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The Gene Kelly Awards are more than a competition, it's an opportunity for schools to showcase their student's talent and the high quality musicals they produce
I was so inspired by the old and great tap dancers like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. Now there is a generation of tap dancer who are trying to keep the art alive to whom a lot of taps look up to like Mike Minery, our primary choreographer
I think your heart hurt -- were you going to be able to do it? Could you keep up? Were you going to fail? ... And Gene Kelly kind of scared me, because he was the boss, and he was brilliant, and he was a wonderful teacher. He had to teach me. And to be given a little kitty cat, and expect it to be a lion, it didn't happen overnight. I had to work, work, work without question.More quotes »
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Hampton production leads area nominations for Gene Kelly Awards
Local high school students will face off on stage in Pittsburgh CLO's 23rd annual Gene Kelly Awards this weekend to showcase excellence in musical theater productions of area school districts, including three school districts from the North Hills. Hampto from Pittsburgh Entertainment Read more »
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TV: Other Shows: Mel Brooks: Make A Noise
Robert Trachtenberg’s American Masters film about Mel Brooks begins and ends with images of screeching tires as a car, presumably ferrying Brooks to and from his interview with the director, careens around a back lot. This burst of chaotic energy must be from The A.V. Club Read more »
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Unsinkable
The spunky song-and-dancer entertainer and actress Debbie Reynolds, now 81, looks back with humor and zestful spirits in her memoir at a personal life that might well have done a lesser lady in and at an enviable career that is still going strong. (She i from EDGE Boston Read more »
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Chartiers Valley’s ‘9 to 5’ collects seven Kelly nominations
Three local schools received nominations for the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera's 2013 Gene Kelly Awards, including multiple nominations for Chartiers Valley. The school's production of “9 to 5” received nominations for seven awards. “It is a reflection of from Pittsburgh Entertainment Read more »
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Baldwin High School showered with Kelly nominations
The shiny lights, carefully crafted scenes, actor performances and harmonic melodies of this year's Baldwin High School spring musical âHairsprayâ earned the cast and crew six nominations from Pittsburgh's Civic Light Opera's 2013 Gene Kelly Awards. The from Pittsburgh Entertainment Read more »
