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Duke Ellington revisited
Daniel Schnyder spends nearly every day walking in Duke Ellington's footsteps. Literally. The Pacific Symphony's composer-in-residence, who will perform Thursday through Sunday at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, recently moved his family to Harlem...
Tags: Faust (movie), Music Industry, Culture, Festive Events, Entertainment Events
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Buckley sings for the 'Boys'
Betty Buckley grew up in a home with diverging viewpoints about her love for music and storytelling. Her father, a painter, poet, writer and music lover, hailed from a small town in South Dakota. It was with him that Buckley started singing folk tunes....
Tags: Celebrities, Tony Awards, Broadway Theater, Entertainment Events, Miss America Pageant
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Inside look at Green Day
When Doug Hamilton premiered his film "Broadway Idiot" this year in Austin, Texas, he had a particularly tough crowd to please. Hundreds of hardcore Green Day fans lined up outside the theater on Main Street, waiting to see the 80-minute documentary....
Tags: Billie Joe Armstrong, Music Industry, Broadway Theater, Tony Awards, Movies
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On Theater: 'Billy Elliot' moves deftly
The art of the dance is enjoying a popularity not experienced since the 1950s when members of its royal family were Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse and Ann Miller. TV's "Dancing with the Stars" shares some of the credit — along with musical...
Tags: Politics, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Awards, Government, Dance
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Concert Review: This 'Kid' is an old soul
Arlo Guthrie didn't perform "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" Saturday night at the Irvine Barclay Theatre, but the song, in a way, was there in spirit. Guthrie's signature tune from 1967 (better known simply as "Alice's Restaurant") works partly as...
Tags: Woodstock Festival (1969), Entertainment Events, Theater, Poetry, Music
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A musical cake for Cook
Broadway luminary Barbara Cook is in for a treat. During her one-night-only performance at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall on Saturday, she will be presented with a birthday card. Yes, birthday cards are common, but not ones filled with...
Tags: Broadway Theater, Artists, Arts, Chita Rivera, Entertainment Events
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Estancia's 'Guys & Dolls' take the stage
In those hectic days, hours and minutes before opening night, it's time to "either laugh or cry." So says Pauline Maranian, director of Estancia High School's upcoming musical theater production of "Guys & Dolls," which opens Thursday for a three-...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Broadway Theater, Schools, Toy Industry, Entertainment Events
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Inside Miss America's head
Costa Mesa High School's drama students will soon lift the curtain on a musical that revels in the backstage drama of beauty pageants, and on Thursday they researched the real thing. Angela Perez-Baraquio, who Miss America 2001 and the first Asian...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Miss America Pageant, Music, Entertainment, Marvin Hamlisch
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Something 'Wicked' this way returns
Napoleon Gladney is no stranger to wearing several hats. A tree, emotions, the wind, a prince, a vampire, and even music notes — these are just a few roles that the Los Angeles-based professional dancer has enacted. Now, as part of the...
Tags: Disneyland Park, Alvin Ailey, Broadway Theater, Les Miserables (movie), Dance
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On Theater: Comedy is 'Stiff' in name only
They've explored the world of history ("Ragtime") and fantasy ("Seussical"), but the creative team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty earlier elected to tackle two other genres — mystery and farce — in their offbeat musical comedy "Lucky...
Tags: Broadway Theater, Entertainment Events, Theater, Arts and Culture, Music
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Say, they can sing!
They came with music in their hearts and lyrics on their lips. An audition pool of nearly 50 hopefuls from across Orange and Los Angeles counties and the Inland Empire has now been whittled to four. The finalists of the Pacific Symphony production "OC...
Tags: Politics, Les Miserables (movie), Celine Dion, Concerts, Ryan Seacrest
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Songstress Lea Salonga to take Segerstrom stage
When asked about her ardor for music, Lea Salonga replies, "Why not music?" Having grown up needing little to no encouragement to take on an audience, the Tony- and Olivier Award-winning Filipina singer calls her career choice a "no-brainer." "My...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Les Miserables (movie), Theater, Music, Entertainment
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