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Twyla Tharp blends dance, Sinatra in 'Come Fly Away'

March 18, 2010 3:51 PM By LINDA WINER linda.winer@newsday.com

Quick ReadThe music this time is Frank Sinatra, the style is ballroom and the plot, minimal.

Karine Plantadit and Keith Roberts in quot;Come Fly

Photo credit: Photo by Ari Mintz | Karine Plantadit and Keith Roberts in "Come Fly Away", a new musical conceived, choreographed and directed by Twyla Tharp, with vocals by Frank Sinatra. Marquis Theatre. Photo by Ari Mintz. 3/16/2010

Linda Winer

Newsday theater critic and arts columnist Linda Winer. Linda Winer

Winer is chief theater critic and arts columnist for Newsday,

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Twyla Tharp is back on Broadway, a fact more inevitable than it may appear.

The boundary-defying director-choreographer - who had a massive Broadway hit with her Billy Joel musical, "Movin' Out," in 2002 and a deafening flop with her Bob Dylan follow-up, "The Times They Are A-Changin'," in 2006 - opens "Come Fly Away" Thursday at the Marquis Theatre. The music this time is Frank Sinatra, the...

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