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Fall Arts Preview: NY Theater
linda.winer@newsday.comIt could be the best of times; it might be the worst of times. No, really. A musical adaptation of "A Tale of Two Cities" - think "Les Miz" by way of Charles Dickens - kicks off the hectic and ambitious fall season in a couple of weeks. More to the...Tags: Celebrity Mothers, Boston Red Sox, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Central Park, Tom Cruise
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Off-Broadway highlights
linda.winer@newsday.comMake a note of these Off-Broadway highlights - especially "Road Show," a New York premiere of a new musical by Stephen Sondheim. In chronological order: THE TEMPEST (Sept. 18). Mandy Patinkin, gone too long from his home in New York theater, plays the...Tags: Boston Red Sox, Celebrity, Music Theater, Broadway, Defense
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Bankruptcies
Central Florida individuals and businesses that have filed for liquidation under Chapter 7 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code include: Designs in Solid Service Inc., 7000 Edgewater Drive, Suite 101, Orlando. Assets: $322,748. Liabilities: $544,658. Major...Tags: Lake Mary, Longwood (Seminole, Florida), Bankruptcy, Batavia, Orlando
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A lynching yields a musical love story
Charged with raping and murdering 13-year-old Mary Phagan in 1913 Atlanta, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-raised Jew, was convicted in a kangaroo trial that travestied due process. The case divided the nation and prompted the outgoing governor to commute Frank's...Tags: Robert Brown, Venice, Minority Groups, Santa Monica, Punishment
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Competitors no match for 'South Pacific's' visual sweep
Tribune criticNEW YORK—The harmonic Seabees warbling "There is Nothing Like a Dame" at the start of Bart Sher's Lincoln Center revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" include whites and African-Americans. Nothing unusual there. It took decades, but...Tags: Minority Groups, Music Theater, Harvey Fierstein, Broadway, Paddy Chayefsky
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Not your father's 'La Mancha'
The reputation of "Man of La Mancha" has been sullied by a bad movie version, disappointing revivals and the overplay of "The Impossible Dream" by Las Vegas crooners. But back in 1965, it was considered an extremely daring and violent musical.
Set in a...Tags: Prisoners and Detainees, Prisons, Music Theater, Broadway, Wars and Interventions
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'A New Brain' at Rude Guerrilla Theater Company
Heart and music infuse "A New Brain" in the shrewdly spare, gorgeously sung revival at Rude Guerrilla Theater Company. William Finn and James Lapine's 1998 tuner based on composer-lyricist Finn's battle with a brain tumor remains delightfully off-kilter...Tags: West Hollywood, Santa Monica, William Shakespeare, Music Industry, Guerrilla Activity
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'National Treasure: Book of Secrets,' 'Company,' 'Square Pegs,' 'Strange Wilderness'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNational Treasure: Book of Secrets Walt Disney, $29.99/$34.99; Blu-Ray, $34.99 If the notion of a fortune-hunting, history-obsessed action hero didn't make you giddy with anticipation back in 2004, then chances are that last year's sequel to "National...Tags: Nicolas Cage, Walt Disney
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'Catered Affair' brings post-war life to Broadway
Tribune criticThe new Broadway musical "A Catered Affair" is another cinematic adaptation set in the 1950s, but one in which everyone is too terminally depressed to cry. Based on the 1956 Richard Brooks movie "The Catered Affair" (penned by the formidable duo of...Tags: Music Theater, Harvey Fierstein, Paddy Chayefsky, Gore Vidal
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Not an 'Affair' to Remember
Based on a 1956 film with Bette Davis and Ernst Borgnine, "A Catered Affair" centers on an Irish-American Bronx family that must decide whether to spend its savings on a new family business or to launch their only daughter's marriage with an expensive,...Tags: Bette Davis, Minority Groups, Harvey Fierstein, Gays and Lesbians, Family
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Excitement marks this season's stage productions
Tribune theater criticIf you know and love the Chicago theater, you'll doubtless be expecting a lot of interesting new shows in the upcoming winter and spring seasons. Why should this year be any different? But peruse the following -- woefully incomplete -- list of 10 of the...Tags: Leonard Bernstein, Steppenwolf Theatre, Tim Burton, Larry Gelbart, Music Theater
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WATCHING
1. 'Clash of the Choirs' 7 p.m., WMAQ-Ch. 5 Why should vocal soloists and bands have all the fun? This new reality series pits five amateur vocal ensembles against one another for the title of America's best choir -- to be determined by viewer votes....Tags: Devin Hester, Injuries, Adrian Peterson, Music Theater, Bertolt Brecht
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