Sing Hallelujah! Goodspeed Musicals Revives Earlier Hit, 'Abyssinia,' for 2005 Opera House Season
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Playbill - Abyssinia, a musical popular at Goodspeed Musicals' developmental space in 1987 and 1988, will graduate to the company's Goodspeed Opera House in fall 2005, bring gospel sounds and spiritual awakening to the mainstage.
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A 69-year-old former oil tanker moored in the companyâs container port in Red Hook, Brooklyn, has been transformed into the set for an opera, âIl Tabarro,â by Puccini.
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The Broadway musical revival of &quot;Wonderful Town&quot; has been revived, just days before it was to close. Brooke Shields has agreed to join the cast of the Tony award-winning production next month in the starring role of Ruth Sherwood.
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The new âEdge/Joy,â to music by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, is a formal departure from Garth Faganâs dancer-driven style and requires extra work from the audience, but itâs rewarding work.
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Variety - Lincoln Center's American Songbook series enters its seventh season with a new home at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall at Columbus Circle, which houses the Rose Theater and the Allen Room.
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Start spreading the news: Liza Minnelli will sing again.
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A controversial new opera about Libya's  flamboyant leader Muammar Gaddafi blasted opera buffs out of  their seats at its world premiere, but music critics asked --  Where was the singing?
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The razzle-dazzle of Usher will continue for an extra two weeks. The silky-voiced R&amp;B star, who made his Broadway debut in the revival of "Chicago," will now stay in the show through Oct. 14. He originally was set to leave the John Kander-Fred Ebb-Bob Fosse musical Oct. 1.
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Playbill - The revised version of the 1968 Tony-winning Best Musical Hallelujah, Baby! begins performances Oct. 5 at New Jersey's George Street Playhouse.
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On Sunday, a roster of quite good opera singers performed Italian arias and one duet in the most unlikely of places: at the intersection of Broadway and 72nd Street.
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On Tuesday night the New York City Opera opened its season with a new production of âMargaret Garner,â an opera by Richard Danielpour with a libretto by Toni Morrison.
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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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Milan's La Scala opera house reopened on Tuesday after a three-year renovation with dazzling displays both on stage and off.
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Here's a prediction for 2005: Showtime is going to make some noise with its musical remake of an agitprop cinema classic, "Reefer Madness."
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The musical will open in London later this year.
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Milan's La Scala opera house is set to reopen its doors to the public on December 7 with a gala event after undergoing two and a half years of renovations often mired in controversy.
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A reworked version of "Amistad," an opera about an 1839 slave ship rebellion, will be performed at the 2008 Spoleto Festival USA.