There is one word that best describes the motivation of the two main characters in the 1985 musical Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The word is “freedom.”…
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In this first of three features on the Rubicon Theatre Company’s production of Big River, co-producers/directors Beverly and Kirby Ward discuss their vision for bringing the Tony Award-winning adaptation…
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Every so often an actor emerges who is what I call a “five-tool-player,” a term borrowed from baseball, describing someone who can run, hit, field, throw, and hit for…
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In 5-Star Theatricals’ current production of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man, acrobatics worthy of an Olympics gymnastic meet are turned in nightly by Antonia Vivino, who plays starry-eyed teen Zaneeta…
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Last week we spoke with Adam Pascal about his approach to playing Professor Harold Hill in Meredith Willson’s classic musical comedy The Music Man. 5-Star Theatrical’s production, which is directed by…
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Ventura County theater fans were overjoyed when 5-Star Theatricals announced that veteran Broadway star Adam Pascal would be starring as raffish traveling salesman Harold Hill in the company’s upcoming…
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A year ago, the Rubicon Theatre Company presented a new musical revue, I Dig Rock & Roll Music, which told, through its lineup of folk-rock hits from the 1960s and…
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One-woman plays about historical figures are rare in the theater so when it was announced that Ojai resident Anna Kotula would be bringing William Luce’s The Belle of Amherst, a profile…
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If you haven’t been out to the Camarillo Skyway Playhouse lately, here are two great reasons to go: Mariah Tobin and Dakota Heer. The pair are starring in CSP’s…
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FROM THE ARCHIVES: “THE HALF OF IT DEARIE, BLUES” – Fred Astaire with George Gershwin (April 20, 1926) In December 1924, one of the most important events in Broadway…