Tune to direct world-premiere musical
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Tommy Tune will return to musical theater, directing "Turn of the Century," a world premiere that will be part of an ambitious 2008-2009 season at Chicago's Goodman Theatre.
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Variety - HOLLYWOOD -- The pre-Broadway Boston run of August Wilson's "Gem of the Ocean" has a new director and a new schedule.
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The hit Broadway show may now be filmed.
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Tim Burton brings a cinematic freshness to Sondheim's musical about a serial-killer barber.
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A musical based on âThe Diary of a Young Girlâ by Anne Frank is to open next month at the Calderon Theater in Madrid.
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In her Met debut, Julie Taymor brings puppetry, illusion and movement to her production of the Mozart opera.
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The New York Philharmonicâs concert in North Korea, to take place on Feb. 26 at the East Pyongyang Grand Theater, will be broadcast live internationally. The broadcast will be produced by the New York Philharmonic and EuroArts Music International, in co-production with the Munhwa Broadcasting Company of South Korea and ARTE France, and in cooperation with the European Broadcasting Union. Details of the broadcast in the United States are to be announced later. The concert, to be conducted by Lorin Maazel, above, the orchestraâs music director, will include the national anthems of North Korea and the United States; the Prelude to Act III of Wagnerâs âLohengrinâ; Dvorakâs Symphony No. 9, âFrom the New Worldâ; and Gershwinâs âAmerican in Paris.â The concert, and the Philharmonicâs visit, have aroused controversy, with some contending that they offer legitimacy to North Koreaâs government.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Bombay Dreams," a hit musical in London which received mixed reviews on Broadway, could soon open in the city that inspired the story.
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The music composer was in the US for his concert.
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Alcott's young-adult classic Little Women has been turned into a musical that even grownups can like
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Playbill - People Be Heard, the unique song-spiked comedy about participating in the democratic process no matter who you are, opens Sept. 23 following previews since Aug. 31 at Playwrights Horizons in Manhattan.
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Bruno Morettiâs music turns âOltremareâ into a theater piece both effective and evocative.
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Playbill - LaChanze stars in the world premiere musical adaptation of The Color Purple as the Broadway-bound show begins at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta Sept. 9.
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Playbill - Atlantic Theater Company&#39;s world premiere musical, 10 Million Miles, featuring music and lyrics by singer-songwriter Patty Griffin and book by Keith Bunin, will play two weeks longer than originally announced.
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An all-female opera will launch English National Opera artistic director Sean Doran's first full season.
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Tommy Tune, right, will direct âTurn of the Century,â a new musical comedy written by Rick Elice and Marshall Brickman, the writers of âJersey Boys,â at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, The Associated Press reported. âThe basic premise involves a young songwriter-piano player and his girl singer who find themselves through mysterious, supernatural, âTwilight Zoneâ-ish activities thrown back to the turn of the century, the 20th century,â said Robert Falls, artistic director of the Goodman. The score will consist of standards by Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein and others, Mr. Tune said. The show is scheduled to open in September or October. The Goodmanâs 2008-9 season will also feature Brian Dennehy in a revival of Eugene OâNeillâs âDesire Under the Elms.â.
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The Disney hit âHigh School Musicalâ is bound for London.