All posts tagged "musicals"
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The Patriotic Path continues at Ford’s
Springing to full-blooded life onstage at Ford’s under the assured direction of Peter Flynn, the Founding Fathers of 1776 can be a horny, harried lot,...
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Keegan takes to Dupont Circle
Actors from the Keegan Theatre will step outside of its Church Street home to perform in Dupont Circle this Saturday, May 5. The purpose of...
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Review: Come Fly Away
Singing to recorded music signals that you can’t afford live musicians. What Twyla Tharp has done in Come Fly Away, putting a big band onstage...
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Les Girls at the AFI Silver
As part of a two-month Gene Kelly retrospective, the American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre presents Gene Kelly’s final appearance in a full-blown musical — which...
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Must See of the Weekend: GMCW’s All-Male Rocky Horror Show
If Lady Gaga were to stage The Rocky Horror Show, the result might be similar to what the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington offers this...
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Ford’s turns back the clocks to 1776
A buoyant musical that fits Ford’s Theatre to a T, 1776 dramatizes the impassioned debates that forged America’s democracy. Sherman Edwards wrote the music and...
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Jersey Boys at The National
As crowd-pleasing as Broadway comes, Jersey Boys, which just may be the most successful jukebox musical in history, proves that the Four Seasons was no...
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Ellen Greene will be at JR.’s Monday for a round of show tunes
The one and only original Audrey of both the Broadway and screen versions of Little Shop of Horrors as well as a star of Pushing...
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Rags at The Theatre Lab
The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts offers a production of the little-known 1986 musical Rags, by Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, Wicked), Charles Strouse (Annie)...
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And the Curtain Rises
And the Curtain Rises is the third part of Signature’s American Musical Voices Project, aimed at nurturing new shows. This valentine to musical comedy, a...
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Babes in Arms
Virginia’s American Century Theater offers a concert presentation of the Rodgers and Hart’s musical Babes in Arms. Forget the plot — all you need to...
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''Raising the Roof'' at Town [video]
On Monday, April 26, the national touring company of Fiddler on the Roof convened at Town Danceboutique, where they performed an assortment of Broadway standards,...
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Wide Awake
''Spring Awakening'' at the Kennedy Center Spring can really hang you up the most. It was in the spring of 1989 that Sen. Jesse Helms...
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Memorable Tune
Tommy Tune Jan. 1, 2009, officially marked Tommy Tune's 50th year in show business. And the lanky, improbably tall dancer-choreographer is commemorating the occasion by...
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Fringe Benefits
Jonathan Padget (right) Jonathan Padget knows his way around the Washington theater scene. Having spent a number of years as a former Metro Weekly staff...
