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'Glee' recap, Shooting Star
Hide your kids, hide your wives. There's an asteroid/comet/meter coming to Lima, according to Brittany. And we know how reliable she is. So, just in case the world comes to an end, Mr. Schu tells the glee club kids they need to say everything they need to...
Tags: William McKinley
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A few more thoughts on 'Billy Elliot: The Musical'
As someone who loved the 2000 movie "Billy Elliot," I had doubts that it could be turned into a stage musical. I figured too much of the gritty mining town atmosphere of the original would be lost, for a start. And I was suspicious that the many...
Tags: Music Theater, Dance, Arts, Movies, Entertainment Events
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'Glee' recap: Diva
It's "Diva Week" at William McKinley High School, where we learn a diva is "not a trick ass hoe," according to Urban Dictionary. Please read that quote in Emma Pillsbury's voice. Thank you. So first up is Beyoncé's "Diva." After this week's epic Super...
Tags: Alicia Keys, Madonna, William McKinley, Glee (tv program), Freddie Mercury
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'Billy Elliott the Musical' warms hearts at Hippodrome
A British coal mining strike in 1984 seems like a rather sooty setting for an inspirational story, but that gave audiences all the more reason to root for a miner's son who aspires to be a ballet dancer in the 2000 movie "Billy Elliot." Its theatrical...
Tags: Stephen Daldry, Music Theater, Dance, Hippodrome Theatre, Tony Awards
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'Billy Elliot' resonates with boys in Peabody's dance program
In 2000, the British film "Billy Elliot" generated a flurry of admiration on both sides of the Atlantic. Something about this story of an 11-year-old boy, who decides to study ballet even as it makes him a major oddity in his northern England mining town,...
Tags: Students, Dance, Awards and Prizes, Tony Awards, Teachers
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'The Voice' recap, Baltimore's Nelly's Echo kills it, joins Christina Aguilera's team
The biggest thing to hit NBC's "The Voice" tonight was Baltimore's Nelly's Echo, a Nigerian refugee who wowed the judges with his rendition of Bill Wither's "Ain't No Sunshine," and who found a place on Christina Aguilera's team. Nelly’s Echo --...
Tags: Adam Levine, Leonard Cohen, Music, Nigeria, Foster the People (music group)
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A festive season of color and movement
Dust off the tuxedos, pull out the pearls and get ready to celebrate a new dance season with anniversaries, reunions, holiday performances and a masked ball here in Howard County. Around this time of year, Kathi Ferguson puts on a seasonal dance show for...
Tags: Carroll County (Maryland), Dance, Ellicott City, Christmas, Halloween
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ArtsCentric troupe puts fresh spin on 'Next to Normal'
When a dozen Morgan State University students launched a theater troupe called ArtsCentric nearly a decade ago, their goal went beyond creating performance opportunities for themselves. They wanted to do work that could make a difference to people. The...
Tags: Mental Illness, Morgan State University, Mental Health, Companies and Corporations, Next to Normal (musical)
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Hippodrome's 2012-13 lineup: Presley to punk-rock
The Hippodrome's 2012-2013 Broadway Series will have tried-and-true crowd pleasers such as "Wicked" and "Beauty and the Beast" alongside newer musicals "American Idiot" and "Billy Elliot."
"From a consumer perspective, this is a juggernaut season,"...Tags: Punk (genre), Jerry Lee Lewis, Wicked (musical), Green Day (music group), Music
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From Sun Magazine: Chazz Palminteri brings rustic Italian style to suburban New York
As a young man living in the Bronx, Chazz Palminteri would escape the city on long drives into the Westchester County countryside where he'd tool along curving, forested roads, staring at the set-back mansions. To a guy with empty pockets, the gated lawns...Tags: Dog (animal), Jackson Pollock, Robert Davi, Halloween, Robert De Niro
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Ryan Wagner is living proof that your dream job is out there, and it can be yours with hard work and perseverance. The 26-year-old Baltimore native and lifelong Orioles fan was recently hired as Camden Yard's new public address announcer, and cannot be...Tags: Hinduism, Mumford & Sons (music group), Bob Costas, Memorial Stadium, Apple iPod
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Like/dislike: Ryan Wagner, Orioles public address announcer
Ryan Wagner is living proof that your dream job is out there. The 26-year-old Baltimore native and lifelong Orioles fan was recently hired as Camden Yard's public address announcer, and cannot be more thrilled about kicking off the new season Friday....
Tags: Adam Jones (baseball), Billy Joel, Major League Baseball, David Guetta, Bob Costas
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