Broadway star Menzel ventures into pop music
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Thanks to breakout roles in Broadway  blockbusters "Rent" and "Wicked," Idina Menzel has become one  of the biggest stars on the American musical theater scene.
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Erik Greenberg AnjouÂs charming documentary about the cantor Jacob Mendelson is more concerned with singing praises than arguing over orthodoxies.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - If you're looking to break into the music business, U.S. singer Cyndi Lauper has a suggestion -- take the commercial route.
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The singerâs attempt to include his blues-rock stylings with his pop songs yielded mixed results at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday.
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"A Chorus Line," the legendary Michael Bennett musical, will kick again on Broadway.
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Fans of the singer will find that his voice shines anywhere - even on the songs of Elizabethan-era composer John Dowland.
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Fountains of Wayne, a New York-based band, reached a new audience when its song ÂAll Kinds of TimeÂ was used as a soundtrack for a commercial touting the NFL Network.
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"American Idol" winner Carrie Underwood's Grammy victory on Sunday underscored the growing impact that the TV talent show that tracks the rise and fall of musical wannabes is having on U.S. pop culture.
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Tom Hanks is planning a movie about a US-born pop singer who became an idol from East Germany to Siberia after embracing communism and settling in East Berlin in the early 1970s.
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The singer's new album shows that pop music Svengalis, weird and controlling  as they may be, are sometimes necessary
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Playbill - Wesla Whitfield, the smooth vocalist who sings show tunes and pop standards on her home turf in San Francisco, as well as rooms on the East Coast, has released a new CD on the High Note label.
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LOS ANGELES  - "Music Within" introduces audiences to a supremely cool and witty real-life character, Richard Pimentel (well played by Ron Livingston), who then escorts them through his life as a disabled Vietnam veteran, motivational speaker, author and passionate activist for the disabled community. What should be a tough, sentimental slog whisks by in a breezy, entertaining 94 minutes like a kind of illustrated stand-up comedy routine.
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Playbill - Lance Bass will be the second &#39;N Sync member to make it to Broadway when he assumes the role of Corny Collins in Hairspray Aug. 14, a day before the fifth anniversary of the hit musical&#39;s opening.
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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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Photographs from the book by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio
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The best thing about  &quot;Jersey Boys&quot; -- last year&#39;s Tony winner for best musical -- is  that it&#39;s not just about the music of &#39;60s icon Frankie Valli  and the Four Seasons. And this is saying something in a show  that features 33 songs, many of them soft-pop classics, and  nearly all of them guaranteed to have you dancing in your seat.
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NEW YORK  &#151; Some people called her Bubbles. Others knew her as "the diva next door." But to most of the world, Brooklyn-born soprano Beverly Sills was America's first prima donna &#151; a child star who sang commercials for laundry soap and grew up to play queens.