Posts Tagged ‘Glendale Centre Theatre’
BRIGHT STAR
Friday, February 28th, 2020
Glendale Centre Theatre treats audiences to Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star, not only a heady mix of love, betrayal, hope, and redemption but a masterful example of how to convert a great big Broadway show from its multimillion-dollar proscenium roots to a mini-budgeted in-the-round retooling with zero loss of emotional impact.
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CHARLEY’S AUNT
Saturday, January 4th, 2020
Effervescent performances by a pitch-perfect cast, inspired direction by a Broadway National Tour vet only just out of his teens, and a script so fresh and funny, you’d hardly guess it was written over a hundred-twenty-five years ago combine to make Glendale Centre Theatre’s in-the-round staging of Brandon Thomas’s Charley’s Aunt the year’s first bona fide comedy hit.
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ANNIE
Friday, August 16th, 2019
A nation in the midst of its gravest economic crisis. Out-of-work Americans on the streets. Underage orphans forced into backbreaking labor. And a perky little redhead with an unquenchable hope for a better “Tomorrow.” Annie The Musical is back at Glendale Centre Theatre, proving that even the grimmest of times can inspire the most cheerful, delightful, and tuneful of musical comedy treats.
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PIRATES OF PENZANCE
Friday, April 5th, 2019
Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates Of Penzance has been delighting the world for a whopping 140 years, though you’d hardly guess its age, not with a libretto as fresh and funny as the latest live-audience sitcom, and certainly not as directed, choreographed, and performed with effervescence and charm at Glendale Centre Theatre.
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ALWAYS … PATSY CLINE
Saturday, September 1st, 2018
Cori Cable Kidder reprises her Ovation Award-nominated, Scenie-winning star turn as Patsy Cline opposite SoCal musical theater treasure Ann Myers in Glendale Centre Theatre’s Always … Patsy Cline for two hours of country music memories backed by a live band. Need I say more?
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MARY POPPINS
Friday, July 20th, 2018
In-the-round staging proves a perfect fit for Mary Poppins at Glendale Centre Theater, placing the emphasis firmly on P.L. Travers’ storytelling, the Sherman Brothers’ hum-along songs, a bunch of infectious dance numbers, and leading lady Deborah Robin, quite possibly the best of the seven Marys I’ve seen on stage.
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WEST SIDE STORY
Friday, April 27th, 2018
Glendale Centre Theatre presents West Side Story as you may never have seen it before–up close and in the round. Terrific lead and supporting performances guarantee GCT yet another hit, and whenever the production’s top-drawer dance ensemble launch into one of Jerome Robbins’s iconic dance numbers as adapted by Orlando Alexander, the show takes particularly high flight.
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BAREFOOT IN THE PARK
Monday, January 8th, 2018
Newlyweds Corrie and Paul Bratter may have moved into their sixth-floor New York City walkup some fifty-five years ago but their story remains as fresh and delightful as it was when Neil Simon first introduced Broadway audiences to Barefoot In The Park back in 1963 in Glendale Centre Theatre pitch-perfect New Year’s 2018 revival.
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