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Monday, March 24, 2014

TWILIGHT TIME AT THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE

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JUST A SONG AT TWILIGHT, possibly Noel Coward’s theatrical swan song currently on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse features four fine actors and four divergent acting styles. Director Art Manke has Roxanne Hart, Zach Bandler, Bruce Davison and Sharon Lawrence deftly reciting Coward’s lines in a terrific set by Tom Buderwitz, the hotel room where Hugo (Bruce Davison) holds forth with his former secretary, now wife of twenty years, Hilde (Roxanne Hart).  A visit by an old flame, Carlotta (shapely Sharon Lawrence) promises uncomfortable banter and eventually a down to business discussion addressing an issue that Hugo has avoided all of his life: his ‘interest’ in homosexuality.
Bruce Davison, Roxanne Hart and Sharon Lawrence
 Photo credit Michael Lamont



It’s the sixties, when gay men (and others) were just peeking out of their closets and to old timers like Hugo, any hint of mint could be destructive to their careers, even though Hugo’s success as a writer has been exceptional. Perhaps the shame that still lingers in our society even fifty years later caused the fear that erupts in Hugo as Carlotta explains that she anticipates writing her memoir. She has in her possession incriminating letters sent by Hugo to his former ‘friend,’ Perry.  Carlotta is an Actress with a capital “A.”  Lawrence’s stage presence is appropriately broad.  Compared to Davison’s studied portrayal of Hugo, the contrast is rather one of style.  Coward’s words are and always have been stylish and poetic. The entire production is testament to style.    The feeling of the thirties, even set in the sixties prevails.  This is how the upper crust lives, waited on by room service with the mere touch of a button.

As always, the Pasadena Playhouse Opening Nights are full to the brim with celebrities and patrons. Buderwitz’s hotel is perfect.  David Kay Mickelsen’s costumes are also perfectly done. The money is on the stage. The presentation is thoroughly professional.  Roxanne Hart as Hilde, Hugo’s wife, has adopted an interesting German or Germanic accent that is not always easy to decipher.  However her attitude and proficiency expand the character throughout.  Though seldom on stage, our Room Service waiter, Zach Bandler is crisp and clear.  No mistaking that he is there to serve and he does so efficiently.

It may be the perfection that makes this production falter a little.  Everything is so just so.  Energy in the second act exceeded the first and that was a good thing.  Over all, this is a Broadway play revived for a Broadway audience come to see the play and to be seen. 

JUST A SONG AT TWILIGHT by Noel Coward
The Pasadena Playhouse
39 S. El Molino
Pasadena, California 91101
Tuesday through Friday at 8PM
Saturdays at 4PM and 8PM
Sundays at 2PM and 7PM
Through April 13, 2014
Tickets and information
626 356 7529


Sunday, March 16, 2014

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow ANW

The Scottish Play is bloody: perhaps Shakespeare at his darkest.  Lust for power. Greed and invincibility so moves the petty pace on Susan Gratch’s exquisite set.  Jenny Foldenhauer’s rag tag costumes emphasize a somewhat lengthy rag tag production directed by Larry Carpenter.
Elijah Alexander (Macbeth) & Jules Willcox (Lady Macbeth)
Elijah Alexander (Macbeth) Jules Willcox (Lady Macbeth)Photo by Craig Schwartz 

The cast:
Celebrant Witch 1      Amin El Gamal
Celebrant Witch 2      Thom Rivera
Celebrant Witch 3      Jeremy Rabb
King Duncan              Matt Orduna
Malcolm                     Feodor Chin
Macbeth                     Elijah Alexander
Banquo                       Leith Burke
Angus                         Laurence Fernandez
Lady Macbeth            Jules Wilcox
Macduff                      David DeSantos
Fleance/Macbeth’s
Servant                       Seven Pierce-English
Lennox                       Mitchell McCollum
Donalbain/Lady
Macduff                      Katie Pelensky
Macduff’s son             Theo Taplitz
Duncan’s Guard          Lucas Dean Peterson
Duncan’s Guard          Erin McDonnell



MACBETH by William Shakespeare

A Noise Within

3352 Foothill Blvd.

Pasadena, California 91107

Plays in repertory with Tartuffe and up coming Come Back, Little Sheba.

Wednesdays through Sundays through May 11, 2014

Tickets and information


626 356 3100 Ex 1






TOP GIRLS / ANTAEUS

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A bit of research reveals that a “Top Girl” is the ‘girl’ who over sees the other girls in any situation where women employees need to be supervised.  Top Girl may be the person who intercedes between the male boss and the women worker bees in the ‘pink ghetto.'

