THE WIZARD OF OZ

Musical Theatre West serves up over two-and-a-half hours of nostalgic G-rated family entertainment with The Wizard Of Oz, a summer musical best enjoyed by children twelve and under and parents who don’t mind tagging along.
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INTO THE BREECHES!


Playwright George Brant reinvigorates the backstage comedy with Into The Breeches!, his crowd-pleasing look at a theater company that refused to go under when its male actors went off to do battle in World War II.
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UNDER THE SKIN


A philandering father suffering from kidney failure. An estranged daughter ill-inclined to donate one of her own. A tearjerker-movie-of-the-week plot-propeller if there ever was one, but one that has inspired an honest-to-goodness comedy, Michael Hellinger’s Under The Skin, the terrific latest from International City Theatre.
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AN AMERICAN IN PARIS


A dozen or so Gershwin classics, dance sequences galore, and a pair of sensational star turns steal the show in Musical Theatre West’s latest crowd-pleaser, An American in Paris.
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tick, tick… BOOM!


International City Theatre opens its 2023 season with a powerhouse, terrifically performed tick, tick… BOOM!, a musical glimpse into Jonathan Larson’s creative and personal life before Rent (and his premature demise at the age of 35) made him a Broadway legend.
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9 to 5


Musical Theatre West has another major hit on its hands with the stage adaptation of the 1980 movie smash 9 To 5, the tantalizing tale of a trio of resourceful secretaries who put their sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot of a boss in his place while serving up a heaping helping of Dolly Parton songs along the way.
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RODGERS + HAMMERSTEIN’S CINDERELLA


No matter how many times you’ve seen Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella on TV, on DVD, or in regional or community productions over the years, get ready to relish the hilarious new life Douglas Carter Beane’s fresh new book breathes into the 2013 Broadway revival of the 1950s live TV classic, now playing at Long Beach’s Musical Theatre West.
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LEND ME A TENOR


Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Tenor closes International City Theatre’s 2022 season on a farcical high note, directed to razor-sharp perfection by Todd Nielsen and terrifically acted by an all-around stellar cast.
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