Posts Tagged ‘El Portal Theatre’

LEGALLY BLONDE


An audience jam-packed with friends and family greeted the opening night performance of Conundrum Theatre Company’s Legally Blonde with the kind of cheers usually reserved for a Taylor Swift concert, and if the production playing this weekend only at NoHo’s El Portal would not under normal circumstances generate that rhapsodic a reception, an energetic young cast headed by a captivating Paloma Malfavón make it a definite crowd-pleaser.
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OY! TO THE WORLD ~ CHRISTMAS WITH A TWIST!


What do the teddy bear, the ballpoint pen, the Polaroid Land Camera, Barbie, and just about every Christmas pop standard you’ve ever heard have in common? They’re all the brainchildren of Chosen People like Irving Berlin, whose “White Christmas” is just one of over two dozen seasonal classics that make OY! To The World ~ Christmas With A Twist!, aka “a celebration of your favorite Christmas songs by Jewish songwriters,” a holiday music bonanza at NoHo’s El Portal Theatre.
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HAMLET THE ROCK MUSICAL

Like a long-lost rock-opera cousin to Jesus Christ Superstar and The Who’s Tommy, Hamlet The Rock Musical has arrived at North Hollywood’s El Portal, and if the show’s original Broadway incarnation flopped big way back in 1976, its 2020 revival is anything but that a bomb. Instead, it’s one of the most excitingly staged, hummably hook-blessed, and thrillingly performed rock musicals I’ve seen in a good long while.
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A CHRISTMAS CAROLE KING

No matter how many A Christmas Carols you’ve had to sit through in your life, you won’t want to miss Troubadour Theater Company’s jukebox-musical extravaganza A Christmas Carole King because (as any L.A. theater fan will tell you) when the Troubies do a holiday show, it’s by definition the most must-see of must-sees.
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STROKE OF LUCK

Farley Cadena, whose scene-stealing performances as Singin’ In The Rain’s Miss Dinsmore, The Producers’ Hold-Me-Touch-Me, and Bye Bye Birdie’s Doris MacAfee have made her a SoCal musical theater treasure now gets the center-stage star vehicle that has long been her due in Stroke Of Luck (or how my brain broke & I crawled my way back), her inspired, inspiring one-woman show.
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HOW THE PRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS

A triple-threat-tastic cast give the holiday-season-musical-spoofing Troubies’ How The Princh Stole Christmas their multitalented all (and the Prince catalog gives them plenty of hits to rock to), but with only a handful of recognizable characters and the thinnest of plots to satirize, the latest from the Troubadour Theatre Company falls short of the brilliance of previous Troubies greats.
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SNOWED INN

Love complications ensue when four couples find themselves stuck together under one roof in David Ewing’s overlong, only intermittently amusing romantic sitcom Snowed Inn, now getting its World Premiere engagement at NoHo’s El Portal Theatre.
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CASH ON DELIVERY

The words “Oh what a tangled web we weave” have rarely been truer than they are about out-of-work landlord Eric Swan, whose multiple attempts to deceive the British Department Of Social Security are about to be found out in Michael Cooney’s side-splitting farce Cash On Delivery, now getting a sensationally performed big-stage revival at the El Portal Theatre, directed by (and co-starring) none other than Cooney’s celebrated playwright dad Ray.
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