{"id":8963,"date":"2014-01-13T19:52:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T03:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8963"},"modified":"2014-01-13T19:52:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T03:52:56","slug":"thoughts-on-a-theatre-season-pantages-2014-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8963","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on a Theatre Season &#8211; Pantages 2014-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4942\" alt=\"userpic=broadwayla\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicbroadwayla.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/broadwayla.org\/\">Pantages (Broadway LA)<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/arts\/culture\/la-et-cm-phantom-of-the-opera-kinky-boots-pantages-20140110,0,5532698.story#axzz2qIEUa8GI\">announced their 2014-2015 season<\/a>, and so I thought I would share my thoughts on it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jersey Boys<\/strong> (October 1-19, 2014). I saw it at the Ahmanson. I have no strong desire to see it again. Why do they keep cycling through this stuff that has been through so recently. <strong>Pass<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pippin<\/strong> (October 21-November 9, 2014). I&#8217;ve seen this twice &#8211; once at East West, and once (if I recall correctly) at Reprise. I&#8217;ve heard the music from this version, and I&#8217;m not happy how they changed things. Still, I&#8217;m curious how the circus theme has been worked in, so I want to see this. <strong>Will Ticket<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kinky Boots<\/strong> (November 11-30, 2014). Heard the music. Liked it. This is one I want to see. <strong>Will Ticket<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wicked<\/strong> (December 10, 2014-February 1, 2015). I&#8217;ve seen this, and I have no strong desire to see it again. <strong>Pass<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Disney&#8217;s Newsies The Musical<\/strong> (March 24-April 19, 2015). I like the music to this. <strong>Will Ticket.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Motown The Musical<\/strong> (April 28-June 7, 2015). A jukebox tuner, with good music. This is a maybe. <strong>May Ticket<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phantom of the Opera<\/strong> (June 10-26, 2015). Saw this ages ago, and I have no desire to see it again. Ponderous in my book. <strong>Hell no.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As for what is left in the current season:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Book of Mormon<\/strong> (January 21-May 11, 2014). Saw it. No strong desire to see it again. <strong>Pass<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>American Idiot<\/strong> (May 13-May 18, 2014). Saw it at the Ahmanson. No strong desire to see it again. <strong>Pass<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat<\/strong> (June 2-22, 2014). It was the first show I ever saw at the Pantages in the 1980s, and I&#8217;ve seen it a few times since. <strong>Pass<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ghost The Musical<\/strong> (June 27-July 13, 2014). Heard the music. Sound interesting. <strong>Will<\/strong><strong> Ticket.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Once The Musical<\/strong> (July 15-August 10, 2014). This sounds interesting, although I&#8217;m afraid that it will get lost in the Pantages. This needs to be in a much smaller theatre. Still&#8230; <strong>Will Ticket<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pantages (Broadway LA) has announced their 2014-2015 season, and so I thought I would share my thoughts on it: Jersey Boys (October 1-19, 2014). I saw it at the Ahmanson. I have no strong desire to see it again. Why do they keep cycling through this stuff that has been through so recently. Pass. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8963\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[479,411,334],"class_list":["post-8963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theatre","tag-pantages-hollywood","tag-theatre-2014","tag-theatre-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8964,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8963\/revisions\/8964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}