THE LAST FIVE YEARS

posted on June 26th, 2010 at 9:24 PM by Steven Stanley


For Cathy, it’s the end of a relationship. For Jamie, it’s only the start.

Thus begins Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years, a look at a marriage gone sour—from two points of view, moving two different directions in time.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, WOW!

THE PRODUCERS

posted on June 26th, 2010 at 9:20 PM by Steven Stanley

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They said it couldn’t be done. They said that there was no way a non-Equity company of performers could possibly stage Mel Brook’s multimillion-dollar Broadway smash The Producers on a tiny stage with a reduced company of actors and a fraction of the original production’s budget.
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posted in Musical, Orange County, Recommended

ZANNA, DON’T!

posted on June 25th, 2010 at 9:16 PM by Steven Stanley


“It’s seven a.m. on the dot, and a perfect sixty-eight degrees out there to start the school year off right,” announces DJ Tank on his morning show on WLUV, Heartsville High’s student-run station. “Just a reminder folks, Heartsville’s annual community picnic is this weekend. So, guys grab your guy and girls grab your girl and head on down to Lookout Lake.”
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posted in Musical, Orange County, WOW!

OKLAHOMA!

posted on June 24th, 2010 at 9:12 PM by Steven Stanley


Musical Theatre Of Los Angeles follows its much praised downsizings of Ragtime The Musical, West Side Story, and Cabaret with one of its biggest challenges yet, a 99-seat production of Rodgers And Hammerstein’s very first collaboration—1943’s Oklahoma!
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, WOW!

CURTAINS

posted on June 23rd, 2010 at 9:04 PM by Steven Stanley


It’s always an event when a regional theater gets its first crack at a recent Broadway hit—and when that show is John Kander & Fred Ebb’s very last musical (and the recipient of eight Tony Award nominations), the event is well worth a road trip.
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posted in Musical, Santa Barbara County, WOW!

SHAHEED: THE DREAM AND DEATH OF BENAZIR BHUTTO

posted on June 22nd, 2010 at 8:59 PM by Steven Stanley


Say the name Benazir Bhutto to a cross-section of Pakistanis and you’ll probably get as many different points of view as those expressed by the characters who people Anna Khaja’s Shaheed: The Dream And Death Of Benazir Bhutto.
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posted in Los Angeles, Solo Performance, WOW!

STREEP TEASE

posted on June 21st, 2010 at 8:54 PM by Steven Stanley


Meryl. Meryl. Meryl.

Is there any need to add a last name? Can there be a movie fan alive today who doesn’t know straight away that the Meryl in question is the most Oscar-nominated actress (or actor) in Academy Award history? (That’s 16 nominations in case you’ve forgotten.)
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, WOW!

THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES

posted on June 21st, 2010 at 10:32 AM by Steven Stanley


Cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor, Will Rogers packed a whole lot of living into his fifty-five years. He circled the world three times, made over seventy movies, wrote thousands upon thousands of nationally-syndicated newspaper columns, became internationally famous, and even ran once for President of the United States, if only in jest.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, WOW!

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