Posts Tagged ‘Charles Dickens’

MADAME SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL MUSICAL


A Glendale landmark is reborn as The Nocturne Theatre just in time to treat holiday audiences to Madame Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Musical, Meyer2Meyer Entertainment’s fabulous new, gender-bending musical twist on the Charles Dickens Christmas classic.
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL


Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at A Noise Within. The annual tradition is back for 2021 in a production that captures all the magic and the mystery of the classic holiday tale as Dickens first imagined it back in 1843, once again bedecked with one of the most gorgeous production designs in town.
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL


No matter how many A Christmas Carols you’ve sat through (whether voluntarily or under family duress), the multiple-Tony-winning production whose National Tour marks the grand reopening of the Ahmanson Theater is likely to be the most wildly imaginative, profoundly moving A Christmas Carol you’ve ever seen, or ever will see, performed live on stage.
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A CHRISTMAS CAROLE KING

No matter how many A Christmas Carols you’ve had to sit through in your life, you won’t want to miss Troubadour Theater Company’s jukebox-musical extravaganza A Christmas Carole King because (as any L.A. theater fan will tell you) when the Troubies do a holiday show, it’s by definition the most must-see of must-sees.
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OLIVER!

Lionel Bart’s Oliver! is back in town in its first major L.A. production in over ten years and what a joy it is to re-experience (or to discover for the first time) Broadway’s Greatest Dickens Musical at Long Beach’s Musical Theatre West.
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A TALE OF TWO CITIES

Forget every A Tale Of Two Cities you’ve seen before, and that includes the 1935 MGM classic. A Noise Within’s United States Premiere of Mike Poulton’s thrillingly reconceived 2014 stage adaptation is in a class by itself, Dickens retold for a 21-century audience, instantly compelling, gorgeous to look at, profoundly moving, and as directed by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and Geoff Elliot, the absolute must-see production of ANW’s all-around smashing Fall 2017 season.
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A TELENOVELA CHRISTMAS CAROL

Imagine a bunch of East L.A. or Boyle Heights vecinos getting together to put on a Christmas show for friends and family and what you’ve got is A Telenovela Christmas Carol, Force Of Nature Productions’ unpolished but entertaining adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic Mexican soap opera-style.
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL

RECOMMENDED

Alan Menken & Lynn Ahrens’s gorgeous songs are the best of quite a few reasons to catch Actors Repertory Theatre Of Simi’s holiday production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol despite the disservice its multitalented hometown cast is done by some sour notes emanating from the orchestra pit.
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