ENTERTAINMENT & ARTS https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-mean-girls-broadway-20180502-story.html “Mean Girls” tied for the most Tony nominations with 12. Here Cady (Erika Henningsen) faces the lunch trio of Gretchen (Ashley Park), left, Regina (Tony nominee Taylor Louderman) and Karen (Kate Rockwell). (Joan Marcus) BY ERIKA MILVY MAY 2, 2018 5
You know their songs; now learn their backstory. The Temptations get the Jersey Boys treatment this fall with the world premiere of Ain’t Too Proud, a mus Source: The Temptations get their own jukebox musical at Berkeley Rep this fall
‘Hamilteens’ may not have seen the show, but they know everything about it. Who needs One Direction when you’ve got a musical about the founding fathers? Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of Hamilton at Tony awards. Photograph: CBS photo archive/Getty Images Erika Milvy Wed 22 Jun
Premiering in San Francisco before its January New York opening, Beautiful, The Carole King Musical, is yet another Juke box musical. But unlike other recent musical biographies about musical careers, the Carole King story is really about music making. Source: Beautiful, the Carole King Musical
With less gritty realism and attention to societal ills than West Side Story, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s contemporary immigrant story, In the Heights, gets by on its wits and rhythms. Source: There IS a Place for Us — In the Heights is an “Up Side Story”
A Broadway pop musical about Electroconvulsive Therapy and suicidal ideation, Next to Normal uses sardonic wit and dark humor to lighten this heartbreaking story of a family devastated by mental illness. Source: Psychotic Mother Belts It Out, Wins Tony. It’s Next to Normal. | KQED
“Wicked,” a dissenting opinion on conventional “Wizard of Oz” wisdom, reveals the plight of a persecuted, scape-goated witch at the hands of a feeble figurehead, hiding behind an impressive Ozian smoke screen.