Alan Menken News
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“Once,'' a $150,000 movie that became a $5.5 million Broadway show, won the Tony Award for best musical last night, along with seven other medallions, making it the most honored show of the season.
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If you’ve had it with choreography as inspired as a workout at the gym, “Newsies: The Musical” is your show.
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Broadway loves a con man, especially one who sees the light.
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While others pack themselves into “The Steins Collect” with its abundance of Matisses and Picassos, take yourself into the softly glowing splendor of “Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition.”
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Whoopi Goldberg’s singing voice sounds like dry leaves being sucked through a vacuum cleaner.
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Jarring thumps and an unnatural, sickly-colored sky are upending the high-priced calm of cocktail hour in a wealthy Connecticut enclave at the start of “Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling,” Adam Rapp’s extraordinary, unsettling new play at the Atlantic Theater Company in Manhattan.
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Whoopi Goldberg , who carried the “Sister Act” film franchise in the early 1990s, returns as a lead producer of the Broadway version of the comedy. And just as the films confirmed Goldberg’s box office appeal, so the show is likely to sprinkle stardust on a roof-raising singer named Patina Miller.
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“Wrath of the Titans” is a sequel to the 2010 “Clash of the Titans,” which was a remake of the 1981 “Clash of the Titans,” the last of the storybook spectacles whose effects, by the stop-motion specialist Ray Harryhausen, now lie shriveling in the memory of Boomers.
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“Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and other lyrics for “The Wizard of Oz” were written by “Yip” Harburg.
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When we first meet Maggie in “ Love & Other Drugs ,” she’s being examined in a doctor’s office. A free-spirited young artist suffering from Parkinson’s disease, she’s worried about a blotch on her breast. She unbuttons her blouse and shows the mark to her physician, who calmly diagnoses it as a spider bite.
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