BY CARY GINELL Regular theatergoers in Ventura County will be pleased to find an array of familiar faces sprinkled throughout the cast of Cabrillo Music Theatre's Oklahoma!, which concludes its ten-day…
BY CARY GINELL We conclude our visit with Janelle Phaneuf, who is making her directorial debut in Conejo Players' current production of Godspell. VCOS: I always saw parallels between the ensemble…
BY CARY GINELL The 1943 musical Oklahoma! was a touchstone in the history of Broadway theater. It marked the first of a series of groundbreaking collaborations between composer Richard Rodgers and…
BY CARY GINELL Just like a position player aspiring to become a manager in baseball, some actors feel compelled to try their hand at directing musicals some day. When it…
BY CARY GINELL Any production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! is a special event because of the groundbreaking show it was and continues to be. The original 1943 production set a…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL In their 1962 Cold War satire, "The John Birch Society," the Chad Mitchell Trio sings, "You cannot trust your neighbor or even next of kin /…
BY CARY GINELL When playing Ado Annie, the fickle, man-hungry hayseed in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, Melanie Mockobey brings to mind another classic show business clown who got her start in musical…
BY CARY GINELL In 1983, Vanessa Townsell was a 22-year-old telephone operator who had dreams of making it big on Broadway. One day, on a whim, Townsell and a few…
BY CARY GINELL Today we conclude our preview of some of the members of the Mary Poppins cast with a brief visit with Aussie import Kim Taylor, who will be dancing…
REVIEW BY CARY GINELL Frost/Nixon is Peter Morgan's award-winning play about the televised 1977 interviews between British talk show host David Frost and deposed president Richard M. Nixon. The interviews were divided…