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718 Mortimer St

Santa Ana, CA 92701

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Broadway On Tour Youth Theater in Orange County has been in continuous operation for 30 years. A place for kids to learn acting skills and families to experience affordable live theater performances. Our performers are extremely talented kids and we have a meet and greet autograph session after every performance. All our auditions are free and open to the public, everyone is welcome. …

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This was an amazing experience for my 3 year old son. He was able to see his 1st live show and ALSO interact with them afterwards. He was talking about Ariel and mermaids the entire way home so I know this will be a permanent memory that we all can cherish as a family. Place holder for a longer review.

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Broadway on Tour is the best community theater in Orange County. Their kids are top notch and the shows are titles everyone wants to see. Looking forward to seeing Sweeney Todd opening this weekend.

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Welcome to Broadway on Tour ticketing site for our shows and events. Please enter here and choose the show or event you are interested in. If you have any questions please e-mail the Box Office at [email protected].

Please note the Ebell Theater now charges to park in their lot for our performances. Please see the signs in the lot and pay via your mobile phone. Please purchase a three hour window to make sure you do not run out of parking time. You may also choose to park on the city streets where legally allowed at your own risk.

!NOTICE! Many streets in the Ebell Theater neighborhood are under construction and there are presently detours on Santa Ana Blvd. PLEASE DON’T RELY ON YOUR PHONE GPS FOR DIRECTIONS TO THE THEATER. As of today 4/22/23 the best route is North or South on Main St. in Santa Ana, then turn East on Civic Center Drive. The theater parking lot will be on your right in about 3 blocks.

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Broadway on Tour Children's Theatre

​​​Broadway on Tour (BOT) is a non-profit, volunteer run theater company bringing affordable, live musical theater to the families of Southern California. BOT was founded in October 1988 in Placentia, CA. Our first performance was “A Christmas on Broadway” three months later! Our mission is simple, instilling in families the love of live musical theater!

To provide a place for families to watch live performances, we offer shows on weekends in a facility that is comfortable for young audiences and provides free parking. We produce one and two-hour musical matinee performances featuring characters and stories recognizable by kids of all ages. Our shows are performed by kids typically aged from eight to twenty, with auditions open to the public.

Broadway on Tour provides a professional director, choreographer, vocal director and costumer for each show. We properly license the rights for all of our shows. BOT is a registered non-profit corporation and our budget is supported by ticket sales and participation fees with occasional small grants and donations. As a volunteer run organization, Broadway on Tour relies on parents, alumni and community volunteers to help with all aspects of our shows’ production; truly living our motto: “Families bringing theatre to families!”

All performances are held at the historic Ebell Theater located at 718 Mortimer Street in Santa Ana.

12 Dancing Princesses

Presented by Broadway on Tour Children's Theatre at Ebell Theater

Feb 17 - Mar 3, 2018

Sep 24 - Oct 9, 2016

Disney's Alice in Wonderland Jr.

Presented by Broadway on Tour Children's Theatre and Imagination Celebration at Ebell Theater

May 7 - May 22, 2016

A Sleeping Beauty Christmas

Dec 12 - Dec 20, 2015

Beauty and the Beast (Jr.)

Sep 26 - Oct 11, 2015

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    Primary address: PO Box 1048, Santa Ana, CA 92702

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Broadway on Tour is the best community theater in Orange County. Their kids are top notch and the shows are titles everyone wants to see. Looking forward to seeing Sweeney Todd opening this weekend. Read more

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This was an amazing experience for my 3 year old son. He was able to see his 1st live show and ALSO interact with them afterwards. He was talking about Ariel and mermaids the entire way home so I... Read more

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Theater + arts | former president donald trump found guilty in hush money trial, things to do, theater + arts, theater + arts | review: ‘funny girl’ in costa mesa boasts a mega-talented star.

Rarely, an audience roars out of its seats with fervent spontaneity, a visceral launch as if the chairs were spring-loaded.

