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Scheel conceived its productions as a kind of cabaret dinner theater — a place for his talented friends to belt out show tunes of a cinematic variety when such opportunities were glancingly few in L.A.

He took in projection dinner shows on cruise ships, animated table shows, some more traditional dinner theater and, of course, elaborately themed restaurants.

Gadd, a Los Angeles native, has a background in theater, and in the past has helped run a dinner theater franchise.

The show is like daytime dinner theater, they explain.

She worked at a local dinner theater and saved money to pay her way to New York, where she spent more than a decade performing on and off Broadway.