Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’

MADAME SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL MUSICAL


The holiday season’s penny-pinchingest gender-swapped skinflint is back, and once again belting her stone of a heart out, in The Nocturne Theatre’s all-around fabulous reprise of last year’s Scenie-winning Best World Premiere Musical, Madame Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Musical.
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OY! TO THE WORLD ~ CHRISTMAS WITH A TWIST!


A couple dozen of your all-time holiday favorites get performed to perfection in OY! To The World ~ Christmas With A Twist!, back for its second December at the El Portal Theatre and once again celebrating a great big bunch of Christmas classics with one very special thing in common. Jewish songwriters wrote them all.
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ONCE UPON A MATTRESS


A supercharged lead performance by triple-threat extraordinaire Sutton Foster and Amy Sherman-Paladino’s freshly adapted book are just two reasons to celebrate the December arrival at the Ahmanson of Once Upon A Mattress direct from its Broadway run.
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TROUBIES’ HOME ALONE-LY HEARTS CLUB BAND


The Troubies are back with one of their most entertaining holiday shows ever, Troubies’ Home Alone-ly Hearts Club Band, a Troubadour Theater Company mash-up of the movie that made Macaulay Culkin a pint-sized star and the album that helped establish the Beatles as arguably the most ground-breaking band in pop music history.
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SANTASIA – A HOLIDAY COMEDY


Santasia – A Holiday Comedy is back at Sherman Oaks’ Whitefire Theatre for its 25th annual mash-up of  madcap SNL-style skits, clever Claymation videos, hilarious Broadway musical parodies, nostalgic Christmases memories, and Brandon Loeser in drag, the best possible news for audiences seeking holiday comedy rated R-for-language and H-for-heart.
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MRS. DILBER’S CHRISTMAS CAROL

It’s a clever, promising premise, and were it given less over-the-top treatment, Arthur M. Jolly’s Mrs. Dilber’s Christmas Carol just might be a winner, but excessively broad performances squander much of the good cheer Jolly’s script might otherwise inspire. (It would help too if you could understand more than half of what the actors are saying.)
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THE GODDAMN COUPLE DOWN THE HALL (OH… AND MERRY CHRISTMAS)


Your favorite Hallmark Christmas movie meets Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window meets the Farrelly Brothers at Theatre West in Mark Wilding’s wild-and-wacky, expectations-subverting The Goddamn Couple Down the Hall (Oh… and Merry Christmas), the appetizingly astringent antidote to all the sugar-sweet holiday fare playing around town this time of year.
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CAT KID COMIC CLUB THE MUSICAL

I’m not a kid, so maybe take this review with a grain of salt, but after last year’s delightful Dog Man: The Musical, this holiday season’s Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical at the Kirk Douglas Theatre comes as a major letdown.
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