BRIGADOON

posted on April 11th, 2009 at 3:22 PM by Steven Stanley


Anyone wondering where to see great musical theater without having to pay a fortune would do well to check out the USC Theater Department’s upcoming schedule.  If the just closed production of Lerner and Lowe’s Brigadoon is any example, USC’s theater kids are some of the best musical theater performers around, and working under famed professionals like director John Rubinstein and choreographer Troy Magino, they are doing sensational work indeed.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, WOW!

STICK FLY

posted on April 10th, 2009 at 6:12 PM by Steven Stanley


The wealthy LeVay family are having a weekend get-together at their Martha’s Vineyard home away from (Manhattan) home. Housekeeper’s daughter Cheryl is removing slipcovers just in time for younger son Kent to arrive with fiancée Taylor, who is awestruck at the home’s opulence. “I was going to marry you for love,” Taylor tells her handsome beau with a smile, “but now I’m going to marry you for money.” Next to arrive is older son Flip, a successful plastic surgeon, soon to be joined by Kimber, his latest girlfriend.  Last to show up is patriarch Dr. Joseph LeVay, who greets Taylor with old world manners—a slight bow and a kiss on the hand. Absent from the weekend gathering are Mrs. LeVay and Cheryl’s mother, for reasons that will eventually become clear. Over the next day or two, family secrets will be revealed and no one will prove to be quite the person he or she has seemed on first impression.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, WOW!

LOWE TAYLOR

posted on April 10th, 2009 at 3:29 PM by Steven Stanley

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JUSTIN MORTELLITI

posted on April 10th, 2009 at 3:22 PM by Steven Stanley

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HERE LIES JEREMY TROY

posted on April 9th, 2009 at 6:16 PM by Steven Stanley


About 25 years ago, a young thespian named Tim Dietlein read a 1965 comedy called Here Lies Jeremy Troy and said to himself, “That’s a show I’d like to do someday.”  Now, in 2009, Dietlein’s dream has come true in a laugh-out-loud hilarious production of playwright Jack Sharkey’s “forgotten gem.” 
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posted in Burbank/Glendale, Comedy, WOW!

LAND OF THE TIGERS

posted on April 5th, 2009 at 6:18 PM by Steven Stanley


Land Of The Tigers is a realm where tigers walk on two legs, wear wigs (some of them powdered), hats (some of them three-cornered) and assorted 18th Century garb—and speak English.  It is a land where the only enemy is the dreaded swan, and because “the ‘Swan Alert’ remains as high as ever,” guards are thankfully keeping watch day and night.  In Land Of The Tigers, reproduction is strictly controlled, and mating rituals keep bloodlines strong.  Thus, when one of the elite, Fang Stalkington, complains to the Tigressional Congress that his sister Sheba is not doing her duty by mating with him, it is serious business indeed. Though Fang has peed on Sheba to demonstrate in no uncertain terms that she belongs to him and him alone, the beauteous Sheba is having none of this. ‘You cannot spray our troubles away,” she growls at him. 
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, WOW!

MONETTE MAGRATH

posted on April 5th, 2009 at 3:11 PM by Steven Stanley

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WOMEN OF MANHATTAN

posted on April 4th, 2009 at 6:22 PM by Steven Stanley


30ish best friends Billie, Rhonda Louise, and Judy have gotten together at Rhonda Louise’s beautiful Manhattan apartment for girls’ night.  When Billie wonders out loud where the men are, Rhonda reminds her that Billie had said precisely not to invite any men, the whole point of the evening being that “the three of us would just deck out and look great for each other and fuck the men.” “But don’t you feel we’re wasting our gorgeousness on each other?” asks Billie.
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posted in Comedy, Hollywood/West Hollywood, WOW!

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