In Act I in Caryl Churchill’s play introduces us to an ambitious Marlene (Sally Hughes) who has invited prominent women from history to lunch.  Beautiful and poised , Marlene fusses as the The Waitress (very efficient Alexandra Goodman) sees to the wine, takes luncheon orders and expresses internal opinions about what’s what. 

Isabella (Karianne Flaathen), Lady Nijo (Kimiko Gelman), Dull Gret (Etta Devine), Pope Joan (Rhonda Aldrich) and Patient Griselda (Jeanne Syquyia) arrive.  Exposition ensues.  Survival has not been easy.

Act II, Marlene is at work with co-workers in a London office where the glass ceiling is about to be raised.  Actors from Act I double and triple in new roles.   Devine and Goodman return as teenagers Angie and Kit.   Angie runs off to London to be with Marlene.


This ambitious piece is a strong polemic discussing the trials of being a woman throughout the ages.  Issues of child bearing factor strongly. 

Stephen Gifford’s set moves beautifully. Literally. Costumes by Terri A. Lewis work.  The business of feminism is only the tip of the iceberg.   Women who understand and sympathetic men will understand.  It’s a strong statement well presented.  Director Cameron Watson is, obviously, one of those men. Double cast as always at Anteaus, "The High Flyers" cast plays alternately with "The Ballbreakers".  Check the website for specifics.

TOP GIRLS
By Caryl Churchill

Antaeus Theatre Company
5112 Lankershim Blvd.
North Hollywood, CA 91601
Thursday through Sunday
March 13 through May 5, 2014
818 506 1983
$34 top


Tuesday, March 11, 2014

THE UGLY ONE at EST LA

What Peter Brook wrote about eloquently in his book The Empty Space, reminds us that “…  theatre defies rules, builds and shatters illusions, and creates lasting memories for its audiences.” Hopefully, this shall always be true.  Brook’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream did that, as did his Dr. Faustus, many years ago at the Ahmanson.  Defy the rules: create lasting memories.
Robert Joy and Eve Gordon  Photo by Kevin Riggen

Waiting at the box office I heard the ticket seller say, “Oh.. Back Again!” to the woman in front of me.  It’s not a surprise that lovers of theatre may return again and again.  This is a landmark production. 

THE UGLY ONE by Marius von Mayenburg (translated by Maja Zade) and directed by Ensemble Studio Theatre LA Creative Director Gates McFadden exemplifies what can happen when all of the elements of Theatre are drawn together properly.  It’s the chemistry of casting excellent actors in a well written play creating a collaboration of artists which, with luck and skill become a perfect ragu!    That’s what a great production is, after all: quality ingredients prepared with loving care by artists who know what they are doing.

Our ensemble for The Ugly One: Robert Joy, Eve Gordon, Tony Pasqualini and Peter Larney, each protean and truly enjoying the play, transform flawlessly as story emerges. A brilliant engineer (I think) has created a wonderful widget and is looking forward to doing a presentation to a conference of potential buyers.  He learns that he is just too ugly to make the pitch.  Hilarity ensues!
Tony Pasquallini, Robert Joy, Peter Larney  Photo by Kevin Riggen


The small audience sits is a space hardly bigger than an average living room. At what might be considered ‘rise’ (there is no curtain), the actors haul their props and costumes out of four Banker Boxes at one end of the tennis court style stage. We are now engaged!  It’s big and loud and funny and brash and silly and moving and mean and deep and superficial.

This smaller space is a big change for Ensemble Studio Theatre LA and it just goes to show that all dedicated theatre people ever need is a space and a passion.  The passion, of course, resides within each member of this company (and in this script, too), including fantastic projections by Hana Kim and beautifully simple sets and costumes by Ms Kim and Catherine Baumgardner.  The "turn off your cell phone" admonitions are personal. The cast is a smoothly running machine.

