Posts Tagged ‘Whittier Community Theatre’
9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL
Saturday, September 7th, 2024
Whittier Community Theatre proves it’s still going strong in its 101st season with 9 to 5: The Musical, the 2009 Broadway musical adaptation of the 1980 Jane Fonda-Lily Tomlin-Dolly Parton movie smash.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST: A WILDE NEW MUSICAL
Monday, September 18th, 2023
Whittier Community Theatre celebrates its long-awaited return to in-person productions (and the start of its 100th-anniversary season) with the absolutely smashing The Importance Of Being Earnest: A Wilde New Musical, a high point in WCT’s century of shows.
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AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
Saturday, March 7th, 2020Still going strong in its 98th season, Whittier Community Theater entertains loyal locals with a suspenseful, somewhat slow-paced, but mostly fine production of Agatha Christie’s mystery classic And Then There Were None.
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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Sunday, September 8th, 2019Though production values and technical aspects fall far short of professional theater standards, there’s a good deal to entertain audiences in Whittier Community Theatre’s production of Young Frankenstein thanks to Mel Brooks’ laugh-filled, double entendre-packed book, the comedy master’s tuneful, clever songs, and an enthusiastic young cast.
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JOHNNY GUITAR THE MUSICAL
Monday, March 2nd, 2015RECOMMENDED
Whittier Community Theatre celebrates 93 years of entertaining audiences (and providing local 9-to-5ers a stage on which to strut their stuff by night) with Johnny Guitar The Musical, the campy off-Broadway adaptation of the 1954 Joan Crawford potboiler-turned-cult classic.
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CHARLEY’S AUNT
Monday, June 9th, 2014
A 122-year-old play proves the perfect choice to bring Whittier Community Theatre’s 92nd season to a close, since neither the class-act community theater nor the comedy classic Charley’s Aunt seems anywhere near its age.
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ON GOLDEN POND
Monday, November 18th, 2013
Cast aside any preconceived notions you might have about “community theater” and head on over to Whittier Community Theatre to catch Ernest Thompson’s On Golden Pond (a play that hasn’t lost an iota of its humor or charm since winning the Drama Desk Award as Outstanding New Play of 1979) in a production that stands comparison to what you might see on one of our local professional stages.
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