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Video Intro/Announcement by Chip Davis saying due to recent neck surgery he can’t play for a while (and in which he stomps fake snow off of his pristine white sneakers)
Act 1:
Hallelujah
Band Introductions by Ron Cooley
Feliz Navidad
Deck The Halls
We Three Kings
Catching Snowflakes On Your Tongue
Messengers Of Christmas
Away In A Manager
Faeries
Good King Wenceslas
White Christmas
Act 2 – This [...]

Absolutely hilarious! With some very poignant melodies and humbling harmonies (especially the Luther Vandross arrangement of O Come All Ye Faithful with the Alley Cats Litterbox Choir), The Alley Cats are in rare form as always (they ARE America’s premier doo-woo group), and Toby, Juan, Mando, and Royce have a great time singing (Let [...]

MUCH better than Fullerton’s debacle (http://www.bullfrog117.com/unfiltered/2008/11/11/noises-off-csu-fullerton/). It was essentially a black box/cabaret theatre so seeing the set rotate was very mesmerizing (they chopped the set into three pieces so that they could play one of those sliding tile games and get things rotated around). The acting was superb, the set was beautiful, the [...]

DICK VAN DYKE SINGS BARBERSHOP!
I mean aside from that, sure I had a good time.

Moonie as broon and broon as moonie
Straightjacket escape – 1st time in 5 years or so
Bed of nails used the spotlights to an amusing end
Guitar and Saw Jam Session
Quiz
Illinois
Talulah
Can operate his cell phone
Regular Coke
Lucky Brand
Diet Coke
Mother often calls him Jeff/Geoff
Leaky basement
I staring at you right now
Said “Hey, Tom” to Tom Cruise
Squirrel infested garage
Has shrapnel in [...]

Delightful straight play about an African American family that moves to California after the Japanese internment of the 1940’s, allowing them possession of an interred family’s house with one caveat…a young American man from that Japanese family has evaded internment by hiding in the attic! Now this family must adjust to this new surrogate [...]

Ain’t nothing Romantic about la
Start it up, start it up
Honking and a-screaming (with karl hunter)
There’s a villain in every fairy tale
Calloway Boogie
Hey Now Hey Now
Mr. Pinstripe Suit
??? Modern song
(Moondance riff solo by Dirk)
1931 Cotton Club Intro
Reefer Man
Minnie the Moocher
??? (Calloway song)
Zig-Zaggity-Woop-Woop
You Know You Wrong
Big time operator
Jumpin’ Jack
I wanna be like you
Go daddy-O
Dirty [...]

Wait, what?  Debby Boone doesn’t have enough material for two acts so we get the Pops Symphony Orchestra doing a hoedown?  This is just weird….enjoyable, but weird
Trinity River Rambling Breakdown Style Fiddle Playing
Ashoken
For Ken Burns’ Civil War
Scottish lament by a Jewish guy from the Bronx
Orange
A classical piece of music studied all over the world
Oklahoma Crude
1973 [...]

I begin this review with the caveat of what I expect from CSUF: incredible stagecraft and better than average college acting.
The reason I state that first is because only one of those expectations was met for the closing matinée performance…the stagecraft. The characters were well developed and their delivery was very much enjoyed, but [...]

A very enjoyable show which is more like the Mark Twain show, where you just get to spend a couple of hours with the legendary figure than a biography, although there are biographical elements to the show.Frank Ferrante has been portraying Groucho for many years and does a very excellent job. He was the [...]