The Ugly One (is beauty in the eye of the beholder or in the skills of the surgeon who starts with the nose because it sticks out further on the face?)  is a play for those who love the challenge of being swept along practically in a stream of consciousness. Lines flow musically. Every beat is crisp and clear: A Dance. Smooth as silk. Four actors embody eight different characters.  The character's names don’t change:  The Ugly One/Lette: Robert Joy, Jenny: Eve Gordon, Karlmann: Peter Larney  and  Tony Pasqualini: Scheffler.  It’s never problematic to observe the characters change from boss to surgeon, from assistant to son, from wife to old woman. (Eve Gordon’s limp steals the show!).    Only Joy as Lette sticks to his character from start to finish, though evolving from The Ugly One to the Handsome One Who Argues with Himself. The dialogue is fluid and funny. Theatre on a tennis court. Expert and at least a near masterpiece.  ESTLA and director Gates McFadden have created a Space and a Passion.   The Ugly One is a must see for anyone who truly loves theatre and appreciates watching an ensemble that knows its business inside out.

"THE UGLY ONE"
 BY MARIUS VON MAYENBURG
ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY MAJA ZADE
DIRECTED BY GATES McFADDEN
FEBRUARY 15 — MARCH 31, 2014
SATURDAYS AT 5PM & 8PM
SUNDAYS AT 7PM
(ADDED PERFORMANCE SUNDAY 3/16 AT 4PM ]
MONDAY AT 8PM
Tickets:
www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org
323 611 1929
Speakeasy
3269 Casitas
Los Angeles, CA 90039




Sunday, March 9, 2014

WORLD PREMIERE: CYBER SEX RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES

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TALHOTBLOND by Katherine Bates brings to The Ruskin Stage a true story of computer sex and major delusions.  Early on in cyberspace, users called local Bulletin Board Systems like Modem Butterfly on telephone modems that had no graphics to speak of and only the imaginations of the users to spark their social interests.  Even then, the concept of Hot Chat was a major attraction.  Excited early social networkers, connected simply with words before the explosion of Facebook and MySpace, faster computers and wifi created soft and hard core porn.  



This sad tale of a middle aged man (Mark Rimer as Thomas Montgomery) “stumbling” into a teen chat room, devising a nom de plume “marine sniper”  and being smitten by the handle ‘talhotblond’ is not new.  The award winning documentary “Catfish” also explores the world of being swept away by imagined love and obsession.

 Bates’ play begins with a shadow tease of “tall hot blonde” Jenny (Erin Elizabeth Patrick). It's a prelude to the piece which evolves slowly and sadly.  There’s little to recommend the story except that director Beverly Olevin has her actors keeping the pace and doing their best.     Jeff Faeth’s sets are multipurpose and serve.  Projections reveal chats between Jenny and not only Thomas, but another suitor, co-worker Alan Garrett (John-Paul Lavoisier). 

The underlying sadness and tragedy of how anyone may be so swept away by fantasy lacks essential power to bring the audience emotionally into the fray.  Thomas's feelings and commitment waffle back and forth time and again, even in the face of his being found out by his wife, Cheryl (Katleen O’Grady).    Unlike Catfish where, in the documentary, we see the principals gradually emerge and the woman who has created her fantasy character revealed, Talhotblond sadly emerges only as a postscript. 

TALHOTBLOND
By Katherine Bates
Ruskin Group Theatre
3000 Airport Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM
Sundays at 2PM
Through April 26, 2014
$25 / $20 Seniors, Students and Guild Members

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Jan Munroe's Alligator Tails

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ALLIGATOR TAILS

Jan Munroe and friend Photo by Arlene Karno


Jan Munroe’s credits are broad:  ranging from stage to film to television. His time in Paris with Marceau and Decroux as well as major story telling chops all combine to make his brief one man (and an alligator) piece worth a trip to Pico just west of La Brea. 

Thirty years ago Munroe conceived and performed this piece at whatever the Skylight Theatre on Vermont was called back then to appreciative audiences.  Part of the audience tonight featured more Munroe relatives who created a real family feeling for the evening. With six generations going back and back mostly centered in Quincy, Florida, we meet cousins and brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles and parents’ parents and parents, too.

These many years later, Munroe’s approach to his own words flows like honey.  He brings to life dozens of his relatives and others.
I especially loved the aunt with alligators in her pond (the big one’s name is Joe) which hardly ever bother anyone, "but ya gotta watch out for them water moccasins." 

From the spooky McAdams suicide house to Granddad’s hanging up the phone on an opportunity to partner with R.J. Reynolds, we are treated to stories that reflect another time and a quaint little place in the Florida Panhandle where cousins stuck together.. and still do to this day. 

Munroe originally performed Alligator Tails in about 1994 under the direction of his friend Steven Keats. The simple set features two white rockers, a huge map of Florida showing Quincy centered between East of Nowhere and West of Nowhere with sharks in the Gulf and Hurricanes in the Atlantic.  Ahhh, Paradise.

