Posts Tagged ‘Frank Loesser’
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
Monday, May 2nd, 2022
After a 26-month hiatus, Musical Theater Guild returned to Glendale’s Alex Theatre on Sunday to once again do what they do best, mount a Broadway musical with just 25 hours of rehearsal, and like its pre-pandemic predecessors, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying succeeded in entertaining a packed house starved for MTG magic.
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GUYS AND DOLLS
Sunday, February 18th, 2018
The sets get a thumbs down from this reviewer, but everything else about the latest from Musical Theatre West is standing-ovation-worthy as a supremely talented cast, choreographer, and director make Frank Loesser’s seven-decade-old classic Guys And Dolls feel fresh and new down Long Beach way.
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HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
Saturday, May 14th, 2016
No one know how to succeed at musicals-in-the-round better than Glendale Centre Theatre, proof positive of which can be savored in their pitch-perfect revival of the 1961 Frank Loesser/Abe Burrow Broadway classic How To Succeed At Business Without Really Trying.
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HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
Monday, April 25th, 2016
J. Pierpont Finch is once again learning How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying as Candlelight Pavilion treats Southland audiences not only to its savory cuisine but to the 1961 Frank Loesser/Abe Burrow Broadway gem, adding up to one all-around delicious evening (or afternoon) of musical theater.
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GUYS AND DOLLS
Wednesday, January 20th, 2016
Damon Runyon’s picturesque band of New York denizens have arrived in Claremont for an all-around terrific revival of Frank Loesser’s 1950 Broadway classic Guys And Dolls.
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GUYS AND DOLLS
Sunday, December 6th, 2015
“Fresh” and “new” are probably not the first words that spring to mind when you think about the 65-year-old Broadway classic Guys And Dolls, that is unless the Guys And Dolls you’re thinking about is the Oregon Shakespeare Festival revival now wowing audiences at Beverly Hills’ Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts.
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GUYS AND DOLLS
Friday, September 4th, 2015RECOMMENDED
The American musical theater classic Guys And Dolls gets a mostly quite good in-the-round revival at Glendale Centre Theatre highlighted by a pair of scene-stealing Dolls—Heather Lundstedt as Sarah Brown and Ann Myers as the one-and-only Miss Adelaide.
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GUYS AND DOLLS
Wednesday, April 15th, 2015RECOMMENDED
Damon Runyon’s colorful New York denizens have set up shop this week in Costa Mesa, and if the revival of Frank Loesser’s Guys And Dolls now playing at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts isn’t the bona fide “Broadway National Tour” we expect on the SCFTA stage (the scenic design in particular doesn’t stand up to Segerstrom standards), it features all-around terrific performances and the most exciting “Sit Down You’re Rocking The Boat” I’ve ever seen.
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