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'Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder' heads to Broadway
The musical comedy “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” may be nearly as nimble as its lead actor, Jefferson Mays, who plays multiple characters and dies no less than eight times in the production. In its third incarnation, the...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Music, Theater, Broadway Theater, Hartford Stage
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Review: 'Flashdance the Musical' breaks out leg warmers and '80s camp
This review has been corrected. See below for details. "Flashdance the Musical" has its way over "Flashdance" the movie in at least one critical regard: The show's plucky heroine — as you'll recall: welder by day! nonstripping stripper by night!...
Tags: Heartbreaker (movie), Entertainment Events, Movies, Theater, Entertainment
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'The Spectacular Now' director James Ponsoldt to adapt 'Pippin'
Making two indie films about the drinking problems of young people might not immediately seem to put one in line for adapting a beloved Broadway musical, but such are the unpredictable ways of Hollywood. The Weinstein Co. said Tuesday that James Ponsoldt,...
Tags: Aaron Paul, Entertainment Events, Shailene Woodley, Movies, Tony Awards
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Duke Ellington's music lives to be heard
It's no big thing to play the music of Duke Ellington. That's done all the time: in cabarets, concert halls, movies, Broadway theaters and anywhere jazz musicians assemble. Ellingtonia, a word coined by admirers who realized that no existing musical...
Tags: Music Industry, Stan Kenton, Lincoln Center, Entertainment Events, Theater
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Las Vegas: 'Broadway Meets Hollywood' at songfest
Songs from well-known musicals will be performed as the 2013 Super Summer Theatre presents “Broadway Meets Hollywood” on May 17 and 18 in the mountains west of Las Vegas. Numbers from such shows as "Annie," "Fiddler on the Roof," "Grease,"...
Tags: Music Industry, Grease (movie), Entertainment Events, Music, Theater
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Cedering Fox knows the power of speaking the written word
Cedering Fox knows good actors, and isn't afraid to ask a favor. Her query is simple, and the actors almost always say yes. It's not like she wants them to be part of a hot new cable drama or a comedy Web series gone viral. Instead, she's asking them to...
Tags: Music Industry, Entertainment Events, True Blood (tv program), Theater, Entertainment
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Diahann Carroll leads the way on stage and screen
Groundbreaking actress-singer Diahann Carroll ("Julia," "Claudine") was an 18-year-old New York model when her singing career took off. Her break came when she won a talent show called, appropriately enough, "Chance of a Lifetime" in January 1954 on the...
Tags: White Collar (tv program), Golden Globe Awards, Otto Preminger, Entertainment Events, Family
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Tony box-office boost looks more like a bust this season
Broadway’s Tony contenders have yet to experience the typical box-office boost following last week's nominations. So far, only two of the four top-nominated shows have seen an uptick in ticket sales, according to data released by The Broadway...
Tags: Tom Hanks, Alec Baldwin, Politics, Music, Broadway Theater
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Broadway's 'Legally Blonde' to set sail
"Legally Blonde" is headed for the high seas. Norwegian Cruise Lines will bring the Tony-nominated Broadway musical on board its Getaway, a 4,028-passenger ship set to debut in January 2014. And "Blonde" isn't the only musical to sail. CHEAT SHEET:...
Tags: The Simpsons (tv program), Music, Entertainment Events, Theater, Broadway Theater
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Attendance for Broadway touring shows continues to dip
Attendance at touring Broadway shows nationwide dropped for the second straight season, according to a newly released report from the Broadway League. The report said that 12.7 million people attended a touring show in the 2011-12 season, down from 13.1...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Theater, Les Miserables (movie), Tony Awards, Entertainment
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Tony Awards: Cyndi Lauper's 'Kinky Boots' on top with 13 nominations
NEW YORK -- “Kinky Boots,” the adaptation of the cross-dressing comedy film with a book by Harvey Fierstein and score by Cyndi Lauper, led the pack when Tony Award nominations were announced Tuesday morning, leading all shows with 13 nods....
Tags: Fiction, Entertainment Events, Theater, Tony Awards, Entertainment
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Old Globe's 2013-14 season to include extra helpings of the Bard
The Old Globe’s new artistic director, Barry Edelstein, is a noted Shakespearean, and its 2013-14 season, the first he’s picked, will give extra emphasis to the Bard, beyond the separate summer series that typically offers at least two...
Tags: Music, Entertainment Events, Pulitzer Prize Awards, World War I (1914-1918), Theater
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