WEST SIDE STORY

posted on November 28th, 2008 at 12:48 PM by Steven Stanley


Musical Theatre Of Los Angeles follows its much lauded 99-seat production of the mammoth Ragtime with yet another challenge—staging the Jerome Robbins-Arthur Laurents-Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim classic West Side Story with a 32-member cast and a 10-piece orchestra on a stage perhaps ¼ the size of most large theaters’.  The result is an intimate yet epic production which rates an A+ for ambitiousness and a solid B for execution, and one which confirms MTLA’s promise as a young and daring new musical theater company.
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ETHAN LE PHONG 2008

posted on November 25th, 2008 at 3:56 PM by Steven Stanley

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JEREMY LUCAS

posted on November 25th, 2008 at 11:37 AM by Steven Stanley

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PAUL ROMERO, JR.

posted on November 25th, 2008 at 11:30 AM by Steven Stanley

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SCROOGE IN ROUGE

posted on November 23rd, 2008 at 1:21 PM by Steven Stanley


I’ll make a prediction.  Scrooge In Rouge is likely to be the funniest, campiest, most delightful, most all-around entertaining Christmas show you’ll be seeing this holiday season.
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JACOB MARLEY’S CHRISTMAS CAROL

posted on November 23rd, 2008 at 1:13 PM by Steven Stanley


Southern Californians may not be able to depend on snow before Christmas, but one thing is certain about our theater scene.  There will be Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carols galore every year from November through December.
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posted in Drama, Orange County, WOW!

THE GIANT AND THE PIXIE

posted on November 23rd, 2008 at 1:09 PM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED
If its title makes you think that The Giant And The Pixie will be a holiday show for kids, think again. This world premiere drama is most definitely for adults only, and though its fantasy aspect (each character has a fairy tale counterpart) didn’t work for me, and despite the characters not being people I’d want to hang around with, the excellent work of the five-actor cast makes The Giant And The Pixie worth seeing.
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posted in Drama, Orange County, Recommended

A MULHOLLAND CHRISTMAS CAROL

posted on November 21st, 2008 at 1:32 PM by Steven Stanley


Three minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam (located 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles) burst catastrophically, resulting in a flood which took over 600 lives. The dam had been the brainchild of William Mulholland (of Mulholland Drive fame), who masterminded the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct to transport water south from the Owens Valley in Central California and helped to transform Los Angeles from a chaparral-covered desert to the city we know today.
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posted in Los Angeles, Musical, WOW!

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