Porter, Lenox, de Haas, Bradley and More Sing 'Langston in Harlem' in NYC Reading
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Playbill - Langston in Harlem, a new musical biography of the African-American writer Langston Hughes, using his own words and boasting music by Broadway's Walter Marks, is getting two private industry presentations in Manhattan Feb. 7-8.
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"Baldwin's Harlem" (Atria Books, 184 pages, $24), by Herb Boyd: As an adult, James Bladwin Â the novelist, playwright and poet of such works as "Giovanni's Room," "Another Country" and "Go Tell It on the Mountain" Â may have visited Harlem only intermittently, but the uptown Manhattan neighborhood always had a strong hold on him.
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"North River" (Little, Brown and Company, 352 pages, $25.99) &#151; Pete Hamill: The streets of old New York are getting mighty crowded with fictional characters. Contemporary authors seem more apt then ever to dip into the city's rich past to tell their tales. Among the few who stand out are E.L. Doctorow, Kevin Baker, Caleb Carr, Thomas Kelly &#151; and Pete Hamill.
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Stressed bankers in London are being  offered a new way to unwind -- singing lessons.
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Twyla Tharp took on the music of Billy Joel and created &quot;Movin&#039; Out,&quot; which ran for more than three years on Broadway. Now the director-choreographer has turned to another pop superstar, Bob Dylan, for her next project &amp;#151; &quot;The Times They Are A-Changin&#039;.&quot; The musical, a coming-of-age story set in a circus, opens Oct. 26 at Broadway&#039;s Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Preview performances begin Sept. 25.
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Tony Bennett, one of America's great  voices surrounds himself with other singing superstars, mostly  to good effect, in the new album "Duets:
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Behind the scenes of the Band of Outsiders' New York show today ...
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African American Toni Manieson knows what it is like to sing the blues.
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Playbill - In the Heights, the kinetic slice of immigrant life that wowed a varied audience - the young, the old, the bilingual, the show-tune-loving - when it played Off-Broadway in 2007, makes the leap onto Broadway starting Feb. 14.
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Playbill - Being Alive, the new musical revue created by Billy Porter, merging Shakespeare poetry and Stephen Sondheim songs, will surface Oct. 23-Dec. 2 at Philadelphia Theatre Company.
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Hereâs a measure of how healthy new music is in New York these days: In a city with roughly a gazillion new-music groups, a new one made its debut on Monday evening at Mannes College the New School for Music, and the schoolâs auditorium was packed.
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Playbill - Show tunes will echo in The Museum of the City of New York Oct. 2-3 when Broadway's Judy Kaye, Daphne Rubin Vega, Jim Stanek and Simon Jones sing Taking a Chance, a revue created to celebrate the new theatre gallery at the institution.
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On Saturday Itzhak Perlman  brought recent alumni of his Perlman Music Program to the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for the first event in a new three-concert series.
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New releases from Sia, Marah, Frank Kimbrough and Rivers Cuomo.
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The hit Broadway show may now be filmed.
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They've bumped and grinded and sung their way
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Led by Wynton Marsalis, a swinging group of musicians belted out "When the Saints Go Marching In" as they strutted down Broadway to kick off the opening of the new home of Jazz at Lincoln Center.