TONIGHT AT 8:30 PARTS 1 & 2

posted on November 11th, 2007 at 11:23 AM by Steven Stanley


Q: Where can you see 4 dozen of the finest actors in the country performing live and
on stage 8 one-act plays by legendary playwright/song writer Noel Coward?

A: At Antaeus Company’s twin productions of Tonight At 8:30 Parts 1 and 2.
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posted in Comedy, North Hollywood, WOW!

DAWN’S LIGHT: THE JOURNEY OF GORDON HIRABAYASHI

posted on November 7th, 2007 at 11:34 AM by Steven Stanley


It’s rare that all elements of a production (writing / acting / directing / design)
come together as perfectly as they do in East West Players’ world premiere
production of Jeanne Sakata’s Dawn’s Light: The Journey of Gordon Hirabayashi. 
That this production not only engrosses, entertains, and moves an audience but
also educates and informs them as well makes it a must-see.
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posted in Drama, Los Angeles, Solo Performance, WOW!

SYLVIA

posted on November 6th, 2007 at 11:31 AM by Steven Stanley


Olympic gymnast. Broadway musical theater star. Dog. A strange trajectory to
be sure, but that’s the path which has brought Cathy Rigby to her starring role
in Sylvia, A.R. Gurney’s comic tribute to “Man’s Best Friend.” Rigby plays the title
role, that of an adorable mutt who finds herself a new master in a Manhattan
park and a new home in a New York city brownstone. Given Rigby’s marvelously
winning performance, it comes as somewhat of a surprise that this is her first
straight play. Hopefully it will lead to many more.
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posted in Comedy, Downey/La Mirada, WOW!

THE PAJAMA GAME

posted on November 3rd, 2007 at 11:16 AM by Steven Stanley


Director Steven Glaudini and his talented cast do everything right in Musical Theatre
West’s terrific new production of the 1953 Broadway smash The Pajama Game. The
recent Broadway revival with Harry Connick, Jr. sparked interest in this tuneful 50s
classic, and MTW’s production makes it clear why the show remains as fresh as ever in
2007.
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posted in Long Beach/San Pedro, Musical, WOW!

EXPLOIT THIS

posted on November 2nd, 2007 at 11:13 AM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED

Fans of sketch comedy will find much to enjoy in Exploit This!, presented by the
Easily Distracted Sketch Comedy troupe, and now playing at the Space Theater
late night Fridays.  Written and performed by a young, attractive, and funny
quintet of comic actors and directed at a fast pace by Rick Ferguson, Exploit
This! is 60 minutes of frenetic fun.
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posted in Comedy, Los Angeles, Recommended

SCREWBALLS

posted on November 1st, 2007 at 11:09 AM by Steven Stanley

RECOMMENDED
Screwballs is a mostly very entertaining and often hilarious blend of wacky
characters and situations and the body swapping premise of such films as Freaky
Friday and Like Father, Like Son.
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posted in Comedy, Recommended, West Side/Beverly HIlls

COME BACK TO THE FIVE & DIME JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN

posted on October 30th, 2007 at 9:41 PM by Steven Stanley


In the tradition of Steel Magnolias and Crimes of the Heart comes the current 
offering at the Hermosa Beach Playhouse, Ed Graczyk’s down-home comedy 
Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Like SM and COTH, 
CBTTF&DJDJD features a cast of feisty and fabulous Southern (in this case Texas) 
women, loads of laughs, and a surprise or two.
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posted in Comedy, South Bay, WOW!

SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS

posted on October 28th, 2007 at 9:37 PM by Steven Stanley


Cabrillo Music Theatre begins its 2007-8 season with a tunefully winning production of
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.   7Brides47Bros is of course best known as the 1954
MGM musical classic, which starred Howard Keel as Adam, a mountain man in
search of a wife, and Jane Powell as Milly, who accepted his proposal not knowing
that there were six more manly men at the homestead. Debby Boone undertook
the role of Milly in the short lived (opened on Thursday, closed on Sunday) 1982
Broadway production, which has since become a regional theater favorite (recently
staged by Fullerton CLO).  Though perhaps not deserving of a loooooong Broadway
run, 7Brides47Bros is still a far more enjoyable experience than its brief Broadway stay
would indicate, and Cabrillo, blessed with about as fine a leading man and lady as
the show could boast and an ensemble more than up to the challenges of John
Charron’s Michael Kidd inspired choreography, has a winner on its hands.
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posted in Musical, Ventura County, WOW!

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