Posts Tagged ‘Larry Gelbart’
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
Thursday, November 23rd, 2017There’s a new kid on the Garry Marshall Theatre block from now through December 10 as stage-screen-recording star Joey McIntyre takes on the lead in the Marshall’s deliciously entertaining, ingeniously streamlined staging of the farcical delight that is A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum.
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Tags: Burt Shevelove, Garry Marshall Theatre, Larry Gelbart, Los Angeles Theater Review, Stephen Sondheim
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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
Sunday, May 3rd, 2015The theater company whose recent reinvention of Kander & Ebb’s Cabaret for the intimate stage earned it both critical and audience raves now returns with a “downsized” staging of the Stephen Sondheim classic A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, and the result is one of the funniest—and most ingenious—Forums ever.
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Tags: Burt Shevelove, Crown City Theatre Company, Larry Gelbart, Los Angeles Theater Review, Stephen Sondheim
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CITY OF ANGELS
Monday, June 16th, 2014If ever there were a Broadway musical that would seem to lend itself less to being performed as a concert staged reading, it would probably be City Of Angels, and yet wonder of wonders, the Tony-winning Best Musical of 1989 has within less than ten months, served as the basis of not one but two concert staged readings, both of them absolutely inspired.
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Tags: City Of Angels, Cy Coleman, David Zippel, Larry Gelbart, Los Angeles Theater Review, Musical Theatre Guild
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CITY OF ANGELS
Monday, August 26th, 2013
They said it couldn’t be done, but Musical Theatre West went and did it—gave a sold-out house Broadway’s Tony-winning Best Musical of 1989 City Of Angels in concert staged reading form (i.e., without the design elements so much a part of its Broadway and post-Broadway success), and come out with a winner—and all with a mere twenty-five hours of rehearsal.
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Tags: City Of Angels, Cy Coleman, David Zippel, Larry Gelbart, Los Angeles Theater Review, Musical Theatre West
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