As a monologist, Munroe ranks right up there with Spaulding Gray and Paul Linke.  We hang on each Alligator Tail brought back time and again with sweet tea, black eyed peas, chitlins and Co'Cola. (The list I neglected to make proper notes of, but it's music to the ears) His rap is pure melody, his score:  the symphony of life.  The work is unfettered by pretense.  With a little luck this show will extend.  It deserves an audience.   

Well played, Mr. Munroe, well played.

ALLIGATOR TAILS
Written and performed by Jan Munroe
Saturdays at 5PM
Sundays at 7PM 
Mondays at 8PM through March 24, 2014Theatre Theater 5041 W Pico Blvd 90019  Tix $20  Reservation 323 850 6344
www.theatretheater.net


Sunday, February 23, 2014

Molière's Tartuffe at ANW

Alison Elliott (Mariane) & Deborah Strang (Dorine)


Restoration farce and Molière pretty much go hand in hand as representative of comedy of the times (it’s the 1600s!)  No doors opening and closing, but madcap humor and appropriate silliness abound in A Noise Within’s season opener, TARTUFFE. 

It takes most of the first act filled with exposition discussing the questionable wonderfulness of  Tartuffe (Freddy Douglas), the man whom many love to hate, but Orgon (Geoff Elliott)  and his mom, Madame Pernelle (Jane Macfie), are nuts about him and as the play progresses, not only is he painted as the Second Coming, Orgon wants his daughter, Mariane (lovely Alison Elliott) to marry him instead of her true love, Valère (Rafael Goldstein)!  There is never a clear reason why Orgon has decided that Tartuffe is God’s gift to the world, but about the time he’s signed over everything he owns to him, he begins to wise up.

No mistaking who’s in charge here. In fact the kudos go to the women.  Deborah Strang as Dorine shines in this piece, along with fine performances by Alison Elliott as Orgon’s daughter and Carolyn Ratteray as Elmire . What ANW does and has been doing for years is mixing and matching their seasoned long time company members with new actors who are not completely in sync with the old timers.  In this piece, Douglas as Tartuffe rises to his own level.  Director Rodriguez-Elliott makes good use of Frederica Nascimento’s creative set with black clad gothic supernumeraries who quickly move the furniture.   Bits with scads of tulle hold some fun and the physical humor works well.  Angela Balou Calin’s costumes over flow onto the stage.  Quite spectacular!  The issue is that with Mr. Elliott so over the top and others rising to his output not always effectively, it makes for a somewhat uneven production.

Interesting anachronisms caught the eye with the use of those plastic tobacco products that seemed totally unnecessary to me. However, a surprise EVENT blasts its way in with the The Officer (close on the heels of mustachioed Monsieur Loyal) both well limned by William Dennis Hunt, and we are treated to La Grande Finale!!   More tulle and feathers!

Over all production values are, as usual, just fine. The theater at the Sunday matinee was filled with an appreciative audience.  It’s a decent effort.

TARTUFFE by Molière
Directed by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott
A Noise Within
3352 East Foothill
Pasadena, CA 91107
Tickets  $34 top
626 356 3100 ext. 1
Plays in repertory February 15 to May 24, 2014


Tuesday, February 18, 2014

SEX.. and now that I have your attention….

Lissa Levin’s SEX & EDUCATION, currently playing at The Colony in Burbank, returns us  back to Eighth Grade Grammar and Senior Composition with genuine laughs that reflect the successes that Levin’s had as a hard working scribe for television situation comedy.  It works. 

William Reinbold, Stephanie Zimbalist,
Allison Lindsey

Isarewaswereambebeenhavehashaddodoesdidmaycanmightmustshallwillwould should could… being.  My eighth grade English teacher's, Mary Duggan’s rhythmic recitation of these twenty-three helping verbs is still with me many years after eighth grade.  We run into some of them again as this raucous ninety minutes unfolds.  It’s simply a lot of fun.  Even uproarious! Hilarious!!

It’s the last day of classes at Jackson High.  The final test for English 101 looms as retiring teacher Miss (not Ms) Edwards, is triumphantly brought to the stage by the fervent Stephanie Zimbalist. She may no  longer be the star we remember from Remington Steele, but she sure retains the same hot energy.   SEX & EDUCATION presents  Miss Edwards’ final test that, if he passes, will cinch Joe’s (confident William Reinbold) full ride scholarship to play basketball at the university of his choosing.   When, Edwards intercepts Joe’s profanity strewn note passed to his honey bunny cheerleader girlfriend, Hannah (lovely and really amped up Allison Lindsey), she launches on one final effort to actually do some teaching. This lesson in grammar and composition is reluctantly absorbed by the big time basketball star. He briefly snatches the power as he does some diagramming of his own. Brilliant stuff. 

