William Finn Revue, 'Make Me a Song', Ends and Looks to Future
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Playbill - Make Me a Song, the acclaimed revue of William Finn songs, plays its final performance at New World Stages, Stage 5, Dec. 30, but a future life for the show is being mulled.
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Strawberry Fields, the English orphanage immortalized in the famous Beatles song "Strawberry Fields Forever", is to close soon.
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Liam Finn will be a 24-year-old unknown to most Americans when his debut solo album is released in the United States on Tuesday, but Crowded House fans have already heard his work -- nearly two decades ago.
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Playbill - Shout! The Mod Musical, the Off-Broadway revue echoing the songs of British "girl singers" of the 1960s, closed Dec. 10.
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Arts & entertainment: BBC Radio 1's decision to censor a lyric from  Fairytale of New York looks to have backfired
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Wednesdayâs program at the Joyce Theater ended with  âShining Star,â a snazzy-looking, funny and sexy group dance that captures the sound and spirit of songs by Earth, Wind & Fire, to which it is set.
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This week the Marilyn Horne Foundation and the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall joined forces to present âThe Song Continues.â
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FORMER Radio 1 DJ Mike Read has been forced to close his musical after just one night following a string of bad reviews. The show, about playwright Oscar Wilde, was panned by the critics after they were given a preview on Tuesday.
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Where there's a will, there's a  way. And no one knows that better these days than  singer/songwriter Will Downing, who is about to release his  first album since being diagnosed with the rare muscular  disease polymyositis.
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The final major-label holdout plans to make unrestricted songs available in the near future.
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Dolly Parton, below, citing a back injury, has postponed a United States tour that was to have begun on Feb. 28 in Minneapolis. An announcement said the concerts, promoting her âBackwoods Barbieâ album, to be released on Feb. 26 on Dolly Records, would be rescheduled for late April and May. ... A show arrives: âShrek the Musical,â so far starring Sutton Foster, Christopher Sieber and Kecia Lewis-Evans, is to begin previews on Nov. 8 at the Broadway Theater with an opening on Dec. 14. The title ogre and Donkey have yet to be cast. ... And a show leaves: âThe Farnsworth Invention,â which opened on Dec. 3, will end its run on March 2. It will have played 34 previews and 104 regular performances. ... Julia McKenzie, 67, will be the new Miss Marple, succeeding Geraldine McEwan, who said last month that she was leaving âMarple,â the British crime series. Ms. McKenzie will be the seventh actress to portray this character, created by Agatha Christie, the BBC reported.
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The hit Broadway show may now be filmed.
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Liam Mower, the last of the three boys who launched the Billy Elliot musical, performs the show for the final time.
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Maybe this review should start at the point when the show came alive for the first time: at the end, with the encore.
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It is a fight to the death Letters We've gone all musical this week, thanks largely to the Gower review of the future of copyright, followed by the news that you can get enough of Apple's iTunes afterall. A broad theme emerges in your letters, you will not be surprised to learn.â¦
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ESPN's song of itself, a four-month bacchanalia of self-promotion for its 25th anniversary, finally ended on Monday night.
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The sounds of Irish melodies soon will be drifting from the Main Street site formerly occupied by Metro Grille.