Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF CLUELESS
Sunday, May 13th, 2018
East Coast transfer student Tai Frasier may have been clueless when she showed up at Beverly Hill High just aching for a makeover, but the folks at Rockwell prove themselves masterful movie spoofers once again with their riotous, rollicking latest, The Unauthorized Musical Parody Of Clueless.
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HONEYMOON IN VEGAS
Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
Musical Theatre Guild has concluded its 20th-anniversary with a Honeymoon In Vegas so thrillingly staged, choreographed, and performed that yesterday’s audience could be excused for forgetting that they were seeing a mere “concert staged reading” put together in a mere twenty-five hours from table read to showtime.
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KNIFE TO THE HEART
Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
To cut or not to cut. That is the question facing Marshall and his shiksa spouse when pregnant-with-twins Julie Ann learns that the postpartum shindig her Jewish mother-in-law’s got planned will involve not just cocktails but a bit of infant cock-snipping. No wonder Stan Zimmerman and Christian McLaughlin have titled their entertaining, unexpectedly touching 80-minute stage sitcom Knife To The Heart.
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CARDBOARD PIANO
Saturday, May 5th, 2018
War and homophobia wreak havoc on the lives of an overseas missionary couple’s teenage daughter, her Ugandan girlfriend, and the outwardly maimed, inwardly wounded 13-year-old soldier who interrupts their impromptu wedding ceremony one dark and devastating night in Hansol Jung’s Cardboard Piano, the gut-punching latest from International City Theatre.
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BLUES IN THE NIGHT
Thursday, May 3rd, 2018
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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SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN
Tuesday, May 1st, 2018
Springtime skies may be cloudless in Claremont, but audiences will be Singin’ In The Rain through June 2nd at Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s terrific big-stage revival of Broadway’s 1985 take on the 1952 Gene Kelly-Donald O’Connor-Debbie Reynolds MGM classic.
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NOISES OFF
Monday, April 30th, 2018
A Noise Within re-revives its all-time biggest money-maker, Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, guaranteeing audiences two-and-a-half hours of comedic bliss, and not just in Acts One, Two, and Three. This farce-to-end-all-farces is so out-and-out hilarious, you may even find yourself experiencing delayed-reaction laughter during intermissions.
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42nd STREET
Saturday, April 28th, 2018
Palos Verdes Performing Arts welcomes a fabulous lead cast and twenty of L.A.’s most precision tappers for their crowd-pleasing revival of Gower Champion’s 1980 Broadway megasmash 42nd Street.
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