Posts Tagged ‘Musical Theatre Guild’
MAME
Monday, September 24th, 2018
Musical Theatre Guild treated lucky L.A. audiences to a one-night-only concert staged reading of Jerry Hermans’s Mame that proved not only a terrifically directed-and-performed look back at the 1500-performance 1966 Broadway smash but illustrates to perfection precisely why MTG is a SoCal treasure.
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HONEYMOON IN VEGAS
Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
Musical Theatre Guild has concluded its 20th-anniversary with a Honeymoon In Vegas so thrillingly staged, choreographed, and performed that yesterday’s audience could be excused for forgetting that they were seeing a mere “concert staged reading” put together in a mere twenty-five hours from table read to showtime.
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HIGH SOCIETY
Tuesday, February 13th, 2018
The Philadelphia Story meets Cole Porter in the rarely-produced High Society, and though hardly one of Broadway’s Greatest Hits, its one-night-only Alex Theatre revival once again proved Musical Theatre Guild a master of the concert staged reading.
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SUGAR
Monday, September 25th, 2017
Characters made famous in Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot, songs by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill of Funny Girl fame, a couple of men in drag, all-around terrific performances, and one particularly inspired bit of casting turned Sunday’s concert staged reading of the 1972 Broadway hit Sugar into another one-performance-only Musical Theatre Guild concert staged reading delight.
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THE SPITFIRE GRILL
Monday, November 14th, 2016
With its compelling storyline, colorful cast of small-town characters, gorgeous folk-meets-Broadway score, and much-needed message of forgiveness and redemption, James Valcq and Fred Alley’s The Spitfire Grill gave Musical Theatre Guild audiences ample reason to stand up and cheer (and wipe away a few tears) at last night’s one-night-only concert staged reading at Glendale’s historic Alex Theatre.
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PROMISES, PROMISES
Monday, September 26th, 2016
With songs by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, book by Neil Simon (based on a Billy Wilder cinematic classic), a 1281-performance Broadway run, and a recent B-way revival, you’d think 1968’s Promises, Promises would have merited at least one major L.A. staging in the last fifteen years. Grievously, it hasn’t, which is one big reason audiences were in for a treat at Musical Theatre Guild’s altogether groovy one-night-only concert staged reading .
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A CLASS ACT
Monday, February 22nd, 2016
Tony winner Edward Kleban had been gone for thirteen years when Broadway finally gave the songwriter his due (albeit for a scant 135 performances, previews included) in the biomusical A Class Act, the latest one-night-only concert staged reading from Musical Theatre Guild, and one that could scarcely have been improved upon.
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DO I HEAR A WALTZ?
Monday, November 16th, 2015
If ever there were an ideal show for Musical Theatre Guild to revive, it is Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents’ Do I Hear A Waltz? Terrific songs. A book based on a successful play and movie. A couldn’t-be-more-romantic setting. Mixed reviews. Only 200 performances on Broadway. In short, a show you’re unlikely to see revived in any major sort of way any time soon.
Fortunately, thanks to MTG, L.A. audiences got treated to its many delights last night at Glendale’s historic Alex Theatre.
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