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Everybody’s Talking about Jamie

June 6, 2024 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Everybody’s Talking about Jamie Dan Gillespie Sells (Score) & Tom MacRae (Book & Lyrics) Based Jamie: Drag Queen at 16, Directed by Jenny Popplewell Ray of Light Theatre What better way for a San Francisco audience to celebrate Pride Month than enjoying to the hilt a joyous, upbeat, and totally inspiring coming out story of a sixteen-year-old whose only dream … [Read more...] about Everybody’s Talking about Jamie

The Rocky Horror Show

October 24, 2019 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Hot men and women in sensuous, black corsets of torn lace and slicked leather who are raised on high by heeled boots, all singing and dancing in rock numbers that are precursors of later musicals like Grease or Hairspray can mean only one thing:  The Rocky Horror Show is yet once again in revival.  Generations of costumed, crazed audiences around the world have sustained … [Read more...] about The Rocky Horror Show

“Caroline, Or Change”

September 14, 2019 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Caroline, Or ChangeJeanine Tesori (Music); Tony Kushner (Book & Lyrics)Ray of Light TheatreElizabeth Jones, Cadarious Mayberry, Majesty Scott, Jasmyne Brice, Antone Jackson & Leslie IvyIt is November 1963; and after a relatively stable 1950s, change is in the air everywhere – some good, some scary, some revolutionary, and in one case, an event tragic for a nation and … [Read more...] about “Caroline, Or Change”

“American Psycho”

May 24, 2019 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

American PsychoDuncan Sheik (Music & Lyrics); Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Book)Ray of Light TheatreKyle Ewalt & Kipp GlassHow possible is it that having the perfectly tanned body that has been honed to the hilt so that every muscle tautly glistens, wearing only the latest and most expensive big-name designer wear, and always eating in the restaurants where most can never … [Read more...] about “American Psycho”

“Hedwig and the Angry Inch”

September 18, 2018 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Hedwig and the Angry InchJohn Cameron Mitchell (Book); Stephen Trask (Music & Lyrics)Ray of Light TheatreColeton SchmittoIn the past few years, Ray of Light Theatre has garnered a wildly enthusiastic and loyal audience that will pack night after night the cavernous Victoria Theatre for excellent, high-quality, and often quite bizarre musicals that the company … [Read more...] about “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”

“Jesus Christ Superstar”

May 19, 2018 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Jesus Christ SuperstarAndrew Lloyd Webber (Music); Tim Rice (Lyrics)Ray of Light TheatreJanelle Lasalle as Jesus, with ApostlesFor a week, our smart phone and TV screens have been filled with the scenes of burning tires, hurling rocks, and flying bullets as bodies fall on the border of Gaza and Israel.  All day, those same small and mega screens have shocked us once more … [Read more...] about “Jesus Christ Superstar”

“Silence! The Musical”

February 4, 2017 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Silence! The MusicalJon Kaplan & Al Kaplan (Music & Lyrics); Hunter Bell (Book)Cloud 9 Theatricals In association with Lang Entertainment Group & Ray ofLight TheatreWith cute, floppy ears and paws of wool, a flock of lambs sings and dances with harmonized voices and clever steps as they warn: Homicidal freaks!Lunatics behind steel bars,Women missing … [Read more...] about “Silence! The Musical”

“Little Shop of Horrors”

September 18, 2016 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Little Shop of HorrorsHoward Ashman (Book & Lyrics); Alan Menkin (Music)Ray of Light TheatreMary Kalita & Sam FaustineHow do you take everyone’s favorite horror, fully-tongue-in-cheek, rock musical about a human-eating plant and ensure that your production will be noticed when this musical has already been produced in the past thirty years on almost every community’s … [Read more...] about “Little Shop of Horrors”

“The Wild Party”

May 21, 2016 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

The Wild PartyAndrew Lippa (Book, Music & Lyrics)Ray of Light TheatreJocelyn Pickett as Queenie Held on HighIn case there were any remaining doubts that the most consistently exciting, exuberant, and excelling musical theatre being staged in San Francisco was not coming from Ray of Light Theatre, then the company’s current production of Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party will … [Read more...] about “The Wild Party”

“The Rocky Horror Show”

October 29, 2015 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

The Rocky Horror ShowRichard O’Brien (Book, Music, Lyrics)Ray of LightD'Arcy Drollinger as Frank-n-FurterHot men and women in sensuous, black corsets of lace and leather who are raised on high by spiked stilettos, all singing and dancing in rock numbers that are precursors of later musicals like Grease or Hairspray can mean only one thing:  The Rocky Horror Show is yet … [Read more...] about “The Rocky Horror Show”

“Lizzie”

September 26, 2015 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

LizzieSteven Cheslik-DeMeyer, Tim Maner & Alan Stevens HewittRay of Light TheatreLizzie Borden took an axe,Gave her mother forty whacks.When she saw what she had done,Gave her father forty-one.Elizabeth Curtis as Lizzie, Jessica Coker as Emma, Taylor Jones as Alice and Melissa Reinertson as Bridget. With this children’s ditty probably running through our minds as we … [Read more...] about “Lizzie”

“Heathers: The Musical”

May 28, 2015 by Eddie Reynolds Leave a Comment

Heathers: The MusicalLaurence O’Keefe Y Kevin Murphy (Book, Music & Lyrics)Ray of Light Theatre Presenting at the Victoria Theatre, San FranciscoTime and again in the past few years, Ray of Light Theatre has produced quirky, exciting, new musicals that most other local theatres probably would not consider offering (Carrie the Musical, Triassic Parq, Yeast Nation, Jerry … [Read more...] about “Heathers: The Musical”

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