PRELUDE TO A KISS THE MUSICAL
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
A gorgeous score, appealing performances, and a book that will have you reflecting on the very meaning of love are just three reasons to fall for South Coast Repertory’s World Premiere musical adaptation of Craig Lucas’s Prelude To A Kiss.
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JERSEY BOYS
Sunday, April 21st, 2024
The wait is over! Twenty years after its La Jolla Playhouse debut and five years after a handful of U.S. theaters were finally given the rights to stage it regionally, Jersey Boys at long last gets the homegrown production SoCal audiences have been waiting for, and a spectacular one it is at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.
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JEKYLL & HYDE THE MUSICAL
Friday, April 19th, 2024
Justin Meyer’s spectacularly sung and acted Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde, Cassandra Caruso and Rachel Franke’s breakout star turns as the women in their lives, and a look inspired by such Hollywood monster movie classics as Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Wolf Man make The Nocturne Theatre’s in-the-round staging of Jekyll & Hyde The Musical a song-and-thrill-packed treat.
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FUNNY GIRL
Thursday, April 4th, 2024
Katerina McCrimmon gives the touring performance of this or any year as comedy legend Fanny Brice in the Broadway National Tour of Funny Girl, its songs as unforgettable as ever, its revised Harvey Fierstein book a marked improvement on the Isobel Lennart original, and its direction (by Michael Mayer) as inspired as direction gets.
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ANDREW LIPPA’S WILD PARTY
Thursday, March 28th, 2024
Performances don’t get any more sizzlingly spellbinding than Madelyn Claire Lego’s star turn as Queenie in Jaxx Theatrical’s fabulous 4-performance-only revival of Andrew Lippa’s Wild Party.
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INTO THE WOODS
Friday, March 15th, 2024The Nocturne Theatre opens its Spring 2024 season with Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into The Woods, and though not everything works in the oft-produced musical’s latest revival, its striking high fantasy look, a number of inspired directorial choices, and more than a few sensational performances earn cheers.
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SWEENEY TODD
Sunday, February 18th, 2024
Julia Rodriguez-Elliot’s brilliantly innovative direction and Cassandra Marie Murphy’s spectacular star turn as Mrs. Lovett top the reasons not to miss Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street at A Noise Within.
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