February 7, 2011

Does eating a bag of chips during a theatre performance qualify as audience participation? Sterling and Stroili sound-off on the don???ts and don???ts of theatre etiquette. Broadway Tony Award winner Michael Rupert (Sweet Charity, Legally Blonde, Ragtime, City of Angels, Pippin) and Megan McGinnis (Les Miserables, Little Women, Beauty and the Beast) discuss their co-starring roles in the new musical and west coast premiere of Dangerous Beauty at the Pasadena Playhouse. The Live Arts Calendar acknowledges the U.S. Tour of Spring Awakening at Hollywood???s Pantages Theatre. Stroili reviews Shawn Colvin and Louden Wainwright III, the inaugural performance of the Valley Performing Arts Center at Cal State University, Northridge; and Room Service at the Open Fist Theatre Company in Los Angeles. Sterling reviews The Sherman Brothers Album, part of a of live (monthly) concert series presented by Kritzerland Records at the Gardenia Restaurant in Hollywood. Rupert and McGinnis divulge awkward moments while performing. Sponsored by Breakdown Services (http://www.breakdownexpress.com/)