Posts Tagged ‘PCPA Theaterfest’

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

Tuesday, June 19th, 2018

Victor Hugo’s classic tale of a deformed orphan and the tempestuous gypsy who wins his love while inflaming the lustful heart of the Catholic priest who raised him comes to musical life in PCPA Solvang’s mostly quite effective under-the-stars staging of The Hunchback Of Notre Dame marred only by a weak link in the romantic quadrangle that propels it.
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NEWSIES

Monday, July 31st, 2017


The great big Broadway smash that is Disney’s Newsies is getting its first major Southern California regional production up at PCPA Solvang and what a sensational SoCal debut it is!
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LEND ME A TENOR THE MUSICAL

Sunday, July 16th, 2017

The entire cast of zanies populating Ken Ludwig’s phenomenally popular Lend Me A Tenor launch into both song and dance in PCPA Theaterfest’s Lend Me A Tenor The Musical, one of the best Broadway shows never to have been seen on Broadway, or at least not yet.
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OKLAHOMA!

Thursday, August 7th, 2014

American musical theater changed for good on March 31, 1943 at the St. James Theatre in New York City when Oklahoma! opened on Broadway, and those who’d like to know (or who would simply like a reminder of) just how revolutionary Oklahoma! was way back then need only head up to Solvang for PCPA’s 71st Anniversary revival of the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic—not a perfect production but one which, as directed and choreographed by Michael Jenkinson, makes it clear what a groundbreaker this seven-decade-old remains to this day.
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MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT

Thursday, July 25th, 2013


The hills around Solvang will be alive with the sound of laughter over the next several weeks as PCPA Theaterfest presents their couldn’t-be-better, couldn’t-be-funnier production of the 2005 Broadway smash Monty Python’s Spamalot.
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

Monday, June 17th, 2013


No sequins. No glitz. No feathers. No frills. Nothing but glorious songs and dances and a heartstrings-tugging story to transport you back in time and space to a Jewish shtetl in early 20th Century Tsarist Russia. This is Fiddler On The Roof, the Broadway classic whose (almost) 50th Anniversary production makes for a memorable PCPA Theaterfest summer season opener under Roger DeLaurier’s assured direction.
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