The best shows currently in L.A. are...

[eslgr8]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 2:17am

Sordid Lives
Southern Baptist Sissies
The Break Up Notebook
and
It Came From Beyond
By all means, if you haven't seen them, do!

Sordid and Sissies are at:
http://seasonofshores.com/
Type "thankyou" (no spaces) as a discount code and you get $10 off. (Tuesdays and Wednesdays are just $15 with the discount, way cheaper than the $40 full price on weekends.)

There are still 1/2 price tickets for Breakup at Gold Star:
http://www.goldstarevents.com/events/browse/90013/event/6089.html

More about It Came From Beyond down a ways in this thread.

Don't miss any of these great shows!

Updated On: 2/20/06 at 02:17 AM

[thevolleyballer]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 2:29am

The best show that WAS in L.A. was, no doubt, The Drowsy Chaperone.

I'm just so happy everyone else can see it now.

Posted: 2/20/06 at 2:07pm

I agree with you volleyballer!

And I do adore Leslie Jordan, Newell and Rosemary Alexander and the wonderful Patrika Darbo. I have seen them in many of Del's wonderful works.

[eslgr8]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 3:01pm

It Came From Beyond is a delightful and beautifully performed 50s Sci-Fi musical spoof, starring Kevin Earley and a sensational quartet of supporting players and featuring the catchiest score I've heard in a long time. Unfortunately it's only playing one more weekend, but if you have a chance to see it Friday at 8 or Saturday at 3 & at 8, you'll count yourself lucky!

(I haven't seen Never Gonna Dance or Jesus' Kid Brother, both in Long Beach, but they both seem like potential faves for musical theater lovers.)


It Came From Beyond Website Updated On: 2/20/06 at 03:01 PM

[Sheri]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 4:22pm

I need to add my agreement with the above - and though I may be biased because a favorite actor of mine is in the cast, I have to admit that It Came From Beyond has A LOT of talent (Kevin Earley, Heather Marie Marsden, Todd Fournier, Stephen Breithaupt, and Ali Spuck) and has a score that's incredibly catchy. The show runs through this coming weekend at the Write Act theatre in Hollywood - also very worth checking out if you're in the area.

Edited to correct my typo on Ali's last name.

Updated On: 2/20/06 at 04:22 PM

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 5:43pm

i saw It Came From Beyond last Friday (2-17) and really enjoyed the show... Kevin Earley was amazing as was the rest of the cast, especially Ali Spunk... but i'll disagree... the music is quite good but to me, not quite catchy.... it took a good four or five songs into the musical for me to start liking the music and then it just got better... a nice send up of 50s B movies... i would highly recommend it if any of you are in LA during it's final weekend...

[got-a-light]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 5:47pm

I saw Southern Baptist Sissies last week and was blown away. It was amazing! But I believe Leslie Jordan is leaving it soon.

Updated On: 2/20/06 at 05:47 PM

[Sheri]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 6:37pm

eatslasagna - I was there on Friday night as well. I was also there on Saturday night (with Steven) and it was the performance that they filmed for DVD and the performances that night were incredibly strong. I was hooked on the music from the second song "Awful Funny" and you're right, it only got better from there.

[erikaamato]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 7:57pm

Ali Spuck, not Spunk. (Although she is spunky - we were in Disneyland's Snow White show together for a while...) =)
Updated On: 2/20/06 at 07:57 PM

[Sheri]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 8:45pm

My sincere apologies, BIG typo on my part, I know her name is Spuck. Sorry, Erika.

[eslgr8]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 8:48pm

Re Sissies and Sordid, yes, Leslie Jordan is leaving this week, but... Though he gave the best performance by a supporting actor I've seen this past year (in both shows), the two plays will surive even without him, they're that good.
And the spunky Miss Spuck is out of this world great in ICFB, the only one who wasn't in the NY company (where her role was played by Katherine Von Till--above with the producer and her four castmates.)
Updated On: 2/20/06 at 08:48 PM

[erikaamato]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 11:45pm

And to add to the small-world-that-is-theater scenario - Miss Spuck and Miss Von Till were in the first production of Jesus' Kid Brother together, at the Hudson Theater. (Which I saw, and liked, but I don't need to see it again at ICT.) =)

[justme2]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 11:58pm

eslgr8...go see Never Gonna Dance if this is the same Mitchell show from Broadway. Highly enjoyable for the dancing alone!

[JarNerdAV]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 11:37am

I wanted to BUMP this back up because Leslie Jordan is back in Southern Baptist Sissies August 17 and 20 only. He and co-star Dale Dickey (Annette Barnette) are not to be missed (oh yeah, Delta Burke is in it too which is great if you like her, and if you don't, she really won't be in the way in her relatively smaller role). You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to see it again right away.

[1183]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 4:26pm

The Spotlight Cabaret!

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 4:34pm

Curtains

[achancetofly]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 5:32pm

Tick, Tick...BOOM!


BY FAR.

[DancNdaMoonlite]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 7:35pm

Tick Tick BOOM!

[BroadwayBaby6]

Posted: 8/9/06 at 9:50pm

The best show in LA is taking place in my bedroom....

J/K

[JarNerdAV]

Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:49pm

BroadwayBaby6: Would you classify that show as a comedy, drama, musical or tragedy? Or perhaps it's a history play. J/K