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Theater Review: I DO! I DO! (Revolution in Palm Springs)
IT DOES AND IT DOESN’T A moving exploration of one couple’s life together, I Do! I Do! is an intimate two-character Broadway musical that spans half a century as it focuses on the ups and downs of spouses Agnes and Michael — home life, childbearing, emotional quarrels, and empty-nesting. I wonder that many people have…
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Theater Review: FUCKING MEN (The Bent in Palm Springs)
THE BOYS IN THE BEDROOM Now in its third season, The Bent is presenting Fucking Men by Joe DiPietro at the Palm Springs Cultural Center. Based on 19th-century Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler’s much-imitated 1897 Der Reigen (in French, La Ronde), the play is a roundelay of ten couples, in which the one encountered in the first scene…
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Highly Recommended Theater: RANDY RAINBOW FOR PRESIDENT (McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert)
A RAINBOW COMES TO PALM DESERT If you’re looking for a truly iconic evening of laugh-out-loud comedy, you’re in luck. This Friday and Saturday, October 11 and 12 at 7:30, internet sensation Randy Rainbow is headed to the McCallum Theatre, a perfect venue for Rainbow’s hilarious brand of entertainment. With election season quickly approaching (let’s…
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Cabaret Review: MOSTLY BROADWAY (David Burnham, CV Rep)
On July 25, CV Rep concluded its terrific 2024 Summer Cabaret Series with American singer-songwriter-actor David Burnham’s delightful cabaret, Mostly Broadway. Burnham, a Broadway vet, joyfully told anecdotes and masterfully delivered songs from his prolific career in iconic Broadway shows and beyond, aided by music director Nick Petrillo. With charm and modesty, Burnham shared a…
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Theater Review: BYE BYE BIRDIE (Palm Canyon Theatre)
HELLO HELLO BIRDIE! Waxing nostalgic about the 1950s is never out of style as Palm Canyon Theatre ably proves with their current production of Bye Bye Birdie running through July 14. Bye Bye Birdie is a classic musical, famous for its satirical take on rock ‘n’ roll and its takeover of pop culture in America…
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Cabaret Review: KEN PAGE (Coachella Valley Repertory Theatre)
HE HAD US ALL ON THE SAME PAGE Ken Page is a marvel. It would be reasonable to start and finish this review with that sentence. He has been a powerful presence in stage, film, and cabaret for well over five decades. If you think you don’t know him, you do. If for no other…
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Cabaret Review: THE LIFE AND LOVES OF A BROADWAY BABY (Melissa Errico at CV Rep in Cathedral City)
WE LOVE YA, BROADWAY BABY Enchantress Melissa Errico mesmerized in her new cabaret, The Life & Loves of a Broadway Baby. presented by CV Rep. Errico sets her life to the Broadway songs that she was raised on, has sung, and owned. Melissa says jokingly that her show resembles a “bollito misto,” which is an…
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Theater Review: STRAIGHT TO THE HEART — A TRIBUTE TO THE LEGACY OF RODGERS & HART
A REVUE THAT GOES STRAIGHT TO THE HEART AND SOUL This past weekend, one of our boldest theater companies in the Coachella Valley, Dezart Performs (Dezart), launched a new program called Cabaret at the Pearl with the revue Straight to the Heart – A Tribute to the Legacy of Rodgers & Hart at the Pearl…
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Theater Interview: JASON GRAAE (Appearing in His New Cabaret “Graavitas” at CVRep on June 20, 2024)
Jason Graae is a frisky clown. — The New York Times What can be said about musical comedy actor and funny man Jason Graae? Well, first, his last name is pronounced “Grah.” Second, third, and fourth, he has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and on over 65 CDs (“over”? no one has counted?). But Graae especially shines…
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Theater Interview: WAYNE BRYAN (Co-Creator, Director and Host of “Straight to the Heart, A Tribute to the Legacy of Rodgers & Hart” at Dezart Performs in Palm Springs)
STRAIGHT FROM HIS HEART Dezart Performs has always been one of the most ambitious, bold and successful theater companies in the Coachella Valley. Now the company is planning a new state-of-the-art home in Cathedral City, which is slated to be ready by the 25/26 season (donate here). As part of the company’s “Next Stage Campaign”…
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Jazz Concert: SAMARA JOY (McCallum Theatre in Palm Springs)
