A major theatrical event took place in Sacramento on Saturday night, April 27, with the Sacramento Theater Company’s world premiere of “A Little Princess.” It is a musical with close creative ties to Sacramento, a show with a potential to reach a huge audiences, given its launch in a Sacramento Theater Company production that could not be more pitch perfect in any way. William J. Brooke has created a wonderful playbook based on popular English-American writer Frances Hodgson Burnett’s children’s novel of the same name. Burnett is best known for her children’s books published just before and after the turn of the 19th century, “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” “The Little Princess” and “A Secret G

Sacramento Theatre Company opened its 15 Cabaret production “Music of the Night: The Musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber” Thursday night to a cheering capacity crowd. The popularity of the STC Cabaret productions combined with the huge popularity of Lloyd Webber has led STC to offer a second weekend the show. Lloyd Webber, along with his original lyricist Tim Rice, turned concept album concerts into mega hit shows around the world. In his opening remarks, STC producing director Michael Laun spoke about the cast having no shortage of favorite Lloyd Webber songs to the point of being able to do another whole show. The show runs chronologically from “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

photographs by Barry Wisdom |   In a recent New York Times article about "The Phantom of the Opera" reaching the milestone of 10,000 Broadway performances, "Phantom" investor James B. Freydberg said he and his partner figured putting money into a Broadway show had to be better than dumping ducats into the stock market. Was he ever right. Since "Phantom" opened 24 years ago, the tuner has earned them some $12 million. “No one ever, ever expected this kind of wealth,” Freydberg said. “My only other investment that has performed better is my Apple stock.” Such is the magic of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, whose list of stage successes like "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Evita" are current