Louis Prima

All good things must come to an end. After a highly successful eight-month run at L.A.'s Geffen Playhouse, the creators of "Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara" have posted a closing notice. The musical production, which is directed by......

The stage musical “Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara” has been a runaway hit with critics and audiences since opening in Los Angeles more than a year ago. It extended its run seven times at the Geffen Playhouse and......

People are starting to call it the musical that keeps on giving. The team behind the popular "Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara" is mounting a revised version of the stage show at the El Portal Theatre in North......

Mash Notes and Comment "Dear Paul, "Following is a little Christmas spirit I dreamed up while writing the Keely Smith-Louis Prima show here in Las Vegas: "A WESTERN CHRISTMAS " 'Twas the night before Christmas And all was serene Not a cowboy was...

As L.A. gears up for the film awards season, starting with the Golden Globes this Sunday, the city's theater community held its own tuxedo and evening-gown affair this evening at the 2008-09 L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Awards ceremony. "Louis &......

Exit another theater critic, enter a theater insider. Those are the stage directions coming from KCRW-FM (89.9). The Santa Monica-based public radio outlet announced Friday that the curtain has closed on James C. Taylor's seven-year run of four-minute...

Hollywood celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Walk of Fame on Sunday with performances, free movie screenings and tours of area studios and theaters. Visitors could see a screening of “To Kill a Mockingbird” at the Hollywood Pacific Theatre, an.......

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Hoping to boost attendance after a year of production cuts and emergency fundraising appeals, the financially stretched Geffen Playhouse has worked in a new marketing wrinkle: using the Web-based ticket-discounter Goldstar to sell season subscriptions...

SHE WAS Martin to his Lewis, a shrug to his stampede. Singers Louis Prima and Keely Smith packed Vegas houses in the 1950s with their droll cabaret show. They were Punch and Judy for the cocktail set, a witty cold war waged between Smith's seeming disdain...

Indomitable saxophonist Peggy Gilbert got the beat back in the 1920s, when Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington and the Kansas City Nighthawks were wowing Jazz Age dance crowds. She was still blowing a hot tenor sax in 1981 on Johnny...

Louis Prima and Keely Smith are struggling to save a marriage. If their relationship goes down in flames, so too might their lucrative lounge act. They have joined forces to become a Las Vegas sensation, but the emotions they tunefully profess in front of...