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Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein, Broadway’s New Odd Couple, Open in All About Me

Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein, Broadway’s New Odd Couple, Open in All About Me
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Have you ever had a hankering for two great theatrical talents that go great together? You are in luck, possums! All About Me, starring the inimitable Dame Edna Everage (a.k.a. Australian actor Barry Humphries) and cabaret superstar Michael Feinstein opened at Broadway’s Henry Miller’s Theatre on March 19. The opening night audience was a veritable who ...

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Get a First Look at Hair's Hippest New Hippies

Get a First Look at Hair's Hippest New Hippies
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Spring has finally sprung on Broadway...and it brought the new cast of Tony Award winning revival Hair with it! New stars Ace Young, Kyle Riabco, Diana DeGarmo, Jeanette Bayardelle, Jason Wooten, Vanessa Ray, Annaleigh Ashford, Josh Lamon, Rachel Bay Jones, Wallace Smith and their tribemates have got life and the hippie look down pat, as you'll see from ...

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Madonna Moves Her Hips to the Rhythm of Broadway’s Fela!

Madonna Moves Her Hips to the Rhythm of Broadway’s Fela!
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We’ve got a quick flash of megawatt star power for you: Madonna on Broadway! On March 18, the pop superstar dropped by the Broadway show inspired by and titled after another recording artist and rhythmic phenom, Fela!, which chronicles the life and music of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. (As a former dancer, we’re guessing she was particularly impressed ...

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Rock of Ages Star Constantine Maroulis Finds His Spot on the Sardi’s Wall

Rock of Ages Star Constantine Maroulis Finds His Spot on the Sardi’s Wall
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On March 17, 2009, zany jukebox musical Rock of Ages made the official leap to Broadway, riding a wave of hair band hits from its off-Broadway debut to its current home at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Almost exactly one year later, on March 18, 2010, the show’s headliner Constantine Maroulis, made the leap from humble leading man to Sardi ...

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What's Up, Elizabeth Marvel? The Grace Star on a Rough Commute, Sitting Pretty and Her Dream Job

What's Up, Elizabeth Marvel? The Grace Star on a Rough Commute, Sitting Pretty and Her Dream Job

Elizabeth Marvel has made a career of tackling intense roles on the New York stage, including acclaimed turns in Hedda Gabler, The Seagull and Top Girls. The low-key Brooklyn mother of a young son is currently delivering a devastating performance as abused optimist and wife Grace in Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks’ provocative new family drama, The Book of Grace ...

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This Week's Poll: Which Stephen Sondheim Score Takes the (Birthday) Cake?

This Week's Poll: Which Stephen Sondheim Score Takes the (Birthday) Cake?

March 22 marks the 80th birthday of every award-winning composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, one of the great living genuises of the musical canon. The milestone birthday has set off a flurry of celebrations, retrospectives and productions of his works, which means numerous artists and audiences (including those involved with the new Broadway show Sondheim on Sondheimare debating which ...

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Michael Ball Eyes the Monster Title Role in DreamWorks' Shrek in the West End

Michael Ball Eyes the Monster Title Role in DreamWorks' Shrek in the West End

Michael Ball may be going green in the West End. The Daily Mail reports that Ball is in early talks to take on the title role in Shrek the Musical, which is expected to take the London stage in 2011.

Shrek the Musical made its debut on Broadway in December 2008, starring Brian d'Arcy James and Sutton Foster as ...

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Hit Dance Show Tap Dogs to Return to the London Stage

Hit Dance Show Tap Dogs to Return to the London Stage

Dance show Tap Dogs will return to London this summer, beginning a limited engagement at the Novello Theatre on June 15. The show, created and choreographed by Olivier Award winner Dein Perry with direction by Nigel Triffitt, will play for 12 weeks through September 5, 2010.

A London favorite during its original run in 1995 and again during a return ...

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Flashdance the Musical to Play the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre in the Fall

Flashdance the Musical to Play the West End's Shaftesbury Theatre in the Fall

A musical based on the popular 1983 movie Flashdance has set dates for a West End run. Flashdance The Musical, directed by Nikolai Foster and choreographed by Arlene Phillips, will begin preview’s at London’s Shaftesbury Theatre on September 23 and open on October 14, 2010.

The new tuner features music by Robbie Roth and lyrics by Roth and ...

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Between the Covers: Opening The Book of Grace

Between the Covers: Opening The Book of Grace

Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks is know for her provactive, poetic portfolio, which includes plays like the acclaimed Topdog/Underdog and Venus. Her latest outing, The Book of Grace, follows in the same tradition, weaving the story of one young man's nightmarish reunion with his estranged father in rural Southern Texas. The drama, starring Elizabeth Marvel, John Doman ...

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