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Oz the Great and Powerful: Back to Where It All Began

Friday, March 8th, 2013
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“You don’t know much about witches do you?” Theodora There are very few things in this world as iconic as Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz series

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Woman Around Town: Carole J. Bufford –
Happiest On Stage

Monday, January 7th, 2013
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In Lincolnton, the one-stoplight Georgia town where everyone knew everyone else, Carole J. Bufford was the four year-old who spontaneously stood on a church pew

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Just Not Scandalous Enough

Monday, November 19th, 2012
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Any original Broadway play this year should get extra points just for not being a revival. Because of this, and because of the superb cast,

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Laughter Alert: Forbidden Broadway Alive and Kicking

Friday, September 7th, 2012
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Attention Broadway theater denizens! After a three year hiatus, the inimitable Gerard Alessandrini, master of “arsenic and rhyme,” Al Hirschfeld with a poison pen, is

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I May Be a Twin, But I’m One of a Kind—
Meet Will and Anthony Nunziata

Thursday, July 5th, 2012
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Will Nunziata wore glasses so I might easily distinguish between him and his identical twin, Anthony. As children, their mother often dressed one in red

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All I Ever Want Is You And Music, Music, Music

Friday, May 11th, 2012
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There are some great new CDs that celebrate the fabulous music of Broadway and TV. As I write, ONCE has received more Tony nominations than

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Believing In Judy-ism

Friday, April 20th, 2012
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The immediate question that must be asked when discussing End of the Rainbow is whether or not it will have an appeal to those who

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On A Clear Day You Can Figure Out The Plot

Sunday, December 18th, 2011
by on Playing Around

Fasten your seatbelts. For everyone who loved the original On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, I’ve got to warn you: there’ve been some

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