Floyd Collins at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts

Floyd Collins

La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts
14900 La Mirada Boulevard La Mirada

Get up close & personal with the new ONSTAGE series at La Mirada Theatre! A new, intimate theatre experience has been created by placing 199 audience seats on the stage. The stage will be filled with and incredible award-winning musical AND the audience. Seating is VERY limited so get you tickets early! With a large cast and live musicians, feel the adventure of Floyd Collins's dream of fame and fortune as he is trapped in a narrow cave 200 feet below the surface. See how his goal of creating a tourist attraction becomes a reality, with him as the main attraction. With music and lyrics by Tony Award winner Adam Guettel (The Light in the Piazza) and book and lyrics by innovative theatre artist Tina Landau, this haunting musical, which won a Lucille Lortel Award, a Drama Desk Award, and an Obie Award when it premiered in New York, tells the transcendant tale of a true American dreamer.

Thru - Apr 13, 2014

Price: $20-$60

Show Type: Musical

Box Office: 562-944-9801

www.lamiradatheatre.com

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Floyd Collins Reviews

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Los Angeles Times - Recommended

"...As for the bold, sweet-and-sour score, beautifully directed by David O: Give it some time. You may not love it at first, but it might stay with you."

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- Margaret Gray

Stage Scene LA - Recommended

"...From its striking opening tableau, to its full-cast musical prologue, "The Ballad Of Floyd Collins," accompanied by teenaged balladeer Jewell Estes (Matt Magnusson) on guitar, to our first glimpse of Floyd crawling down and through narrow tunnels before reaching a rainbow-hued cave he hopes will bring the area fame and fortune, Guettel and Landeau's musical grabs the audience tight and doesn't let go till its powerful, gut-wrenching climax."

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- Steven Stanley

StageHappenings.com - Recommended

"...Director Richard Israel has skillfully led his talented troupe of actors through this unusual, heartbreaking and yet heart-lifting musical."

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- Rob Stevens

ArtsInLA - Recommended

"...One of the most ambitious art musicals of recent years, Floyd Collins by Adam Guettel (music and lyrics) and Tina Landau (book and additional lyrics) is receiving an outstanding mounting from helmer Richard Israel and the management of the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts. The producers, who regularly bring you the likes of Peter Pan and Cats, have blocked off their huge auditorium to place Rich Rose's multilevel black-box set onto a three-quarter thrust with intimate seating. Gorgeously lit by Lisa D. Katz, it proves an excellent space to recount, with delicate artistry, the ordeal of a real-life spelunker caught in a Kentucky cave-in in 1925."

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- Bob Verini

OC Register - Recommended

"...The show's style and musical content are remarkable, but so is the way "Floyd Collins" depicts elements of human striving, hoping and dreaming colliding with harsh, and often gut-wrenching, reality."

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- Eric Marchese

Musicals In LA - Recommended

"...Somehow, using incredibly inventive direction and stagecraft, West Coast Ensemble and director Richard Israel created an unforgettable experience; one that I was fortunate enough to see and can only describe as theatre magic at its very best."

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- Ellen Dostal

Broadway World - Recommended

"...Based on a true story about a Kentucky cave explorer in 1925 who was trapped 150 ft beneath the earth's surface for two weeks, Floyd Collins offers a chilling, heartbreaking account of one man's eclectic dream and the whole town's unstoppable courage to save him. Now in a freshly staged and copiously rich production at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts in La Mirada, the material more than receives its due with spot.on direction from Richard Israel and an outstanding cast through April 13."

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- Don Grigware