Ahmanson Theatre

 
Theatre
135 N. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

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Seats: 1600
Box Office Phone:
(213) 628-2772
Box Office Hours:
Tue-Sun, 12pm-6pm, 2 hours before curtain.
Event
Mary Poppins
Open: Aug-09 2012
Close: Sep-02 2012

Based on P.L. Travers’ cherished stories and the classic 1964 Walt Disney film, Mary Poppins features the Academy Award®-winning music and lyrics of Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman. The stage production has been created, in collaboration with Cameron Mackintosh, by Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes, who has written the book, and the Olivier Award-winning team of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, who have composed new songs and additional music and lyrics. Olivier Award-winning...
 
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War Horse
Open: Jun-13 2012
Close: Jul-29 2012

England, 1914. As World War One begins, Joey, young Albert’s beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped from England to France. He’s soon caught up in enemy fire, and fate takes him on an extraordinary journey, before finding himself alone in no man’s land. But Albert cannot forget Joey and he embarks on a treacherous mission to find him and bring him home.
 
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Follies
Open: May-03 2012
Close: Jun-09 2012

When former members of the “Weismann Follies” reunite on the eve of their theatre's demolition, two couples remember their past and face the harsher realities of the present. Reminiscing about their younger selves and the years gone by, the crumbling theatre brings back memories for both couples of good times and bad. Containing such well-known songs as “Broadway Baby,” “I’m Still Here,” “Too Many Mornings,” “Could I Leave You?” and “Losing My Mind,” “Follies” echoes...
 
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American Idiot
Open: Mar-13 2012
Close: Apr-22 2012

Slinging razor guitars , thundering drums and an anti-hero named Johnny. Not the prelude of typical entries in the canon of musical theatre. But these elements herald a groundbreaking American musical all the same: with the burning passion of characters who yearn for something more, songs bursting with emotion and a story that dares you to feel and celebrate and hope.
 
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Fela!
Open: Dec-13 2011
Close: Jan-22 2012

Legendary Nigerian Fela Kuti was a musical dynamo and a political powder keg who used his supercharged and sexy Afrobeat sound and charismatic spirit to ignite and inspire a generation to dare challenge a government of oppression.
 
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Bring it On
Open: Oct-30 2011
Close: Dec-10 2011

BRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL is the explosive new musical comedy that raises the stakes on over-the-top high school rivalries. Set against the world of competitive cheerleading, this powerhouse new show hilariously proves that winning isn’t everything when it means losing something - or someone - you really care about.
 
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Les Misérables
Open: Jun-14 2011
Close: Jul-31 2011

Based on Victor Hugo’s classic novel, Les Misérables is an epic and uplifting story about the survival of the human spirit. The magnificent score of Les Misérables includes the classic songs “I Dreamed a Dream,” “On My Own,” “Stars,” “Bring Him Home,” “Do You Hear the People Sing?,” “One Day More,” “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables,” “Master of the House” and many more.

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God of Carnage
Open: Apr-05 2011
Close: May-29 2011

Hailed by Elisabeth Vincentelli of the New York Post as “. . . gleefully nasty fun," “God of Carnage" is set in a gentrified section of Brooklyn where two married couples meet to sort out a playground fight between their sons. At first, niceties are observed but as the evening progresses and the rum flows, the gloves come off and the night becomes a side-splitting free-for-all of verbal brawling.

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33 Variations
Open: Jan-30 2011
Close: Mar-06 2011

In “33 Variations,” the audience is transported back and forth from present-day New York to 19th century Austria, when a musicologist (Fonda) is determined to solve the musical mystery of why Beethoven spent his last years feverishly writing 33 variations of what appeared to be a mediocre waltz created by his publisher. Even though she has been diagnosed with a serious disease, the scholar dismisses her daughter’s concerns and flies to Europe to study Beethoven’s original papers. It is here...
 
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Next to Normal
Open: Nov-23 2010
Close: Jan-02 2011

From the director of RENT comes Next to Normal, an emotional powerhouse of a musical with a thrilling contemporary score about a family trying to take care of themselves and each other. Winner of three 2009 Tony Awards including Best Musical Score, Next to Normal is the most talked about new show on Broadway — and chosen as “one of the year’s TEN best” by major critics around the country including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Rolling Stone and The New York Times.

 
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Leap of Faith
Open: Sep-11 2010
Close: Oct-24 2010

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“Are you ready for a miracle…” World premiere musical bound for Broadway!

You’ll be dancing in the aisles when con man Jonas Nightingale brings his gospel-charged tent revival to rain-starved Kansas. Based on the movie with Steve Martin, Leap of Faith boasts a brand new score from 8-time Oscar winner Alan Menken (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast) and a Broadway-bound...
 
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South Pacific
Open: May-27 2010
Close: Jul-17 2010

Set on a tropical island during World War II, South Pacific tells the sweeping romantic story of two couples — US Navy nurse Nellie Forbush and French plantation owner Emile de Becque, and Navy Airman Joe Cable and a young local native girl Liat — and how their happiness is threatened by the realities of war and by their own prejudices.

Considered by many the finest musical ever written, the score’s songs include such musical theatre classics as “Some Enchanted Evening,” “I'm...
 
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The 39 Steps
Open: Apr-27 2010
Close: May-16 2010

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Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have... (mystery chords!) Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39  Steps, Broadway’s most intriguing, most thrilling, most riotous, most unmissable comedy smash! The mind-blowing cast of 4 plays over 150 characters in this fast-paced tale of an ordinary man on an extraordinarily entertaining adventure.
 
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Dreamgirls
Open: Feb-25 2010
Close: Apr-04 2010

Full of onstage joy and backstage drama, DREAMGIRLS tells the rags-to-riches story of an up and coming, 1960s girl group, and the triumphs  and tribulations that come with fame and fortune.

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Mary Poppins
Open: Nov-13 2009
Close: Feb-07 2010

Based on P.L. Travers’ cherished stories and the classic 1964 Walt Disney film, Mary Poppins features the Academy Award®-winning music and lyrics of Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman. The stage production has been created, in collaboration with Cameron Mackintosh, by Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes, who has written the book, and the Olivier Award-winning team of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, who have composed new songs and additional music and lyrics. Olivier Award-winning...
 
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