Bailey Purvis News

MAMMA MIA! is worth your time and money. Go see it.

It has no huge morally important message to deliver. It won't be stopping wars or fixing societal unrest. But what "Mamma Mia!", currently playing at the Paramount Theatre, does do and has always done is to be fun. A fluffy, bubblegum, rockin' good time and seriously that's enough.

The national tour of MAMMA MIA!, which played at Kingsbury Hall this past weekend, is a crowd-pleasing mix of enjoyable performances, appealing characters, and well-loved pop hits.

Growing up Father's Day must have been very confusing for Sophie Sheridan, the lead character for MAMMA MIA. The product of a brief love affair, Sophie never knew who her real father was. So on the weeks before her wedding, she sends out invitations to the three chief suspects in hopes of finding out how her real dad is.

Most musical theater ends with a simple curtain call with the audience expressing their appreciation for the performance they had attended. Mamma Mia, though, ends with and explosion of music, bringing the audience to it's feet for an encore where the cast invites the audience to sing and dance along. And, Friday Night at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, we certainly did.

Mamma Mia! Here we go again! The sensational Abba-inspired tour returned to the Gallo Center for the Arts Thursday evening with yet another sold-out run ahead. After more than ten years on Broadway and with numerous International and North America tours, the pop musical heads to Fresno for its next California stop. No doubt, audiences there, too, will find themselves unable to resist the beat and motion of the contagious pop musical. Thursday's audience, young and old, had no trouble dancing in their seats.

"Mamma Mia- here I go again" weren't just familiar song lyrics I was thinking of when I walked into Bass Concert Hall Tuesday night. No, it was also literal thinking going through my head. Why? The opening night of Broadway in Austin's Mamma Mia! was my fifth time seeing the production. From seeing the first national tour back in 2002, to the dragging my dad to the production in Las Vegas, to seeing it twice more through Broadway Across America Houston before sitting in the audience at Bass, here I go again may have been the understatement of the evening.

Like the Broadway production, the national touring production is fun - pure and simple. You can't ask for much more than that.

The national tour of BRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL, currently playing at the Capitol Theatre, is an infectiously joyful, high-flying celebration of friendship. Highly entertaining through and through, the show's Tony nomination for Best Musical last year is well deserved.

Competitive cheerleading and team rivalries come to the stage of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, MO. with Bring It On: The Musical. Inspired by the 2000 film, Bring It On, The Musical opened on Broadway August 1, 2012 at the St. James Theatre, playing through December 30, 2012. The show premiered in Atlanta, Georgia in January 2011 and utilized competitive cheerleaders from across the country.

Big League Productions, Inc. and Troika Entertainment recently kicked off the national tour of the musical comedy Bring It On: The Musical. Bring It On: The Musical began previews January 16-18 in New Haven, CT at the Shubert Theatre and opened on January 21 in Macon, GA at the Grand Opera House. Bring It On: The Musical will culminate with a 3-week engagement at Theatre Orb in Tokyo from July 9 to July 27. Check out a first look at the cast in action below!

Big League Productions, Inc. and Troika Entertainment, LLC are pleased to announce the cast for the new musical comedy Bring It On: The Musical. Bring It On: The Musical will preview January 16-18 in New Haven, CT at the Shubert Theatre and open onJanuary 21 in Macon, GA at the Grand Opera House. Bring It On: The Musical will culminate with a 3-week engagement at Theatre Orb in Tokyo from July 9 to July 27.

Ocean Professional Theatre Company Presents Cole Porter's ANYTHING GOES, starring Jill Slyter as Reno Sweeney, at the Bengal Auditorium on the Campus of the Barnegat High School, 180 Bengal Blvd. Barnegat NJ: 2:00pm: July 7, 9, 10,11; 8:00pm: July 5. 9.10.11,12.13.

Ocean Professional Theatre Company Presents Cole Porter's ANYTHING GOES, starring Jill Slyter as Reno Sweeney, at the Bengal Auditorium on the Campus of the Barnegat High School, 180 Bengal Blvd. Barnegat NJ: 2:00pm: July 7, 9, 10,11; 8:00pm: July 5. 9.10.11,12.13.

SOUL DOCTOR, The New Musical about the life and music of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach is holding its Regional Premiere in New Orleans at Muriel's Cabaret Space at Le Petit Theatre (616 St. Peter Street) from Friday, May 7th through Thursday, May 12th, before heading to Broadway in 2011.

SOUL DOCTOR, The New Musical about the life and music of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach is holding its Regional Premiere in New Orleans at Muriel's Cabaret Space at Le Petit Theatre (616 St. Peter Street) from Friday, May 7th through Thursday, May 12th, before heading to Broadway in 2011.

SOUL DOCTOR, The New Musical about the life and music of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach is holding its Regional Premiere in New Orleans at Muriel's Cabaret Space at Le Petit Theatre (616 St. Peter Street) from Friday, May 7th through Thursday, May 12th, before heading to Broadway in 2011.

Tickets are now on sale for Evangeline the Musical In Concert. The 10th anniversary production of this blockbuster hit is running one weekend only as a benefit for Playmakers of Baton Rouge, Louisiana's only professional theatre for young audiences.

Tickets are now on sale for Evangeline the Musical In Concert. The 10th anniversary production of this blockbuster hit is running one weekend only as a benefit for Playmakers of Baton Rouge, Louisiana's only professional theatre for young audiences.