A JOY TO BEHOLD COMES TO MCCALLUM ONE NIGHT ONLY, SATURDAY JUNE 15 AT 8 The jazz world has been abuzz about the 24-year-old New Yorker Samara Joy since she won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in 2019, and rightfully so. After releasing her eponymous debut album and then her first album with Verve…
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Highly Recommended Cabaret: WILL HE LIKE ME? (Phillip Chaffin at Coachella Valley Repertory in Palm Springs)
PHILLIP CHAFFIN’S 2018 ALBUM WILL HE LIKE ME? BECOMES A FULL-LENGTH STAGE SHOW Philip Chaffin, who has the perfect honeyed baritone for those swanky musicals of the 20s and 30s, embarked on an adventure that was rather trailblazing when his 2018 album Will He Like Me? came out (so to speak). (See my review.) It’s…
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Recommended Cabaret Series: SUMMER CABARET SERIES, JUNE 2024 (Coachella Valley Rep)
COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY’S SUMMER CABARET SERIES of music, charismatic personalities and theatre insider stories galore continues through in June with Tony Award ® nominee and ’˜Broadway Baby’ MELISSA ERRICO (June 5 & 6); GLENN ROSENBLUM and special guests (June 12), for his Broadway Showstoppers Series, Part II; Broadway, concert and recording artist ALYSHA UMPHRESS (June 13);…
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Theater Review: BABY: THE MUSICAL (Revolution Stage Company in Palm Springs)
BABY GO BOOM-BOOM Baby the 1983 Broadway musical now called Baby: The Musical with a book by Sybille Pearson, music by David Shire, and lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr., is a story that is almost a song cycle about three couples, each at different stages of life, who are surprised by an unexpected miracle. What…
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Off-Broadway Review: SCARLETT DREAMS (Midnight Theatricals at Greenwich House Theater)
SCARLETT FEVER Kevin (Andrew Keenan-Bolger) used to be a hunk, and a successful playwright with an off-Broadway hit. But lately, he’s become a couch potato, much to the chagrin of his husband, Milo (Borris Anthony York), who owns and operates a successful health club. But there is an exciting solution for Kevin’s doldrums. Milo and…
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Theater Review: THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA (Palm Canyon Theatre in Palm Springs)
SEE THE LIGHT Palm Canyon Theatre (PCT) opened a glorious production of The Light in the Piazza last Friday, and it’s sensational. Based on the 1960 novella by Elizabeth Spencer, the musical is set in 1950s Florence, Italy, where Margaret Johnson (Se Layne), a wealthy Southern woman, and her daughter Clara (Nicole Kennedy), who is developmentally disabled, are vacationing from the US. When…
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Recommended Cabaret Series: SUMMER CABARET SERIES, MAY 2024 (Coachella Valley Rep)
CV REP’S 2024 SUMMER CABARET SERIES STELLAR LINE-UP FOR MAY A summer of great music, charismatic personalities and unspoken theatre insider-only stories galore starts when COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY’s 2024 SUMMER CABARET SERIES begins on May 15. Cabaret headliners for May are “America’s Tenor” MAXIMO MARCUSO (May 15), Broadway Tony Award-winner FAITH PRINCE (May 16), Broadway’s…
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Theater Interview: JASON REALE (Now Appearing in “The Lincoln Debate” at Palm Springs Cultural Center)
The Bent, in partnership with Palm Springs Cultural Center, is completing its second season with a revival run of the play that launched the company in December, 2022: Terry Ray’s The Lincoln Debate, based on historical letters that reveal the true nature of Abraham Lincoln’s relationship with Joshua Speed, the man that history records as…
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Theater Review: OKLAHOMA! (Desert Theatricals)
THERE’S A BRIGHT, GOLDEN HAZE IN THE DESERT As the audience sat under a gorgeous golden sky with incessant desert winds, Jordan Killion sang “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” in his stunning, Broadway-worthy baritone as Curly: “There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow … the wind is so busy it don’t miss a tree.”…
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Theater Review: THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE (Revolution Stage Company in Palm Springs)
BEE THERE AT REVOLUTION! Revolution Stage Company, which had a winner earlier in the year with Avenue Q, has another hit musical comedy on its hands with The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, a charmer full of wit, humor and heart. Featuring a fast-paced, superbly giddy and touching book by Rachel Sheinkin (Tony and…
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