Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
NEWSIES
Monday, October 21st, 2019
Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre’s spectacular Newsies is not only an infectiously entertaining (and unashamedly pro-labor) treat, it showcases a sensational young ensemble singing and dancing up a standing ovation-worthy storm.
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SOMETHING ROTTEN!
Monday, October 21st, 2019
There’s no more entertaining big-stage musical in town than Musical Theatre West’s regional premiere of Best Musical Tony nominee Something Rotten!, a musical theater buff’s dream come true and just as much fun for those who couldn’t put a last name to Chita, Patti, or Bernadette if their lives depended on it.
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LITTLE WOMEN
Saturday, October 19th, 2019Sierra Madre Playhouse gives students from the California School Of The Arts-San Gabriel Valley the chance to perform with experienced adult actors in Louisa Mae Alcott’s beloved American classic Little Women.
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NEIL SIMON’S MUSICAL FOOLS
Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
A little-known Neil Simon gem serves as the inspired source for Neil Simon’s Musical Fools, a delightfully tuneful, downright hilarious Open Fist Theatre Company musical comedy surprise.
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ONCE
Sunday, October 13th, 2019
You may have seen it once on Broadway, and once more when its National Tour played locally, and once more still when South Coast Repertory debuted it regionally, but forget all those Onces. If you haven’t seen the Tony-winning Best Musical of 2012 restaged in the round by the brilliantly inventive Kari Hayter for 3-D Theatricals, you haven’t yet experienced the full musical-theater wonder that is Once.
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THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
Monday, October 7th, 2019
A veritable who’s who of Morgan-Wixson Theatre regulars, a director on a roll, and a crackerjack team of production designers join forces to make Broadway’s The Drowsy Chaperone the all-around best Morgan-Wixson musical I’ve reviewed since first raving about their Thoroughly Modern Millie back in 2009.
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MISS LILLY GETS BONED
Sunday, October 6th, 2019
A 35-year-old Sunday School teacher who’s saving herself for Hugh Grant. A man who might just be the next best thing to Hugh. A child grieving his mother’s recent death. An elephant guilty of murder. A doctor given a week to tame this lethal beast. Stir in a sexually hyperactive younger sister and you’ve got Bekah Brunstetter’s latest theatrical gem, Miss Lilly Gets Boned, freshly revised from its 2010 World Premiere for its 2019 Rogue Machine West Coast debut.
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GEM OF THE OCEAN
Saturday, October 5th, 2019There is much to rave about in A Noise Within’s big-stage revival of August Wilson’s Gem Of The Ocean, not however its nearly three-hour running time and one particularly over-the-top performance.
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