Homeless cocker spaniel wins stage role in "Annie"
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A homeless 10-year old caramel-blonde cocker spaniel bested 11 other shelter dogs in an audition on Thursday, winning a walk-on role in a Broadway musical production of "Annie" in December.
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Playbill - Pig Iron Theatre Company in Philadelphia will present the world premiere of Chekhov Lizardbrain, "a comic meditation on our deepest impulses and contemporary neuroscience's hold on our imaginations," March 28-April 15.
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Three Hollywood chimpanzees, said to have been punched and beaten to make them perform, will spend the rest of their lives in an animal sanctuary in a cruelty lawsuit settlement, an animal rights group said on Thursday.
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Playbill - The theatre doesn&#39;t shut down in the summer the way it used to once upon a time, but there&#39;s no stopping show folk from taking a week or two before and after Labor Day. So, right now, the tourists own Shubert Alley, and the pigeons reign in Duffy Square.
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Arts & entertainment: Royal College of Art to get rich reward for taking in artist made homeless by fire.
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The letters pour in by the boxload, asking for a picture, a pet story or even a paw print. A year after becoming America's big dog, a barking, slobbering Newfoundland named Josh is more popular than ever.
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CEDAR CITY, Utah - A quick-thinking EMT performed a Caesarean section on her dead Chihuahua to save the lives of three puppies. Carolyn Shaw was at work two weeks ago when she received a call from her husband, saying their long-haired Chihuahua, Annie, was in labor and whimpering under the bed.
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âPuppy Bowl IV,â a three-hour extravaganza in which a cast of 46 dogs frolics, chases, pants, sniffs, rolls, tail wags and occasionally picks up a ball on a set resembling a football field, will be broadcast at 3 p.m. on Sunday.
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Tramp, Jimmer and Chesty don't normally appear in pictures -- but they're making an exception at the National Theater.
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In the dog show world, there are plenty of champions with long, pretentious names. And then there's Josh &#151; just Josh.
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Harley Granville Barker's play, in a canny new adaptation by David Mamet, has received a crisply acted, largely engrossing revival at the Atlantic Theater Company.
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Mary Seidman has spent a lifetime watching dogs, to judge by her charming new âWeDOGS,â performed on Sunday afternoon at the Ailey Citigroup Theater.
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Playbill - The company that was immortalized in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" will return to the favor by offering  100 ticket buyers cans of a new SPAM flavor when the Shubert Theatre box office for the upcoming Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot opens Dec. 6.
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Denise Van Outen's striking performance in Chicago has earned her a once in a lifetime chance to play Grace Kelly in a Broadway musical on her life.
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Playbill - Anna Chlumsky, the child star of the film "My Girl" and its sequel, has blossomed into adulthood and the grown-up role of the wronged Isabella in a new Astoria, Queens production of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Nov. 12-21.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ  uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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In the middle of the first act of a packed English National Opera performance of Donizettiâs âLucia di Lammermoorâ on Saturday, a chest infection claimed the voice of the bass Clive Bayley, who was singing the leading role of Raimondo, Luciaâs tutor. Could the show be saved? Yes indeed, Reuters reported. Out from the audience came Paul Whelan, 38, who just happened to have been studying the role and was scheduled to take over from Mr. Bayley in a few weeks, through he had had no chance to rehearse. As the performance continued, Mr. Whelan sang from the wings and Mr. Bayley mimed the action. At the conclusion Mr. Whelan, wearing suit and tie, joined the cast for a bow onstage, above. The performers received a standing ovation. âIâm just so glad I was wearing my Armani tie,â he said.