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Rachel Rockwell brings out the best in child actors
For Chicago stage director Rachel Rockwell, 2012 began with the brood of Capt. von Trapp and ended with the little orphan girls of "Annie." Be the kids proud Austrians or precocious New Yorkers, Rockwell knows how to wrangle the little darlings. Most of...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Sound of Music (movie), Music Theater
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Kicks are all in place in this classic 'Chorus Line'
With its singularly moving dissection of the fragility of a dancer's life in a brutal business,"A Chorus Line"is a sacred musical for many people in the theater, especially those who, like Chicago-based director and choreographer Mitzi Hamilton, were...Tags: Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events, Dance, A Chorus Line (musical), Theater
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'Katy Perry: Part of Me': If you see only one 3-D concert film this summer ... ★★½
Paramount Pictures does not lie: The chipper, no-warts-and-all tour chronicle "Katy Perry: Part of Me" is indeed the 3-D movie music event of the summer. The only one, I believe. Unless Christopher Nolan's"The Dark Knight Rises" turns out to be in 3-D,...
Tags: The Dark Knight Rises (movie), Katy Perry, PG Rated Movies, Christopher Nolan, Music
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Tevye reigns in rich 'Fiddler on the Roof'
"Fiddler on the Roof" is among the greatest Broadway musicals for any number of reasons: a score without a single dud; rich, sturdy, funny characters who somehow reward with each revisit; a high-stakes story that not only blends the personal and religious...
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Here's 'Joseph,' go, go going again at the Paramount Theatre
"So is this with David Cassidy or Donny Osmond?" asked one of the audience members headed into the Paramount Theatre on Friday night. It was a telling remark — a reminder that the historic roadhouse known as the Paramount Theatre puts folks in...Tags: Arts and Culture, Music, Entertainment
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D-Rose tops list of NBA's best selling jerseys, Jay Cutler and Brandon Marshall's double date, R. Kelly explains 'populate' lyric in 'Share My Love'
Not even Linsanity could keep the Bulls’ Derrick Rose from having the NBA’s top selling jersey. The reigning NBA MVP claimed the top spot on the list released Thursday by the NBA -- which is based on sales at the NBA Store on Fifth Avenue...
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Paramount announces 2013-14 season in Aurora
The Paramount Theatre in Aurora has announced its 2013-14 season of four self-produced musicals. It will be "In the Heights" (Sept. 11-Oct. 6); "Miss Saigon" (Oct. 30-Nov. 24); "42nd Street" (Jan. 15-Feb. 9); and "RENT" (March 12-April 6, 2014).... -
Believe it, 'Hair' is the full-on Age of Aquarius in Aurora
If you had told me a year ago that the Paramount Theatre would stage its own, locally produced "Hair" — replete with many Equity contracts, Broadway-caliber production values and orchestra, and all the requisite nudity — I'd have been...Tags: Arts and Culture, Occupy Wall Street, Entertainment Events, Theater, Music Theater
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Love story is main attraction in 'Music Man'
Notwithstanding the considerable charms of librarians — named Marian and otherwise — it's the kid who holds the emotional keys to "The Music Man," the masterful Meredith Willson musical from 1957 about a traveling con-man who, for the first...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events, Fiction, Concerts, Music Theater
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Second City parts company with president
Diana Martinez, the president of The Second City, is leaving the company, the Chicago-based theater and training center said Friday. Martinez had been enployed there since 2009, president since Sept. 2010. In a statement, Second City CEO and co-owner...
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Patt Morrison Asks: Inside guy, Buck Henry
Buck Henry arguably made his showbiz debut at the age of 2, when his mother, the silent film star Ruth Taylor, took him to the Paramount lot to show him off. She denied then that she wanted him to go into movies. Sorry, Mom. Henry has become a polymath of...Tags: Celebrities, Hemorrhaging, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., The Graduate (movie), New York
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2011 FALL THEATER GUIDE
New theaters. Renovated playhouses. Hot dramas. Nervous new artistic directors. Stephen Sondheim and his “Follies.” A celebration of Stephen Schwartz, a dissection of Mark Rothko, and a look at the tragedy that befell the Amish of...Tags: Arts and Culture, Jackie Wilson, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Lakeview (Chicago, Illinois), Steppenwolf Theatre
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