HAIR Cast to Teach 'Music and Movement' to Students at Le Petit Theatre, 11/13
The director, choreographer and a dozen members of the cast of HAIR, now on stage at Le Petit Theatre, will present an educational program for students entitled 'Music and Movement,' as part of Le Petit's 'Because We Can' theatre arts initiative, tomorrow, Wednesday, November 13, 2013, from 9:30 to 11 a.m.
Tickets Now on Sale for Le Petit Theatre's HAIR, Running 11/8-23
A cast of over two dozen local actors are at work at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, now rehearsing for HAIR, the popular rock musical, which runs Nov. 8 - 23. Troy R. Poplous will direct a cast of 25 actors which will be accompanied by a six piece orchestra directed by Robert Pate.
BWW Reviews: TWIST Moves and Grooves @ Pasadena Playhouse
There have been several musical plays based on Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. The first and biggest hit was Lionel Bart's Oliver, which went on to a major film in 1968 and a multitude of Oscars. There has been a gay version as well, also titled Twist, that was nominated for Critics' prizes in New York, and now there's the interracially cast adaptation Twist in its West Coast premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse. From top to bottom the show is slick and a triumph for director/choreographer Debbie Allen. The cast is fine-tuned, and much of the music quite memorably singable. Its only flaw, for purists like me, is in the book, which does not include the charming Fagin, whose deliciously mischievous manipulation of everybody in Oliver Twist is a major highlight.