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Monday, June 23, 2008 at 11pm (Broadway Time)

Next Year's Best Musical Race

With a full workweek since the 2008 Tony Awards now gone and the new Broadway season officially underway, it seemed like the perfect time to take a look ahead (way too soon) at the race for the big prize at nex…

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Monday, June 23, 2008 at midnight (Broadway Time)

Broadway's A Catered Affair to Close on July 27

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A Catered Affair to Close July 27

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Arts, Briefly: Brooklyn Gains TKTS By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON; Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

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Kristin Chenoweth and Neil Patrick Harris to Announce Primetime Emmy Nominations

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David Hyde Pierce Set for MTC's Broadway Revival of Accent on Youth

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David Hyde Pierce to Star in MTC's Accent on Youth, Additional Details Announced for MTC 2008-2009 Season

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Casting Complete for Signature Revival of The First Breeze of Summer

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Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

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August: Osage County to Play London's Lyttleton Theatre in November

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Christian Hoff, Stockard Channing & Martha Plimpton to Star in Pal Joey

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Channing, Hoff, Plimpton to Star in Broadway Pal Joey

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London's Les Misérables Welcomes New Principal Cast June 23

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Flores, Tam, Albano, Davis and More Are Part of June 23 China Earthquake Relief Benefit Concert

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Project Shaw Series, with Daly, Cullum, Yazbeck and Fraser, Continues June 23

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Figueroa, Lewis, Llana, Spanger and More Sing for Diversity June 23

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Altar Boyz Star Calvert Makes a Splash June 23

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Muny's High School Musical, with Harada, Bogardus and McGinnis, Begins June 23

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Today in Theatre History: JUNE 23

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Denis O'Hare to Star in CSC Uncle Vanya

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Branagh, Hiddleston, Riseborough et al. Set for Donmar's Ivanov

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Grease Cast Members to Perform as Part of "Broadway Night at Shea Stadium"

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Matthew Ashford, Michele Lee Join Pittsburgh CLO Line-Up

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Boohoo! 'Cry-Baby' musical to close By Mary Carole McCauley and Chris Kaltenbach

Elan McAllister, one of Cry-Baby's lead producers, announced that a national tour of Cry-Baby will be launched in the fall of 2009.

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Brown, DeLaria, Gemignani, O'Hara, et al. Set for Don't Quit Your Night Job

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59E59 Theaters Announces East to Edinburgh Festival Line-up

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New Victory wins Arts Education award

13-year-old theater presented Neil Gaiman play

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Brooke Elliott to be Lifetime's 'Diva'

Zadan, Meron will exec produce series

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HBO gets more time 'In Treatment'

Gabriel Byrne drama set for second season

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Cooper, Geary, Kitt, LaChuisa, Lopez, Pelphrey, et al. Win Daytime Emmy Awards

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PAGE SIX
'HAIR' AND FLESH

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New Cast Members Join Sarich in London Les Miserables

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Baker, Golden, Hinkle, Ikeda, Parisse, Shear, Tam, et al. Set for 2008 Summer Play Festival

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ENO's Candide Begins June 23; Christy and Breckenridge Are Cunegonde

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London Boy Is One of the West End's New "Billy Elliots"

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Balgord Is LuPone's Standby in Gypsy Revival

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Fisher to Return to London Stage in Chocolate Factory's They're Playing Our Song

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Music Chronicle
Reviews by DAVE ITZKOFF

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The Chalk Garden

Enid Bagnold's charming play gets a perfect revival at the Donmar Warehouse.

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Vincent River

Philip Ridley is a master at dispensing information a bit at a time. Although there's no real action in the play (just two people talking for 85 minutes), the stakes and the tension remain high, keeping audienc…

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Vincent River
Review By MARILYN STASIO

Under Steve Marmion's uncompromising direction for the Brits Off Broadway fest, Deborah Findlay and Mark Field stop just short of flaying one another alive to expose the suffering of these characters, bruised r…

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Namaste Man
Seattle Review by David-Edward Hughes

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Confronting the Extreme, but Showing Restraint By SYLVIANE GOLD

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Forbidden City West
Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

This new bio-musical about nightclub entertainer turned talent agent Jadin Wong is badly executed.

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Review: The Visit

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Stage Light by J. Cooper Robb

Lantern Theatre Company led the way for this season's best plays and musicals.

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MUSIC REVIEW: B.B. King, Liza Minnelli at Hollywood Bowl By Don Heckman

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Hollywood Bowl Opening Night
Review By RICHARD S. GINELL

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ON THE RECORD: 30th Anniversary Cast Recording of Annie (Plus Annie 2); A Season Recap

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Review: 'MY FAIR LADY' BY BOB CURTRIGHT

A younger Professor Higgins offers intriguing possibilities.

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Arias With a Twist
Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

This collaboration between renowned drag diva Joey Arias and visionary puppet artist Basil Twist is a trippy, mesmerizing visual feast.

