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The New York tabloids are nothing if not consistent, and today’s front pages are no exception, even over the news that the once retired and now reinstated Brett Favre is heading to the N.Y. Jets’ roster from the Green Bay Packers. Moving from one green team to another, I suppose.
But the tabloids’ headlines leave me [...]

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Rent will hit the big screen again. This time around it won’t be a film adaptation, but rather a filmed performance.
Playbill reports that the musical’s final Broadway performance on September 7 (June 1 was the original closing date.) will be filmed as part of Sony Pictures’ venture “the Hot Ticket.” The performance will play in [...]

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West Side Story will be revived on Broadway next March, with previews running sometime in February. The show will not only enjoy a pre-Broadway run at the National Theatre here in D.C. for a month beginning in mid-December, but will also be somewhat tweaked for authenticity. According to Playbill:
The production “will introduce the unprecedented element [...]

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If you’ve been planning to see Rent in New York before it closed in June but haven’t yet purchased tickets, you now have an additional 142,560 minutes to procrastinate. The Broadway show has extended its run at the Nederlander Theatre, where it opened on April 29, 1996. Back in January, the show announced it would [...]

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Well, I suppose it had to happen sometime. From Reuters:
The award-winning Broadway musical “Rent” will end its 12-year-run in New York this June, according to an announcement on the production’s Web site.
The show’s website lists June 1, 2008 as the final performance of Rent, the 7th longest running show on Broadway as of last September. [...]

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Some of my readership will read the wrong thing into that title. In a piece from the New York Daily News, former NSYNCer Lance Bass revealed he once played Smokey the Bear in a school play as a third grader. The crux of the article, though, is about his Broadway debut as Corny Collins in [...]

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