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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Conejo Players’ Lion and Tin Man Talk About Creating the On-Stage Magic of “The Wizard of Oz” by Cary Ginell

BY CARY GINELL We conclude our discussion from a few weeks ago about the production of Conejo Players’ The Wizard of Oz, featuring David Colville as the Lion and Jared Price as the Ti…

SOURCE: vconstage.com at 02:19PM

Monday, March 28, 2016

Cabrillo’s “Children of Eden” Touches the Heart & Soul With Parable About Family by Cary Ginell

SPECIAL PRESS RELEASE FROM CABRILLO MUSIC THEATRE Before his retelling of the Witches of Oz in Wicked, composer Stephen Schwartz took on a contemporary retelling of some of the most popular …

SOURCE: vconstage.com at 02:47PM

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Lewis Wilkenfeld: Candid Thoughts on Dropping the Curtain on Cabrillo – Part 1 by Cary Ginell

BY CARY GINELL Cabrillo Music Theatre’s recent announcement of the production company ending its 22-year existence at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza was a devastating bombshell to …

SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:18AM

Warn the Duke! Theater League’s “Ragtime” Falls Short With Pre-Recorded Music by Cary Ginell

Despite superb performances from the entire cast, Theater League’s Ragtime suffers greatly from this omission, which was apparently a decision of Phoenix Entertainment, the independent the…

SOURCE: vconstage.com at 08:37AM

Monday, March 21, 2016

Cabrillo Music Theatre to Suspend All Productions After July 2016 by Cary Ginell

BY CARY GINELL We just received the following news release from Cabrillo Music Theatre: It is with great sorrow that the Board of Directors of Cabrillo Music Theatre announces that it will s…

SOURCE: vconstage.com at 03:34PM

Ojai Art Center’s “Addams Family” – A Critical Look at What Happens When All Cylinders Don’t Fire by Cary Ginell

REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Those who are experienced in theater know that a show’s success varies based on a number of factors, including the quality of the product, good casting, effective…

SOURCE: vconstage.com at 01:10PM

Friday, March 11, 2016

“I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” Explores the Lighter Side of Love & Relationships by Cary Ginell

REVIEW BY CARY GINELL When you look at the track record for I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, 5003 performances during a 12-year run, you begin to wonder what made this little r…

SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:37PM

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Rubicon Stages U.S. Premiere of “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” by Cary Ginell

REVIEW BY CARY GINELL John Ford’s 1962 film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, is one of the all-time greatest westerns. So when I heard that a play version was making its American pr…

SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:52AM

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Jared Price (Tin Man) and David Colville (Lion) Take Us to Oz by Cary Ginell

BY CARY GINELL The Wizard of Oz may be one of the most daunting musicals to stage as any – not just because of the technical challenges (making a house fly away in a cyclone, flame-thr…

SOURCE: vconstage.com at 04:13PM

Thursday, March 3, 2016

“Mary Poppins” Takes Off in New Oak Park High School Production by Cary Ginell

BY CARY GINELL Oak Park High School, which has never shied away from tackling ambitious musical productions in the past, is now taking on Mary Poppins, the popular stage version of the clas…

SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:24PM

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

“Liberty Valance” Director Jenny Sullivan Talks About Rubicon’s New Production by Cary Ginell

BY CARY GINELL The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was originally a short story penned in 1953 by Dorothy M. Johnson (1905 – 1984), who wrote numerous articles and stories with Western th…

SOURCE: vconstage.com at 12:46PM

Friday, February 26, 2016

“Seussical the Musical Jr.” at Santa Su-sical by Cary Ginell

REVIEW BY KELLY GREEN (special to VC On Stage) Santa Susana High School in Simi Valley was at it again with another superb production. With three separate play production classes (musical, c…

SOURCE: vconstage.com at 11:04AM

Thursday, February 25, 2016

For Thousand Oaks High School’s Kristen Wisneski, Acting Is the “Only Option” by Cary Ginell

BY CARY GINELL Ventura County has always been a proving ground for young performers, and one of the brightest that we’ve seen in the past few years is Kristen Wisneski, a 17-year-old j…

SOURCE: vconstage.com at 07:12PM

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