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'Sondheim on Sondheim' on Broadway: Careful the Things You Say
The Theater LoopTHEATER REVIEW: "Sondheim on Sondheim" At Studio 54, 254 W. 54th St., New York. Call 212-719-1300 or visit www.roundabouttheatre.org. With Norm Lewis, Vanessa Williams, Matthew Scott and Euan Morton, above. Also, âSondheim: 80,â honoring Sondheim's... -
'Aida,' 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Sound of Music': Drury Lane announces 2011 season
The Theater LoopThe Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace has announced its 2011 season, to be dominated by classic musicals: âAidaâ: The Elton John and Tim Rice pop musical will be directed and choreographed by Jim Corti (March 23 to May 29)....... -
Music helps TCM's 'Summer Under the Stars' festival sing
Zap2ItIt isn't all about music, but inevitably, a "Summer Under the Stars" involves some. The annual Turner Classic Movies festival that presents a different actor's movies each day of the month begins anew Sunday, Aug. 1. This time, the highlighted performers...Tags: James Stewart, Van Johnson, Drama (genre), Music, Entertainment
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In stories and little revelations, Sondheim gives a master class in the American musical
The Theater LoopAmerican composer Stephen Sondheim, left, converses with Gary Griffin, associate artistic director at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, on stage at the Harris Theater Thursday night. Tailoring Broadway anecdotes for a hometown crowd, Chicago director Gary... -
The 2009 Grammy nominees and winners
Winners will be in bold italics. RECORD OF THE YEAR "Chasing Pavements," Adele "Viva La Vida," Coldplay "Bleeding Love," Leona Lewis "Paper Planes," M.I.A "Please Read the Letter," Robert Plant and Alison Krauss ALBUM OF THE YEAR "Viva La...Tags: Lee Ann Womack, Buddy Guy, Music, Jason Mraz, Albita Rodriguez
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'Piazza's' dramatic light grows sharper
Times Staff WriterRomantics beware: "The Light in the Piazza" may seem like a picture postcard of amour with its lovely American ingénue and handsome Italian bachelor falling head over heels amid the sensual backdrop of Florence. But all is not as it appears in Adam...Tags: Entertainment, Fiction, Music Theater, Theater, Brain
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A master Kazan and rare revivals
Times Staff WriterThe Los Angeles County Museum of Art's four-week Elia Kazan retrospective continues Friday and Saturday with the director's 1954 masterwork, "On the Waterfront," as well as the rarely revived "Panic in the Streets," "Boomerang!" and "Viva Zapata!" "Panic...Tags: Marlon Brando, John Steinbeck, Festive Events, Drama (genre), Dana Andrews
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Refreshing 'Waltz' doesn't dance around somber theme
Tribune arts criticWhen "Do I Hear a Waltz?" opened on Broadway exactly 40 years ago, the great critic Walter Kerr described it thusly: "An entirely serious and very dry musical about an American tourist who goes to Venice and doesn't have any fun." True. But luckily for...Tags: Mamma Mia! (musical), Entertainment, Music Theater, Death, Theater
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Fun facts
Special to Baltimoresun.comAre you having a few film buffs over for an Oscar party? Would you like to impress them with your uncanny knowledge of Oscar trivia? Here are a few fun facts about the annual ceremony to sprinkle in amid the overdone musical numbers and the nominees for...Tags: Judi Dench, Roberto Benigni, Jackie Cooper, Entertainment, Culture
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The King and I
FOR THE TIMESFriday March 19, 1999 The Disney juggernaut for feature animation must, for its competitors, seem like one of those stains on the rug that just won't come off, no matter how much industrial-strength chemistry is applied. So why shouldn't...Tags: William Kidd, Science and Technology, Miranda Richardson, Darrell Hammond, Entertainment
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Movie review, 'Sing-A-Long "Sound of Music"' at the Music Box Theatre
A sing-along "Sound of Music"? You wouldn't have thought Robert Wise's hugely popular Oscar-winning 1965 film of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical had much in common with "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." But "Sing-A-Long 'Sound of Music,'" now playing...Tags: Audrey Hepburn, Entertainment, Minority Groups, Pauline Kael, PG Rated Movies
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Theater review, 'South Pacific' at Cadillac Palace Theatre
Tribune chief criticBrushed up and pepped up, a highly respectable revival of "South Pacific" is at the Cadillac Palace Theatre through Oct. 14. One of the most beloved of all the musicals by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, their 1949 Pulitzer...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment, Mary Martin, World War II (1939-1945), Joshua Logan
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