California Musical Theatre News

A tuneful, funny musical score meets a giant man-eating plant when Cabrillo Music Theatre's production of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS devours the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. One of the longest-running Off-Broadway shows of all time, with a hit movie and a Broadway revival to its credit, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS takes root on Friday, April 23rd, 2010, and blossoms until Sunday, May 2nd. Locally produced exclusively for Southern California audiences, performances take place at the 1,800-seat Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, located at 2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks.

HICAGO is BACK IN TOWN and its PURE ENTERTAINMENT! California Musical Theatre presents the national tour of 'Chicago' starring John O'Hurley at the Community Center Theater, 1301 L Street, as part of the 20th anniversary Broadway Sacramento season, March 10-21, 2010.

California Musical Theatre (CMT) hosts Golf with Us on May 7, 2010 at beautiful Teal Bend Golf Club in Sacramento. Support Music Circus's education programs with our first ever golf scramble!

California Musical Theatre is looking for performers for the 2010 Music Circus season at the Wells Fargo Pavilion. This is the 60th season of Music Circus, presented by California Musical Theatre under the leadership of Executive Producer Richard Lewis. Music Circus auditions performers in New York, Los Angeles and Sacramento.

HICAGO is BACK IN TOWN and its PURE ENTERTAINMENT! California Musical Theatre presents the national tour of 'Chicago' starring John O'Hurley at the Community Center Theater, 1301 L Street, as part of the 20th anniversary Broadway Sacramento season, March 10-21, 2010.

California Musical Theatre has announced that 'RENT,' the Tony Award-winning musical has been added to the Broadway Sacramento schedule for the week of February 3-7, 2010, at the Sacramento Community Center Theater.

The California Musical Theatre production of 'My Way: a Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra' at The Cosmopolitan Cabaret opens its 15-week run on Friday, January 29, and continues through May 9.

Seats in the first row of the orchestra will be made available for $23 for every performance of 'RENT: The Broadway Tour,' the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical, at the Sacramento Community Center Theater, 1301 L Street.

Beginning in January, The Cosmopolitan Cabaret will open a new professional theatre production every four months, giving theatregoers a chance to visit the snazzy K Street venue more often.

La Jolla Playhouse announced today five of six productions in its 2010/11 subscription season, including the world premiere of Annie Weisman's Surf Report, running June/July in the Mandell Weiss Forum; William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Playhouse Artistic Director Christopher Ashley and featuring an on-stage orchestra playing the music of Mendelssohn, running July/Aug in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre; the world-premiere musical comedy A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak, starring Tony Award-winner Jefferson Mays, running Sept/Oct in the Mandell Weiss Theatre; a new adaptation of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, adapted by Robert Woodruff and Bill Camp, directed by Robert Woodruff, running late Sept/Oct in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre; and Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined, running Nov/Dec in the Mandell Weiss Theatre. The final production of the 2010/11 season - a musical - will be announced shortly.

Multi-award winning Foothill Music Theatre presents the lovably loopy musical comedy THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, the riotous tribute to the full spectrum of geekdom, where each eccentric contestant expounds on the trials and tribulations of being a really, really good speller through hilarious and charming candid confessionals, helmed by Award-winning director Jay Manley and with musical direction by Mark Hanson of Foothill productions The Pajama Game and My Fair Lady.

California Musical Theatre will present the one-woman interactive comedy 'SISTER'S CHRISTMAS CATECHISM: The Mystery of the Magi's Gold' beginning November 24. The play will follow the currently running 'Late Nite Catechism: 'Til Death Do Us Part' which closes November 22. Both productions star Nonie Newton-Breen as 'Sister,' the tough-talking nun who helps audience members relive their childhoods in Catholic school - even if they've never attended.

The Outer Critic Circle Award winner for Best New Musical in 2008, XANADU, is coming to Sacramento's Community Center Theater, 1301 L Street, downtown Sacramento and will play for a limited two week engagement beginning December 30, 2009 and running through January 10, 2010. Tickets are on sale now, including on-stage seats for only $25.

The Outer Critic Circle Award winner for Best New Musical in 2008, XANADU, is coming to Sacramento's Community Center Theater, 1301 L Street, downtown Sacramento and will play for a limited two week engagement beginning December 30, 2009 and running through January 10, 2010. Tickets are on sale now, including on-stage seats for only $25.

California Musical Theatre, producer of theatre at K Street's Cosmopolitan Cabaret, Music Circus at The Wells Fargo Pavilion and Broadway Sacramento at the Community Center Theater currently has eight shows available for purchase at the box office, among the 10 currently announced for its schedule.

Casting for the California Musical Theatre production of 'My Way: a Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra' at The Cosmopolitan Cabaret has been completed. The accomplished four-person cast will include longtime Music Circus favorite Michael G. Hawkins. He'll be joined by Karole Foreman, Laura Dickinson and Jeffrey Christopher Todd.

Casting for the California Musical Theatre production of 'My Way: a Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra' at The Cosmopolitan Cabaret has been completed. The accomplished four-person cast will include longtime Music Circus favorite Michael G. Hawkins. He'll be joined by Karole Foreman, Laura Dickinson and Jeffrey Christopher Todd.

Multi-award winning Foothill Music Theatre presents the lovably loopy musical comedy THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE, the riotous tribute to the full spectrum of geekdom, where each eccentric contestant expounds on the trials and tribulations of being a really, really good speller through hilarious and charming candid confessionals, helmed by Award-winning director Jay Manley and with musical direction by Mark Hanson of Foothill productions The Pajama Game and My Fair Lady.

California Musical Theatre will present the one-woman interactive comedy 'SISTER'S CHRISTMAS CATECHISM: The Mystery of the Magi's Gold' beginning November 24. The play will follow the currently running 'Late Nite Catechism: 'Til Death Do Us Part' which closes November 22. Both productions star Nonie Newton-Breen as 'Sister,' the tough-talking nun who helps audience members relive their childhoods in Catholic school - even if they've never attended.

Beginning in January, The Cosmopolitan Cabaret will open a new professional theatre production every four months, giving theatregoers a chance to visit the snazzy K Street venue more often.