Long-running Broadway musical "Rent" to close
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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.
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Damian Woetzel, a principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, said Monday he would retire at seasonâs end, making official what he had predicted a year ago. Mr. Woetzelâs final performance will be on June 18 after 23 years with the company. He earned a masterâs degree in public administration from Harvard University last year and is artistic director of the summer Vail International Dance Festival. Mr. Woetzel said it was fitting to leave as the company commemorates the 10th anniversary of the death of Jerome Robbins by featuring his choreography. âHis presence was the reason I joinedâ the company, Mr. Woetzel said. He said he will focus his energy âbeyond the limited space of performingâ in âareas where I hope to make an impact in the second part of my life.â.
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"The Phantom of the Opera," already  the longest-running musical in Broadway history, will mark its  20th anniversary in New York on Saturday with two performances.
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Playbill - The Off-Broadway production of Francine Volpe's Late  Fragment, which was to have been the latest attraction at Studio Dante, has been postponed.
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"The Producers," Mel Brooks'  record-setting musical about two men trying to create a  Broadway flop, will close in New York on April 22 after more  than 2,500 performances, the show's public relations firm said  on Friday.
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The Museum of the Moving Image, right, in Astoria, Queens, will close on March 23 for a $65 million reconstruction that will double its size. âThe back wall of the building has to be demolished, and in order to do that, thereâs a huge amount of vibration and noise,â Rochelle Slovin, the director of the museum, told Reuters. âIt would not be a good idea to have the public in the building at that time.â When the work is completed, the first floor of the museum will be transformed, and the structure will have a new three-story addition. The building will house a 262-seat theater, a 71-seat screening room, an education center, expanded gallery space and a courtyard. Groundbreaking for construction is scheduled for Feb. 27, with reopening expected in late 2009. In the meantime no full-time employees are to be laid off, Ms. Slovin said, and museum members will continue to have access to screenings and programs in all five boroughs.
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Burdened by high costs and increased competition from Broadway and beyond, the successful commercial Off Broadway play is a rarity.
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High Fidelity the musical, based on the novel by Nick Hornby, is closing on Broadway after just 10 days.
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This summer will be the last summer to catch the Broadway Beauty and The Beast in NY.  It's going to finish in it's 13th year. July 29th will be the last run for for the musical, which is the sixth-longest running show.  Ending this allows the s...
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Playbill - The new Broadway musical, High Fidelity, will end its run Dec. 17 following 18 previews and 14 regular performances, the producers announced Dec. 12.
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The New York State Theater will go dark during New York City Operaâs 2008-9 season so that it can be renovated, and City Opera will perform at sites yet to be determined.
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Playbill - Martin Short will close the Toronto run of his new show, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me on July 2. The engagement at the Canon Theatre began May 27. The pre-Broadway tour's next stop is Chicago.
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Traditional Broadway overtures Â several minutes long, made up of melodies heard later in the show and played by an orchestra before the curtain goes up Â are disappearing.
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com. (New York City) Why turn one of the most successful Broadway musicals in history - seen by over 80 million people worldwide, since its debut in Londonâs West End in 1986 - into a big screen spectacle?
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The final Broadway opening  of the month takes place Thursday.
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The Plaza Hotel, the New York landmark where children's book heroine Eloise romped and Neil Simon's movie "Plaza Suite" unfolded, will close at the end of the April and reopen next year as a condominium-hotel-retail complex, its owner said on Wednesday.
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- Apparel Retailer Gap Inc.  said it will close its Forth & Towne store concept after an 18-month pilot, and it would affect about 550 employees.