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Cabaret Recommendation: MUSIC AT THE ODYSSEY (Celebrating Rodgers and Hammerstein and Cole Porter)
IT’S DE-LOVELY As I suspected, this Friday’s Music at the Odyssey show celebrating Rodgers and Hammerstein, George Gershwin and Cole Porter has sold out. And with good reason. The previous show, all Sondheim, was one of the most delightful cabarets I’ve ever seen. The bounteous talent was top-notch, the musicians breezy, and the space intimate. And…
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Recommended Concert: PIANO QUARTET MILANO (The Music Guild, St Alban’s Church, Westwood)
The Music Guild presents Piano Quartet Milano on Monday April 3, 2023 at 8pm. The concert takes place in the beautiful, intimate and sonically sound St Alban’s Church. ========== Program (scroll down for details): Handel/Halvorsen: Passacaglia in G Minor, Op. 20 Faure: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15 Brahms: Piano Quartet No….
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Highly Recommended Concert: RED EYE 2 TOKYO (Boston Court in Pasadena on April 1, 2023)
THEY RISE AGAIN Red Eye 2 Tokyo, founded by composer and multi-instrumentalist Shih-Wei Wu, will return to the stage for the first time after the pandemic shut down to bring you some rocking J-traditional Jazz fusion sound on Saturday April 1, 2023 at 8 at Boston Court in Pasadena (for tickets, visit Boston Court). There…
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Highly Recommended Cabaret: LILLIAS WHITE WITH SETH RUDETSKY (The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
GET YOURSELF SOME HAPPY So, which Lillias White is your favorite? Is it the bluesy, searching, achy soul singer? The sassy sweetheart of standards? The darling diva of Broadway showtunes? The infectious raging gospel optimism? Well, you get all that and more when she appears with SiriusXM Radio star Seth Rudetsky, on Thursday, March 30, 2023,…
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Event Review: HINOTORI – THE WINGS OF PHOENIX (Yamato Drummers of Japan)
HUBBA HUBBA! YAMATO LIGHTS THE STAGE ON FIRE Have you ever attended a performance where you felt like you ran a marathon? Still, all you did was sit on the edge of your seat from the sheer awesomeness on the stage. The Yamato Drummers of Japan’s HINOTORI – THE WINGS OF PHOENIX tour landed in…
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Recommended Cabaret: STRINGS ON FIRE (Marissa Licata & The Ragtag Collection at Chelsea Table + Stage)
A SPECIAL EVENING OF WORLD-FOLK FUSION The New York venue Chelsea Table + Stage will light with eclectic sounds from around the world when violinist MARISSA LICATA returns with her show Strings on Fire for The Ragtag Collection’s debut this Sunday, March 5 at 7pm. Highlighting the versatility of the violin, The Ragtag Collection performs an evening that melts styles and universally familiar melodies…
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Highly Recommended Album and Cabaret: RICKIE LEE JONES (“Pieces of Treasure” at Birdland)
The mood is jazz. The icon is Rickie Lee Jones. The voice just keeps getting better. Rickie Lee Jones’s latest album Pieces of Treasure is a reunion with her lifelong friend, legendary producer Russ Titelman, who co-produced Jones’ star-making albums Rickie Lee Jones and the seminal Pirates. Reminiscent of her iconic POP! POP!, Pieces of Treasure – an album devoted…
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Highly Recommended Cabaret: LARRY OWENS’ SONDHEIMIA (Pasadena Playhouse)
SONDHEIMIA: IT’S A STATE OF MIND In this curated concert, musical theater actor Larry Owens explores time, love, and ambition through the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, with music director Josh Kight on piano. Words are the name of the game with Owens’ spectacular Sondheimia, which recently played Carnegie Hall. The preternaturally gifted performer…
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Highly Recommended NYC Cabaret: ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN! (Jean Louisa Kelly at The Laurie Beechman)
GREAT STORYTELLING, TERRIFIC PLAY WONDERFUL CABARET, TOP ENTERTAINMENT — ALL IN ONE SHOW Jean Louisa Kelly (original Broadway cast of Into the Woods, and the movies Uncle Buck, Mr. Holland’s Opus, The Fantasticks, and Top Gun: Maverick) presents two encore performances of Anything Can Happen! after her sold-out New York concert debut earlier this year. Again accompanied by Grammy Award-winning musical director Paul…
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Highly Recommended NYC Cabaret: JULIE BENKO AND HER BAND EUPHONIC GUMBO (Birdland)
JULIE BENKO BIRDLAND CONCERT SOLD OUT BUT A LIVESTREAM IS AVAILABLE FOR $25 BIRDLAND JAZZ CLUB brings back Julie Benko – direct from Broadway’s smash hit revival of Funny Girl – with her band “Euphonic Gumbo” on Monday, February 6 at 7pm (4pm PST). Benko will march her band out to celebrate Mardi Gras with six instrumentalists, including her jazz-pianist spouse Jason…
