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Living History: The Marx Brothers honed “A Night at the Opera” on a Utah stage
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 1 month ago
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Two years earlier under Paramount Pictures, the Marx Brother's now classic film, Duck Soup, charmed many but lacking a solid plot, riled critics and tanked at the box office. Despite previous movie successes, including Animal Crackers, Monkey
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'You Can't Take It With You' at Millburn High School
New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 months ago
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You Can't Take It With You' at Millburn High School Thursday February 21, 2013, 4:24 PM The Item of Millburn and Short Hills The Millburn High School Drama Club and Millburn's Limelight Players will present Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's Pulitzer-
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Music Review: ‘Mr. Gershwin Goes to Washington,' at Merkin Concert Hall
Zurich :: Switzerland | 7 months ago
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October 22, 2012 Satire is what closes on Saturday night, the playwright George S. Kaufman said when the wry Gershwin musical Strike Up the Band, in which an American cheese tycoon persuades the government to declare war on Switzerland to maintain a
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Moss Hart's Act One: How a Timeless Broadway Memoir Became Itself a Broadway Play
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 7 months ago
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N ot since the critic John Simon shuffled off into semi-retirement to give his fangs a long-overdue rest has Broadway enjoyed a more hissable villain than the New York Post' s theater columnist Michael Riedel, who feasts on rumors of major
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Forbidden Broadway Takes a Stab at It
New York City :: NY :: USA | 8 months ago
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Factually, the most recent version only closed in 2009, but that apparently feels like a century agonot only to me, but to the show's jovial perpetrators, Gerard Alessandrini and Phillip George: They open its latest edition, Forbidden Broadway: Alive
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Village musical in the maybe
Madrid :: Spain | 10 months ago
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The Village People, the biggest boy band of the disco era, are the subject of a new Broadway musical. The only trouble is, the first draft is like Ethel Merman's infamous disco album a train wreck. A reading of the show, which is fashioned around
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Theater legend gets Act 2
New York City :: NY :: USA | 10 months ago
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Ask anybody who works in show business to name his favorite book about the theater, and I'll lay you 10-to-1 the answer will be Moss Hart's autobiography, Act One. Woody Allen , NEA chairman Rocco Landesman , producer Scott Rudin , Stephen Sondheim
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Coronado Playhouses “Man Who Came to Dinner” is delicious fun
San Diego :: CA :: USA | 11 months ago
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Coronado Playhouses Man Who Came to Dinner is delicious fun Coronado, CA---If you are in the mood for some good old-fashioned fun, the Coronado Playhouse is mounting the riotous George Kaufman/Moss Hart comedy "The Man Who Came to Dinner". It's one
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American Players' The Royal Family sets a low bar with predictable script, familiar setting
New York City :: NY :: USA | 11 months ago
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n American Players\' The Royal Family sets a low bar with predictable script, familiar setting \n \n by Jennifer A...Kaufman and Edna Ferber\'s The Royal Family has many ingredients familiar at George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's The Royal Family has
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Dese ‘Guys and Dolls’ provide a dose of pleasure
Adelaide :: Australia | 11 months ago
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When Frank Loesser realized he was supposed to write 16 songs and four orchestral interludes for Guys and Dolls, he hinted to director George S. Kaufman that he'd like to cut a corner by reprising the best tunes. Sure, Kaufman replied if Loesser
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