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…
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The Value of Community Theater: A Visit to the Westport Country Playhouse
03/31/2014
BY CARY GINELL We in Ventura County value community theater because of its ability to attract quality performers and entertainment, presented in a relaxed, local setting. Simply put, there…
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In Author, Cary Ginell, West Side
A Talk With Rebekah Tripp of Rubicon Theatre’s “A Moon for the Misbegotten”
03/21/2014
BY CARY GINELL A Moon For the Misbegotten is playwright Eugene O’Neill’s last published work, a story of vulnerability, passion, humor, and torment. Written as a loose sequel to A…
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BY CARY GINELL At twenty-eight, Blythe Renay is amazingly close to the character she portrays in the Conejo Players’ production of “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” Attractive, spunky, and eminently talented,…