Posts Tagged ‘Burt Shevelove’
Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
Roaring Twenties Broadway lives again in Candlelight Pavilion’s bubbly revival of the musical comedy chestnut No, No, Nanette, a nostalgic change of pace from the season-opening stunner that was Titanic, a sweet bit of fluff before the upcoming dramatic fireworks of 2016’s Bright Star, and a tuneful reminder that where songs are concerned, they don’t write’em like they used to.
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Tags: Burt Shevelove, Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre, Frank Mandel, Irving Caesar, Los Angeles Theater Review, Otto Harbach, Vincent Youmans
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Thursday, November 23rd, 2017
There’s a new kid on the Garry Marshall Theatre block from now through December 10 as stage-screen-recording star Joey McIntyre takes on the lead in the Marshall’s deliciously entertaining, ingeniously streamlined staging of the farcical delight that is A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum.
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Tags: Burt Shevelove, Garry Marshall Theatre, Larry Gelbart, Los Angeles Theater Review, Stephen Sondheim
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Sunday, May 3rd, 2015
The theater company whose recent reinvention of Kander & Ebb’s Cabaret for the intimate stage earned it both critical and audience raves now returns with a “downsized” staging of the Stephen Sondheim classic A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, and the result is one of the funniest—and most ingenious—Forums ever.
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Tags: Burt Shevelove, Crown City Theatre Company, Larry Gelbart, Los Angeles Theater Review, Stephen Sondheim
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