The current buzz throughout the South Bay is next week’s anxiously awaited opening of Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities’ (CLOSBC) production of “Beehive: The ‘60s Musical” at Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center. Audience members will swarm to hear the six queens in the cast drone through memorable girls’ songs made famous by memorable girls (all named “Honey”) during the 1960s.
We have all heard of musicals whose advertising claims to “make us laugh, cry, and think.” On the contrary, “Les Misérables” is a musical known to make you cry, cry, and cry some more. At some points you may be [...]
Watch out Broadway, there’s a rising cast of singing and dancing… rocket scientists?
The hills of El Segundo are alive with the sound of music. Make that the softball diamond at Recreation Park, at least.
“Marcelo! You have a girl running away with the gate! I need a bench! Any bench! Just a bench! The crate should go to the left, no – the other left.”
This reviewer was skeptical from the start. “When I saw this play on Broadway I laughed harder than I thought possible,” notes Michael Ritchie, the Center Theatre Group’s artistic director.

The Lincoln Center’s Tony Award winning production of South Pacific arrives in Los Angeles.
CLOSBC makes its first attempt at Shakespeare with ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ THESEUS: Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace; four happy days bring in Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow This old moon wanes! she lingers [...]