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- April 26
Some highlights:
1926: Mae West's show SEX opens. She's arrested for eight days for indecency.
1967: Tony-winning musical Hallelujah, Baby opens.
1970: Stephen Sondheim's Company opens, and Broadway is never the same.
- links for 2005-04-22
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Adam Guettel's first Broadway show.
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Street date is May 10
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Innovative attempt to get the cast album into the hands of the public.
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The upcoming (Mon May 23) 42nd Street Moon fundraiser features Brent Barrett (!), Lea DeLaria, Klea Blackhurst, Andrea Marcovicci, and a whole slew of Moon regulars
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- links for 2005-04-12
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The 2-CD recording will preserve the entire show (dance music, book scenes). Every Ahrens and Flaherty score has been recorded to date, thank goodness.
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- links for 2005-04-07
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A&E show will play songs on April 10. Set your Tivos!
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I love Fred Ebb's work so much.
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Sounds like a potentially entertaining evening of Kurt Weill songs, starring Bebe Neuwirth.
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- links for 2005-04-05
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On-location with the Rent film.
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- Exciting and New
Over on my new Yahoo 360 webspace that I'm testing out, I reveal some exciting good news that affects my summer in an amazing way.
Email me (mermaniac AT gmail DOT com) if you want a Yahoo 360 invite.
- Blogway Dreams
I've been remiss in not pointing out the fantastic new weblog Blogway Baby by Suzy Conn. She's got energy, pictures, great links, fun stories, and, most of all, MOXIE. Welcome to the musical theater blogosphere!
- links for 2005-03-30
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Oh, my head hurts.
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Marc and his collaborator Scott Wittman wrote this for Robin Williams to perform at the Oscars, but the show's producers nixed it.
- links for 2005-03-26
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William Finn's new Broadway-bound musical will be recorded, which is good news.
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The album is being produced by the show's producers, but Ghostlight Records is associated with the release.
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Bonus tracks for several classic Sondheim cast recordings, plus PS Classics releases a series of Sondheim demo recordings!
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PS Classics, Inc, the non-profit record label dedicated to preserving musical theater, is seeking support for its Sondheim Sings series of rare demo recoridngs.
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Ouch, talk about lost in Boston. The reviews in Boston were terrible, and without a big star, I guess there was no hope for the show.
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Something was weird with my previous del.icio.us entry for this, so I deleted and relinked it.
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- links for 2005-02-16
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Lengthy article about the instrumental, multi-artist album "Slack Key Guitar, Vol. 2", which won the first Hawaiian Grammy, surprising many who follow island music (including myself). The mellow music must have been more accessible than the other nominees
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Interesting bit: Sh-K-Boom, which should record the cast album, might release the CD "on a fictional Christian-pop label, underscoring the quirky concept of the show."(categories: musicals cast-album)
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Ghostlight, which will record Little Women, may also release the cast album of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (and Altar Boyz)
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- links for 2005-02-15
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Defeats AVENUE Q, which cleaned up at the Tonys last summer
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The new trend in jukebox musicals, in which an existing body of songs (Abba, Beach Boys, Billy Joel) is used as the basis for an evening of theater
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- links for 2005-02-13
- links for 2005-02-07
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Steven Suskin reviews the newest Sondheim Broadway score.
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Ghostlight gets its first original Broadway cast recording.
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Feature article about the two songwriters who won the Richard Rodgers award for their score to Little Women, only to be replaced by one of the show's producers
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The recent Broadway revival (with B.D. Wong in the cast) will be released by PS Classics, which also recorded the Broadway productions of Sondheim's Assassins and the Frogs. Great news!
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(categories: politics censorship)
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- links for 2005-01-24
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Op-ed piece by the producer of a 2004 film musical, complaining that the Academy isn't offering a Musical Score Oscar despite having five potential nominees for the first time in years. I think it's fair to retire a category if the quality isn't there.
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Lengthy feature on the creation of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee", William Finn's new musical.
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Chronicle review of Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori's new musical, now playing in SF with most of the original Broadway cast
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Selling the new "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" musical. Love the poster, and "Get Taken" is a brilliant slogan for the show.
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- links for 2005-01-12
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With the right casting, this could be *brilliant*. Condon wrote the screenplay for Chicago.
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Photos from the new musical, the one sure thing of the season.
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