Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
THE SECRET GARDEN
Tuesday, February 28th, 2023
Inspired direction, stunning performances, a striking production design, and sumptuous orchestrations add up to something Los Angeles musical theater lovers have been waiting decades to experience, a Broadway-caliber revival of the Tony-winning The Secret Garden.
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FOR THE LOVE OF A GLOVE
Sunday, February 26th, 2023
Aliens from outer space give five boys from Indiana voices that will propel them to the top of the charts in For The Love Of A Glove, Julien Nitzberg’s shamelessly irreverent, gleefully filthy, 100% unauthorized look at the controversial life of a certain King Of Pop, now eliciting shocked laughs galore in downtown-adjacent Echo Park.
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COME GET MAGGIE
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023Rogue Machine Theatre’s World Premiere 1950s sci-fi spoof Come Get Maggie has almost everything a new original musical ought to have. It’s funny, it’s quirky, it’s clever, and it’s terrifically performed. What it lacks is an infectiously hummable score.
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SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Monday, February 20th, 2023
Stephen Sondheim’s most personal musical, Sunday In The Park With George, finally gets what L.A. Sondheim lovers have long prayed for, a superbly performed, stunningly designed, rarer-than-rare big-stage revival that had its Pasadena Playhouse opening night audience swooning with joy.
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CALVIN BERGER
Sunday, February 19th, 2023
Get ready to fall head over heels for Calvin Berger, both the lovestruck teenager played ever so winningly by Frankie A. Rodriguez and Barry Wyner’s tune-packed high-school-musical take on Cyrano de Bergerac, now captivating audiences at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
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tick, tick… BOOM!
Saturday, February 18th, 2023
International City Theatre opens its 2023 season with a powerhouse, terrifically performed tick, tick… BOOM!, a musical glimpse into Jonathan Larson’s creative and personal life before Rent (and his premature demise at the age of 35) made him a Broadway legend.
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
A newly liberated Sicily provides a fresh new WWII-era time and place for American GI Benedick and Italian ragazza Beatrice to fall in love at not-quite-first sight in A Noise Within’s sparkling 2023 revival of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.
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9 to 5
Monday, February 13th, 2023
Musical Theatre West has another major hit on its hands with the stage adaptation of the 1980 movie smash 9 To 5, the tantalizing tale of a trio of resourceful secretaries who put their sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot of a boss in his place while serving up a heaping helping of Dolly Parton songs along the way.
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