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Blog Entries by David Finkle from 09/2010

First Nighter: Our Sinatra Revue Is Truly Chairman-of-the-Board-Worthy

| Posted 09.02.2010 | Arts
Read More: Tony Bennett, Hilary Kole, Fred Ebb, Mgm, Liza Minnelli, John Kander, The Oak Room at the Algonquin, Christopher Gines, Dick Haymes, Till the Clouds Roll By, Jerome Kern, Boots Maleson, Kurt Stamm, Hoboken New Jersey, Frank Sinatra, Our Sinatra, Oscar Hammerstein II, Bing Crosby, Eric Comstock, Arts News

Our Sinatra is a case of songs treated with utterly convincing maturity, depth and, where appropriate, genuine humor.

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First Nighter: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Stage Fair Much More than Merely Fair

| Posted 09.14.2010 | Entertainment
Read More: State Fair, David Merrick, Kathryn Crosby, Phil Strong, Louis Mattioli, Oklahoma!, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Donna McKechnie, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Broadway, Musicals, Entertainment News

Rodgers and Hammerstein thought they wrote nine Broadway musicals. But there is a tenth that neither of them ever knew about it.

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First Nighter: Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine "Passion" Gives Passion a Bad Name

| Posted 09.23.2010 | Entertainment
Read More: A Little Night Music, David Thaxton, Terry Jardine, Stephen Sondheim, Barbara Cook, Neil Austin, Sweeney Todd, Christopher Oram, Nick Lidster, James Lapine, Passione D'Amore, Donmar Warehouse, Jonathan Tunick, Passion, Scarlett Strallen, Scott Ambler, Roundabout, Obsession, Film Review, Relationships, Broadway, Film, Soundtracks, Love, Entertainment News

Passion is a depiction of romantic obsession and the subtly destructive ends to which romantic obsession can lead -- all of it outfitted with somber, totally humorless Sondheim songs.

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