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Robert Machray's Archived Reviews

 

1,2,3 - A... 1776 (2010) 1776 (2011) 70 Girls 70 A Catered Affair A Charlie James Brown Christmas A Funny Thing Happened on The Way To The Forum A Man’s A Man A Midsummer Night's Dream A Rubicon Family Christmas A Song At Twilight A Very Grand Guignol Christmas Above The Line Actor Under Fire Agamemnon Aida (Arena di Verona) Ain't Misbehavin' Akhnatan Alexandra Billings at Upstairs at Vitellos Alice In One-Hit Wonderland 2:Through The Looking Glass Alice Sit By The Fire All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten All Shook Up Altar Boys Amahl and The Night Visitors American Plan American Tales American Superstars Amick Byram at Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins Annie An Error of The Moon An Evening with Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin An Evening Without Monty Python An Italian Straw Hat: Vaudeville Antony Field and Chip Smith Anything Arias with A Twist Aristophanes' Peace As Much As You Can As Thousands Cheer As U2 Like It Atlanta Autumn Garden Avenue Q




B... Back Back Back Back to Bacharach and David Ballet Hispanico Barbara Cook Battle HymnBattle Hymn Beau Jest Beethoven As I Knew Him Between Us Chickens Bengal Tiger at the Bagdad Zoo Berlioz's Requiem Beth Malone Beyond Big Bingo With The Indians Bite Black Coffee Black Watch Blake McIver Ewing At Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's Blame it on Rio Block Nine Blood Wedding Bobrauchenburgamerica Bonnie and Clyde Boomers Born To Be Alive.  Selene Luna Breaking Up Is Hard To Do Broads Broadsword: A Heavy Metal Play Broadway Unplugged Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story Burn The Floor (2009) Burn the Floor (2011) Bye Bye Birdie




C... Cabaret (2009) Cabaret (2011) Cabaret - REPRISE (2011) Callie Carson At Upstairs at Vitello's Camelot (UCLA) Camelot (Pasadena Playhouse) Camino Real Canned Ham Carmina Burana (LA Philharmonic) Carnival at Goodspeed Cats Chess Chicago Chippendales Chips Chita Rivera: The Secret of Life Cinderella (Redondo Beach) Cinderella (Dorothy Chandler Pavilion) Cissy Conner: Farewell Tour (I Promise) City Kid Come Back To The 5 And Dime Comedy of Errors Comfort And Joy – Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles Coming Home Cornelia Corteo Courting Vampires Crazy For You - Moonlight Amphitheatre Crimes of The Heart Criss Angel Believe Cristina and Mathew Ballestero at Vitello’s Cry-Baby




D... Daddy Long Legs Dame Edna: "My First Last Tour" Dan Frischman Dancing In the Dark Danny Gans, at the Encore Das Barbecu Das Rheingold David Fairchild at Sterling’s Upstairs at Vitello’s Dead Man's Cell Phone Dear Brutus Debbie Reynolds Demaree Alexander - Sterling’s Upstairs Dennis McNeil - Sterling’s Upstairs Dianne Reeves Dirty Dancing Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Desert Sunrise Diavolo Dances Salonan Diavolo Dance Theatre (in Milan) Dickie and Babe: The Truth About Leopold and Loeb Die Walkure Doctor Cerberus Dominique Paton Center Stage at Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's Don Juan Dispenso Dood Paard Doug Carpenter and Jessica Keenan Wynn Dracula Dreamgirls National Tour Druid Theatre Company Dual Citizens Dudamel at the Bowl 2011




E... F... Eat The Runt Edge Equus Erich Bergen, Magic Castle Extraordinary Chambers Fade Out Fade In Farragut North Felix Mendelssohn Bicentennial Celebration Fellowship! The Musical Parody of The Fellowship of the Rings Fiddler On The Roof Fiddler on the Roof (Pantages) Fiddler On The Roof (Rubicon) Film Finian’s Rainbow First Wives Club Forgiveness Four Clowns Four Clowns - Romeo and Juliet Four Places Franz Schubert: His Letters and Music Free Frosty the SnowManilo Fully Committed – Coyote Stageworks




G... Ghosts Gigi - Lyric at the Beach Gigi at Reprise Girl's Room Goblin Market God of Carnage Gotterdammerung Grand Delusion Grand Motel Great Expectations Gypsy




