BY CARY GINELL One of the most acclaimed musicals in recent years comes to Ventura County when the Camarillo Skyway Playhouse presents Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s searing comic-drama…
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April 2014
In Author, Cary Ginell, East Side
A Trip Back to Picket Fence America: Mark Twain’s “Tom Sawyer”
04/19/2014
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL In the introduction to his adaptation of Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer, Wilbur Braun advised producers, “Speed the action before the curtains and and play the entire…
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BY CARY GINELL Many Ventura County theater performers have two lives: they have their on stage lives and then their 9-5 lives, which are spent working a traditional day-job…
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BY CARY GINELL In the final installment of our interview with Nancy Dussault, Nancy talks about her early years on Broadway. VCOS: Do Re Mi was your Broadway breakthrough in…
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REVIEW BY CARY GINELL After last night’s preview performance of Love, Loss, & What I Wore at the Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura, actress Nancy Dussault was asked whether this…
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BY CARY GINELL Continuing my discussion with Nancy Dussault, who is appearing at the Rubicon Theatre Company this week in Love, Loss & What I Wore, co-starring with Conchata Ferrell,…
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BY CARY GINELL Actress Nancy Dussault has enjoyed a career that has lasted over a half-century. She was born in Pensacola, Florida and started singing in the Washington-Lee High…
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In Author, Cary Ginell, East Side
Fiddler in the Barrio: Cabrillo’s Ravishing Production of “In the Heights”
04/05/2014
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights, which won Tony awards for Best Musical, Score, and Choreography in 2008, is completing a two-weekend run at the Thousand…
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BY CARY GINELL It would not be hyperbole to suggest that Andrew Metzger might one day be the next John Belushi. But that is who the twenty-three year-old actor…