why you’re unlikely to see Musical Theatre West or Civic Light Opera Of South Bay Cities presenting Mamma Mia, Jersey Boys, The Lion King, Phantom Of The Opera, or Wicked anytime soon. That’s also why Inland Valley Repertory Theatre’s production of Chicago is big news indeed.
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posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, WOW!
THE WEDDING SINGER
posted on March 6th, 2011 at 5:30 PM by Steven Stanley
Fullerton’s Maverick Theater scores a coup by staging the 2006 Tony Award-nominated musical The Wedding Singer, and an entertaining production it is—a thoroughly enjoyable two hours of music, comedy, 1980s nostalgia, and romance.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, WOW!
FOR THE RECORD: BAZ LUHRMANN
posted on March 5th, 2011 at 4:03 PM by Steven Stanley
What do you get when you blend New York-style cabaret, an octet of Broadway and on-their-way-to-Broadway stars, a sensational backup band, music from the silver screen, and a trendy Hollywood-adjacent night spot?
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posted in Cabaret/Concert/Variety, Los Angeles, WOW!
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
posted on March 4th, 2011 at 5:21 PM by Steven Stanley
If it’s true that money can’t buy happiness or love, then it’s also true that money can’t guarantee a successful theatrical endeavor, the best example being the money pit that Spider Man: Turn Off The Dark has turned into. $65 million as of last count, which was back in November, so goodness (or in this case badness) only knows how much its cost has risen to as of March 2011. By the same token, terrific theater can be made for a pittance, as proven by Still Hungry Theater’s on-a-shoestring intimate revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday At The Park With George.
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, WOW!
A HOUSE NOT MEANT TO STAND
posted on March 3rd, 2011 at 3:47 PM by Steven Stanley
The McCorkles of Tennessee Williams’ A House Not Meant To Stand would seem to have more in common with the trailer trash of Del Shores’ Sordid Lives than with the lost souls of The Glass Menagerie or other early Williams’ plays. Perhaps that’s why I enjoyed Tennessee’s last play, now getting its West Coast Premiere nearly thirty years after it first opened in Chicago, so much. That, and the fact that it’s the latest offering by the only Intimate Theater in Los Angeles to win the L.A. Ovation Award for Production Of The Year four times.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, WOW!
ROBERT PENDILLA
posted on March 1st, 2011 at 10:55 PM by Steven Stanleyposted in Interview
LESLEY MCKINNELL
posted on March 1st, 2011 at 10:49 PM by Steven Stanleyposted in Interview
MICHELLE LONDON
posted on March 1st, 2011 at 10:46 PM by Steven Stanleyposted in Interview
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