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'Giant' and 'Murder Ballads,' musicals that break the mold

Brian d'Arcy James (from left), Kate Baldwin and

Photo credit: Joseph Moran | Brian d'Arcy James (from left), Kate Baldwin and PJ Griffith star in "Giant."

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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Musicals, especially musicals on Broadway, just seem to appear. The curtain goes up, when there even is a curtain these days, and we don't need to know anything beyond what appears on the stage. How many workshops, how many brainstorming sessions and out-of-town productions were sweated through before whatever happens finally happens? Who knows? Who cares?

But how instructive it is, in an...

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