Tuesday evening, the largely unknown stage actress Katerina McCrimmon, starring as Fanny Brice in the touring “Funny Girl” newly arrived at Segerstrom center, generated that raw eruption.

And deservedly so! While touring productions of Broadway musicals chugging through the hinterlands often have lead parts filled with fine enough performances, encountering a “who was THAT!?” jaw-dropping talent is a rare sighting.

And an even rarer “sounding,” as it turns out.

Barbra Streisand has cast more than a half-century of deepest shade over these songs which made her a star. The ultimate factor, of course, was her indelible voice and a lifetime of couture tailored musical arrangements — starting with the “Funny Girl” film score — to show it off.

McCrimmon’s considerable vocal entitlement is on bigtime display throughout these golden age show tunes. Its most overt quality is that she proves to be a Broadway belter with the best of them.

During the animated show ending reprise of the warhorse “Don’t Rain on My Parade,” McCrimmon crowns the number by drilling the possessive adjective, stringing out that “Myyyyyyyyyyyy”  effortlessly and extending the belted note far longer than we anticipate while we are hearing it.

The crowd, as they say, went wild.

Vocal pyrotechnics aside, what makes this show go across most of its 2 ½ hours is that McCrimmon is also a plus-one strong comedic actor. This “Funny Girl” features an actually funny girl.

In real life, Fanny Brice couldn’t sing a lick. She became a star a century ago as an unparalleled vaudeville comedienne at a time when it was strictly a man’s job to make ‘em laugh.

As Fanny says in a line of dialogue, “they laughed with me, not at me.”

McCrimmon never breaks the fourth wall, but her Fanny’s naturalistic asides, glances and, most of all, reactions to what other characters just said to her, personalizes the experience to a level that it feels she is kibbitzing one-on-one wisecracks with the last row in the orchestra section.

A key to the evening, too, is that McCrimmon in this production is keeping quite nice company.

Her charming swain-then-husband, Nick Arnstein is well filled by Stephen Mark Lukas. An understudy in the Broadway production, Lukas looks and frets the part of a gambler desperately descending into jail time over a crooked deal.

Lukas’ baritone is a fine fit for McCrimmon in the comic seduction duet “You Are Woman, I Am Man”;  even better is his resigned delivery of the winsome lament “You’re a Funny Girl.”

As Mrs. Brice, Fanny’s mom, Melissa Manchester makes for a dandy uber-Jewish empress of the running poker game in the Lower-East Side ghetto on Henry Street, which Harvey Fierstein, brought in for this production to punch up the book, has unaccountably shuffled off to Brooklyn.

Manchester also wears her mother-in-law “I told you this guy was going to be a problem” tone lightly, as if what is evident to her as the wife who got jilted should be clear to all.

Vocally, Manchester only gets a lead in the song “Who Taught Her Everything She Knows?”  It’s the show’s loss we don’t hear Manchester’s voice solo another time.

This production is also buoyed throughout by strong tap dance scenes, especially two solos from Izaiah Montaque Harris as Eddie Ryan. Beyond Harris’ applause-drawing dexterity, he functions smoothly as Fanny’s low-level showbiz confidant as well as part time choreographer at the Ziegfeld Follies.

The follies’ ensemble dance scenes with the whole cast intermittently provides the show with period fun and plenty of costuming razzmatazz.

Musically, the generous pit band of 17 — led by director Elaine Davidson — announced the fulsome musical pleasures to come with an inviting instrumental overture showcase.

An interesting musical component is how the show’s biggest warhorse, “People”  sort of sneaks up on you in the stage mounting.

Everyone, of course, has been trained to know how this ballad/anthem sounds from a lifetime hearing the Streisand studio recording or her taped live 1994 performance at the then-Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim.

Here, the magic isn’t about hearing a No. 1 hit yet again, but experiencing its true, original purpose within the show’s framework.

This is the first moment Fanny’s always on-display vulnerabilities aren’t paid off with a punchline, but, instead, a window to her inner, emotional landscape.

