Posts Tagged ‘Matt Walker’
DIE HEART
Monday, December 12th, 2022
Troubadour Theater Company’s band of triple-threat zanies spoof the action movie genre in their own inimitable way in Die Heart, combining the Troubies’ trademark blend of unrepressed lunacy with the songs of ‘70s/’80s rock legends Ann and Nancy Wilson jukeboxed into their take on the movie that launched Bruce Willis’s career as everybody’s favorite cop-turned-antiterrorist.
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SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN’ TO MOTOWN
Saturday, December 4th, 2021
The Troubies are back at their old stomping grounds in Toluca Lake with a fresh new take on one of their all-time favorite holiday offerings, Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Motown, and what a tune-filled, joy-packed December delight it is.
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SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO MOTOWN
Sunday, December 13th, 2015
The Troubadour Theater Company is back at the Falcon Theatre for their once-a-year Christmas fun fest, a reprise of the smash 2004 hit Santa Claus Is Coming To Motown, and though I only counted two actual Motown songs (plus a brief medley) amongst Santa’s dozen or more R&B/soul hits, the Troubies’ latest annual year-end offering remains a hilarious holiday treat.
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ABBAMEMNON
Sunday, June 15th, 2014
The zanies who call themselves The Troubies have taken the oldest—and in this reviewer’s humble opinion deadly-dullest—theatrical genre, Greek Tragedy, added their own trademark blend of wacky jokes, inspired adlibs (impromptu or scripted, you be the judge), snappy choreography, and best of all the songs of “one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of pop music” (Wikipedia) to come up with ABBAMEMNON, and if the results aren’t as all-around brilliant as their best, the Troubies’ latest is still the most entertaining Greek tragedy this reviewer has ever seen—or may ever see again.
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WALKIN’ IN A WINTER ONE-HIT-WONDERLAND
Saturday, December 14th, 2013
The Troubies celebrate their tenth December at Toluca Lake’s Falcon Theatre with a “Greatest Hits” cabaret retrospective of their first nine holiday shows—along with a side trip to A Christmas Carol-land for supporting player-turned-leading man Winter Warlock—as the Troubadour Theater Company presents their latest surefire SRO smash Walking In A Winter One-Hit-Wonderland for Holiday Season 2013.
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