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That miser Scrooge gives much in this season's 'Christmas Carol'
This is a very good year for the Goodman Theatre's "A Christmas Carol." And I speak as one who has imbibed many different vintages — more than a dozen, just counting the Goodman Theatre version — of this particular seasonal grape.
That's...Tags: Religious Festivals, Holidays, Ebenezer Scrooge (fictional character), Goodman Theatre, Abusive Behavior
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"South Pacific" at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire ★★★½
By all means enjoy her hapless attempts to shampoo a man out of her hair. But if you fall totally in love with Ensign Nellie Forbush, then you're not watching the right "South Pacific." As Oscar Hammerstein II wrote, in that disarmingly simple lyric,...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Music Theater, Entertainment Events, Marriott Theatre, Lincoln Center
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‘The Sound of Music’: Carrie Underwood to play Maria on NBC
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelWill you accept a Maria von Trapp who's a little bit country? When NBC offers its live telecast of “The Sound of Music,” Carrie Underwood will play Maria. If that sounds like a stretch, well, remember that Mary Martin first played Maria on... -
Larry Hagman: He made J.R. Ewing endure
The TV Guy - Orlando Sentinel“‘You make Machiavelli look like Mother Teresa.” The speaker was a paramour of J.R. Ewing, the time was 1996, and the backdrop was a shoddy TV movie called “Dallas: J.R. Returns.” Of course, J.R. never really left. He looms... -
Saying goodbye to ‘the richest woman in town’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThanks to the readers for their prayers and kind comments about the passing of my mother, Marie Boedeker. Mother on Friday received the funeral she had designed. Mother, a longtime music teacher and church organist, wanted group singing one more time. The... -
Who should star in live ‘Sound of Music’ on NBC?
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelYou know the Rodgers and Hammerstein songs from “My Favorite Things” to “Climb Ev'ry Mountain.” You know the Julie Andrews movie. But how would you like a live version of “The Sound of Music”? NBC plans to present the... -
A tent-raising for a new 'Peter Pan' -- in the round, plus CGI
Culture MonsterCirque du Peter Pan? Well, kinda. Wednesday morning in Costa Mesa saw the raising of a 100-foot-high white performance tent that later this month will house the traveling multimedia production of a new âPeter Pan,â making its Southern California... -
Theater review: 'Peter Pan' in a tent at the Orange County Performing Arts Center
Culture MonsterThe temporary pavilion behind Orange County Performing Arts Center resembles a Cirque du Soleil big top circus tent. Inside, a multimedia, immersive âPeter Panâ provides enough spectacle and aerial acrobatics to compete with any Cirque show. It is the... -
Cathy Rigby to play Peter Pan, again
Culture MonsterThe character of Peter Pan is a singularly strange theatrical role that knows no boundaries of gender or age. But will the 57-year-old Cathy Rigby be straining the limits of credulity by once again taking on the role of the...... -
This week: âSouth Pacificâ offers some enchanted evening; âThe Big Câ arrives; âWeedsâ returns; TCM salutes Paul Newman
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelWant a fantastic deal this week? Look to PBS. The Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's “South Pacific” will play at 8 p.m. Wednesday. The celebrated 1949 musical, chronicling a couple of World War II love stories, gained wide p... -
Trip to Oz was once annual, and magical
Tuesdays with MitchI saw the new Wizard of Oz movie. I went last Thursday, the night before "Oz the Great and Powerful" was officially released, to a "preview" that was open to the public. I got there five minutes before it began. There were nine people in the theater. I...Tags: DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, Danny Kaye, The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939), Ice Cream
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Larry Hagman dies at 81; TV's J.R. Ewing
Los Angeles TimesFervor for the television show “Dallas” was intense in 1980, when the Queen Mother met actor Larry Hagman and joined the worldwide chorus asking: “Who shot J.R.?” “Not even for you, ma’am,” replied Hagman, who...Tags: Broadway Theater, Sidney Sheldon, Drama (genre), Larry Hagman, Obituaries
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