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2013/05/20 13:44
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If either her husband or daughter is calling, Audra McDonald knows without looking at her phone. That's because the five-time Tony Award winner has programed the ring tone for both to be The...
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2013/05/18 03:57
2013/05/18 03:57
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Trinidadian tenor Ronald Samm, who has been enjoying a great deal of success on the European operatic circuit is here to conduct a Masterclass for a group of gifted local singers. The Masterclass is...
2013/05/17 16:57
2013/05/17 16:57
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Broadway mega star Audra McDonald recently went into the studio to record a new album, her first solo recording in seven years. NY1's Frank DiLella filed the following report. Whether on stage or on...
2013/05/17 05:44
2013/05/17 05:44
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The slow, lingering demise of "Smash" has felt more like a punch to the gut to the folks on Broadway. The TV series about the making of a big stage musical came with a flurry of attention and some...
2013/05/15 14:25
2013/05/15 14:25
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It’s just about summertime here in Charleston, and as Porgy and Bess’ opening lyrics suggest, the livin’ is easy. The cusp of Charleston summer is a more than fitting time for a production of the...
2013/05/14 21:01
2013/05/14 21:01
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Reservations for Cincinnati Opera’s popular “Opera Goes to Church/Temple” are available starting today. Because of demand, there will be two performances this year at Allen Temple A.M.E. Church in...
2013/05/13 21:49
2013/05/13 21:49
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The Broadway revival of the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess closed in September 2012, but its star, Audra McDonald, says she's just now recovering from the role — both emotionally and physically. "The...
2013/05/11 10:30
2013/05/11 10:30
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It isn't often that a Grammy-winning professional soloist takes second billing to an amateur on the same orchestral program. But, then again, Al Jarreau usually doesn't share billing with a former...
2013/05/10 20:49
2013/05/10 20:49
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This week's Gambit features my interview with Audra McDonald, the five-time Tony winner and star of the ABC series Private Practice, who performs at NOCCA in two shows on May 18. In the interview we...
2013/05/10 17:06
2013/05/10 17:06
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It was one of the best moments of a gala that raised a $9.4 million for Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in tribute to departing President Reynold Levy. The total included a surprise donation...
2013/05/08 14:21
2013/05/08 14:21
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In the 1970s, when François Clemmons was playing Sportin’ Life in the Cleveland Symphony production of Porgy and Bess — the role that earned him a Grammy in 1973 — he asked musical director Lorin...
2013/05/08 04:28
2013/05/08 04:28
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Cabaret performances are intimate, fleeting, like a stranger in the night whispering in your ear — then gone. It was by just such a fleeting chance that this reporter, brought to an event by a...
2013/05/06 01:29
2013/05/06 01:29
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Anyway The Team Got Stuck In Getting Set Up And We Only Started 8 Minutes Late!The First Act Up Was Blackberry-A Really Cool Trio With A Different Style Of Funk,Then Lurch(George) Who Did An Amazing...
2013/05/05 03:19
2013/05/05 03:19
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That message is center stage in the Washington National Opera’s production of “Show Boat,” running at the Kennedy Center through May 26. Indeed, the 100-plus cast members and a 50-piece orchestra show...
2013/05/05 03:15
2013/05/05 03:15
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... delightfully delayed by Buch's scintillating scats and Gullah-infused inflections on the "Porgy and Bess" classic "It Ain't Necessarily So" and a literally rocking version of Jester...
2013/05/04 15:27
2013/05/04 15:27
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In the opening of her latest autobiography, “Mom & Me & Mom,” Maya Angelou writes that she is frequently asked how she became who she is today — a poet, playwright, director, historian, and civil...
2013/05/03 21:41
2013/05/03 21:41
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... the true test case. Though Lyric is no stranger to producing Broadway-originated works like "Porgy and Bess" in 2008, "Sweeney Todd" in 2002 or "Street Scene" in 2001, "Oklahoma!" is being...
2013/05/03 12:40
2013/05/03 12:40
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Two, violinist William Terwilliger and pianist Andrew Cooperstock will bring George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" and "An American in Paris," among other works, to the stage of the Stanton Reformed...
2013/05/02 22:13
2013/05/02 22:13
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... foray into the Broadway repertoire: It already has produced the likes of "Sweeney Todd," "Porgy and Bess" and "Showboat." But what's different about "Oklahoma" (aside from the arguable...
2013/05/01 21:47
2013/05/01 21:47
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Largely concentrated in PlayhouseSquare, Cleveland’s theater district, the festival spanned pop-jazz icons like Mac “Dr. John” Rebennack and Neville, the American Songbook torchbearer Michael...