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“SPAMILTON” at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 12/29/18 Calling all Hamiltonians! If you’ve been lucky enough to see the musical theater phenomenon of our age – Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” – or if you know the score from the terrific cast recording… don’t rap, don’t belt, just hip hop up to L.A. to see the uproarious spoof, “Spamilton.” Creator/writer/director Gerard Alessandrini is a word-wizard, just like Miranda and his idol, Stephen Sondheim, who gets more than a few lines and jabs in the Read More →

“FESTIVAL OF CHRISTMAS: NORTH OF NORMAL” at Lamb’s Players Christmas

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 12/19/17 RUN DATES: 12/1/17 - 12/31/17 VENUE: Lamb's Players Theatre Somewhere in the 40th annual Festival of Christmas at Lamb’s Players Theatre, there’s a story. Something about a church in North Dakota being in arrears. Several religious groups and an aggressive real estate developer want to take it over. But the long-time caretaker promised his wife of 60 years that he’d leave it in good hands. This 15th original script by Lambs associate artistic director Read More →

“THE SECRET GARDEN” at New Village Arts

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 12/1/17 RUN DATES: 11/3/17 - 12/24/17 VENUE: New Village Arts There’s an adage in the theater that you never want to see a show the day after opening. The cast puts out 200% on that night, and parties afterward, so they’re not always in top form the next day. Perhaps that accounts for the tamped-down feeling of “The Secret Garden” at New Village Arts. And the fact that almost everyone seemed to be straining to reach Read More →

“SUMMER, THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL” at the La Jolla Playhouse

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 11/20/18 RUN DATES: 11/7/17 - 12/24/17 VENUE: La Jolla Playhouse If you loved Donna Summer, you’ll probably love “Summer, The Donna Summer Musical.” You’ll hear all the signature, sexy songs of The Disco Queen (she hated that pigeon-holing moniker): “Love to Love You Baby,” Bad Girls,” “Hot Stuff,” “She Works Hard for the Money,” and 20 more). They’re wonderfully sung – with accompaniment by a killer 5-piece band (music director/conductor Victoria Theodore) and precise (if not Read More →

“CABARET” at ion theatre

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Aired on KSDS-FM on 12/15/17 RUN DATES: 12/2/17 - 12/23/17 VENUE: ion theatre Past productions of the classic musical, “Cabaret,” have always been a chilling reminder of the waning days of the decadent, pre-Fascist Weimar Republic. Now, ion theatre artistic director Claudio Raygoza has made the brilliant musical into a timely cautionary tale. He has the young ‘’secondary’ Emcee don a red baseball cap, like the ones we’ve seen so much of in the past year. Anachronistic, yes. But also frighteningly Read More →

“THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK” at Moxie Theatre

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Posted at TimesofSanDiego.com on 11/26/17 RUN DATES: 11/12/17 - 12/17/17 VENUE: Moxie Theatre Sad to say, “The Diary of Anne Frank” never goes out of style. Though there will always be Holocaust deniers, it seems there will also always be a massacre or genocide somewhere on the planet at any given time. And though the news will be reported, the voice of a blossoming teenager and budding writer, emerging from a place of fear and horror, humanizes the inhumanity, Read More →