All three, actors in this masterful comedy keep the pace and the jokes just keep topping each other one after another.  In a former time as with the LAPD's raids on a production of Michael McClure’s The Beard and the profanity laden comedy of Lenny Bruce were found to be problematic, we find that Burbank just howls and is soon inured to the raw language in favor of the razor sharp thrust and reposte of Levin's over the top wit.  A fourth “actor,” in the piece is Jared A. Sayeg’s beautifully executed lighting design combined with Trefoni Michael Rizzi's simple classroom/ basketball court set. Thus are created opportunities for each of the on stage actors to break the fourth wall with insights and asides. Dozens of lighting cues bring each actor in direct communication with the audience, letting us in on what’s going on inside their heads … and it really works. 

In fact, the show is a hit.  If cussin’s not your cup of tea, forget about it and go anyway! Ya survived The Sopranos, din't cha?

SEX AND EDUCATION by Lissa Levin
The Colony Theatre
 555 North Third Street (at Cypress)
adjacent to the Burbank Town Center Mall
Continues through Sunday, March 16.
Thursdays & Fridays at 8:00pm
Saturdays at 3:00pm & 8:00pm;
Sundays at 2:00pm.
Opening night performance with reception - all tickets $55.00.
Q and A talkbacks after the performances on Friday, February 21 and Thursday, March 6.
Tickets 818/558-7000 ext. 15
$20.00 - $49.00 (group discounts are available)

Monday, February 17, 2014

MUNROE REVIVES HIS OWN WORK! FILM AT 11!!

 Guest reviewer, Judith Weston, is an actor, an author and a teacher of the craft of theatre.  Because I won't be able to get right out to see Jan Munroe's  Alligator Tails at Theatre/ Theater, I asked Judy to weigh in about this one.  Caveat!  Munroe is a pal and a terrific performer. I saw this piece when he first put it up and it was really great then. Michael Sheehan 

Here's what Ms Weston has to say:


My friend Jan Munroe in Alligator Tails! I saw it 30 years ago and I saw it last night! Thank you Jan for reviving one of my favorite pieces of theater. It's surreal, funny, breathtaking. Jan calls it "cornpone surrealism" - don't expect a linear narrative - Capote meets Faulkner maybe? BUT don't miss it! - Judith Weston

ALLIGATOR TAiLS 
Written and Performed by Jan Munroe
Theatre Theater
5041 Pico Blvd., 1 blk W. of La Brea
Saturdays @5, Sundays @ 7, Mondays @ 8 
(no show Feb. 24th!) through March 24th;
Res: 323-850-6344; $20
 

 

Monday, February 10, 2014

FIREMEN

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Echo Theatre Company has landed at the Atwater Village Theater.  It may be a crash landing with Tommy Smith’s sexually charged “Firemen.”  It’s the Nineties in rural Washington State.  Ben (Ian Bamberg), a high school wrestler, has come under fire and held in detention for leaving a lascivious note for Susan (Rebecca Gray), the high school secretary.  Dialogue is ponderous and leads us down a dangerous path.

“You know I’m a kid, right?” Ben asks Susan, having finagled his way into her office. The question of vulnerability is well delineated. We ask ourselves what would our reaction be if the adult was a man and the under aged student was a girl?  


A play with odd twists and turns, Firemen, is, evidently, linear in time, strangely violent and psychologically challenging.   It’s a question of decent acting in a meandering script.  It may be clear to director Chris Fields and playwright Smith what this sad and uncomfortable scenario eked from the headlines is all about, however... 

For whom do we cheer in this sordid mess? Why stay for the second act?  Honestly, I really can’t say.  Morbid curiosity and filling in the missing pieces leaves us with an inevitable conclusion, again, taken from real life.  How do we deal with tragedy in our lives and resolve our issues?

Bamberg,  delivers teen angst and is the inevitable victim.  The odd connection between Ben and Susan takes shape uncomfortably.  Susan’s son, ten year old Kyle (Zach Callison) falls victim, too.  An implausible connection between Detention Counselor Gary (Michael McColl) and Ben’s mom, Annie (Amanda Saunders), is only credible in a work of fiction. 