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Dance Recommendation: BIG FIVE OH! (Pilobolus’s 50th Anniversary Tour)
Pilobolus, the groundbreaking, legendary, international dance sensation, returns to Pepperdine in Malibu on January 25, 2023 (the company’s 15th time there!), the MAC in Chicagoland On Feb. 5 and many more locations as part of the company’s “Big Five Oh!” tour celebrating a half century of radical creativity and boundary pushing. (See below for cities and…
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Concert Review: HOLIDAY GAIETY (SF Symphony)
MAKE THE YULETIDE GAY…ER The San Francisco Symphony has a full holiday season of great music. There’s a youth symphony concert, an evening of chamber music, classics such as Handel’s Messiah, and Peter & The Wolf. Popular entertainers such as Harry Conick Jr. and Seth McFarlane are performing. Ever popular shows are featured such as…
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Concert Recommendation & Interview: A SALUTE TO SONDHEIM (GMCLA, Music Director & Conductor Ernest H. Harrison)
A SALUTE TO STORYTELLERS Stage and Cinema is grateful to GMCLA Music Director & Conductor Ernest H. Harrison for taking time out of rehearsing to chat a bit about A Salute to Sondheim, an awesome new concert from the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles. The season finale concert — which plays this Saturday and Sunday,…
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Theater Review: BROADWAY BY THE YEAR: “FROM ZIEGFELD TO MOULIN ROUGE!” (The Town Hall)
Scott Siegal’s latest installment in his ongoing homage to commercial Broadway, appropriately titled Broadway By The Year, is an entertaining and enjoyable production that starts down memory lane but thrillingly winds its way back to our Broadway present. Featuring solid and familiar Broadway performers, a chorus of synchronized Rockettes and a stunning eighteen-year-old newcomer, Mr….
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Free Events: SUNSET CONCERTS (Skirball Cultural Center)
SUNSET CONCERTS Thursday evenings, July 21–August 25, 2022, at 8:00 pm From beloved Sunset Concerts alumni to up-and-coming international performers, this season offers artistry and storytelling that harnesses music’s unique power to bring communities together, forge cultural bonds, and move hearts and minds. Visit Skirball for more info. Visitors are encouraged to arrive early to…
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Concert Recommendations: 2022-23 FALL/WINTER (UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance)
Highlights include the return of Obie Award-winning theater duo 600 Highwaymen, Grammy Award-winning artists Antonio Sánchez and Cécile McLorin Salvant, Tony Award winner Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, and more. UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) announces the 2022–23 Fall/Winter program lineup bringing Grammy Award-winning musicians, masters of dance and multi-disciplinary collaborations to the stages…
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New York Theater Event: RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN: A BROADWAY CELEBRATION (Transport Group at Merkin Hall)
A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING Transport Group has announced that Rodgers & Hammerstein: A Broadway Celebration will be the next installment in its Anne L. Bernstein Concert Series on Monday, June 27, 2022, at 8pm in Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center. Proceeds from the evening support The Joanna and Steven Sanders New Works Program, Transport Group’s…
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Comedy Event: HARI KONDABOLU (The Den Theatre, Chicago)
COMEDIAN HARI KONDABOLU COMING TO CHICAGO’S DEN THEATRE THIS WEEKEND Comedian, writer and podcaster Hari Kondabolu may be based in Brooklyn, NY, but he’s coming to the Den Theatre this weekend only. He has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most exciting political comics in stand-up today.” In 2018, his Netflix…
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Recommended Music Event: JOURNEY OUT OF DARKNESS (Numi Opera at The Broad Stage)
JOURNEY OUT OF DARKNESS Breathing new life into works by composers who suffered oppression Numi Opera Theatre is back live after the Covid shutdown and will present Journey Out of Darkness, on Sunday May 29, 2022, at 7:00pm at the Broad Stage 1310 11th Street in Santa Monica. The concert features a collection of works by…
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Tour Preview: DAVID SEDARIS (Royce Hall at UCLA)
A CARNIVAL OF SEDARIS AT UCLA For those unfamiliar with David Sedaris’s work, he is a prolific writer, mostly of satire and non-fiction. Many of his stories revolve around his personal life and family, though — as with any great writer, and by his own admission — he does tend to embellish. His latest book,…
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