While growing up in Manhattan Beach, Rachel Bloom sang along with show tunes and dreamed of being on Broadway. “I felt like a neurotic little New Yorker living in Southern California. I never fit in,” Bloom said.
Sir Ari Gold isn’t actually a knight, but the popular singer and LGBT rights activist can be seen in shining armor in photos on his website.
Normally, a two-day run is nothing to boast about — but no one who saw the new musical “A Chorus Line of Another Kind” at the Highways Performance space in Santa Monica would say it was anything but a resounding success.
Temple Israel of Hollywood (TIOH) lived up to its name on April 28 when it threw a free biblically themed matinee musical, “Let There Be Light,” on Lag B’Omer featuring numerous celebrities.
There are many ways to tell the story of Chanukah. Tap dancing is not usually one of them.
As a tribute to his grandparents, Tilson Thomas has created a staged performance, now called, \”The Thomashefskys,\” which was a hit in San Francisco and at Carnegie Hall and will debut in Los Angeles Dec. 18 to 20 at Disney Hall
As a child, Emily first performed in the choir at her Reform temple in Roslyn, N.Y., where she sang at children\’s services and Jewish camp. She continued to perform in high school; but studying acting at New York University did not mesh well with her intuitive approach to theater, she said.
\”It seems that in a musical you would get to know people less — I actually think you get to know them more\” — Patricia Resnick, writer of \”9 to 5\”
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