KINKY BOOTS

Torrance Theatre Company follow’s last summer’s professional-caliber The Addams Family with the 2013 Tony-winning Best Musical Kinky Boots, though this time round the results are considerably more mixed.
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THE ADDAMS FAMILY


Torrance Theatre Company’s finger-snappingly fabulous The Addams Family redefines what a community theater can accomplish with a crackerjack volunteer-actor cast and just as much talent behind the scenes.
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LITTLE WOMEN THE MUSICAL

The March sisters come of age once more in Little Women The Musical, engagingly performed by Westchester’s Kentwood Players, though not with the caliber of voices that would make its songs truly take flight.
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HAIRSPRAY

Director Kari Hayter breathes such fresh new life into the Best Musical Tony-winning Hairspray that no matter how many times you’ve seen the 2003 Broadway smash, it will feel like your first.
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42nd STREET

Palos Verdes Performing Arts welcomes a fabulous lead cast and twenty of L.A.’s most precision tappers for their crowd-pleasing revival of Gower Champion’s 1980 Broadway megasmash 42nd Street.
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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

Inspired casting choices and Broadway-caliber production values make the latest from 3-D Theatricals the all-around best of the six Young Frankenstein’s I’ve seen in the seven years since its National Tour arrived first brought Transylvania to L.A.
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MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT

You won’t be laughing nearly as hard this summer as audiences at 3-D Theatricals’ Broadway-caliber revival of Monty Python’s Spamalot, that is unless you happen to be among those SoCal theatergoers lucky enough to attend the musical’s back-to-back runs this month in Redondo Beach and Cerritos.
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OKLAHOMA!

Director T.J. Dawson takes a little-known bit of early 20th-century Oklahoma Territory history (its U.S. government-encouraged racial diversity) and reinvents the granddaddy of all contemporary musicals in 3-D Theatricals’ stunning 21-century revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!
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