Posts Tagged ‘Kander & Ebb’

THE WORLD GOES ‘ROUND


Inland Valley Repertory Theatre returned to live programming on Wednesday, November 10, 2021 with a fabulous two-performance-only The World Goes ‘Round, an irresistible two-hour medley of over two dozen of Kander & Ebb’s most memorable songs.
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CHICAGO


Having spent the better part of the past fourteen years wowing worldwide audiences as Chicago’s Velma Kelly, Terra C. MacLeod returns to Moonlight Stage Productions to deliver a sensational star turn as Roxie Hart, the first of many very good reasons not to miss this terrific new take on an old favorite.

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THE WORLD GOES ‘ROUND

Five of L.A.’s most talented triple-treats performing twenty-nine Kander & Ebb gems add up to one non-stop entertaining evening of musical theater as Reprise 2.0 treats audiences to its sensationally performed, imaginatively directed, gorgeously designed The World Goes ‘Round.
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CABARET

Michael Matthews takes Cabaret, a director’s show if there ever was one, and transforms it into the summer’s most spectacular intimate musical, an almost perfect rendition of the 20th-century Broadway classic, a production blessed by superb performances, breathtaking choreography, and the most jaw-dropping design I may ever have seen at Celebration Theatre.
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CABARET

USC’s Musical Theatre Repertory once again rivals the finest intimate professional theater in town with its all-around smashing student-performed, student-directed, student-designed revival of the 1966 Kander and Ebb classic Cabaret.
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STEEL PIER

Few musicals have faded into obscurity more unjustly than John Kander and Fred Ebb’s Steel Pier, just one reason to celebrate its two-decade-awaited West Coast Premiere, and don’t let the term “student production” scare you away. Though its cast may be younger than many of the characters they are playing, in all other respects this UCLA Department Of Theater stunner is second to none.
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KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN

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Kander and Ebb’s Kiss Of The Spider Woman is back in a rarer-than-rare revival at Santa Ana’s Theatre Out, news that would be a good deal more exciting were its leading lady a better fit for the title role.
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STEEL PIER

Though I’d be hard pressed to pick just one of the fifty concert staged readings reviewed here as the Absolute Best Concert Staged Reading Ever, I can’t recall a more spectacularly staged “reading” of a Broadway musical than last night’s Reiner Reading Series staging of Kander & Ebb’s Steel Pier.
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