May 25, 2013

Edition: U.S.

Kelli Ohara

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Kelli Is Bustin' Out...To Do 'Carousel'

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 01.12.2013 | Arts

NEW YORK — Kelli O'Hara will be taking a break from singing Gershwin songs on Broadway early next year – to sing Rodgers & Hammerstein tun...

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The Power of Singing: A CD Celebrating the American Spirit

Shoshana Greenberg | Posted 12.23.2012 | Arts

Read More: Georgia Stitt, Americana, Larry Hochman, Sheldon Harnick, Alan Jay Lerner, Judith Clurman, Kelli O'Hara, Leonard Bernstein, Andrew Lippa, Essential Voices USA, Ron Raines, Arts News

In the election season hoopla, we can sometimes lose sight of why we care. It's good that we have music to remind us.

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Matthew Broderick, Olympic Athletes Join Forces

AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 08.12.2012 | DC

WASHINGTON -- Actor Matthew Broderick, country singer Josh Turner, composer John Williams and a dozen U.S. Olympic athletes will be among the headline...

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Who Says They Don't Write Broadway Musicals Like They Used To?

Wilborn Hampton | Posted 06.25.2012 | Home

Who says they don't write Broadway musicals like they used to? With a reshuffled Gershwin playlist, Kelli O'Hara as a bootlegger and Matt Broderick as a Roarin' Twenties playboy, one can only say bring back Prohibition!

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Theater: Matthew Broderick's New Musical Is Modestly 'Nice Work'

Michael Giltz | Posted 04.24.2012 | Entertainment

Read More: Broadway, Nice Work if You Can Get It, Kelli O'Hara, Musicals, Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin, Matthew Broderick, Video, Entertainment News

The hardest part of creating a new musical is writing good songs. A good tune will let audiences forgive a host of ills in the book and sets and costumes. So if you begin by plundering the vaults of George and Ira Gershwin, your task should be much easier. Nice Work If You Can Get It proves that it's not.

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Stage Door: Nice Work If You Can Get It, The City Club

Fern Siegel | Posted 06.24.2012 | Arts

Read More: Entertainment, Musical, Blues, Theater, Jazz, Broadway, Kelli O'Hara, Off-Broadway, George Gershwin, Matthew Broderick, Arts News

Nice Work If You Can Get It has a glorious Gershwin score, frothy, screwball plot, strong ensemble and Kelli O'Hara. What it doesn't have is a leading man. Matthew Broderick suffers through his dance routines, moving as little as possible, and frequently mopping his brow.

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The Battling Gershwin Plays

AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 06.23.2012 | Home

NEW YORK — There's a musical war brewing on 46th Street and things may turn nasty if Matthew Broderick has his way. He and Kelli O'Hara are at ...

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'The Bridges Of Madison County' Is Getting The Musical Treatment

The Huffington Post | Lucas Kavner | Posted 12.02.2011 | Home

Read More: Clint Eastwood, South Pacific, Meryl Streep, Thousand Country Roads, Broadway Musicals, Kelli O'Hara, Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller, Bartlett Sher, Marsha Norman, Home News

For all of you diligent fans who have been waiting with bated breath for "The Bridges Of Madison County" to become a musical, your time has come. T...

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An Evening With Kelli O'Hara -- A Little Bit Country, a Lot of Broadway, and a Dash of Everything Else

Melody Breyer-Grell | Posted 08.07.2011 | Arts

Kelli O'Hara's voice is clean, light and delicate, or so I thought until she started digging deep -- catching on fire. O'Hara is a first rate Broadway "diva" doing exactly what she wants to do without much peer.

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Stage Door: An Evening With Kelli O'Hara

Fern Siegel | Posted 07.26.2011 | Arts

Read More: Concert, Broadway, Musical Theater, Kelli O'Hara, Entertainment, Music, The Town Hall, Arts News

For New York musical theater fans, Kelli O'Hara needs no introduction. A three-time Tony nominee her performances have garnered raves. O'Hara took time out from rehearsal to consider her career to date.

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Stage Door: Knickerbocker Holiday

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Read More: NY Culture, Entertainment, Collegiate Chorale, Musical Theater, Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson, Victor Garber, Kelli O'Hara, Music, NY Around Town, New York News

Kurt Weill could mix European-style music with Broadway razzle-dazzle. But for music lovers, Weill is probably best known for numbers such as "The September Song," being performed this January.

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