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Arias With a Twist - Reviewed by SAM THIELMAN

Basil Twist has a stage magician's gift for sleight-of-hand, and he can do things with Christmas lights and forced perspective that filmmakers can barely do with computers.

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Explicit Vows - Reviewed by RON COHEN

"Love is hard for everyone," author-performer John Jiler tells us near the start of his lively but sometimes discomforting show.

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Shaw Sings! - Reviewed by RONNI REICH

It's a rare pleasure to hear laughter at a new opera: not a self-aggrandizing chuckle to prove understanding or a polite giggle at a singer's mugging, but real, deserved laughter.

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Miss America - Reviewed by JERRY PORTWOOD

For the most part, "Miss America" smacks of indulgent youthful innocence squeezed through the withered ringer of experience rather than the work of seasoned satirists.

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Theater Review | 'Still the River Runs'
Dutiful Grandsons Down Yonder in the Paw-Paw Patch By NEIL GENZLINGER

Perhaps you're one of those people who have long lamented, "If only 'Weekend at Bernie's' had been funnier and had starred actors with some chemistry." Your wait is over.

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A Perfect Couple

Brooke Berman is a resourceful author, with a mint of modern phrases in her brain, and imagination to spare.

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A Perfect Couple
Reviewed by: Andy Propst

Brooke Berman's new play about three old friends covers familiar ground in a charmingly bittersweet fashion.

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A Generation and Its Discontents By JOY GOODWIN

Like its characters, "A Perfect Couple" resists structure; it's a chain of brief episodes that often feels more like a staged screenplay than a play.

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A 'COUPLE' WORTH THE COMMITMENT By FRANK SCHECK (***)

IN her last play, "Hunting and Gathering," Brooke Berman explored the romantic confusion of a group of 20-somethings. With "A Perfect Couple," she's moved on and up - proving, just as entertainingly, that 30-so…

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REVIEW: '1984' by the Actors' Gang at REDCAT By David Ng

Tim Robbins directs a play that is rude, noisy and full of itself. In other words, successful activist theater.

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Hot 'n' Cole
Review By FRANK RIZZO

Under James Naughton's free-flowing direction, aided by Lisa Shriver's spontaneous-seeming choreography, the tunes spring up casually, just for fun, as if these friends and lovers were on a giddy retro roll.

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Having Their Moments With Porter By ANITA GATES

"Hot 'n Cole: A Cole Porter Celebration!" is an uneven but sometimes elating revue at the Westport Country Playhouse.

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'24,' BTF, family By Clarence Fanto

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'Candida' a worthy effort By Jeffrey Borak

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Candida

This more than a century old domestic comedy falling within the rubrik of Shaw's pleasant plays, manages to remain remarkably fresh, relevant and entertaining thanks to the Berkshire Theatre Festival's handsome…

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"Tommy" goes high tech in heartless musical By Laurence Vittes (Hollywood Reporter)

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'Tommy' sounds good but looks bad By PAUL HODGINS

A new staging of The Who's famous rock opera emphasizes sound over visuals, with mixed results.

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REVIEW: 'The Who's Tommy' By Charlotte Stoudt

At Hollywood's Ricardo Montalbán Theatre, the music proves to be an adaptation's driving force.

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The Who's Tommy
Review By BOB VERINI

Brian Michael Purcell's elaborate staging at the Ricardo Montalban Theater has its undercooked and raggedy patches, but the music's energy and production elan are enough to carry the day. The kids are all right…

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The Who's Tommy
Reviewed by: Jonas Schwartz

The classic rock musical gets a new and uneven staging.

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THEATER BEAT: Pictures speak 'A Thousand Words'

Also reviewed: 'Macbeth' at Theatricum Botanicum, 'Dog Sees God' at Hudson Backstage, 'Hello, My Name Is ____' at Garage Theatre

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Hamlet (solo) - Reviewed by RON COHEN

Canadian actor Raoul Bhaneja delivers a satisfyingly straightforward rendering of the text, and it makes for a surprisingly enthralling production.

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PHOTO OP: The Play's the Thing! Hamlet Opens in Central Park

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For Andre Braugher, the Bard was his tempest By Mark Kennedy • The Associated Press

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Indecision 2008 by John Lahr

The Public Theatre's "Hamlet."

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That Is the Question By Jeremy McCarter

Is Michael Stuhlbarg a great Hamlet, or only pretending to be one?

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How to Win a Tony Award By TERRY TEACHOUT

Chicago Shakespeare Theater, which brought home the regional-theater award, is one of America's liveliest and most consistently satisfying drama companies. I've gone there two or three times a season since 2004…

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Toil and Trouble in the Tobacco Warehouse By ERIC GRODE

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TR Warszawa's Macbeth 2008
Review By MARILYN STASIO

Good or bad, the technology is always fun to watch. But it can't make up for the lost humanity or the mangled poetry -- all sacrificed to the political cause.

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