Posts Tagged ‘Ventura County Theater Review’
THE BABY DANCE: MIXED
Sunday, May 6th, 2018
Playwright Jane Anderson factors in race to her 1991 hit The Baby Dance’s already heady mix of adoption and class to give 2018 audiences a play distinct enough from its source material to merit World Premiere status, Rubicon Theatre Company’s compelling, talk-provoking The Baby Dance: Mixed.
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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Saturday, April 21st, 2018
Victor Hugo’s classic tale of the misshapen Quasimodo and the shapely gypsy beauty who wins his lonely, aching heart comes to glorious musical life thanks to Alan Menken’s gift for melody and a couple dozen of SoCal’s most multi-talented performers in 5-Star Theatricals’ The Hunchback Of Notre Dame.
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SISTER ACT
Monday, February 5th, 2018
The hills round Simi are alive with the sound of singing nuns as the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center treats audiences to the Broadway crowd-pleaser Sister Act, one of SVPAC’s best productions ever.
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HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL
Monday, January 8th, 2018
A cast and production team only just entering their 20s proves a particularly fine fit—and more than up to the task of bringing Heathers: The Musical to murderously crowd-pleasing life at Thousand Oaks’ Hillcrest Center For The Arts.
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A CHRISTMAS STORY: THE MUSICAL
Monday, December 11th, 2017
Ralphie Parker sings … and dances … and wishes as much as ever to find a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle BB gun under the tree on December 25 in A Christmas Story: The Musical, the holiday season’s most tuneful treat for kids and adults of all ages up Simi Valley way.
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JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT
Saturday, October 14th, 2017
Ingenious direction and equally innovative choreography are just two reasons not to miss 5-Star Theatricals’ excitingly performed revival of Sirs Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, 100 minutes of pure, unadulterated, family-friendly music and fun up Thousand Oaks way.
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SYLVIA
Monday, May 1st, 2017
There’s never been a romantic triangle quite like the one that propels A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia, now getting a cheer-worthy Rubicon Theater revival with an irresistible Ashley Fox Linton as the canine homewrecker who gives this alternately hilarious and heartstrings-tugging romcom its name.
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SISTER ACT
Saturday, April 22nd, 2017
A triumphant Daebreon Poiema and a sublime Debbie Prutsman head a terrifically talented, bigger-than-Broadway cast of nearly three-dozen in Cabrillo Music Theatre’s Sister Act, as tuneful and crowd-pleasing a musical comedy treat as I’ve seen up Ventura County ways in many a moon.
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