Dwell theater can be largely within the streets this coming week, as Carnival parades are the largest productions to see all through the metropolitan New Orleans space.
Native phases can be darkish for probably the most half, gearing up for a March stuffed with reveals.
For these craving reside staged experiences, a number of of the proficient drag and burlesque acts can be taking the highlight in sizzling spots of town.
However performs, musicals and extra will march into March like an enormous brass band.
This is a have a look at what’s arising. Test upcoming Lagniappes and on NOLA.com for info as reveals get nearer.
“FUNNY GIRL”: The nationwide touring firm of the massive present involves New Orleans with the story of comic Fanny Brice on this mega-musical that options such memorable melodies as “Do not Rain on My Parade,” “Folks” and “Sadie, Sadie Married Girl.” Songster Melissa Manchester comes as Fanny’s mom. The present will run March 11-16 on the Saenger Theatre. Tickets begin at $39. saengernola.com.
“JERSEY BOYS”: One of many higher jukebox musicals, this rock romp about Frankie Valli and the 4 Seasons is full of hallmark songs like “Sherry,” “December, 1963 — Oh What a Night time” and “Who Loves You.” Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré’s manufacturing options Sebastian Rohn, Brian Sanford, Bryce Slocumb and Jake Winne-Wilson because the quartet, with A.J. Allegra and Jauné Buisson taking the helm. The high-energy present takes off March 13 to April 6 on the 616 St. Peter St. playhouse. Tickets begin at $27. lepetittheatre.com.
“ONCE UPON A MATTRESS”: What occurs whenever you want a princess to your son, however you’re the authentic Mommy Dearest? Sabotage, sarcasm and scathing humor all come to play on this musical fairy story spin on “The Princess and the Pea” that launched Carol Burnett as an evil queen (once more), together with a goofy prince, a unusual princess and a courtroom determined to get him married off to allow them to get married themselves. It is nice enjoyable, with such tunes as “The Swamps of Residence,” “The Spanish Panic” and “In a Little Whereas.” The present, at Rivertown Theatres for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St., Kenner, runs March 14-30. Tickets begin at $41. rivertowntheaters.com.
“I LOVE THE NIGHTLIFE”: A brand new musical by Brian Fontenot, Sarah Pagones and Daybreak Mastascuso is a love letter to the disco period and past at Reducing Edge Theater, 767 Robert Blvd., in Slidell. Pagones mentioned the present is “a celebration of the music and tradition that formed our lives, and we will not look forward to the viewers to hitch us on this nostalgic journey.” It is a story about love, friendship and dwelling within the second. The present runs March 14-29. Tickets begin at $30. cuttingedgetheater.com.
“THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG”: Anybody who’s ever participated in a play is aware of if one thing can go mistaken, it often will. That is what’s taking place on the Cornley College Drama Society’s “The Homicide at Haversham Manor,” the following manufacturing at 30 by Ninety Theatre, 880 Lafayette St., in Mandeville. Monty Python meets Sherlock Holmes on this mischief maker directed by Tom Brubrig. The present runs March 15-30. Tickets begin at $17. 30byninety.com.
“THEY PROMISED HER THE MOON”: Relive the lifetime of Jerrie Cobb, the primary American lady to check for an area flight, first as a teen in Oklahoma, then studying methods to fly, testifying earlier than Congress and dealing with the discrimination of the interval. Directed for Playmakers Theater, 19106 Playmakers Highway, in Covington, by Van Turner, the present will run March 15-30. Tickets begin at $15. playmakersinc.com.
LINDA EDER: The Broadway and recording star of “Jekyll & Hyde” visits the River Parishes on March 22 to carry out on the Lafon Performing Arts Heart. The vocalist, who received her begin on “Star Search,” has a number of albums to her credit score and a powerful of sold-out live performance performances. Tickets begin at $45 at 275 Decide E. Dufresne Parkway, Luling. lafonartscenter.org.
“ORPHEUS DESCENDING”: The Tennessee Williams Theatre Co.’s new season, March 27 to April 13, mounts the writer’s story of a lonely lady in a dreary Southern hamlet crammed with secrets and techniques and scandal. Williams launched a colourful palette of characters, brutal conditions and a panorama of interwoven relationships that may drag down the determined characters eager for a greater life — or one thing resembling a life. Austin J. Correro directs the present. Tickets begin $25 at Loyola College. twtheatrenola.com.
On stage this week Feb. 27-March 6
“ALL’S WELL IN ROSWELL (ISN’T IT?)”: 8 p.m. March 7-8, plus 2 p.m. March 9; Slidell Little Theatre, 2024 Nellie Drive. When a UFO plunges right into a ranch close to Roswell, New Mexico within the late Forties, rancher Ulysses T. Boone will get bombarded by authorities sorts, journalists and his household. Plus his ranch hand Jake, a mysterious fellow who’s been round for a decade, seems to be an alien ready to be retrieved. “E.T., cellphone residence?” Tickets begin at $25. slidelllittletheatre.org.
