DANCE ME TO THE END OF LOVE Comes to Theatre West This Month
The performance is on Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 8:00 p.m.
Victoria Lavan directed Theatre West's last two big musical shows, Winter Wishes and So Many Stars. Now it's her turn to take center stage and put her own magnificent voice on display.
Music is the memory keeper of our souls, the heartbeat of humanity. Singing an eclectic array of songs from Leonard Cohen to Stephen Sondheim, Obradors to the Eurythmics, and interweaving stories hilarious and heartbreaking, Victoria Lavan and her five-piece band, will Dance You to the End of Love.
The musicians include James Lent (keyboard), Peter Snell (guitar), Bill Von Ravensberg (bass), Jim Varley (drums), Mara Wells (harmonica).
Victoria Lavan has over 30 years of credits in regional opera, symphony concert, music theatre, cabaret, and theatre. She has served on the voice faculties of American Musical and Dramatic Academy College and Conservatory for the Performing Arts. Ventura College, Pepperdine University, and UCLA Ray Bolger Musical Theater Program.
Brooks Almy directs. A veteran performer of four Broadway shows and five years with the New York City Opera, her directing credits include Hair, Avenue Q, Beauty and the Beast, Chance Encounters, Silver Screen, and Toonsicals.
Technical director: David P. Johnson. Lighting design: Michael Lee. Stage manager: David Mingrino.
Proceeds from this one-night-only event will support the ongoing work of the Theatre West Musical Theatre Workshop.
Don't miss this opportunity to experience an exceptional evening of music.
Established in 1962, Theatre West is celebrating its 62nd year as the oldest continually running professional theatre company in the city of Los Angeles. It is a membership collective of actors, playwrights, directors, and technicians. Theatre West's alumni members include Ray Bradbury, Beau Bridges, Richard Dreyfuss, Sally Field, Betty Garrett, Martin Landau, Lee Meriwether, Jack Nicholson, Carroll O'Connor, Sherwood Schwartz, Joyce Van Patten, and Paul Winfield. Theatre West has produced more than 300 plays and musicals. Of these plays, nearly 70% are original works developed in its workshops and many have led to Broadway, regional tours, and feature films including A Bronx Tale by Chazz Palminteri; A Very Brady Musical by Lloyd Schwartz and Hope Juber; Our Man in Santiago by Mark Wilding that transferred to Off-Broadway in the Fall of 2022; and our co-production of Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground that went to Broadway in 2023.. Theatre West is supported in part by The Ahmanson Foundation, California Arts Council, Peter Glenville Foundation, The Green Foundation, Kaplan-Loring Foundation, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, National Endowment for the Arts, Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation, Sidney Stern Memorial Trust, Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, and L.A. Parent Magazine.
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