BY CARY GINELL Last night’s opening of Cabrillo Music Theatre’s Children of Eden was every bit as enchanting and magical as anticipated. After the debacle of Theater League…
BY CARY GINELL The suddenness in the fortunes of Cabrillo Music Theatre over the past two weeks has left many of its fans’ heads spinning. During that time, there has been more drama b…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL The idea for Nunsense, the whimsical musical about five wacky but lovable nuns from the Little Sisters of Hoboken, came to creator Dan Goggin from an unexpected quar…
BY CARY GINELL Stephen Schwartz’s Children of Eden is the second-to-last show to be produced by Cabrillo Music Theatre, and for its hard-working cast, Cabrillo’s announcement …
BY CARY GINELL In the conclusion of our somewhat disheartening visit with Lewis Wilkenfeld, we talked about the future of Cabrillo Music Theatre, both the hopeful and the realistic prospe…
BY CARY GINELL We conclude our discussion from a few weeks ago about the production of Conejo Players’Â The Wizard of Oz, featuring David Colville as the Lion and Jared Price as the …
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 …
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 …
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 theat…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 cl…
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…
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…
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…