| Monday night is when the magic happened: Dancing With the Stars kicked off another season. I missed the premiere, but thanks to Dancewatcher I can catch the highlights. Even more detail is over at... | |
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| It is perhaps a sign of just how unimpressed the world was with the first reality casting (resulting in the disastrous restaging of GREASE: You’re the One! ) that the second attempt, to replace... | |
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| Over the weekend I traveled to and from Minnesota, about a 5 hour drive, with a friend to attend a lecture on performance art. For those of you lucky coasties, the land of northern Wisconsin this... | |
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| When I was waxing rhapsodic about Raul Esparza’s lead in the PBS special of Stephen Sondheim’s Company, I neglected to really focus on the fact that he was also supported by a stellar... | |
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| Just a note of admiration: in spite of what must have been crushing news (their founder, Gus Giordano, died on Sunday) the Giordano Dance troupe got rave reviews from Hedy Weiss in the Chicago... | |
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| In the realm of “Broadway Cast Albums I’d Like to Own” is the chance to hear crooner Harry Connick Jr. playing the role of Jimmy in the remake of Gershwin’s Oh, Kay! You may... | |
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| Dancer, Choreographer, Former U.S. Marine, and founder of the Giordano Dance Company of Chicago died yesterday morning of pneumonia. He was 84. One of the great pioneers of jazz dance in this... | |
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| or,: From Broadway to Virginia to Melbourne to Hometown, USA in search of a Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
I had expected to write, today, about the revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, featuring Tony-award... | |
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| I’m indebted to Paul Thompson of the Broadway blog for his series on “My Times Square“. A Chicago native, his documentation of wandering around the Big Apple brings back the same... | |
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| PULP, a musical spoofing 1950s novels stereotyping lesbian romance, 3/7-29, Bartell Theatre, showing at 7:30 pm Thursdays ($10) and 8 pm Fridays-Saturdays ($15). 661-9696 ext. 3
When: 03/07/08
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