09/07/2008
Music, musicals, festivals for today and beyond (Detroit Free Press)
Art & Apples Festival: The 43rd annual event features fine art exhibitors, demonstrations, entertainment, food, crafts and more, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Rochester Municipal Park, Pine Street, Rochester. 248-651-4110.
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09/07/2008
Anita Page, 98; Hollywood Star at End of Silent Movie Era (Washington Post)
Anita Page, 98, one of Hollywood's last silent-era screen stars and a leading lady in one of the first sound musicals, "The Broadway Melody," died in her sleep Sept. 6 at her home in Los Angeles. No cause of death was given.
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09/08/2008
Anita Page, one of the last silent film stars, dies at 98 (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
By ADAM BERNSTEIN Anita Page, 98, one of Hollywood’s last silent-era screen stars and a leading lady in one of the first sound musicals, died in her sleep Saturday at her home in Los Angeles. Ms. Page was once promoted as "the girl with the most beautiful face in Hollywood," and the vivacious, golden-haired actress claimed at the peak of her fame in the late 1920s to have received marriage ...
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09/08/2008
'Wonder Pets!' expands kids' musical horizons (The Standard-Times)
India's fabled Bollywood musicals have become ever more popular, influencing films as diverse as the 2004 art-house romance "Bride and Prejudice" to the recent Disney Channel "Cheetah Girls" movie.
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09/07/2008
Fall theater preview: The 20th century rocks (Chicago Sun-Times)
Take a panoramic look at any theater season and you will be able to spot (or impose) trends. The 2008-09 season is no exception, though a trend might be most visible when considering the array of musicals set for stages here this fall.
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09/07/2008
Smile: The fall theater season is here (Denver Post)
And so are our 10 recommended plays and musicals to watch. Get to know a featured actor from each play in this special photo essay by Nathan W. Armes, and get to know their plays, in their own words. Online bonus: Videos by each featured actor.
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09/07/2008
Theater groups unveil fall season offerings for kids (The Wichita Eagle)
These Wichita stage companies will present children's musicals and shows beginning this fall: Crown Uptown Professional Children's Theatre "Santa's Magical Christmas" (Nov. 29-Dec. 20) --Original holiday musical about North Pole elves who come to the rescue to save Christmas when a wizard kidnaps Mrs. Santa. "Cinderella" (March 6-April 11) --Original fairy-tale musical about a girl ...
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09/08/2008
On Tap: A Male, Male, Male, Male World (New York Times)
Broadway is shining a bright spotlight on the male psyche this autumn.
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09/07/2008
CRITIC'S CHOICE (East Bay Express)
Ain't Misbehavin': The Fats Waller Musical Show Nowadays it seems like half the Broadway musicals are based on movies, and the other half are jukebox musicals or "popsicals" based on the songbook of one pop music giant after another. Ain'tMisbehavin' got in on this trend way ahead of the ...
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09/04/2008
Mad About Musicals takes a bow at Palace (Redditch Standard)
THE EXTREMELY popular Mad About The Musicals returns to Redditch's Palace Theatre next week (Friday, September 12) with a brand new show for its 2008 tour.
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