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Woman Around Town: Jennifer Sheehan Has a Calling

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Woman Around Town

The little brown-haired daughter born to Jan and Diane Sheehan almost arrived performing. At 2 ½ she could credibly manage “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” “in

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Woman Around Town: Cookie Stark—
The New Kid on the Block

Friday, April 13th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Woman Around Town

When Cookie Stark’s vocal coach and director, Eric Michael Gillett, gave her the song Let’s Talk Dirty to the Animals (by Gilda Radner), the #%!*

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A Unique NYC Sightseeing Experience Onboard THE RIDE

Saturday, April 30th, 2011
by Jane Feyder on Playing Around

Looking up at the giant futuristic bus, I did not know what to expect as I boarded THE RIDE and became a tourist in my

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Steve Cohen: The Da Vinci of Chamber Magic

Thursday, April 14th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around

Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession: A conjuror promises to deceive you and does. Karl Germain Steve Cohen, professional magician, was performing at a

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Bill Cunningham New York:
A Historical Snapshot of Street Fashion

Thursday, March 24th, 2011
by Quan Lam on Playing Around

My quintessential New York moment arrived in a brief second. If I had blinked or turned my head, I would have missed it. A blur

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Fresh Air and Lyric Flights: Jennifer Sheehan

Monday, March 21st, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around

At the ripe old age of nine, Jennifer Sheehan learned and performed thirty Cole Porter songs with a local children’s theater group. “We showed St.

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Cast Party—An Embarrassment of Riches

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

Jim Caruso threw a party and everyone came. What can you say about a program that opens with Chita Rivera and ends with Liza Minelli?

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Andrea Marcovicci: Breakfast by Candlelight

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
by Alix Cohen on Woman Around Town

Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling…Charles Baudelaire It’s 6 a.m. in Studio City, California.

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