Broadway L.A. 07-08...aka Yawn!

Apparently this is what happens when your home base is taken up with behemoths.

Or when the road is dry. I'm not sure which.

Ever go to the Pantages? Sure you do. Who doesn't want to catch the umpteenth tour of "Annie" or "Les Miz" or "Stomp." When the popular big budget musicals tour, if they don't come to the Ahmanson, they go to Broadway/L.A.

Now, in an earlier entry, I speculated about what might happen to Broadway/L.A.'s season now that the return of "Wicked" has the Pantages occupied for the conceivable future, and now that the Wilshire Theatre -- B/L.A.'s frequent default venue _is under new management. Not to worry, I was told. We can still use the Wilshire or UCLA or the Wadsworth.

Indeed, they can. And they have. Not that what they're bringing in is exactly thrilling.

Here's the line-up:

"Camelot" with Michael York at UCLA's Royce Hall, Sept. 11 to 23. An L.A. premiere.

"The Rat Pack -- Live at the Sands" at the Wilshire Theatre, Dec. 4 to 16. Also an L.A. premiere

"The Color Purple" at the Ahmanson Theatre, Feb. 11 to March 2, 2008. Yet a third L.A. premiere.

Now, this being an announcement geared toward subscribers, there are some other opportunities for those looking to re-up.

Renewing Broadway/L.A. subscribers can buy tix for "Jersey Boys" at the Ahmanson Theatre (opening June 1).

Subscribers can also get decent "Wicked" tickets. (Big surprise those puppies are still available!)

And theater goers who are road minded can also purchase priority seats for "Monty Python's Spamalot" at the Wynn Las Vegas.

Sound like a decent lineup? Well, it might be if any of it was remotely fresh. Or close. Or if Broadway/L.A. were responsible for its being here.

"The Color Purple" is coming into town, to the Ahmanson, under the CTG banner. So that's not a new addition. Same with "Jersey Boys." You'd hope Broadway L.A. subscribers wouldn't have to shell out decent money just for the chance to buy decent seats to someone else's production, but you never know.

"Wicked"... OK, that's still a draw, but what Broadway/ L.A. subscribers out there haven't already seen it by now?

The Michael York "Camelot" -- which I thought was trash -- may be an L.A. premiere, but it already played in La Mirada. It kicked off its tour at the La Mirada Performing Arts Center which houses McCoy Rigby Entertainment.

"Spamalot" -- Did I mention that you have to go to VEGAS to see it! Does your subscription cost include gas and hotel accommodations?

Now, September to the end of March does not a season make. I'm hoping that somewhere in those gaps, the folks at Broadway/L.A. might find something on the road that they can plug in to an opening: at the Wadsworth, the Brentwood, the Wilshire, wherever!

As it stands, the only new entry being brought into the city by Broadway/L.A., the only thing Angelinos will have not seen before, is, gulp!, "The Rat Pack -- Live at the Sands." I'm assuming this is somewhat difference from "The Rat Pack Live" which was at the Kodak Theatre back in 2004.

One can hope.