"A definitive production of a landmark show"

The best productions play to the fact that the 1957 musical is hugely a product of its time and place. By doing exactly that, La Mirada Theatre and McCoy Rigby Productions forges a definitive production of the landmark show. The mixture of drama, romance, tension and comedy is as bittersweet as ever, and director Richard Israel’s superlative staging also fully realizes the tension and the fascinatingly complex dynamic of who is considered the native or insider who belongs versus who’s the newcomer/outsider who doesn’t.