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And the Tony Award nominees will be
When nominations for the 61st annual Tony Awards are announced on Tuesday, there won't be as many glittery Hollywood names on the list as in seasons past. The close-knit theater community's frostiness last year toward Oscar winners Julia Roberts and...Tags: Grey Gardens (movie), Documentary (genre), Ethan Hawke, Brian Dennehy, Angela Lansbury
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'Fiorello!' is back and even better
Tribune criticI took a vacant seat in the front row at the "Fiorello!" opening at TimeLine Theatre on Thursday night. Might as well get close enough to smell the sweat of Tammany Hall. Fiorello H. La Guardia, the legendary mayor of New York City, was about 5 feet...Tags: Theater, Music Theater, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Palace Theater, Entertainment
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2008 Tonys: Oddly, the speeches were the best part
Times Television CriticThe Tony Awards are unique among the big award shows in that you cannot experience the nominated works or artists in the convenience of your own home, or even your own town, unless you live in New York. Notwithstanding some 12 million Broadway tickets...Tags: Broadway Theater, A Chorus Line (musical), Project Runway (tv program), Sports, Theater
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What's Broadway's formula for success?
"Nobody knows anything."
William Goldman lobbed that dictum at the screen trade, but it just as easily applies to the just-concluded 2006-07 Broadway season. Goldman's contention that producers haven't a clue as to what will resonate with critics and the...Tags: Utopia, Grey Gardens (movie), Theater, August Wilson, Angela Lansbury
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Broadway ticket availability through Sunday, Jan. 11
Broadway ticket availability and capsule reviews of shows as of Jan. 5. Unless otherwise noted, tickets are available at the theaters' box offices for the shows listed. Details about how to obtain tickets appear at the end. —"All My Sons." John...Tags: Music Theater, David Mamet, Steppenwolf Theatre, Times Square, Winter Garden
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'LoveMusik' leads Drama Desk noms
The Envelope"LoveMusik," a look at the relationship between composer Kurt Weill and actress Lotte Lenya, received 12 Drama Desk nominations Thursday, honoring the best of the 2006-2007 New York theater season. It was followed by three other musicals —...Tags: Utopia, Grey Gardens (movie), Blythe Danner, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Theater
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'Home' by Julie Andrews
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJULIE ANDREWS' early life wasn't exactly Dickensian. It was, however, filled with trauma, drama and colorful -- often tragic -- characters. In her immensely readable "Home: A Memoir of My Early Years," the Oscar-winning actress, star of such...Tags: Cinderella (fictional character), Julie Andrews, London (England), Death, Theater
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'Enchanted'
Zap2It.com"Enchanted" on DVD will sell itself thanks to Amy Adams' completely charming portrayal of Gisele -- a nice addition to the Disney princess line -- and the fact that the movie actually lives up to the claim that it's a new family classic. A handful of...Tags: DVDs and Movies, Carrie Underwood, Susan Sarandon, Blu-ray Discs, Patrick Dempsey
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Norwalk boy to make Broadway debut
NORWALK, Conn. (AP) - Kyle Brenn stood in the darkened house of the Ben Franklin Theatre, singing along and waving his arms like a conductor as more than two dozen children rehearsed the musical he had started writing two years ago - when he was 9...Tags: Broadway Theater, Ben Affleck, Crime, Law and Justice, Britney Spears, Theater
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Who rules the musical?
Times Staff WriterDaring storytelling that integrates song and dance is rare. But a few auteurs strive for the elusive formula. Broadway has always prized director-choreographers who could deliver hit musicals with an individual stamp on them — masters such as Jerome...Tags: Poetry, Twyla Tharp, Society, Theater, Music Theater
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'Singin' in the Rain' Tops AFI Musical List
Zap2It.comThose list-crafting maniacs at the American Film Institute have put together a selection of the top 25 movie musicals of all time, a list lead by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen's 1952 classic "Singin' in the Rain." The AFI list, compiled by the vote of a...Tags: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, Entertainment
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SAG Declares a Jolly Holiday for Julie Andrews
Zap2It.comWhether it's as a nanny, a queen or a cross-dresser, Julie Andrews has commanded the audience's respect and affection for more than 50 years. In honor of her accomplishments, the performer will receive the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award for...Tags: Broadway Theater, Screen Actors Guild, The Sound of Music (movie), Julie Andrews, Lincoln Center
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