Posts Tagged ‘Betty Comden and Adolph Green’
Saturday, July 25th, 2026
Leslie Stevens and Savannah Mortenson deliver matching star turns as Margo Channing and Eve Harrington in the Group Rep’s Summer of 2026 revival of Applause, but the stage adaptation of the Hollywood classic All About Eve pales in comparison to its fellow 1970s Best Musical Tony winners Company, A Little Night Music, A Chorus Line, and Sweeney Todd.
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Tags: Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, Los Angeles Theater Review, The Group Rep
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Thursday, July 18th, 2024

You’d have to be the most diehard of purists not to cheer the 70th-anniversary revisal of the oft-revived Broadway-to-TV classic Peter Pan, now delighting children and adults of all ages at the Pantages.
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Tags: Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Broadway In Hollywood, Carolyn Leigh, Los Angeles Theater Review, Morris "Moose" Charlap, Pantages Theatre, Sir J.M. Barrie
Posted in Hollywood/West Hollywood, Musical, Theater Review, WOW! | Comments Off on PETER PAN
Monday, July 22nd, 2019

Children in particular will be captivated by Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s high-flying revival of the 20th-century Broadway classic (and perennial TV favorite) Peter Pan.
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Tags: Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre, Carolyn Leigh, Los Angeles Theater Review, Morris "Moose" Charlap, Sir J.M. Barrie
Posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW! | Comments Off on PETER PAN
Monday, April 22nd, 2019

A hot young director-choreographer, a groundbreakingly diverse trio of lead performers, and a fresh, from-the-ground-up production design breath new life into McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s Singin’ In The Rain at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts.
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Tags: Arthur Freed, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts, Los Angeles Theater Review, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, Nacio Herb Brown
Posted in Downey/La Mirada, Musical, Theater Review, WOW! | Comments Off on SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN
Monday, June 4th, 2018
It’s precisely for shows like Do Re Mi that Musical Theatre West’s Reiner Reading Series was created, Broadway chestnuts that for one reason or another have faded from memory despite Tony recognition and decent runs, and with Daniel Smith directing a crème-de-la-crème cast at Long Beach’s Beverly O’Neill Theatre, Do Re Mi’s one-night-only concert staged reading provided more than a few delights.
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Tags: Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Garson Kanin, Jule Styne, Los Angeles Theater Review, Musical Theatre West, Reiner Reading Series
Posted in Concert Staged Reading, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review | Comments Off on DO RE MI
Tuesday, May 1st, 2018

Springtime skies may be cloudless in Claremont, but audiences will be Singin’ In The Rain through June 2nd at Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s terrific big-stage revival of Broadway’s 1985 take on the 1952 Gene Kelly-Donald O’Connor-Debbie Reynolds MGM classic.
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Tags: Arthur Freed, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre, Los Angeles Theater Review, Nacio Herb Brown
Posted in Musical, San Gabriel Valley, Theater Review, WOW! | Comments Off on SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN
Monday, May 16th, 2016

The dynamite performances delivered by Chris Warren Gilbert and Jill Van Velzer in Musical Theatre West’s Reiner Reading Series concert staged reading of the 1978 Tony winner On The Twentieth Century are just two of the many reasons for someone, anyone, to give the Cy Coleman, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green gem the fully-staged SoCal revival it so richly deserves.
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Tags: Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Cy Coleman, Los Angeles Theater Review, Musical Theater West, Reiner Reading Series
Posted in Concert Staged Reading, Long Beach/San Pedro, Theater Review, WOW! | Comments Off on ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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