Our Leading Lady

 

-"......Backstage of Ford's Theater (lovingly recreated by designer Vali Tirsoaga, with theatrical tchotchkes hanging from the rafters)."

Bob Verini

TheBiz.Variety.com > - Regional - 2/23/09 5:52pm

 

-"Scenic designer Vali Tirsoaga has transformed the 1927 Mediterranean-style church into an 19th Century theater, surrounding the stage with precisely the assortment of props and scenery that Ford’s Theatre would have accumulated."

-Steven Stanley

Stagescenela.com February 22, 2009

 

 

The Light In the Piazza

 

-"Vali Tirsoaga's versatile pillars make a movable set which takes one seamlessly from place to place to place. This kind of smooth pacing is rare in a theater of this size."

SGVTribune.com

Pasadena Star-News

 

 

- "The Covina Center for the Performing Arts has taken a very large, splashy modern Broadway musical, and by and large have found its intimate magic. "The Light in the Piazza" - which was gorgeously lush at the Ahmanson not so long ago - scales down far better than one would expect."

 

-"....and Vali Tirsoaga set design stand up to the Tony-winning original. The Light In The Piazza is a front-runner for Best Intimate Musical of the year. "

 

-"Now, in one of the biggest theatrical triumphs of this or any year, CCPA’s production recreates the magic of the Lincoln Center original on a warmer and more intimate scale."

 

-"Vali Tirsoaga’s set design has the same spacious airiness of Tony-winner Michael Yeargan’s."

 

-"A front-runner for Best Intimate Musical of the year, The Light In The Piazza is must-see theater for anyone in love with the art form."

-StevenStanley

Stagescenela.com January 23, 2009