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'So You Think You Can Dance': lots of props, plenty of awesome dancing
Reality CheckJohn-John Williams IV is in Chicago at a hotel that does not have Fox (to our disbelief). So I'm filling in and recapping a well-danced So You Think You Can Dance. There's new partnering tonight (again). Each pair will dance......Tags: Celine Dion, Georgia Brown, Sports, Music Theater, Mia Michaels
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WBC plans to carry on, with or without Alex Rodriguez
WatchdogI contributed some TV-related stuff to Ken Davidoff's Wednesday newspaper extravaganza on the World Baseball Classic, which opens at 4:30 a.m. Thursday. Naturally, I mentioned the level of interest in the Dominican team because of its third baseman,...Tags: Baseball, Major League Baseball, Music Theater, Sports, Babe Ruth
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Joe Buck is better at announcing than playing softball
WatchdogVideo here of Joe Buck promoting his new HBO show while playing softball (badly) in the Broadway Show League in Central Park. (Love the St. Louis Blues cap, Joe.) Here is an interview with Buck from The Big Lead. Coming......Tags: St. Louis Blues, Central Park, HBO (tv network), Theater
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Shaq gets new team, sheds Star Island home
The Business of Sports | Sun-Sentinel BlogsFormer Heat center Shaquille O???Neal finally unloaded his Star Island home on Wednesday, a day before he was traded from Phoenix to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Philip Freedman, a broker with Flagstone Realty, said the deal to sell the 2.5 acre......Tags: Major League Baseball, Sports, Shaquille O'Neal, Property, Theater
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'So You Think You Can Dance' recap: Top 10 perform
Reality CheckTonight, the Top 10 on So You Think You Can Dance get new partners, new dances and voted on solely by the viewers. It's a whole new ball game, is what I'm saying.The first couple (no intros!) is Ryan and......Tags: Schools, Music Theater, Sports, Entertainment, Mandy Moore
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Summer 2013: 10 theater shows for a sunny Chicago
Two components of many a Chicago summer of live entertainment are absent this year — there's no Cirque du Soleil tent at the United Center and no Riverfront Theater at the Tribune Company's Freedom Center. So you'll have to go camping for fun...
Tags: Celebrities, The Lion King (movie), Music Theater, Goodman Theatre, Entertainment
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Lyric's passion must extend to musical theater
In 2008, New York's Lincoln Center revived a Broadway warhorse: "South Pacific." At the beginning of the overture in the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the lip of Michael Yeargan's setting, which had the outline of a tropical island, began to move backward,...
Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, Music Theater, Entertainment, Poetry
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Nathan Lane, Brian Dennehy in 'Iceman Cometh' at Goodman Theatre
Nathan Lane, one of Broadway's most bankable names and the original star of "The Addams Family" and "The Producers," will appear alongside Brian Dennehy next spring at the Goodman Theatre.The storied duo will star in a new production of Eugene O'Neill's...Tags: Arts and Culture, Goodman Theatre, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Greenwich Village
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'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,' rail-splitter, head lopper ✭✭
The first in what I dearly hope is a trilogy to include "Calvin Coolidge: Exorcist" and "George W. Bush: Werewolves Is Comin'," the frenzied and occasionally diverting mashup"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" rewrites American history so that the Civil War...
Tags: Entertainment, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dominic Cooper, Slavery, Mary Elizabeth Winstead
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Steppenwolf gala nets $1.1 million
The Steppenwolf Theatre Company said Thursday it raised $1.1 million at its annual gala last Saturday — for its artistic, educational and community programming. Items at the live auction including opening-night tickets to the upcoming Broadway...Tags: Steppenwolf Theatre, Bruce Norris, William Petersen, Laurie Metcalf, Rick Bayless
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Tevye reigns in rich 'Fiddler on the Roof'
"Fiddler on the Roof" is among the greatest Broadway musicals for any number of reasons: a score without a single dud; rich, sturdy, funny characters who somehow reward with each revisit; a high-stakes story that not only blends the personal and religious...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Religion and Belief, Paramount Pictures
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'Oklahoma!' comes sweepin' into Lyric Opera
If ever a musical theater work deserved its exclamation point, it's “Oklahoma!” Breathes there a man or woman of a certain age who hasn't at one time or another succumbed to the nostalgic charms of this classic American show, whose spirit...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Music Theater, Entertainment, Poetry, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
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