Posts Tagged ‘Broadway In Hollywood’
LES MISÉRABLES
Saturday, August 5th, 2023
Les Miz is back, and more gorgeous to listen to and look at than ever, as the Pantages welcomes the latest U.S. tour of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s legendary musical juggernaut Les Misérables.
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BEETLEJUICE
Friday, July 14th, 2023If you like your Broadway musicals wild and crazy and loud and flashy and all over the place, you’ll likely not mind that Beetlejuice, now playing at Hollywood’s Pantages Theatre, doesn’t quite succeed in adapting the Tim Burton masterpiece for the Broadway stage.
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TINA: THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL
Friday, June 16th, 2023
The legend that was Tina Turner lives on in Naomi Rodgers’ spectacular star turn as the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, now bringing audiences to their feet at the Pantages.
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HAIRSPRAY
Thursday, May 4th, 2023
Hairspray remains as fresh and fabulous at the ripe old age of 21 as it was when it made its Broadway debut back in 2002, and if you doubt my words, check out the spiffy National Tour now stopping at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
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ANNIE
Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
Even the grimmest of economic times can inspire the most cheerful, delightful, and tuneful of musical comedy treats. Case in point, the Broadway musical smash Annie, now spreading Christmastime tidings of hope and joy at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
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JAGGED LITTLE PILL
Friday, September 16th, 2022
A double album’s worth of Alanis Morissette’s Greatest Hits provide the plot-propelling dramatic soundtrack to Jagged Little Pill, the thrillingly of-the-moment Tony winner that redefines the oft-derided “jukebox musical” to stunning effect.
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PRETTY WOMAN THE MUSICAL
Saturday, June 18th, 2022Pretty Woman The Musical has arrived at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre for a three-week run, and if you love the 1990 movie it’s based on as much as I do, I can pretty much guarantee you’ll enjoy its Broadway adaptation. Just don’t expect the First National Tour’s leading lady to fill Julia Roberts’ thigh-high boots.
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TOOTSIE
Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
Michael Dorsey and his female alter ego Dorothy Michaels share the Dolby Theatre stage in Tootie, the Tony-winning 2019 Broadway adaptation of the 1982 movie smash, a musical comedy as classic in concept and construction as it is contemporary in its attitudes, casting, and execution.
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