Posts Tagged ‘Stephen Sondheim’

SWEENEY TODD

There will be blood all month in Costa Mesa as South Coast Repertory debuts its scaled-down but still powerful, sensationally performed 40th-anniversary revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Weaver’s musical thriller Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street..
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MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG

Ingenious staging and a talented young cast make Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along, a guest production at the Colony Theater, the summer’s brightest musical comedy surprise.
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WEST SIDE STORY

Glendale Centre Theatre presents West Side Story as you may never have seen it before–up close and in the round. Terrific lead and supporting performances guarantee GCT yet another hit, and whenever the production’s top-drawer dance ensemble launch into one of Jerome Robbins’s iconic dance numbers as adapted by Orlando Alexander, the show takes particularly high flight.
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PACIFIC OVERTURES

Chromolume Theatre offers Stephen Sondheim aficionados the chance to catch the rarely performed Pacific Overtures, and though the musical itself will probably never rank high on my list of Sondheim favorites, its many fans will find much to admire in this full-length intimate staging.
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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM

There’s a new kid on the Garry Marshall Theatre block from now through December 10 as stage-screen-recording star Joey McIntyre takes on the lead in the Marshall’s deliciously entertaining, ingeniously streamlined staging of the farcical delight that is A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum.
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WEST SIDE STORY

It takes brilliance and balls to pull off the reinvention of a musical theater classic, particularly one as renowned for its iconic choreography as for its book, music, and lyrics, but this is precisely what director Richard Israel and choreographer John Todd have accomplished in the brilliant, ballsy West Side Story they have mounted for The La Mirada Theatre and McCoy Rigby Entertainment.
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INTO THE WOODS

Revivals don’t come any more thrillingly imaginative than Fiasco Theater’s brilliantly re-imagined Into The Woods, now paying a visit to the Ahmanson Theatre in a production no musical theater lover will want to miss.
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COMPANY

Director Kristin Towers-Rowles makes Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1970 Broadway classic Company seem fresh and new in the terrifically performed and choreographed revival it’s now being given at Santa Monica’s Morgan-Wixson Theatre.
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