California Musical Theatre

Pippin! Just 2 more days to see it before it flies away from Sacramento. This is a beautiful, sexy show about life choices — perfect for helping you with thinking about your New Year’s resolutions. I don’t want to give anything away but it’s spectacular with acrobatics, aerial dancing and surprises.

I completely love musical theatre. This venue gets 4 stars mostly because it affords me the opportunity to see some great shows without having to travel to SF, LA or NYC.
The last two seasons have been GREAT! Last season, The Color Purple, Avenue Q, The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and The Lion King were the highlights for me — all fantastic shows! And this season, I was overjoyed to see Spring Awakening twice while it was here, I cannot wait to see Rent for the 5^th time and I’m looking forward to seeing Chicago and Chorus Line for the first time.
Notwithstanding how much I love being able to see some great shows locally, I cannot stand the lack of manners that a lot of show-​goers display. During most of The Color Purple, the woman sitting in front of me was texting on her very well-​lit, very distracting cell phone! While watching Spring Awakening, during a very intense scene, the woman behind me exclaims loudly, «She had an abortion, right?» to which the woman next to her replied, «Yes!»…really people, c’mon!?! I hate nothing more than hearing people talk during the quiet moments in a play/​musical and I hate people coming late to a show or returning late after intermission and being allowed to stumble down the aisle in front of me, which happens all the time in Sacramento. It is for this reason that I had to withhold a star — it is disappointing that Sacramento’s audiences can be so obnoxious and it is embarrassing, too.
Having said (err, written) all of that — keep the hits coming California Musical Theatre!!! (I’d like to put in a request for Miss Saigon and Sunset Blvd to come through again!!)

I was impressed with this theatre. It was big and clean and the staff were relatively friendly. I watched Legally Blonde the Musical which I loved. And then I watched Spring Awakening: A New Musical which was terrible. The crowd for Legally Blonde was generally teens and their families but they were very respectful and quiet and seemed to truly enjoy the show. (Maybe teens in Sacramento are more polite than in the Bay Area). Either way I would definitely come back here for another show. Maybe Xanadu?

What do you do with a BA in English?
It sucks to be me.
Everyone’s a little bit racist.
The internet is for porn. All these guys unzip their flies for PORN PORN PORN!
There’s a fine, fine line between love and a waste of your time… and I don’t have the time to waste on you anymore! I don’t think that you even know what you’re looking for!
When you and your partner are doing the nasty, don’t behave like you’re at the ballet!
I wish I could go back to college.
As much as this sounds similar to my own life, it isn’t. These are all references to «Avenue Q» which is now showing up in Sacramento. The venue is pretty large and spacious. The ticket prices were a little more than what you would pay to see a show in SF. There are plenty of (overpriced) parking garages and restaurants nearby. The cast is pretty great (I wish the guy playing Brian was a little more energetic and a little less forgetful with his lines).
Still aprehensive about seeing a musical? Do you know anything about «Ave Q.»? It’s a hybrid of «Rent» and «Sesame Street.» Still not interesting enough? FINE! I’ll put a little spoiler in it… PUPPET SEX! No no no. Not the horrible crapping on each other that you see in «Team America.» Just… just see it. It’s funnier because they don’t have legs. ;)