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BLUES IN THE NIGHT

Monday, October 25th, 2021

A man gives three very different women plenty of reasons to sing Blues In The Night in ICT/Ebony Rep’s thrilling revival of Sheldon Epps’ Tony-nominated Broadway musical revue.
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Tags: Alberta Hunter, Bessie Smith., Duke Ellington, Ebony Repertory Theatre, Gordon Jenkins, Harold Arlen, International City Theatre, Johnny Mercer, Los Angeles Theater Review, Sheldon Epps, Vernon Duke
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Chester Gregory may have Yvette Cason, Paulette Ivory, and Bryce Charles singing the lovesick blues from dusk to dawn, but for audiences at The Wallis, Sheldon Epps’ 1982 Best Musical Tony nominee Blues In the Night proves this year’s feel-best musical revue.
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Tags: Alberta Hunter, Bessie Smith., Duke Ellington, Gordon Jenkins, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Los Angeles Theater Review, Sheldon Epps, Vernon Duke, Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts
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LI’L ABNER

Monday, August 29th, 2016

They don’t write shows like Li’l Abner anymore, and not just because the 1956 musical adaptation of the Al Capp comic strip pretty much defines political incorrectness. With its Original Broadway Cast of fifty-four, only schools and community playhouses could possibly hope to produce this musical behemoth in 2016—which makes it a perfect choice for the theatrical genre known as the Concert Staged Reading, proof positive of which was evidenced at Musical Theatre West’s Daisy Maezing one-night-only Reiner Reading Series latest.
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Tags: Al Capp, Gene De Paul, Johnny Mercer, Los Angeles Theater Review, Musical Theatre West, Reiner Reading Series
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