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From Stage to Screen and Then Back Again

George Heymont | Posted 01.14.2013 | Arts
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George Heymont

In recent decades, movie musicals that began as full-length animation features and original movie musicals have become multi-million dollar stage vehicles drawing audiences into theatres in cities around the world.

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PHOTOS: This House Once Belonged To 'Peter Pan'

The Huffington Post | Ann Brenoff | Posted 05.08.2012 | Los Angeles
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Nobody shot J.R. in this house, but it did once belong to actor Larry Hagman's mother, the one-time Broadway star Mary Martin -- you know, Peter Pan. ...

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The 2011 Academy Awards: It Gets a C-Plus at Best

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Billy Crystal, Kirk Douglas, Academy Awards, Mo'Nique, Hugh Jackman, The Oscars, Helen Mirren, Marilyn Monroe, Alfred Hitchcock, Halle Berry, Mary Martin, Christian Bale, The Fighter, Eli Wallach, Tony Curtis, David Seidler, The Social Network, Bob Hope, Billy Wilder, Gone With the Wind, Lena Horne, Anne Hathaway, John Hughes, Russell Brand, Tom Hanks, Francis Ford Coppola, The King's Speech, Ethel Merman, Michael Russnow, Reese Witherspoon, Aaron Sorkin, Kenneth Brownlow, Fred Zinnemann, Melissa Leo, Lauren Bacall, Colin Firth, James Franco, Christoph Waltz, Abc, Film, Oscars 2011, Celebrities, Natalie Portman, Award Season, Movies, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

You know the writers are in trouble when they have to rely upon Hathaway's mother and Franco's grandmother to help out in the audience. All in all the show was mediocre, but not a disaster.

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Twelve Months Til Christmas

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Lee Remick, I Do! I Do!, Oy Vey in a Manger, Handel, Daniel Massey, Jon Cryer, Carol Lawrence, Kelsey Venter, Nutcracker, Black Nativity, In the Good Old Summertime, Rock Hudson, Barbara Baxley, David Sedaris, Jerry Bock, Messiah, Nathaniel Frey, Hansel Und Gretel, Jason Zinoman, Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Martin, Daddy Long Legs, The Fantasticks, QMR Records, Valerie Vigoda, Ryan Drummond, Gordon MacRae, Radio City Music Hall, Jack Cassidy, The Little Match Girl, Jean Webster, Wicked, Stephen Schwartz, Irving Berlin?S White Christmas, A Christmas Carol, Toy Story: The Musical, Paul Gordon, Rockettes, Barbara Cook, Robert Adelman Hancock, Jan De Hartog, Gower Champion, Hal Linden, 110 in the Shade, Karen Ziemba, Sleeping Beauty Wakes, Christmas Revels, My Cup Runneth Over, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Carol Burnett, David Garrison, Robert Preston, The Shop Around the Corner, The Santaland Diaries, Brendan Milburn, Striking 12, Harold Prince, Brittany Ogle, Ernest Shackleton Loves Me, Sheldon Harnick, Ed Ames, Long Story Short, Macon Little Theatre, Center Rep, Megan McGinnis, Kinsey Sicks, Rubicon Theatre Company, John Caird, She Loves Me, You?Ve Got Mail, The Fourposter, Theatreworks, Electrofulguration, Humperdinck, Groovelily, Video, Arts News
George Heymont

For most people, the holiday season is over and done with. Christmas decorations have been put back into storage and the tree has been disposed of. But for arts entrepreneurs the situation is quite different.

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Hot New Night Club Duo: Michael Feinstein and David Hyde Pierce

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Anthony Newley, Dolly!, Christine Ebersole, Noel Coward, Cheyenne Jackson, Spamalot, Curtains, Leslie Bricusse, Hello, Jerry Herman, David Hyde Pierce, Ralph Blane, Cole Porter, Feinstein's at Loews Regency, Tyne Daly, Hugh Martin, Mary Martin, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, Marilyn Maye, Betty Buckley, Michael Feinstein, New York News
David Finkle

Pierce has a resonant baritone-bass that doesn't come as a total surprise after his stints in the one-word-titled musicals Spamalot and Curtains.

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