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Theatregoin'
I've got a list of things I'd like to see locally in the next year or so. Anybody interested? (More to come after the Taper releases their schedule.)
Assassins
Sondheim's darkly funny abstract musical about the various presidential assassins in America. This is one of my favorites, also Tom's, also Mousepod's.
Playing now through 9/20/08
West Coast Ensemble Theater Company
El Centro Theater, Hollywood
Once on this Island
Beautiful musical fantasy in which a young girl must prove to the mythical gods of her island that the power of love is stronger than death
September 2-14
Reprise! Theater company
Freud Playhouse at UCLA
Spring Awakening
Duncan Sheik's terrific musical, based on a nineteenth-century German play that was banned there - about teenagers discovering sexuality.
Oct 29 - Dec 7, 2008
Ahmanson
Frost/Nixon
Very well-received political drama by the screenwriter of Last King of Scotland and The Queen (among others) - about, obviously, journalist Frost and President Nixon.
Mar 11 - 29, 2009
Ahmanson
Chess
ABBA's Bjornsen and Ulvaeus' musical about a love trial at an international chess tournament.
May 5-17, 2009
Reprise! Theater company
Mary Poppins
(duh)
Nov 2009.
Ahmanson
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