Posts Tagged ‘Santa Barbara County Theater Review’

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

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


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

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!

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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