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Nathan Lane, Bebe Neuwirth set for Broadway musical version of 'The Addams Family'
NEW YORK (AP) — "The Addams Family" has found its merry macabre menagerie for Broadway. The show's producers say Nathan Lane will play Gomez and Bebe Neuwirth will be Morticia in the musical based on the popular goulish cartoons in The New Yorker....Tags: Music, Kevin Chamberlin, April (month), Nathan Lane, The Addams Family (tv program)
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Lane to star in 'Addams Family'
Surrounded by Charles Addams' sweetish ghoulish renderings of Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Pugsley and, of course, Wednesday, the Chicago-based producer Stuart Oken revealed more details Monday afternoon about his current baby: a new Broadway...Tags: May (month), Nathan Lane, Theater, The Addams Family (tv program), Oriental Theater
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'Rock 'n' Roll' provides history lessons
Tribune criticTo love rock music -- any music, really -- is to be forever drawing lines between pure art and sold-out pablum. You must have participated in such conversations. "You have to catch this incredible early recording from before the label, or the managers,...Tags: Mick Jagger, Pink Floyd (band), Harold Pinter, Academic Progress, Theater
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New on CD: Green Day
Tribune staff reporterGreen Day, Reprise Perhaps the only thing more unlikely than releasing a rock opera in 2009 is that it's a rock opera written and recorded by Green Day. But such is the case with 21st Century Breakdown, which arrives in stores Friday. The ambitious 21st...Tags: Opera, Theater
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Kennedy Center president wins Peabody
Michael Kaiser - president of the Kennedy Center, international arts management/rescue guru and compelling advocate for preserving artistic quality even in the face of financial meltdown - is the 2009 recipient of the George Peabody Medal for...Tags: Quincy Jones, Off-Broadway Theater, Movies, Elizabeth Taylor, Walters Art Museum
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Opera we can believe in
Baltimore needs an opera company it can believe in now that the venerable Baltimore Opera Company has closed up shop. For 58 seasons, the company's singers and musicians performed what has been called "the most extravagant art" - a lavish collage of...Tags: Lyric Opera of Baltimore, Classical Music, Theater, Hippodrome Theatre, Birgit Nilsson
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New York's performing arts complex Lincoln Center celebrates 50th anniversary
Associated Press WriterNEW YORK (AP) — The New York Philharmonic played Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" for Lincoln Center's 50th anniversary on Monday, recreating the piece that Leonard Bernstein conducted at the arts complex's 1959 groundbreaking. The...Tags: Culture, Leonard Bernstein, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lincoln Center, Tom Brokaw
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New CDs From The Church, Meat Puppets, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Roberta Piket Trio
Had U2 never achieved mega-stardom and instead come of age on some far-off land mass — Australia, say — its present-day output might sound something like "Untitled #23," the latest from the Church. The collection presents Big Music on a...Tags: Cole Porter, Dining and Drinking, Acoustic, U2 (band), Music
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New On CD: The Church, Meat Puppets, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver
The Hartford CourantTHE CHURCH Untitled #23 Second Motion Had U2 never achieved global mega-stardom and instead come of age on some far-off land mass -- Australia, say -- its present-day output might sound something like "Untitled #23," the latest from the Church. The...Tags: Cole Porter, Acoustic, Australia (movie), U2 (band), Prince
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Met orchestra amazes as company retires production of Wagner's "Ring" cycle after 20 years
For The Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — The Rhine overflowed its banks, Valhalla went up in flames, and the world according to Otto Schenk came crashing down one final time as the Metropolitan Opera retired its venerable production of Wagner's "Ring" cycle. Saturday...Tags: Robert Lepage, James Levine, Fatigue, Jessye Norman, Classical Music
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Green Day's new 'Breakdown' a rock opera triumph
Tribune criticPerhaps the only thing more unlikely than releasing a rock opera in 2009 is that it's a rock opera written and recorded by Green Day. But such is the case with "21st Century Breakdown" (Reprise), which arrives in stores Friday. Green Day is that rare...Tags: Smashing Pumpkins (band), John Lennon, Depression, Theater, Rock and Roll
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Forget the standing O -- try the standing boo, for a change
The push-button standing ovation has become the bane of our concert and operatic life. Bad musicians get off without penalty (except, perhaps, in music reviews). Play it loud and fast and the audience will be up on its feet in an instant, thundering its...Tags: Music Industry, Luciano Berio, Music, Opera, Classical Music
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