Angel Herrera’s crisp multifunctional set with vertical blinds adds to the somewhat stark atmosphere.  The real mystery for me is why? Why produce this piece? What is the audience supposed to take away? Where can we find some resolution for the ordeal of aberrant sex and twisted morals we didn’t know we were in for?   

A World Premiere :  FIREMEN by Tommy Smith 
Echo Theatre Company
Atwater Village Theatre
3269 Casitas Avenue
Atwater Village, CA 90039
February 8 through March 16, 2014
Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM
Sundays at 7PM
Tickets and information: 310 307 3753  www.EchoTheaterCompany.com
$25.00
Free adjacent parking

Saturday, February 8, 2014

BUNNY BUNNY: Gilda Radner: A Sort of Romantic Comedy

When Alan Zweibel met Gilda Radner in 1975, he was hiding behind a potted plant.  Zweibel was up for a writing gig and Gilda.. well, anyone who saw the first Saturday Night Live will never forget her. 
Brendan Hunt (Zweibel) Erin Pineda (Gilda) Photo by Chelsea Sutton

Some stories don’t have a beginning, a middle and an end.

Remember that first Saturday Night Live with George Carlin?  It featured a fake commercial for a three bladed razor!   

Bunny Bunny” was an incantation that Gilda recited with her first spoken words the first day of every month.  She’d been afraid of the monsters in her room as a kid. Her dad told her that if she just recited, “Bunny Bunny” that she would not be in danger.  It worked.

She loved the underdog.  She loved Zweibel.  Zweibel loved her. She called him Zweibel. He called her Gilbert.

What if you just forgot some of the most important things in your life.  Like just forgot to do them.  What about that? Huh?

Zweibel’s heart rending script takes on the feeling of sketch comedy.  He was, after all, a stand out writer for SNL and jokes (rim shot) were his stock in trade.  Gilda was his best friend.  When she died… and the beauty of his play is that we know where this is going, and yet we hop on board and share their brilliant, stormy relationship for a totally engaging two acts to the very end... he started writing every single thing he could remember about her. About them.  Yes, to the end, we are involved, in love and terribly sad to see her go.  Adam Flemming’s fantastic set design includes a huge drape with text covering the stage floor; hanging banners receiving projected locations flowing along, accentuating the fast paced dialogue.  No pretense here.  Bunny Bunny shamelessly smashes the fourth wall and we find ourselves … again… in love again…  with the kooky brunette who flummoxed Jane Curtain as Emily Latella, lovingly spoofed Baba Wawa and rocked all of us little Rosanna Dannas. 

Lithe Erin Pineda never imitates Gilda. She is bright and funny and natural.  At times she seems to actually channel the vulnerable SNL star to a T:  one time by simply sitting up stage with her back to the audience.  It’s a remarkable and endearing performance.  We know what’s coming… that the end is coming and yet we embrace the touching silly moments that made this young woman special.  She liked charwomen!

As Zweibel, Brendan Hunt never really makes an effort to do anything. His quick and funny one liners, his warm memories roll out naturally, right along with silly fights and overwhelming emotions.  The play is a love letter to his dear friend, Gilbert.  

 Director Dimitri Toscas releases his actors simply into each new scene with fresh memories, enhanced by the very talented supernumerary, Tom Fonss, portraying a whole  slew of  entertaining characters including Alan’s bride (with canoe paddle).  He practically stops the show as Gene Wilder with one line.   

This presentation at The Falcon is not to be missed. 

Bunny Bunny Gilda Radner: A Sort of Romantic Comedy  
Written by Alan Zweibel
Directed by Dimitri Toscas.
Falcon Theatre
4252 W Riverside Drive
Burbank, CA 91505
Tickets and information(818) 955-8101
www.falcontheatre.com
 Jan 29 - Mar 2, 2014
$42.00 Top

Monday, February 3, 2014

Jan Munroe / Thirty Years Later


Jan Munroe (Left) An Alligator (Right)
Jeff Murray for Theatre Theater presents
JAN MUNROE'S ALLIGATOR TAILS: The 30th Anniversary Edition 
Previews Feb 15th Sat 5pm, Sunday 7pm & Monday 8pm. Runs  Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays thru March 24, 2014
No show Monday, February 24th! All other Mondays @ 8 p.m.! 

Theatre Theater 5041 W Pico Blvd 90019 
Tix $20 
Reservation 323 850 6344
www.theatretheater.net

For Press Reservations or Info 323 422 6361