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New York City: Cyndi Lauper, Matthew Morrison, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and More Honor Jerry Mitchell with 2013 "Mr. Abbott" Award
"Mr. Abbott" Award in a ceremony held Monday, May 13 at B.B. King's. The award is named in honor of renowned director George Abbott and is presented to a director or choreographer in recognition of lifetime achievement. Mitchell received Tony Award nominations from TheaterMania.com Read more »
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After 33 Adaptations for the City Center Encores! Series, David Ives Is Passing "The Blue Pencil"
Ives' adaptation of George Abbott, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's book for the recent City Center Encores! production of On Your Toes, will be his last for that musical series, the playwright confirmed to Playbill.com. Over the past two decades, Tony-nominated from Playbill Read more »
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On Your Toes at Encores!: Dancing With the Real Stars
show that brought together four Broadway legends: the songwriting team of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, librettist-director George Abbott, and choreographer George Balanchine. Seventy-seven years later, folks are still humming the show’s hit song “There’s from Time Magazine Read more »
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The Straight Slate for the 2013 B.C. provincial election: Character matters
B.C. Liberal MLA Moira Stilwell showed character when she threw her support behind George Abbott after withdrawing from the B.C. Liberal leadership race. She could have backed the front-runners—Christy Clark or Kevin Falcon—and had a better shot at joining from The Georgia Straight Blog Read more »
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EVERGREEN TUNES
in the early 50s the great Broadway writer/director George Abbott announced that his next project would be a musical set largely in a pajama factory in Dubuque, Ohio, about a dispute between the factory’s workforce and management over a seven and a half cent from Theater News Online Read more »
