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First Nighter: Encores! Series' Pipe Dream Almost a Dream Come True

David Finkle | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Will Chase, "The Sound of Music, Stephen Wallem, John Steinbeck, Laura Osnes, "Pipe Dream, Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, " Mark Bruni, California, " "Sweet Thursday, " City Center Encores! Series, "Cannery Row, Monterey, Tom Wopat, Rob Berman, World War II, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Leslie Uggams, " Carnegie Hall, Entertainment News
David Finkle

Of course, when songs so ebullient and/or passionate are this good, who's going to complain? Although a number of the Encores! dust-offs have moved to Broadway, this one certainly won't. Never mind, since it has enough going for it right where it is.

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First Nighter: Cy Coleman's Best is Yet to Come is Here Now at 59E59 Theaters

David Finkle | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Rachel York, City of Angels, Douglas W. Schmidt, Frank Loesser, Ira Gershwin, Dorothy Fields, Betty Comden, Stephen Sondheim, Napoleon and Josephine, Lorin Lattarro, Joe A. McCarthy, Lillias White, Sally Mayes, Feinstein's at Loews Regency, Jerome Kern, Like Jazz, Cy Coleman, Irving Berlin, Marilyn and Alan Bergman, Oscar Hammerstein II, George Gershwin, Jonathan Burke, Tony Bennett, Little Me, Michael Stewart, Carolyn Leigh, Mabel Mercer, The Best Is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman, Adolph Green, Michael Gilliam, David Zippel, The Great American Songbook, Downstairs at the Upstairs, Howard McGillin, Billy Stritch, Cole Porter, Ava Gardner, Frank Sinatra, Ira Gasman, Richard Rodgers, Sweet Charity, 59E59 Theaters, David Burnham, Arts News
David Finkle

The best is yet to come? Not this time. It's already here as it deliciously unfolds by way of singers Sally Mayes, Lillias White and Rachel York.

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

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

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
David Finkle

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

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

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
David Finkle

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

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Let the N.E.A. Lead Them

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leadership, Tony Hayward, Waco, N.E.A., John Chambers, Collaboration, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cisco Systems, Broadway, Walla Walla, Winnetka, Rocco Landesman, Violin, Theatre, Oklahoma!, Revival, National Endowment for the Arts, Oscar Hammerstein II, Newsweek, Senate, Woburn, Arts News
Dr. Susan Corso

We in the theatre have known for a long, long time that the show must go on. I'd venture to say that there's only one man in Washington who knows this in his bones -- National Endowment for the Arts chair, Rocco Landesman.

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The Scottsboro Boys: New Kander-Ebb Musical, Old Kander-Ebb Formula

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Skin of Our Teeth, Samuel Liebowitz, Brandon Victor Dixon, Jason Robert Brown, Chicago, Kurt Weill, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Sharon Washington, The Visit, Manuel Puig, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Leo Frank, Jerome Kern, Hal Prince, Parade, Musical Comedy, John Cullum, Cabaret, Oscar Hammerstein II, Stephen Foster, Thornton Wilder, Susan Stroman, Fred Ebb, Berlin Stories, Edna Ferber, David Thompson, Show Boat, John Kander, The Scottsboro Boys, Bertolt Brecht, Vineyard Theatre, Christopher Isherwood, Colman Domingo, Forrest McClendon, New York News
David Finkle

Time was, audiences went to musicals--more often called musical comedies then--to see famous entertainers sing great songs written by first-rate lyric...

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Back in Lady Liberty's Head

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Liberty Enlightening the World, Liberty, Freedom, Statue of Liberty, Statue of Liberty Reopen, Compromise, Statue of Liberty's Crown, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Healthy Living News
Dr. Susan Corso

The real, full name of the Statue of Liberty is "Liberty Enlightening the World." She wears a crown because she's a goddess championing the cause of all causes: freedom.

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