La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts (La Mirada, CA)
This intimate two-person musical from the same duo who wrote The Fantasticks stars real-life married couple (and musical theatre veterans) Brad Little and Barbara McCulloh. The story chronicles the 50-year marriage between Michael and Agnes, starting on their wedding day and traveling through the couple's ups and downs over five decades.
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the performers (including the pianists) were great. the show was cute but not what i expected. but it was a nice evening out, great theater, great performers.
Actors were talented. I love musicals but could have used a little more straight dialog and a tad less singing dialog.
The actors were very talented, but the music was cute at best, and it just did not work for me. I left during intermission.
Was cute. Exactly what I expected the show to be since I had never seen it, only heard the cast album. Is a cute and enjoyable show. The performers were enjoyable and did a great job.
Mr McCoy said it best, "For the next couple of hours, you will not find a harder working duo, anywhere, on any stage." He was absolutely spot on!! Although the show is slightly dated, the substance of the play is still as good today as it always was. This couple seems to be made for each other, on stage and in real life...and it shows. Excellent job by two true professionals!!!
I was very pleasantly surprised at the seats. We were in row N 11 and N 12 and could see and hearvery well.
This was my first time in this venue and I thought it was wonderful. Got the new series information and will definitely consider this or at least attend a couple of shows for the coming season.
Thank you so much.
Jerrie
The actors were good, the set was clever, the pacing was s little slow, and many of the songs were somewhat dated, but the overall play was enjoyable and a nice way to pass a Sunday afternoon.
Heralded by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the best Broadway-style houses in Southern California," La Mirada Theatre was state of the art in 1977 and remains so today due in large part to each city council, responsible for either its construction or continued operation, recognizing the importance of maintaining the highest technical standards while presenting the finest nation... More
This intimate two-person musical follows the marriage between Michael and Agnes on their wedding day and travels with them over a period of 50 years. They raise a family, negotiate mid-life crises, quarrel, separate, reconcile and grow old together, all lovingly to the strains of a score written by the same duo who wrote The Fantasticks.
Tom Jones (book and lyrics) and Harvey Schmidt (music) wrote The Fantasticks for a summer theatre at Barnard College. After its Off-Broadway opening in May 1960, it went on to become the longest-running production in the history of the American stage. Their first Broadway show, 110 In The Shade, was successfully revived a few years ago by the New York City Opera and is scheduled for a new Broadway production this year. I Do! I Do!, originally starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston, is frequently done around the country and the world. In addition to an Obie Award and the 1992 Special Tony Award for The Fantasticks, in 1999 Jones and Schmidt were inducted into the Broadway Hall of Fame at the Gershwin Theatre and on May 3rd of that year, their "stars" were added to the Off-Broadway Walk of Fame outside the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
Will McKenzie (director) has received six Emmy nominations for outstanding direction of a television series for such shows as “Scrubs (My Musical),” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “Family Ties,” and “Moonlighting.” Mackenzie won the Directors Guild Award for the “Moonlighting” episode "Atomic Shakespeare," and a one-hour episode of “Family Ties” titled “My Name is Alex.” He has directed many other series including “Newhart,” “WKRP in Cincinnati” and “Reba.” On stage, Will directed the revival of I Do! I Do! in New York City starring Karen Ziemba and David Garrison, and the Gershwin musical Funny Face at the Goodspeed Opera House. In Los Angeles, he directed the Reprise! Productions of Finian’s Rainbow with Andrea Marcovicci and The Pajama Game with Christine Ebersole. Will played Larry Bondurant on the original “Bob Newhart Show.”
Brad Little (Michael) has played the role of the Phantom more than 2,000 times in theaters across America, on Broadway and in Asia since 1997. At the time Little was asked to join The Phantom of the Opera touring company, he was performing at the Majestic Theatre playing the role of Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera Broadway production. His other Broadway and National tour credits include Cyrano, the Musical, playing the role of Captain De Castel Jaloux; Fiddler on the Roof, with Topol; and the Lincoln Center production of Anything Goes, in which he understudied and played the role of Billy opposite Leslie Uggams.
Barbara McCulloh (Agnes) played and covered the role of Anna in The King and I on Broadway with Lou Diamond Phillips for over a year. Peter Pan fans will remember her as Mrs. Darling in both the long successful Broadway run and the A&E film starring Cathy Rigby. More recently, she was in the household of Richard Greenberg’s The House in Town at Lincoln Center and played Blanche in the tour of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs. Regional credits include Hamlet, Tom Jones, Wings, Tartuffe, Hayfever, Macbeth, Irma La Douce, The Philadelphia Story, Much Ado About Nothing, The Foreigner, Vanities, The Sound of Music, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and many more.
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