H... Hair (2008) Hair (2011) Half of Plenty Hamlet Hamlet at the Teatricum Botanicum Hangin' Out Haram Iran Harold Sanditen’s Thoughts ‘Round Midnight Heavier Than Harriet Levy: Back By Popular Demand Hello Again Hello Dolly, Starlight Bowl San Diego Hellz Kitchen Ablaze Heralds Herringbone Henry IV Part One High Spirits Hoipolloi -  My Uncle Arly Home Siege Home House of Blue Leaves House of the Rising Son How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Hyperbole: Origins




I... J... K... ICE: Direct from Russia Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) Il Postino Il Trittico Il Ventaglio - Teatro Piccolo Milano Imperium In A Garden Insanity Intringulis In On It Irma La Douce It Must Be Him It's Top Secret Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris Jamaica Farewell Janene Lovullo At Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's Jeanne Page Upstairs at Vitello's Janet Krupin at Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's Jason Graae; Perfect Harmony Jayme Lake and Harley Jay in Avant Garde Jawbone of an Ass Jenufa - L.A. Opera Jersey Boys: Los Angeles Jersey Boys: Las Vegas Jesus Christ Superstar John Williams at Disney Hall Jolson at the Winter Garden Journey To Dollywood Judy Mora at Sterling’s Upstairs Julia Julia Goretsky and Patrick Burns at Vitello's Kelly Dodson, Jon Paul Burkhart, and Josie Yount Kings of the Dance Kiss of The Spider Woman MTG Kiss Me Kate (2008) Kiss Me Kate (2011) Kiss Of The Spider Woman Kooza Kristen Chenoweth Kristen Heitman: A Way Back To Then Kristen Towers-Rowles




L... La Boheme La Divina Commedia La Lirica Di Firenze La Posada Magica LA Phil presents Music by Haydn and Handel La Traviata (La Scala) La Traviata (Dorothy Chandler) Le Reve - Cirque Du Soleil Le Reve - Cirque du Soleil at the Wynn Leap Legally Blonde Les Miserables (2008) Les Miserables: 25th Anniversary Tour (2011) Life Could Be A Dream Lights Up On The Fade Out Limelight - La Jolla Playhouse Lions Little Black Veil Little Dog Laughed Little Fish Little Me Little Shop of Horrors Lohengrin London Scars Looped Los Angeles Philharmonic GALA Louis and Keely Live at the Sahara Love Loves A Pornographer Lydia




M... Madagascar and White People: Two by J T Rogers Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein Mahler Symphony of 1000 Make Me A Song: The Music Of William Finn Mamma Mia Man of La Mancha Mary Poppins Mary's Wedding Mask Matt Zarley at Sterling's Upstairs At Vitello's Matthew Modine Saves The Alpacas Matter Of Honor Maura Hanlon at Upstairs at Vitello's Max Raabe and Palast Orchester Maxine Lapiduss at Sterling Upstairs Measure For Measure Medea Memphis -The Birth of Rock and Roll Merchant of Venice Mercy Seat Millennium Magic IX Missionary Position Money Shot Monsieur Chopin Moose on The Loose Moscow Cherry Town Most Happy Fella Most Wanted Mustang Sally Minsky’s Mystere - Cirque Du Soleil




N... Nabucco (Arena di Verona) Naked Boys Singing Neil Berg’s Broadway Holiday New Year's Eve In Paris Next to Normal Nicole Ligerman at Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's Nita Whitaker: The Courage to Dream No Way To Treat A Lady No Word in Guyanese for Me Not The Messiah Notes From The Underground




O... "O" at the Bellagio Odyssey Oedipus El Rey Oedipus The King, Mama! Old Globe Summer Shakespeare Festival 2011 Oliver Twist On Your Toes Once On This Island Opus Ordinary Days Orson's Shadow Oscar And The Pink Lady Otello




P... Palomino Parade Paradise Lost Passion Peer Gynt Pericles Redux Perry Lambert at Sterling’s Peter Pan: The play with Bernstein score Peter Pan (Orange County Performing Arts Center) Phantom - The Las Vegas Spectacular Phantom of The Opera, National Tour Pilobolus, at The Music Center Pink Martini Pink Martini New Years Eve at The Phil Pippin' Porgy and Bess, Hollywood Bowl Prisoner of Second Avenue Procreation Profondo Rosso - The Musical Project Wonderland Puppetry of the Penis Purgatorio Pursued by Happiness Putting It Together




