Posts Tagged ‘UC Irvine’
COMPANY
Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1970 Broadway classic Company proves a fabulous fit for a dozen-and-a-half theater-majoring performers and designers to strut their stuff in the most sumptuously professional a venue any university production could ever hope for, the UC Irvine-adjacent the Irvine Barclay Theatre.
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THE PAJAMA GAME
Friday, June 7th, 2019
Racially diverse casting skyrockets a sixty-five-year-old Broadway classic into the 21st century without sacrificing an iota of its Golden Era charm in UCI Claire Trevor School Of The Arts’ big-stage, big-talent revival of 1954’s The Pajama Game.
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LEGALLY BLONDE
Thursday, November 15th, 2018
Legally Blonde, already as perfect a musical adaption of a hit movie as any romcom lover could wish for, proves just as perfect a vehicle for a couple dozen UC Irvine student performers with bright professional careers ahead.
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AVENUE Q
Thursday, June 8th, 2017
A beefed-up cast of fourteen terrifically talented student performers and some inspired directorial tweaks make UC Irvine’s Avenue Q the best of the five productions I’ve seen since first discovering it on Broadway a baker’s-dozen years ago.
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PARADE
Saturday, November 19th, 2016
The UCI Claire Trevor School Of The Arts’ Department Of Drama opens its 2016-2017 season with a powerful, superbly performed big-stage revival of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry’s Parade.
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MAN OF LA MANCHA
Friday, November 20th, 2015
UC Irvine celebrates its Golden Anniversary—and that of the Best Musical Tony-winning Broadway classic Man Of La Mancha—with a student production that, despite a problematic use of “Spanish accents,” once again rivals the best our professional regional theaters have to offer.
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SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
Thursday, June 4th, 2015
Musicals don’t get any more dark and twisted (or come with scores any more gorgeous) than the rarely staged Sweet Smell Of Success, just two of the many reasons to catch UC Irvine’s sensational all-student production, one that rivals the best our professional companies have to offer, albeit with a far more youthful cast.
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NICKEL MINES
Wednesday, June 4th, 2014
On October 2, 2006, a 32-year-old husband and father entered an Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, took hostage ten girls ages 6 to 13 , shot five of them to death, critically injured the remaining five, then took his own life. Hardly the stuff of your average, everyday musical, and in fact Andrew Palermo’s Nickel Mines (co-written with Shannon Stoeke and Dan Dyer) proves neither average nor everyday but something quite extraordinary indeed, tragedy turned into art, and the power of grace as it may never have been shown before.
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