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Adults $25 in advance

($30 day of the show)

Youth $10 in advance

($15 day of the show)

The Reiner Reading Series is performed at the University Theatre on the campus of CSU Long Beach (7th Street entrance).

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Seating for the Reiner Reading Series is general admission.

Subscribers will be allowed in the house 15 minutes prior to single ticket buyers via a special subscriber only entrance.

READING SERIES

GENEROUSLY UNDERWRITTEN BY

Ken & Dottie Reiner

Ackerman Family/

Evalyn M. Bauer Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts

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PROVIDED BY

Robert & Donna Betts

Michael Betts

Pat DeRouen

Janice DeRouen

Marian Pincombe

Erin Quigley

Mary Quigley

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We are pleased to bring you some of the forgotten gems and lesser-known newer works for the musical stage in staged reading format. Presenting the entire script and score, but with minimal staging and costumes, it’s a perfect way to experience the incredible vastness of this American art form! We had a tremendous response to our inaugural season, and are pleased to bring the series back for 2011-2012!

Musical Theatre West is extremely grateful to the generosity of Ken & Dottie Reiner, without whom this series would not be possible. Also, many thanks to our series underwriters, the Ackerman Family/Evalyn M. Bauer Foundation.

Michael Betts and David Lamoureux, Reiner Reading Series Producers

Frank Loesser’s

The Most Happy Fella

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011, 7:00 PM

The composer of “Guys and Dolls” spent four years creating his masterwork. Vineyard owner Tony Esposito falls in love at first sight with a waitress in a San Francisco restaurant. This glorious score ranges from the soaringly operatic (“My Heart is So Full of You”) to the best of Broadway’s Golden Age (“Standing on the Corner” and “Joey, Joey, Joey”).

Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock’s   

Fiorello!

MARCH 11, 2012 7:00 PM - BUY TICKETS

From the composer and lyricist of “Fiddler on the Roof” comes the musicalization of the life of Fiorello LaGuardia, one of the greatest mayors in American history. Before becoming a three-term mayor of New York, LaGuardia had to beat out the corruption of Tammany Hall and win the hearts of the immigrant voters in the Big Apple.

Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green’s

Bells Are Ringing

MAY 20, 2012 7:00 PM - BUY TICKETS

Ella Peterson, telephone operator at Sue’s Answer Phone, is in love with the voice at PLaza 0-4433. Come and remember a time before cell phones and voice mail, where operators were standing by to take messages and maybe even change lives. This classic show originally starred Judy Holliday features the standards “Just In Time” and “The Party’s Over.”

TICKETS ARE JUST $25 IN ADVANCE ($30 day of)

SEATING FOR THE REINER READING SERIES IS GENERAL ADMISSION

Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane’s

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

JULY 22, 2012 7:00 PM - BUY TICKETS

Chain smoking Daisy Gamble is seeing a psychiatrist to help her kick the habit.  While undergoing hypnosis, Daisy is  regressed and the doctor finds himself falling for the dazzling Melinda Wells, Daisy’s past life from the 18th century.   The Lerner and Lane score includes “What Did I Have That I Don’t Have?” and “Hurry! It’s Lovely Up Here!”