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CABRILLO MUSIC THEATRE ANNOUNCES ITS 2016-2017 SEASON!

By Society 805 Staff Writer

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CABRILLO MUSIC THEATRE

ANNOUNCES ITS 2016-2017 SEASON!

EVITA! TARZAN! SISTER ACT! PETER PAN!

Four great shows in oneHIGH-FLYING SEASON!

Broadway in Your Backyard at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza!

Thousand Oaks, CA Cabrillo Music Theatre proudly announces the 2016-2017 season of shows. Cabrillo’s High-Flying Season features three Cabrillo debuts and one classic favorite not seen in nearly 15 years. All of Cabrillo’s productions are locally produced, auditioned and rehearsed in Southern California, and performed exclusively at the Bank of America Performing Arts Center at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

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FEB

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REVIEW - See Rock City at Rubicon

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Review-

A play worth seeing more than once, See Rock City is the “don’t miss” sequel to Last Train to Nibroc, the second part of Arlene Hutton’s Nibroc Trilogy American set piece featuring Nibroc’s young couple, May and Raleigh.

Quietly struggling with timeless inner truths, Lily Nicksay and Erik Odom in Arlene Hutton’s See Rock City at the Rubicon Theatre, downtown Ventura, through 14 February, 2016. Photo courtesy Zachary Andrews

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JAN

25

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Review- FUBAR at Flying H

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Review-

Flying H Group Theatre’s presentation of Karl Gajdusek’s FUBAR delivers another fun night of whacky, dark comedy.

(l) Brian Robert Harris in Karl Gajdusek's FUBAR at the Flying H Group Theatre, Ventura, January 2016

Photo Credit: Maria Rojas

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OCT

26

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Review: My Fair Lady at Rubicon

By Society 805 Staff Writer

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The Musical, My Fair Lady is based on George Bernard Shaw’s highly successful play, Pygmalion. T. S. Elliot is rumored to have remarked upon seeing My Fair Lady that “Bernard Shaw is quite helped by the addition of music, isn’t he?” Rubicon’s current production proves the point.

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OCT

19

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Review: Acting Rules at Flying H and Elite

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

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Some scripts call for tremendously committed acting. These are the kind of scripts that great actors hunger for; but often aren't produced as they scare the daylights out of everyone else. John Pollono's Small Engine Repair, and Jim Brochu's Zero Hour are scripts that might be considered in that category. Both scripts are smartly written, with sweeping structures yet tightly focused, giving both the kind of range and focus that great actors like to exploit. Both plays take a certain level of significant courage and commitment from their actors. A level that lessor talents dare to attempt.

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SEP

13

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Review: Rubicon’s Copenhagen

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Review

Michael Frayn’s play, Copenhagen, is a rare treat for anyone who is remotely interested in finding intellectual stimulation in Ventura. There is great art and then there is important great art. Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen is the latter.

(L-R) Peter Van Norden, Linda Purl & Brett Rickaby photo credit: Christopher Brown

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SEP

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REVIEW: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Living Room

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Review

Mad Gravity, the latest zany comedy presented by Flying H Theatre is set "in a strip mall home" [read modest mid-to lower-middle class suburban California home, aka Flying H's strip mall theatre] that has been altered in a certain manner not to be disclosed here. On opening night it played to a fully engaged, enthusiastic audience typical of the young, hip, and savvy audiences Flying H attracts.

Taylor Kasch, Brenda Evans Photo Credit: Jesse Perez

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JUL

18

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Review:Twisted Trouble

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Review

Flying H Theatre Delivers Hilarious B-Movie Parody in “Women Behind Bars”
VENTURA – After a prodigious beginning--15 full-length plays in its first 20 months,
exploring some of the most provocative theatre of our times--Flying H Theatre jumps
off into a new direction with Tom Eyen’s Women Behind Bars. Eyen’s play is a loose,
full-steam-ahead comedy based on one the most quality-averse, tasteless, and overexploited
genres in world cinema: the women-in-prison B-flick.
A funny-enough concept in itself, but in the hands of Founder and Artistic Director
Taylor Kasch’s direction and a large, able cast, this production is hilarious.

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JUN

03

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Review: Other Desert Cities at the Rubicon

By Erik ReeL - Arts and Culture Contributing Editor at Large

Review

Ventura, CA - For those locals who follow American theatre, it was great good news when the Rubicon announced it was going to produce Other Desert Cities this season. This is a great play.

A fabulously funny, yet serious play.It was a sensation when it opened off-Broadway at the Lincoln Center Theatre and then later re-opened on Broadway in November 2011. And the Rubicon theatre company has delivered a top-notch, not-to-miss production that gives this play everything it deserves.

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MAY

31

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Review: Roger That: Two Concerts Remaining in Top-Notch Rubicon Musical Series

By Society 805 Staff Writer

Review

Ventura, CA – As of this writing, tickets are still available for the remaining concerts in the Janet and Mark L. Goldenson Broadway Musical Concert Series at the Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura. If the remaining concerts are anything like the previous presentations in this series, they will be not-to-miss
events.

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