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Ace Young In, Taylor Hicks Out of 'Grease'
Zap2It.comThere will be a changing of the "American Idol" guard in the cast of Broadway's "Grease." According to Playbill, Taylor Hicks will exit the Broadway revival on September 7, but Ace Young will make his debut two days later. It isn't a straight-up swap of...Tags: Television, American Idol, Broadway, Angel, Popular Music
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Here's a small sampling of films worthy of a first-day film fest
Before World War I, when the Marx Brothers and their various relatives were knocking around the vaudeville circuit, one of their acts was a schoolroom act, titled "Fun in Hi Skule." Remnants of the act turned up in "Horse Feathers," one of the Marxes'...Tags: June Allyson, John Travolta, James Agee, Rosalind Russell, Bill Murray
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Broadway's theater schedule for August
Here's what's playing on Broadway through the end of August. Note that although some of these shows' official opening dates aren't until September or later, preview performances are offered. -- Avital Binshtock "A Chorus Line": This lively exploration...Tags: Olivia Newton-John, August, Laurence Fishburne, Palace Theater, Music Theater
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Luther Davis, 91; writer for film, stage won Tony Award for 'Kismet'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLuther Davis, a writer for stage, film and television who won a Tony Award for the Broadway musical "Kismet" and whose screen credits include "Lady in A Cage," a thriller that starred Olivia de Havilland, has died. He was 91. Davis died July 29 at...Tags: James Caan, Tommy Tune, Hotels and Accommodations, Vincente Minnelli, Movies
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'Furious Improvisation' by Susan Quinn
Furious Improvisation
How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands
Made High Art Out of Desperate Times
Susan Quinn
Walker & Co.: 326 pp., $25.99
Of all the Depression-era jobs programs created by the Works Progress Administration, the Federal Theatre Project...Tags: Orson Welles, Marc Blitzstein, Minority Groups, New York, Tim Robbins
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'American Idol' Taylor Hicks Will Join 'Grease' on Broadway
Another " American Idol" is Broadway bound. Taylor Hicks, who took the "American Idol" title in Season 5 with the help of his "Soul Patrol" fans, will make his New York stage debut as "Teen Angel" in the current revival of the musical "Grease" at the...Tags: Chubby Checker, New York, Television, American Idol, Popular Music
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'American Idol' Taylor Hicks will join 'Grease'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAnother "American Idol" is Broadway bound. Taylor Hicks, who took the "American Idol" title in Season 5 with the help of his "Soul Patrol" fans, will make his New York stage debut as "Teen Angel" in the current revival of the musical "Grease" at the...Tags: Chubby Checker, New York, Television, American Idol, Popular Music
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The stages, they are a-changin'
Newsday Staff WriterOh boy, oh boy. Business on Broadway soars right up through the second balcony. The season pushes breathlessly upon us. "A Chorus Line" kicks back into town Thursday and at least 20 musicals - even a few new ones - are close behind. Dramas by Tom...Tags: John Doyle, Zoe Caldwell, Twyla Tharp, Blythe Danner, Music Theater
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Dancing to Dylan is blown in the wind
Newsday Staff WriterNobody gets artists to jump through hoops better than Twyla Tharp. If theatergoers didn't already know that from decades of her boundary-smashing dance, they must have felt it when bodies hurtled themselves into perilous space in "Movin' Out," her...Tags: Music, Folk Music, Twyla Tharp, Music Theater, Theater
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New 'Grease' doesn't get very far
linda.winer@newsday.comAccording to the great philosophers, each era gets the "Grease" it deserves. In 1971, the original opened in a former trolley barn in Chicago with a budget of $200 and plenty of '60s rebel-raunch in its spoof of '50s high school. By the time John...Tags: John Travolta, Elections, Television, Olivia Newton-John, Theater
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linda.winer@newsday.comCRITIC'S PICKS Crazy Mary (Opens June 3 at Playwrights Horizons, 416 W. 42nd St., Manhattan). She's hardly alien to the theater, but Sigourney Weaver is more often seen way downtown these days at her husband, Jim Simpson's, Flea Theater. Both venture...Tags: Bernadette Peters, Gene Kelly, Festive Event, Manhattan (New York City), Music
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Fall Arts: New York Theater calendar
Critic's Picks
A Chorus Line, opening Oct. 5 at the Schoenfeld Theatre. All together now: "five, six, seven, eight!" The Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning monument to Broadway gypsy dancers is back where its fans believe it has always belonged....Tags: James Agee, Time Warner Inc., Culture, History, SoHo
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