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Geoffrey Block , Distinguished Professor of Music History at the University of Puget Sound, is the author of Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical From Show Boat to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber .A The book offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of Americaa s best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals, as well ...

Kevin Williamson is no stranger to the horror genre , nor is he a stranger to network television .

Mothercare will create 400 new jobs in the UK as part of plans for another 33 of its biggest format stores over the next two years, it said today.

As I've been re-reading the Harry Potter series aloud to Kevin, I have enjoyed revisiting the story, but this book didn't hold up very well to a re-read. The ham-handed bits about house-elf slavery are annoying and don't pay off until a later book, and the Tri-Wizard Tournament seems to go on forever.

The man who popularized wordless vocal choruses and light orchestral accompaniment on a mix of popular standards and contemporary hits of the 1960s, Ray Conniff was a trombone player for Bunny Berigan's Orchestra and Bob Crosby's Bobcats before being hired as an arranger by Mitch Miller for Columbia Records in 1954.

A Melbourne stage production is to search New Zealand for a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious actor to play Mary Poppins, after failing to find anyone suitable in Australia.

Bernie Kerik arrives at court. A Federal judge released him from jail for the holidays.

ALY MACRAE: Likes his songs to have a story-telling element. Neil Cooper Published on 10 Nov 2009 Noel Coward is not the first songwriter who springs to mind when you listen to Aly Macraea TMs Popstardombeckons album.

Director Fran DeVasto refers to the tone of his production of "Art of Murder" as "Alfred Hitchcock meets Carol Burnett." The Joe DiPietro script is a mystery with twists and turns, but DeVasto has also tried to give the show a comic edge.

Harvey Fierstein and Andrea Martin, of "Fiddler on the Roof," acknowledge audience applause after they performed during the 19th annual Broadway's Stars in the Alley, in New York's Shubert Alley, Wednesday June 1, 2005.

Actress/singer Rachel York will bring a dose of Broadway glamour to Akron on Sunday with her cabaret For the Love of It, which she'll perform at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. at the Akron-Summit County Main Library Auditorium.

Voices for Children held Starry, Starry Night, 2009 at philanthropist and honorary chairwoman Joan Waitt's La Jolla estate.

BURNHAM'S Fairstart Pre-school won a t-shirt decorating competition run by Octopus Children Centre to celebrate National Surestart Week.

STAFF from Sure Start Redditch Childrena s Centres will be out and about in the town next week promoting the work of the centres.

This was a good week on Broadway. David Cromer's production of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and the new revival of Finian's Rainbow , both of which I review in this morning's Wall Street Journal , are exceptionally fine and persuasive mountings of deeply flawed shows.

Let's start with the obvious: The second floor landing on the way up to the Crystal Ballroom -- where the bathrooms are -- has never smelled better than it smelled last night.

The curtain opens on a large room of a country estate, and one of the dominant pieces of furniture is a giant white rectangular box, attached to snaking pipes, that looks like a coffin.

Al Caiola is a guitarist who initially made his reputation as a session musician, playing on records made by Percy Faith and Andre Kostelanetz, among others.

A SINGAPORE theatre company is staging 'Victor/Victoria' for the first time in Asia, more than a decade after it left Broadway and with jazz singer Laura Fygi in the role that actress Julie Andrews made famous.

Yves Saint Lauren, who died in June 2008, topped the list by raking in $350 million over the past year.