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A New York writer recalls how she created and sold hundreds of fake letters "by" celebrities such as Noël Coward and the silent-film star Louise Brooks.

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ON THE RECORD: Lincoln Center Theater's South Pacific

This week's column discusses cast albums of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific, present and past.

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Review: My One and Only By Judith Newmark

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Dancing Without the Stars: My One and Only, this week's Muny offering, rises or falls on the strength of its male lead By Dennis Brown

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'Les Miserables' a stirring finale to MTW's season BY BOB CURTRIGHT

Performers, orchestra contribute to making this musical one of Music Theatre's finest.

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The Golden Oldies By JOY GOODWIN

Alas, "Flamingo Court," now at New World Stages, fails to lift the beleaguered genre above the level of the middling sitcom.

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Flamingo Court

If old is in, so is this triptych at New World Stages.

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With Rufus Norris directing, the piece had a good reception at the Royal Court in 2000. Those reviews are probably the main reason for this revival at the Duke of York's, but producers would also have been look…

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A Flea In Her Ear

David Ives new take on Feydeau's classic farce at Williamstown.

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Not the Messiah With Eric Idle
Review By RICHARD S. GINELL

The main point here is a satire on oratorio form - in particular, the perennial pleasures of Handel's "Messiah." In doing so, Idle and Du Prez are continuing a fine old British tradition of classical send-ups d…

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Pythons' Brian has lots of life left in him By Mark Swed

Eric Idle performs at the Hollywood Bowl in an oratorio descended from Monty Python's 'The Life of Brian.'

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'Dangerous Beauty' at Northwestern: prostitution as a musical career choice by Chris Jones

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Garage bands 3 together BY HEDY WEISS

New Steppenwolf plays cover array of subject matter

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Love, Incorporated
Review by Matthew Murray

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Art Attack By: Zachary Stewart

Attack of the Theater People and Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times are among this summer's must-read books.

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Hold the corn By ROHAN PRESTON

George M. Cohan, too easily dismissed as a cornball composer, was in fact an Irish-American rebel who reimagined what musicals in America could be.

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Veteran Muny actor Adler was 'a joy to watch' By Judith Newmark

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Musicals say the darnedest things By Judith Newmark

Bad lyrics - lyrics that make no sense, that make you wince with their sheer awfulness, that make you wonder how the singer can possibly get through them - are hardly lacking. And they don't come only from hack…

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