Posts Tagged ‘Center Theatre Group’

SONDHEIM’S OLD FRIENDS

Friday, February 14th, 2025


Over three dozen of the greatest songs ever written for the musical theater stage, a cast of fifteen Broadway and West End vets headed by superstars Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga and backed by a fourteen-piece orchestra, and the most gorgeous of production designs add up to over two-and-a-half hours of musical theater bliss in Center Theatre Group’s pre-Broadway engagement of the smash West End revue Sondheim’s Old Friends.
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FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT

Friday, February 7th, 2025

Multiple mistaken identities, a slew of slammed doors, and plenty of physical comedy spark Larissa FastHorse’s hilarious if not quite fabulous World Premiere satiric culture-clash farce Fake It Until You Make It at the Mark Taper Forum.
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ONCE UPON A MATTRESS

Saturday, December 14th, 2024


A supercharged lead performance by triple-threat extraordinaire Sutton Foster and Amy Sherman-Paladino’s freshly adapted book are just two reasons to celebrate the December arrival at the Ahmanson of Once Upon A Mattress direct from its Broadway run.
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CAT KID COMIC CLUB THE MUSICAL

Monday, November 25th, 2024

I’m not a kid, so maybe take this review with a grain of salt, but after last year’s delightful Dog Man: The Musical, this holiday season’s Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical at the Kirk Douglas Theatre comes as a major letdown.
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AMERICAN IDIOT

Thursday, October 10th, 2024


The Mark Taper Forum is back in business with an American Idiot revival so spectacular, the sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll-packed musical extravaganza ought to follow in the footsteps of Deaf West’s Big River and Spring Awakening and become a Broadway must-see.
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DUEL REALITY

Friday, September 13th, 2024


The most thrilling seventy-five minutes of live theatrical entertainment you’re likely to experience this or any year can now be had at the Ahmanson where eleven superhumanly gifted performers take death-defying flight in Duel Reality.
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CLUE

Thursday, August 1st, 2024


Audiences craving a cure for the summertime blues need look no further than Clue, eighty minutes of nonstop whodunit hilarity presented Live On Stage at the Ahmanson.
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FUNNY GIRL

Thursday, April 4th, 2024


Katerina McCrimmon gives the touring performance of this or any year as comedy legend Fanny Brice in the Broadway National Tour of Funny Girl, its songs as unforgettable as ever, its revised Harvey Fierstein book a marked improvement on the Isobel Lennart original, and its direction (by Michael Mayer) as inspired as direction gets.
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