Posts Tagged ‘Musical Theatre West’
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
Monday, April 1st, 2019
Teen con artist Frank Abagnale, Jr. is once again scamming his way across the country—but this time he’s doing it “Live In Living Color”—in Musical Theatre West’s pizzazzy spring offering Catch Me If You Can, the big-stage musical adaptation of Steven Spielberg’s popular 2002 biopic.
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OLIVER!
Monday, February 11th, 2019
Lionel Bart’s Oliver! is back in town in its first major L.A. production in over ten years and what a joy it is to re-experience (or to discover for the first time) Broadway’s Greatest Dickens Musical at Long Beach’s Musical Theatre West.
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ELF THE MUSICAL
Saturday, December 1st, 2018
After taking the movies by storm in 2003 and winning Broadway’s heart seven years later, Buddy The Elf has traveled by iceberg to Long Beach to offer Musical Theatre West audiences the season’s most delightful musical treat for grown-ups and kids alike.
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BRIGHT STAR
Monday, October 22nd, 2018
Gorgeous bluegrass melodies, a leading lady’s incandescent star turn, all-around terrific supporting performances, ingenious staging, and a plot straight out of a 1930s/40s Hollywood weeper will have you crying joyful tears that Musical Theatre West has made Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star its 66th season opener.
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YANKEE DOODLE DANDY
Monday, July 9th, 2018A talented cast do their best to breathe life into Musical Theatre West’s Yankee Doodle Dandy, a well-intentioned but ill-conceived look back at the life of George M. Cohan, the father of 20th-century musical comedy.
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DO RE MI
Monday, June 4th, 2018It’s precisely for shows like Do Re Mi that Musical Theatre West’s Reiner Reading Series was created, Broadway chestnuts that for one reason or another have faded from memory despite Tony recognition and decent runs, and with Daniel Smith directing a crème-de-la-crème cast at Long Beach’s Beverly O’Neill Theatre, Do Re Mi’s one-night-only concert staged reading provided more than a few delights.
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NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT
Monday, April 9th, 2018
The Twenties roar and Gershwin tunes soar as Musical Theatre West gives L.A. its first taste of the 2012 Broadway delight that is Nice Work If You Can Get It.
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GUYS AND DOLLS
Sunday, February 18th, 2018
The sets get a thumbs down from this reviewer, but everything else about the latest from Musical Theatre West is standing-ovation-worthy as a supremely talented cast, choreographer, and director make Frank Loesser’s seven-decade-old classic Guys And Dolls feel fresh and new down Long Beach way.
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