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2013 Non-Equity Jeff Awards: Circle, Den and Theo Ubique take top honors
The Circle Theatre production of "When the Rain Stops Falling," a prismatic drama by Andrew Bovell set in Australia, and "Smokey Joe's Cafe," a rocking musical revue of the songs of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, emerged as the big winners at Monday...Tags: Coriolanus (movie), Sexy Baby (movie), Robin Williams, Dining and Drinking, Entertainment Events
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Pasadena Playhouse identifies anonymous donors who gave $1M in 2010
The Pasadena Playhouse on Wednesday identified a previously anonymous pair of donors whose $1-million gift in May 2010 helped lift the organization out of bankruptcy. Songwriter Mike Stoller and musician Corky Hale Stoller, members of the Playhouse&...
Tags: Stand by Me (movie), Jerry Leiber, Judy Collins, Music Industry, Music
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Hoping for a profitable new life for 'Smokey Joe' and Julia
Anyone in show business — anyone with a clue, anyway — who found their way to No Exit Cafe in Rogers Park last fall could not have helped but notice an opportunity to make some money. Theo Ubique, which has the new production of Andrew Lloyd...
Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Entertainment Events, Sparrow (music group), Music, Rogers Park
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'Smokey Joe's Cafe' headed back to Royal George
The hit Theo Ubique production of "Smokey Joe's Cafe," the revue of the songs of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, is to have a commercial transfer to the Royal George Theatre's cabaret space. The show, directed and choreographed by Brenda Didier, will...
Tags: Jerry Leiber, Music
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On the Town: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Pasadena Playhouse honor patrons
Love was in the air when the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) honored the generosity of long-term supporters Jennifer and Royce Diener of Santa Monica. Also honored were Santa Fe, N.M. residents David K. and Kay Duke Ingalls. The Ingalls currently...
Tags: George Gershwin, Music Industry, Music, Vernon Duke, Jo Anne Worley
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Pasadena Playhouse: Mike Stoller and wife gave crucial $1 million
If the Pasadena Playhouse had decided to adopt a theme song when a dire economy and long-standing debts forced it to cease operations for most of 2010 while it tried to claw its way back to solvency, “Stand by Me,” the 1961 pop-soul classic...
Tags: Family, Holidays, Christmas, Entertainment Events, Music Industry
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Smokin' revue does right by rock classics
“Smokey Joe's Cafe,” or “Baby That's Rock 'n' Roll,” as it used to be known back when it first tried out in Chicago years ago, is a straight-up Broadway revue based on the formidable catalog of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. No...
Tags: Rogers Park, Jerry Leiber, Music Industry, Music
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Mike Stoller tunes up Oscar Wilde musical: Songwriter hard at work a year after Leiber's death
VarietyWhen seminal rock and roll lyricist Jerry Leiber died in August of last year, it put an end to a songwriting partnership with Mike Stoller that had spanned 61 years, one long-running Broadway revue, and a plethora of indelible standards ranging from...Tags: Popular Music (genre), Irving Berlin, Bertolt Brecht, Jerry Leiber, Music Industry
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Fall Theater 2012: 46 more shows for the next few months
This summer might have been too darn hot, but the theater scene is about to zoom into the red zone. It's impossible to do justice to the awe-inspiring variety of work that is waiting in the wings this season at theaters large, small and in-between, but...
Tags: Noise (movie), Olivia Newton-John, James Baldwin, Apollo Theater, Gaming
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Insiders: Upcoming events
VarietyTODAY: AMPAS closes out the "Last 70mm Film Festival" with a screening of 1960's "Spartacus" and Q&A with Kirk Douglas. Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Oscars.org Brad Bell, Jane Espensen and others from the online series "Husbands" take part in a panel sesh....Tags: Ira Glass, USA Network (tv network), Brad Bell, Kirk Douglas, Elvis Presley
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Jerry Leiber dies at 78; lyricist in songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller
Jerry Leiber, who with his songwriting partner, Mike Stoller, created a songbook that infused the rock 'n' roll scene of the 1950s and early '60s with energy and mischievous humor, has died. He was 78.
Leiber, the words half of the duo, died Monday at...Tags: Popular Music (genre), Barbra Streisand, Fats Domino, Phil Spector, Buddy Holly
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Gil Bernal dies at 80; veteran tenor saxophonist
Gil Bernal, a tenor saxophonist who during his long career played a variety of styles with artists such as Spike Jones, Lionel Hampton and Ry Cooder, has died. He was 80.
Bernal died of congestive heart failure July 17 at Glendale Adventist Medical...Tags: Lionel Hampton, Celebrities and Health Issues, Spike Jones, Elvis Presley, Jerry Leiber
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