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Tone-deaf officials, secrecy make year's worst PR moves
Just one month into 2013 and it's already time to award the first round of Flubbies — recognizing the region's biggest public-relations flubs. We're talking moves so dim they made the Superdome's third-quarter lights look bright. There's a...Tags: Mercedes-Benz Superdome, Osceola County, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Specialization, Buddy Dyer
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Orlando arts center's Broadway deal makes everyone a winner
After a month of handwringing, public appeals and lines in the sand, a deal was struck on the future of Broadway touring shows in Orlando. The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts will co-present touring shows with the Florida Theatrical...
Tags: Mad Cow Theater, Theater Downtown, Arts and Culture, Orlando, Travel
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Teatro: Wicked, una bruja no tan malvada en el sur de Florida
El Sentinel“Wicked” pone al Mago de Oz al descubierto. Política sucia. Infidelidad. Vigilancia doméstica. Un niño muy querido. Discriminación racial (contra los de piel verde). Abuso emocional (Bullying). Respeto a los animales. Lista...Tags: Entertainment, Music, Binney and Smith, L. Frank Baum, Fort Lauderdale
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Broadway Concert Pays Its Respects To Sandy Hook
The Hartford CourantIt was an out-of-town Broadway show that closed in one night, but those in the audience are likely to remember it for a long time because the show was produced just for them. Tony Award-winner Brian Stokes Mitchell sang "The Impossible Dream."...Tags: Somewhere (movie), Anne Hathaway, Arts and Culture, Christine Ebersole, Richard Kind
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Broadway musical Wicked is ripped from headlines
"Wicked" rips the lid off of Oz. Rips it right off. Dirty politics. Infidelity. Domestic surveillance. A love child. Racial discrimination (y'know, against the green-skinned coloreds). Emotional abuse. Animal rights. Blacklisting. And...
Tags: Entertainment, Binney and Smith, Broward Center for the Performing Arts, Manhattan (New York City), Nazi Party
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Goodspeed Musicals takes Snapshots of Schwartz
Goodspeed Musicals is producing a “new” show this fall by Stephen Schwartz, who did the songs for Wicked, Godspell, Pippin, Working and The Baker’s Wife. Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook, features songs from—hey!— Wicked,...Tags: Music, Entertainment, Goodspeed Opera House, Arts and Culture, Theater
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Pantages tweaks recent box-office record for 'Book of Mormon'
The Pantages Theatre has added an asterisk or two to its claim in October that "The Book of Mormon" had set a new record for the biggest single-week box-office take in Los Angeles theater history. On further review, Pantages spokesman Wayne McWhorter...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, The Book of Mormon (musical), Prices
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'Wicked' breaks Broadway box-office record over holidays
The holiday season is usually a bountiful time of year for Broadway shows. Hordes of tourists bring about a bump in box-office receipts for musicals and plays across the board. The most recent holiday period proved to be no exception. "Wicked," still...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Arts and Culture
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Florida Theatrical, Dr. Phillips Center make Broadway-presenting case to public
In the continuing saga of who will present Broadway shows at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts when it opens in the fall of 2014, both the center and the current presenter wrote open letters to the community this week. The letters lay...
Tags: Business, Tampa, Jim Pugh, Arts and Culture, Kravis Center
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Broadway Community To Headline Newtown Benefit Concert
Hartford CourantBroadway will show that it cares when stars, producers, writers, and directors come together for “From Broadway with Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook” on Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. at Waterbury's Palace Theater. Linda Eder ("Jekyll & Hyde"),...Tags: Les Miserables (musical), Arts and Culture, Evita (musical), Micky Dolenz, Richard Kind
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The Times Square vortex
NEW YORK — On a walking tour of Times Square, something supercalifragilisticexpialidocious happened. With the guide at my side, I was strolling along the streets without causing any casualties. No banging into clumps of tourists or wiping small...
Tags: Times Square, Judaism, Manhattan (New York City), Arts and Culture, Museums
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'Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy' airs Tuesday
As Sir Robin carols merrily to King Arthur in Monty Python's Spamalot, "In any great adventure, if you don't want to lose...you won't succeed on Broadway if you don't have any Jews." Eric Idle's cheeky lyric, which unfailingly generated knowing...
Tags: Judaism, Arts and Culture, Stephen Schwartz, Popular Music (genre), Music
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