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Retromania: Pop's past is taking over
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band reformations and reunion tours, tribute albums and box sets, anniversary festivals and live performances of classic albums: Each new year is better than the previous year for music...Tags: Sex Pistols (music group), Radio Industry, Radio, The Pink Panther (movie, 1964), Timbaland
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Broadway's theater schedule for August
Here's what's playing on Broadway through the end of August. Note that although some of these shows' official opening dates aren't until September or later, preview performances are offered. -- Avital Binshtock "A Chorus Line": This lively exploration...Tags: Charles Dickens, Broadway Theater, Hans Christian Andersen, Neil Simon, Music Box Theatre
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Vintage musicals aging well
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNEW YORK -- "Finally my mother can see something I've done," said opera singer Nathan Gunn, "that she actually likes." The 37-year-old baritone was speaking of tonight's concert version of the pioneering musical "Show Boat," the centerpiece of a season-...Tags: Jerome Kern, South Bend (St. Joseph, Indiana), Broadway Theater, Tony Awards, Defense
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A Tony nominee's new challenge
The Tony call comes early on the West Coast.
Marcia Milgrom Dodge was trying to get some sleep; the director-choreographer had only five days to stage the new Reprise Theatre Company production of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." But...Tags: James Stewart, Education, Daniel Radcliffe, Music Theater, Seinfeld (tv program)
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Did the show change, or did I?
Theater CriticIn these cash-strapped days, people are lucky to get to see a show once, never mind a second or third time. But with "Spamalot" now playing at the Ahmanson Theatre more than four years after it opened on Broadway and a couple of years after it premiered...Tags: Music Theater, Broadway Theater, Mike Nichols, Lincoln Center, Gaming
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A Monty-mental celebration
A number of events and releases are tied to Monty Python's 40th anniversary. "An Evening Without Monty Python" Python member Eric Idle directs a cast of five, including actress Jane Leeves, for a live staging of more than 20 skits adapted from the...Tags: Movies, Eric Idle, Documentary (genre), Broadway Theater, Entertainment
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The spread on `Spam'
Special to The TimesIT'S a dark and crowded theater in New York. The curtain has only been up five minutes, and Steve Wynn, the billionaire owner of the Wynn Las Vegas hotel, leans in, grips my knee and whispers in my ear: "Eric," he says, "this will be great in Las Vegas."...Tags: Hank Azaria, Michael Palin, International Travel, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese
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Two strikes, old school and new
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNEW YORK -- Two picket lines, two very different strikes. In a pelting rain, members of the Writers Guild of America marched this week in front of Viacom's Manhattan headquarters. Around the corner, stagehands were picketing in front of darkened theaters...Tags: Lawyers, Viacom Inc., Contracts, Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report (tv program)
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In touring 'La Cage,' mascara runs and hearts bulge
In the real world, about 30 years separates the two stars of the current touring production of "La Cage Aux Folles," the first national outing, so to speak, of Terry Johnson's formidably distinctive 2010 Broadway revival, which originated at the...Tags: Bank of America Corp., Sam Mendes, George Hamilton, Celebrities, Banking
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Youmans: 'Shrek' visually, technically stunning
A life-sized storybook unfolded on Tuesday night as "Shrek the Musical" opened in Orange County. Everyone's favorite ogre appeared on the stage, bigger and greener than ever, but the stunning visual representation masked a lackluster composition. "Shrek...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Music Theater, Tony Awards, The Lion King (movie), Shrek (fictional character)
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'Dancing with the Stars' week 6: Broadway fever
Tonight's challenge: Simultaneously watch DWTS and the Ravens on Monday Night Football. Yikes! But challenge accepted.
The action in the ballroom was far more impressive than the action on the ballfield, so that's what we'll focus on here. Had...Tags: Dancing With the Stars (tv program), David Arquette, John Travolta, Justice System, Dancing
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