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Ahmanson announces season with Barry Manilow musical, Danny DeVito
Fanilows, your wait is finally over. The long-delayed Barry Manilow musical "Harmony" as well as a star turn by Danny DeVito in the London production of Neil Simon's "The Sunshine Boys" are part of the 2013-14 lineup for the Ahmanson Theatre. The...
Tags: Barry Manilow, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Broadway Theater, Richard Griffiths
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'Hands on a Hardbody' sets March opening on Broadway
"Hands on a Hardbody," the new musical that debuted earlier this year at the La Jolla Playhouse, has set a March opening on Broadway. The folksy production, about a group of people competing to win a new truck, is set to officially open at the Brooks...
Tags: Keith Carradine, Phish (music group), Sergio Trujillo, Entertainment, Trey Anastasio
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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: Evita (musical), Satire (genre), Immigration, Arthur Miller, Entertainment
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'Peter and the Starcatcher' in Chicago next spring
The national tour of the Broadway hit "Peter and the Starcatcher," a prequel to "Peter Pan" aimed mostly at adults, will stop through Chicago for two weeks next April at the Bank of America Theatre, 18 W. Monroe St. Written by Rick Elice and directed...
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Disney Theatrical Eyeing Muppets On Stage (EXCLUSIVE)
VarietyDisney Theatrical Prods. has quietly initiated early explorations of a live stage show featuring the Muppets, commencing late last month with a short but elaborate presentation directed by Alex Timbers. The brief showcase, staged May 31 at Disney's New...Tags: Aladdin (movie), Paul Reubens, Rocky (movie)
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How "The Addams Family" was born again...and again.
Staff WriterTaking cartoon panels from the page to the stage was a tricky thing for "The Addams Family." For the musical-comedy coming to Broward Center April 9 through 21, it wasn't the whole bizarro-macabre thing that was the challenge for the show’s book...Tags: Tony Awards, Entertainment, Harvey Milk, Entertainment Events, Cartoons
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'Book Of Mormon,' 'War Horse' Among Bushnell's 2013-14 Broadway Season
The Hartford CourantNational tours of two Broadway smashes, the musical "Book of Mormon," and the epic play featuring life-sized puppetry, "War Horse," highlight the seven-show 2013-14 season at Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts. Those two shows, Tony...Tags: South Africa, A Christmas Story (movie), Lincoln Center, Entertainment, War Horse (movie)
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Highs, lows — and a graceful exit
It's my final column of the year and, for that matter, the new millennium — not to mention of all time. Unless it isn't. I'm so confused. Anyhow, let's look at the highs and lows of 2012 — not that you have much choice if you're going to...
Tags: Fargo (movie), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (movie), Aliens (movie), Argo (movie), The Amazing Race (tv program)
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On New York stages, a year full of letdowns
The year 2012, as Queen Elizabeth II might have said, was quite the annus horribilis on Broadway. Especially after the leaves started to turn. Consider the less-than-regal disappointments. "The Anarchist," the polemical new play by David Mamet, closed...Tags: Entertainment, Death of a Salesman (play), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (movie), Newsies (musical), Music Theater
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In a New York state of mind
I was in New York City last week. On Tuesday, Election Day, CNN had big screens in Times Square, and I joined the folks watching the returns. We cheered a lot, especially when CNN turned cameras on us. On Wednesday, a nor'easter struck NYC. I can't...
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'Broadway Or Bust': Young Connecticut Stars Share Spotlight On PBS
The Hartford CourantWhen Alli Kramer of Amity Regional High School in "PLGEO100100205270000">Woodbridge and Shavance Stephens of the magnet school Regional Center for the Arts in Trumbull won top acting honors at the fourth annual Connecticut High School Musical Theater...Tags: New York University, Smash (tv program), Arts, Trumbull, Norwich
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Looking ahead to the Tony Awards: An off year for musicals, but 'Once' deserves to win
NEW YORK — What with "Ghost,""Lysistrata Jones" and other wearying disappointments, the 2012-13 Broadway season hardly will go down as a banner year for new American musicals. Indeed, should the best-musical Tony Award go, at Sunday night's...
Tags: Entertainment, Death of a Salesman (play), Newsies (musical), Music Theater, Leap of Faith (musical)
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