Articles filed under Performing Arts
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Reprieved 'Nunsense' hasn't lost its touchMay 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Beginning last fall with a smartly reimagined regional premiere of "The Producers," and continuing with a triumphant revival of "Les Miserables" earlier this year, big s...
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'Musical' skewers theater's enduring showsMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - You don't have to be a theater cognoscenti to appreciate the jokes writers Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart liberally sprinkle throughout their oddly titled but affection...
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DeYoung's 'Hunchback' sticks here and thereMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Aristotle posited that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. In the case of Dennis DeYoung's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," it's a bit less. DeYoung's musical ada...
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'Avenue Q' echoes a familiar addressMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - I arrived at "Avenue Q" a skeptic and left a convert. The wildly successful puppet musical, conceived by composer/lyricists Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, had gimmick writt...
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Elgin Symphony releases its first recordingMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Already the fastest-growing regional orchestra in the United States, the Elgin Symphony Orchestra will make a quantum leap Tuesday with the release of its first commerci...
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Griffin gives teen angst the cool treatmentMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - "I am so not cool." A lanky teenager utters the altogether subjective (and universally shared) self-condemnation at the beginning of Griffin Theatre's humorous and hear...
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Actress tunes into 'Musical'May 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Singer/actress Katie Siri has performed in a lot of musicals in her career and most of them are parodied in the hit off-Broadway musical, "The Musical of Musicals: The M...
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Keeping it real: All-natural soul rockMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - It's no secret these days that words like "organic" and "natural" fit nicely into our green-minded society, which prefers to reject such un-hip things as "synthetic" and...
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Touring the main priority of local pop bandMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - I want to be friends with Nick Vombrack. Not just because the Crystal Lake-based drummer tends to tell writers that his band, Dr. Manhattan, met and formed on a pirate s...
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Christian music's Chapman loses daughter, 5, in accidentMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The 5-year-old daughter of Grammy-winning Christian music star Steven Curtis Chapman was struck and killed Wednesday by a sport utility vehicle drive...