Q...R... Quixote Ragtime: The Musical Rain (The Beatles) Rantoul And Die Recovered voices - The Broken Jug and The Dwarf Rigoletto Rip Taylor "It Ain’t All Confetti" Riverdance Robin and the 7 Hoods Rock and Roll Rock of Ages Romeo and Juliet




S... Salam Shalom Santaland Diaries School of Night Scrooge In Rouge Scrooge Must Die Secrets of The Trade See What I Wanna See Seesaw Sergey Khachatryan Setup and Punch Shakespeare Santa Cruz 2008 She Loves Me (2008) She Loves Me (2011) Shining City Shipwrecked! An Entertainment Shirley Maclaine Shock Therapy Shoshana Bean Shrek: The Musical Siegfried Sight Unseen Sin, A Cardinal Deposed Singin' in the Rain Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks Sketchy Queens Something For The Boys Sonneteer South Pacific National Tour Spamalot Speech and Debate Spook Night Spring Awakening (The Musical) Spring Season A Noise Within Standing on Ceremony Stay Forever: The Life and Music of Dusty Springfield Stephanie Burkett Gerson Stick Fly Stop The World - I Want To Get Off Stormy Weather Stravinsky- Petrushka




T... Tartuffe Taylor Tracy at Vitello's The 39 Steps The Accomplices The Apple Tree The Arsonists The Barber of Seville The Beatles LOVE The Best is Yet to Come The Bird and Mr. Banks The Browning Version The Cambria The Charles Phoenix Holiday Jubilee The Catholic Girl’s Guide To Losing Your Virginity The Color Purple Tour The Color Purple (Fantasia) The Columbine Project The Common Air The Cripple of Inishmaan The Dead The Disney Symphonic Legacy The Dreamer Examines His Pillow The Dying Gaul The Escort The Fantasticks The First Jo-el The Four of Us The Full Monty The Glass Menagerie The Green Room The Idea Man The Importance of Being Earnest in HD The Kid From Brooklyn The King and I The History Boys The Jazz Age The Lady With All The Answers The Language Archive The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot The Last Days of Judas Iscariot The Letters The Life The Light in the Piazza (Covia Center) The Light in the Piazza (El Portal Theater) The Light in The Piazza (Redondo Performing Arts) The Little Foxes The Magic Flute The Malcontent The Marriage of Figaro The Memoirs of Abraham Lincoln The Merry Wives of Windsor The Mystery Of Edwin Drood (MTG) The Mystery Of Edwin Drood (Sacred Fools) The Night Is A Child The Norman Conquests - Cygnet Theatre The Nutcracker The Old Globe Summer Shakespeare Festival The Pajama Game The Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea The Prisoner Of Second Avenue The Producers, a Mel Brooks Musical The Psychic The Rainmaker The Receptionist The Rehearsal The Room The Seagull The Sequence The Socialization of Ruthie Shapiro The Subject Was Roses The Tale of The Allergist's Wife The Temperamentals The Third Story The Trouble With Words The Turk in Italy The Twentieth Century Way The Violet Hour The Voice Of The Prairie The Weir The Withers Tale The Winter's Tale The Witching Hour The Wizard of Oz The Women The Women of Brewster Place Threepenny Opera Thyestes' Feast Thrill Me; The Leopold and Loeb Story [title of show] Tosca (Arena di Verona) Tournament of Kings, at the Excalibur Toy Story 3 Traces Trafficking in Broken Hearts Trying Tuacahn Amphitheatre, Summer 2010 Tug Of War Tuna Does Vegas Twice Upon A time Twist Two Gentlemen Of Verona




U... V... W... X... Y... Z... Ulalena Unusual Acts Of Devotion Upstairs at Vitello’s U.S.S. Pinafore Utah Shakespearean Festival 2009 Utah Shakespearean Festival 2010 Vanities, A New Musical Vicki Lawrence, at Welk Resort, May 19-22 at 1pm Victory Violet Voice Lessons Voices from the Fringe: The Event, The Packer, and Burton Waiting For Godot Waiting in The Wings Watson West Side Story (2008, Hudson Theatre) West Side Story (2010, Pantages Theatre) White Christmas Wiched Winter Wonderettes Working Xanadu Year Zero You Can't Take It With You Young Frankenstein: A New Mel Brooks Musical Zanna Don't Zastrozzi: The Master Of Discipline