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Smash Is Everything A Theater Geek Would Want In A TV Show About Musicals
Crushable
The show courts viewers with an impressive pedigree: Debra Messing channels her famous Will & Grace persona to play Julia; Anjelica Huston is the director with a hidden motive for snatching up the Marilyn musical; then there's Coupling's Jack Davenport ...
TV Fine Tuning column for Monday, Feb. 6Canada.com
A Smash hit?Montreal Gazette
'Smash' review: NBC series lives up to titleSan Francisco Chronicle
Wall Street Journal (blog) -Huffington Post -Fond du Lac Reporter
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BWW Interviews: Michael Lluberes, THE BOY IN THE BATHROOM Scribe
Broadway World
The Boy in the Bathroom is a quirky new musical about David, a young man with obsessive compulsive disorder who lives in (you guessed it) a bathroom and refuses to come out. The play has won more awards than most people have fingers, including four New ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Plays stage come-back against musicals in West End
Telegraph.co.uk
The traditional play is making a come-back against the dominance of the blockbuster musical on the West End stage, official box office figures show. By John Bingham After years of claims that the lure of musicals adapted from Hollywood films was ...
West End box office takings top half a billion for third yearWhatsOnStage.com
Attendances are falling (but the money keeps rolling in)Stage (blog)

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Liam England playing role of Prince in 'Cinderella'
EMC Stittsville/Richmond
Liam England, a grade 11 student at Sacred Heart Catholic High School, will be playing the role of the Prince in the upcoming musical production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella being presented by the Catholic Education Foundation of Ottawa.

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White Plains opens high-school musical season with 'The Sound of Music'
The Journal News | LoHud.com
In “Footloose,” Sorrow played Rev. Shaw Moore, a man whose broken heart led him to crusade against dancing. “They're remarkably similar roles,” Sorrow says, adding that while he doesn't have many songs in the musical, he enjoys his character's arc, ...

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PR Web (press release)
Mr. Rhythm's Children's Plays Make It Easy for Teachers to Stage Preschool ...
PR Web (press release)
Mr. Rhythm's preschool musicals and plays are ideal for children from preschool to first grade. Mr. V's class performs The Circus, a downloadable play by Mr. Rhythm's Children's Plays. Our plays are wonderful teaching tools that are affordable, ...

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Midwest New Musicals Presents MORALITY PLAY 2/19, 2/20
Broadway World
Midwest New Musicals continues Words and Music, its concert reading series of original musicals, with MORALITY PLAY by Janet Burroway and Matthew M. Kiedrowski on Sunday February 19, at 7:00 PM at the Athenaeum Theatre at 2936 North Southport Avenue, ...