VIOLET

posted on June 15th, 2009 at 5:52 PM by Steven Stanley


For about a thousand Los Angeles musical theater aficionados, June 15, 2009 will be remembered as the evening Shannon Warne played Violet. As a young woman whose emotional scars run as deep as the facial scar she longs for a miracle to erase, Warne gave one of the most dazzling performances by a lead actress in a musical I have seen in the past several years.  That this performance was achieved in a “concert staged reading” allowed a mere twenty-five hours rehearsal time by Actors’ Equity, and that the entire undertaking was every bit as memorable as its leading lady is nothing short of amazing. How lucky to have been at the Alex on June 15!
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Concert Staged Reading, WOW!

SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK LIVE TOO

posted on June 14th, 2009 at 6:03 PM by Steven Stanley


For the many who saw and loved Schoolhouse Rock Live! when it played the Greenway Court Theatre a year and a half ago, there’s some great news. Schoolhouse Rock Live! Too has arrived, with 20 more classic Schoolhouse Rock songs/lessons performed live by a stellar cast of triple threat talents and a rocking live band.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, WOW!

APARTMENT 6 & 9

posted on June 14th, 2009 at 5:57 PM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED
Apartment 6 & 9 is a pair of one-act comedies (All Aboard The Marriage Hearse and Stay Over) which showcase Matt Morillo’s talents as a writer/director, his gift for intelligent dialog, and his insights into the many ways that “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.” 
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles

LES MISÉRABLES

posted on June 13th, 2009 at 7:11 PM by Steven Stanley


When a musical runs over thirteen years on Broadway, it’s a long, long wait until regional theaters get a crack at it. Les Misérables lasted from 1987 to 2003 (6691 performances) and again from 2006 to 2008 (another 480 performances), and during those two decades, the show was never playing in more than two American cities at any one time. There was the Broadway production and there was the National Tour, and both of them featured Trevor Nunn and John Caird’s original direction, as well as the original design team’s sets, costumes, and lighting. Though casts changed, and changed, and changed again, it was still the same basic Les Miz, and no more than a few thousand theatergoers could ever see it on any given day (except of course for two-performance days).
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posted in Musical, Santa Barbara County, WOW!

THE APPLE TREE

posted on June 12th, 2009 at 7:20 PM by Steven Stanley


Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick’s The Apple Tree, one of Broadway’s forgotten gems of the mid-60s, gets a small stage revival worth remembering in this charming, funny, tuneful, and sparklingly performed production by North Hollywood’s Crown City Theatre Company.
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posted in Musical, North Hollywood, WOW!

FELLOWSHIP! A MUSICAL PARODY OF “THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING”

posted on June 11th, 2009 at 7:25 PM by Steven Stanley


Fellowship! is back in town, and it’s not just Lord Of The Rings fans who have reason to celebrate.
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Musical, WOW!

THE SOMETHING-NOTHING

posted on June 10th, 2009 at 7:29 PM by Steven Stanley


Fielding Edlow’s The Something-Nothing is a hilarious, biting, highly original look at a 20something love triangle in pre-9/11 New York City.

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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, WOW!

ECSTASY: THE MUSICAL

posted on June 7th, 2009 at 7:35 PM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED
“There was a girl who went to college. She was plain and shy. She was a stranger to love’s passion.  She had a secret admiration for a certain guy, and she was ready for some action. One day she stumbled on a groovy place I’d like to share, where you can do whatever pleases. Ecstasy’s the name and I can take you there.  It’s gonna bring you to your knees-es.”
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posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Recommended

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