Posts Tagged ‘Jeanine Tesori’
KIMBERLY AKIMBO
Thursday, October 17th, 2024
It only took me only seconds to fall madly in love with Kimberly Akimbo at the Pantages. No wonder then that David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori’s tuneful, touching adaptation of the former’s outrageously funny, deeply moving play of the same name won five 2023 Tonys including the big one, Best Musical.
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FUN HOME
Sunday, February 9th, 2020
Chance Theater’s expansive yet intimate Cripe Stage proves the ideal setting for Fun Home, Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir-turned-Tony-winning musical saga of a young lesbian’s coming of age, coming out, and coming to grips with love and loss.
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FUN HOME
Thursday, September 19th, 2019
Inland Valley Repertory Theatre took its subscribers and donors on a memorable three-performance-only journey back to the 1970s and ’80s with Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir-turned-Tony-winning musical Fun Home, a young lesbian’s coming of age, coming out, and coming to grips with love and loss.
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SHREK THE MUSICAL
Sunday, August 11th, 2019
The big green ogre made famous by Dreamworks Animation is back on stage as 3-D Theatricals revives its 2013 smash, the irresistibly crowd-pleasing Shrek The Musical.
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VIOLET
Saturday, May 26th, 2018
Director Richard Israel and a couldn’t-be-better cast and design team get everything right in Actors Co-op’s soul-reviving intimate staging of Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley’s New York Drama Critics’ Circle-winning 1997 off-Broadway musical Violet.
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SOFT POWER
Friday, May 18th, 2018
A New York cast and production team bring Los Angeles audiences the World Premiere latest from Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang and Tony-winning composer-lyricist Jeanine Tesori, the crowd-pleasing East-meets-West “play with a musical” Soft Power, as audacious in concept as it is for the most part effective in execution.
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VIOLET
Monday, February 12th, 2018
A physically scarred young woman takes a road trip towards healing and redemption in Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley’s New York Drama Critics’ Circle-winning 1997 off-Broadway musical Violet, streamlined for Broadway in 2014 and now opening Chance Theater’s 20th-anniversary 2018 season in an intimate staging that is as imaginatively directed as it is powerfully performed.
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FUN HOME
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017
Coming of age. Coming out. Coming to grips. Three extraordinary actresses breathe life into a young lesbian’s journey from childhood to mid-life in Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir-turned-Tony-winning musical Fun Home, its National Tour now making a brief but thrilling SoCal return to Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center For The Arts.
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