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Grammys 2013: Broadway's 'Once' wins musical theater award
"Once," the intimate, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical that is based on the Oscar-winning movie of the same name, won a Grammy Award on Sunday. The Broadway cast recording for "Once: A New Musical" won for musical theater album at a pre-show ceremony...
Tags: Nice Work If You Can Get It (musical), Newsies (musical), Music Theater, Entertainment Events, Theater
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'Backbeat' creators go beyond the standard musical theater fare
Searching for his way into the new musical "Backbeat," which examines the Beatles' early days (and nights) in Hamburg, Germany, David Leveaux asked himself what he called "the Jerome Robbins question." It's a tactic he picked up in 2004 while overseeing...
Tags: The Flaming Lips (music group), Battles (music group), Entertainment Events, Aaron Johnson, Theater
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Grammys 2013: 'Once,' 'Follies' nominated for musical theater album
"Once" is once again in the awards spotlight. The original cast recording for the popular Broadway show is among the Grammy nominees this year in the category of musical theater albums. The show features songs by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, the...
Tags: Christianity, Nice Work If You Can Get It (musical), Culture, Newsies (musical), Religion and Belief
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Tony Awards 2012: 'Once' wins eight Tonys, including best musical
"Once" was the big winner at the Tony Awards on Sunday, taking home eight awards, including best new musical. Based on the 2006 indie movie of the same name, "Once" is a modestly scaled romantic reverie that is leagues different in tone and size from...
Tags: Christianity, Nice Work If You Can Get It (musical), Newsies (musical), Religion and Belief, Music Theater
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Tonys review: Why can't Neil Patrick Harris host everything?
During the long and glorious reign of the variety show, it was fairly common to see the stars of popular Broadway musicals singing and dancing their big numbers on network television. Now, like Christmas, that opportunity comes but once a year, during the...
Tags: Christianity, Peter and the Starcatcher (play), Newsies (musical), Hugh Jackman, Religion and Belief
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Tony Awards 2012: For 'Once' daring trumps commerce
Will wonders never cease: David overcame Goliath in a rare victory at the Beacon Theatre that will force us to rethink the old truism that commerce trumps independent vision on Broadway. "Once," the little musical spun from an Irish art house film,...
Tags: Clybourne Park (play), Philip Seymour Hoffman, Newsies (musical), Hugh Jackman, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Tony Awards 2012: From L.A. to the Great White Way
The Tony Awards may be the toast of Broadway, but there were Champagne glasses being raised for some of Sunday's victors who have roots in Southern California. The most noteworthy production was "Clybourne Park," which was named best play. The Pulitzer...
Tags: Lincoln Center, Peter and the Starcatcher (play), Clybourne Park (play), London Theatre, Judith Light
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Tony Awards: 'Clybourne Park,' 'Once' are big winners
Bruce Norris' "Clybourne Park," a sharp-toothed satirical drama about the vagaries of race and real estate, won for best play, and "Once," a starry-eyed romance centered on an Irish street musician and a Czech immigrant flower seller, topped the best...
Tags: Ira Gershwin, Peter and the Starcatcher (play), Clybourne Park (play), Immigration, Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Tony Awards 2012: Telecast, in continued decline, slides toward lows
The Tony Awards on CBS has solidified its position as the lowest-rated broadcast of the major entertainment awards shows. Sunday's broadcast of Broadway's biggest night brought in just 6 million television viewers, according to preliminary figures from...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Entertainment, Academy Awards, Beacon Theater, Tony Awards
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'Once' may deserve a booby prize for those Tony ratings on CBS
Tony voters went crazy for the Broadway musical version of "Once." But viewers weren't all that hot on the Tonys. Sunday's 66th annual Tony Awards on CBS, again hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, drew an average of 6 million total viewers, down 13%...
Tags: Christianity, Religion and Belief, Music Theater, Mormonism, Entertainment Events
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'How I Met Your Mother': Top of the charts, Ma!
Staff writervar _khp = false; mw.setConfig('EmbedPlayer.EnableIpadHTMLControls', false ); mw.setConfig('Kaltura.ForceFlashOnDesktop', true ); function jsCallbackReady(objectId) { window.cbskdp = document.getElementById(objectId); window.cbskdp.addJsListener('doPlay',...Tags: 2 Broke Girls (tv program), Hell's Kitchen (tv program), Castle (tv program), The Sopranos (tv program), Demographics
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Youth in a Roman Field — timeless, yet modern
Listening to Youth in a Roman Field, it's not hard to imagine the band in a shady glade singing its timeless, melancholy folk — the accordion makes the fantasy list toward the French countryside. The songs are clear, simple, a little sad and swept...Tags: Entertainment Events, Theater, Music Industry, Entertainment, Music
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