Posts Tagged ‘Joe DiPietro’
THE TOXIC AVENGER
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
A power-hungry, moneygrubbing New Jersey mayor, a beautiful, blind librarian, and a bespectacled nerd turned hulking green superhero give bad taste a good name in The Toxic Avenger, the outrageously funny (and very politically incorrect) off-Broadway musical now earning an abundance of “I can’t believe they actually said/sang that!” laughs at Santa Ana’s Grand Central Theatre.
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ALL SHOOK UP
Sunday, April 15th, 2018All Shook Up arrives at NoHo’s El Portal Theatre with its entertaining mix of Elvis Presley hits and jukebox musical plot in a big-stage production featuring top-notch professional leads performing on a community theater-like set backed by a talented but mostly too young ensemble.
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NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT
Monday, April 9th, 2018
The Twenties roar and Gershwin tunes soar as Musical Theatre West gives L.A. its first taste of the 2012 Broadway delight that is Nice Work If You Can Get It.
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MEMPHIS THE MUSICAL
Sunday, October 23rd, 2016
Musical Theatre West looks to have yet another sold-out smash on its hands with Memphis The Musical, one of the most powerful, tuneful, exuberant shows New York and the rest of the world have seen in years.
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ALL SHOOK UP
Thursday, July 14th, 2016
A whole lot of shaking’s going on in Laguna Beach this summer as a mix of East-coasters and OC locals join talents to entertain audiences of all ages with All Shook Up, the crowd-pleasingest jukebox musical since Mamma, Mia!
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ALL SHOOK UP
Monday, June 22nd, 2015
All Shook Up, aka “The Elvis Musical,” has come to San Diego-adjacent Vista as Moonlight Stage Productions offers SoCal audiences a terrific outdoor revival of one of the most thoroughly entertaining Broadway shows of the past dozen years.
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NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT
Wednesday, March 18th, 2015
Take a classic George and Ira Gershwin musical, rewrite the book, add a whole bunch of Gershwin hits not in the original, and what have you got? Well, until recently the answer would have been “The New Gershwin Musical Comedy” Crazy For You, right?
Since 2012, however, there have been two correct answers to the above question, 1992’s Crazy For You having recently been joined by Nice Work If You Can Get It (which bills itself simply as “A New Musical Comedy”), the latter now getting its very first L.A.-adjacent production as its First National Tour makes its 30th-and-final stop at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center For The Arts—and to quote from one of the show’s lesser known ditties, it’s simply “delishious!”
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MEMPHIS
Saturday, November 15th, 2014
Todd Adamson gives one of the year’s truly great performances as DJ Huey Calhoun opposite a sensational SoCal-debuting Lakeisha Renee Houston as star-to-be Felicia Farrell in Cabrillo Music Theatre’s Regional Premiere of Memphis, the fact-inspired tale of a Tennessee disc jockey who made history by daring to play “race music” on white radio back in the still-segregated 1950s.
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