Posts Tagged ‘Cris O’Bryon’
North Coast Repertory Theatre’s Amazing Necromancy: Damon Runyon and Frank Loesser’s New Musical
Mark Saltzman has crafted “Another Roll of the Dice,” a new musical theater pastiche based on several Damon Runyon short stories and interlaced with a dozen previously unconnected Frank Loesser songs. Long on nostalgia and short on dramatic depth, it is nevertheless an effervescent entertainment.
Read MoreEnsemble Culture Is King in SDMT’s Great ’34th Street’
There are many, many forces at work out there, and that’s never more apparent than during the holiday season. San Diego Musical Theatre has copped the clue — and its excellent ‘Miracle on 34th Street: A Live Musical Radio Play’ justifies our inclination toward belief in the unseen.
Read MoreJudy Garland Heads Toward End of the Rainbow
There’s nowhere but down for Judy Garland at the end of her career and Eileen Bowman gently guides us there in the Intrepid Theatre’s ‘End of the Rainbow” at the Lyceum Space downtown.
Read MoreTwelfth Night Goes Navy at Hotel Del for Lamb’s Players
Twelfth Night lands in the Hotel del Coronado around 1949 and all is intact, especially the songs.
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