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Blog Entries by David Finkle from 04/2010

First Nighter: Important "Red" Alert on Broadway

| Posted 04.02.2010 | Entertainment
Read More: Olivier Awards, Mies Van Der Rohe, Martin Scorsese, Bernjamin Britten, The Habit of Art, The Aviator, Alan Corduner, Mark Rothko, Alan Bennett, Eddie Redmayne, Richard Nutbourne, John Logan, Simon Schama, Neil Austin, The Power of Art, Sweeney Todd, The Four Seasons Restaurant, Christopher Oram, Lee Hall, Alfred Molina, W. H. Auden, Friedrich Nietzsche, Aeschylus, Red, Golden Theatre, The Pitman Painters, Philip Johnson, 222 Bowery Studio, Christoph Gluck, Seagram Building, Michael Grandage, Arthur Schopenhauer, Alceste, Entertainment News

Red insists that art matters; so does Red matter in all its dark, dramatic hues.

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First-Nighter: Anyone Can Whistle Those Great Stephen Sondheim Melodies

| Posted 04.12.2010 | Entertainment
Read More: Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Carroll, The Eisenhower Administration, Arthur Laurents, The Sondheim Review, Stephen Sondheim, Casey Nicholaw, Harry Guardino, David Ives, The Oak Room at the Algonquin, Raul Esparza, Anyone Can Whistle, R. D. Laing, Herbert Ross, City Center, Donna Murphy, Sutton Foster, The Divided Self, Harvey Evans, Entertainment News

In song-writing, where success is ideally a matter of fifty percent lyrics and fifty percent music, Stephen Sondheim almost always achieves the delicate balance.

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First-Nighter: The Maude-like, Un-Maude-like Maude Maggart

| Posted 04.16.2010 | Entertainment
Read More: Robert Kimball, Diane McAfee, Brandon Magggart, "The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer, Jerome Robbins, John Boswell, Stephen Sondheim, Mae West, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Bert Kalmar, " the Oak Room at the Algonquin, " Frank Loesser, Eric Davis, Jerome Kern, Barry Day, " Harry Ruby, Fiona Apple, Miles Kreuger, Jule Styne, "Three Little Words, Johnny Mercer, Maude Maggart, Entertainment News

What's truly appealing about Maude Maggart is that what you initially see--and hear--isn't what you eventually get. She fools you seven ways to Sunday and plainly gets a kick out of it.

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Green Day's American Idiot Underscores Broadway's Current Non-Star Practices

| Posted 04.21.2010 | Entertainment
Read More: American Idiot, Billie Joe Armstrong, Spring Awakening, Green Day, Steven Hoggett, Nathan Lane, Michael Mayer, Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool, Broadway, Entertainment News

Box-office magnets like American Idiot will keep coming alongside shows with someone like Nathan Lane and whatever gobsmacking star salary he gets.

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