Another surprise for anyone who saw this show in New York is that on Broadway, this same physical set design felt underwhelming, a bit  makeshift. However, at Segerstrom the visual references to the long-ago red brick of early 20th century Manhattan … er, OK Harvey, Brooklyn … feel downright homey.

Don’t think for a minute, though, that this bagel doesn’t come with a big hole in it.

“Funny Girl’s” second act has a book that turns Fanny into a maudlin mope and a run of songs that can’t stand up to the powerhouse numbers which landed before the intermission curtain.

Early on in “Funny Girl,” after Fanny and Nick kiss for the first time, McCrimmon does a brief tap step jig of excitement that maybe lasts a second, at most. It’s a visual riff that Streisand originated, and which  “Funny Girl” fanatics likely recognize.

In an insightful article in Performance magazine, about theater performers in roles indelibly tied to megastars,  McCrimmon acknowledges that “for many people, Fanny and Barbara are one.”

Probably so. But while in front of us, Katerina McCrimmon accomplishes the unfathomable — she makes the role her own.

‘Funny Girl’

Rating: 3 1/2 stars (out of a possible four).

When: Through June 9; 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays; 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturdays; 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sundays.

Where: Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa

Tickets: $39-$139

Information: 949-556-2787; scfta.org

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THE OUTSIDERS Will Launch National Tour in 2025

The tour will begin in Fall 2025 at Tulsa Performing Arts Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Greasers are hitting the road! Producers The Araca Group, American Zoetrope , Olympus Theatricals , Sue Gilad & Larry Rogowsky  and  Angelina Jolie  announced today that the Tony-nominated Best Musical The Outsiders, the new musical based on the seminal novel by S.E. Hinton and  Francis Ford Coppola ’s landmark motion picture, will officially open a North American Tour in Fall 2025 at Tulsa Performing Arts Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma following tech, launch and previews at West Herr Auditorium Theatre in Rochester, New York.

“We could not imagine anywhere else to begin this next leg of The Outsiders journey than where it all began in Tulsa,” said producer  Matthew Rego  of The Araca Group. “S.E. Hinton’s novel has inspired generations and we’re thrilled for a new generation to experience the iconic story as we take The Outsiders across America.”

Additional tour cities, dates, and casting for the North American Tour will be announced at a later date. 

Now nominated for 12 Tony Awards including Best Musical, The Outsiders features a book by Tony Award nominee  Adam Rapp  with Tony Award winner  Justin Levine , music and lyrics by Tony Award nominees  Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay & Zach Chance) and  Justin Levine , music supervision, orchestration & arrangements by  Justin Levine , choreography by Tony Award nominees  Rick Kuperman  &  Jeff Kuperman  and is directed by Tony Award nominee  Danya Taymor . 

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1967, Ponyboy Curtis, his best friend Johnny Cade and their Greaser family of “outsiders” battle with their affluent rivals, the Socs. This thrilling new Broadway musical navigates the complexities of self-discovery as the Greasers dream about who they want to become in a world that may never accept them. With a dynamic original score, The Outsiders is a story of friendship, family, belonging... and the realization that there is still “lots of good in the world.” 

The Outsiders features Scenography by Tony Award nominees AMP featuring  Tatiana Kahvegian , Costume Design by  Sarafina Bush , Lighting Design by Tony Award winner  Brian MacDevitt , Tony Award nominee Sound Design by Cody Spencer, Tony Award nominee Projection Design by  Hana S. Kim , Special Effects Design by  Jeremy Chernick  &  Lillis Meeh , Hair & Wig Design by Alberto “Albee” Alvarado, Makeup Design by Tishonna Ferguson, Sound Effects Specialist Taylor Bense, Creative Consultant  Jack Viertel . Music Direction & Additional Orchestrations by Tony Award nominee  Matt Hinkley . Casting is by  Tara Rubin Casting/ Xavier Rubiano , CSA. 

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