Dolls! Not Your Usual Love Story

“A delightful, fun-filled odyssey! Absolutely remarkable!” says American Press Service. “Spot on!” echoes The Tolucan Times. “Fine acting and gorgeous design!” exclaims the Canyon Crier. In its signature Commedia-circus theatre style, acclaimed Actors’ Repertory Theatre brings to bold, beautiful life the Rudie-DeCarlo feel-good hit of the as your favorite dolls of olde burst onto the Santa Monica Playhouse stage, baring their souls, and their startling private lives, for all to see. “A company that knows what its audience expects from an evening of theatre!” (LA TIMES). The handsome Tin Soldier! the ephemeral Music Box Dancer! the ever-smiling Raggedy Girl! the cracked (literally and figuratively) Porcelain Victoriana! the anatomically incorrect Fashion Doll! Enjoy them all and more in this exciting new musical, written and directed by internationally renowned team Evelyn Rudie and Chris DeCarlo. The cast of nine triple-threat performers stars Jessica Erin Bennett, Serena Dolinsky, Melissa Gentry, Annie Mackay, Nancy Dobbs Owen, Garett Stevens and Troy Titus-Adams, with Evelyn Rudie as Baby Babette and Chris DeCarlo as Gigoletto, the love-struck, no-strings-attached marionette. “The Playhouse is truly a gem in this city, and visiting it should be at the top of everyone’s to do list!” DAILY BRUIN.