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Saturday, May 6, 2023

Cabaret Review: NO ONE IS ALONE: MELISSA ERRICO REMEMBERS STEPHEN SONDHEIM (CVRep) by Barry Creyton

ISN’T IT BLISS? Striding onto the CVRep stage last night, Broadway star Melissa Errico, in a black dress draped in silver sequins, dazzled the eyes looking as if she had just stepped off o…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:55AM
Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Review: THE NUTCRACKER SUITE (American Contemporary Ballet in Hollywood) by Barry Creyton

DON’T SEE THE NUTCRACKER SUITE — LIVE IT There are certain new concepts in theatre of which one has learned to become wary: “color-blind casting”, “gender-blind casting” and most…

SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 02:19AM
Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Film and Music Review: “GET OUT” WITH LIVE ORCHESTRA (LA Opera at The Theatre at Ace Hotel) by Barry Creyton

COME IN TO GET OUT In an immensely satisfying Halloween entertainment, Jordan Peele’s splendid thriller, Get Out, was accompanied by the LA Opera Orchestra playing the score live under the…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:44PM
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Theater Review: IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU (Musical Theatre Guild at the Alex Theatre in Glendale) by Barry Creyton

YOU SHOULDA BEEN THERE Happy ever after is the stuff of fairy tales – yet, happy ever after is how we in the audience left the Alex Theatre on Sunday night. The show was It Shoulda Been Yo…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:32PM
Monday, November 11, 2019

Theater Review: THE GOODBYE GIRL (Musical Theatre Guild at the Alex Theatre in Glendale) by Barry Creyton

HELLO TO GOODBYE The Musical Theatre Guild should be proud of this fine, coherent, splendidly cast reading of The Goodbye Girl, with principals Wendy Rosoff and Will Collyer charismatically …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:28PM
Sunday, November 3, 2019

Theater Review: LA VIE EN ROSE (Julia Migenes at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles) by Barry Creyton

A LIVING ROSE If you have even a modest love of French songs, or just the art of performance, of hearing and seeing a singer bring a lyric to vibrant life, do yourself a favor and go see thi…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:20PM
Thursday, September 26, 2019

Theater Review: BARNUM (Musical Theatre Guild at the Alex Theatre in Glendale) by Barry Creyton

I LIKE YOUR STYLE P. T. Barnum claimed there’s a sucker born every minute, but composers like Cy Coleman come along only once in a lifetime. His vigorous score was in the capable hands of …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:07PM
Monday, June 10, 2019

Theater Review: LOOT (Odyssey Theatre Ensemble) by Barry Creyton

LOOT CONDUCT At a time when drawing room comedies ruled West End theatre, and even the shock of the raw emotions depicted in Osborne’s Look Back in Anger had faded, a complacent London aud…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:25PM

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