Posts Tagged ‘Alan Menken’
DISNEY THE LITTLE MERMAID
Sunday, June 2nd, 2024
Get ready to stand up and cheer director Glenn Casale’s ingeniously reconceived, spectacularly staged revival of Disney The Little Mermaid at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, the absolute best of the now eight productions I’ve seen of this most enchanting of musicals.
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DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Saturday, May 11th, 2024
The Nocturne Theatre makes it four hits in a row with a terrifically crowd-pleasing, family-friendly in-the-round staging of Disney’s Beauty And The Beast.
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ALADDIN
Wednesday, September 13th, 2023
A guaranteed entertainment bonanza for audiences of all ages, Disney’s Aladdin is not only late summer’s most all-around entertaining theatrical extravaganza, it may well be the most gorgeous-too-look-at production ever to light up the Pantages Theatre stage.
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NEWSIES
Sunday, May 15th, 2022
3-D Theatricals is back in business doing what it does best, treating audiences of all ages to Broadway-caliber productions like Newsies The Musical, now wowing audiences at the Cerritos Center For The Performing Arts.
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Monday, March 9th, 2020
There’s probably no more surefire musical-comedy crowd-pleaser than Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s Little Shop Of Horrors, proof positive of which can be found in Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s pitch-perfect revival of the 1982 cult classic.
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DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Thursday, October 24th, 2019
Leave it to Cal State Fullerton’s musical-theater majors to give audiences a Disney’s Beauty And The Beast that tops just about every professional production I’ve seen, and I’ve seen a bunch.
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NEWSIES
Monday, October 21st, 2019
Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s spectacular Newsies is not only an infectiously entertaining (and unashamedly pro-labor) treat, it showcases a sensational young ensemble singing and dancing up a standing ovation-worthy storm.
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Thursday, September 26th, 2019
Iconic roles reinvented by a supremely stellar cast and a production design that’s nothing short of original make Pasadena Playhouse’s powerhouse Little Shop Of Horrors unlike any Little Shop you’ve ever seen.
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