I don't really have the time to keep up with MTV reality shows (I don't have cable, either), so all I really know about former From G's to Gents contestant Riff Raff comes from his profile page on the show's website. Apparently he "says that he cheated his way through 11th grade and once started a fight in school because he was bored."?
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The 25th Annual Broadway Flea Market was set to be an exciting day filled with greeting fans for Priscilla Queen of the Desert's Nick Adams...until a loose tooth suddenly sent him to an emergency dentist appointment! With his pearly whites intact, Adams was luckily to make it back to the flea market in time to hand out some autographs...and capture all the madness on camera! Also in the latest installment of Muscles & Mascara, Adams introduces his new dressing room buddy "Banana Sutton Foster," bids farewell to adorable young co-star Ashton Woerz and welcomes Priscilla newcomer Wayne Wilcox to the family. Take a look below!
Bob Katzman tries to hang on with his Magazine Museum by Michael Miner In 1976 a young writer named John Baskin published his first book, an exploration of an Ohio hamlet doomed by a new dam. The New Yorker gave it the highest imaginable praise.? [ Read more ]
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The London production of rockabilly tuner Million Dollar Quartet has released a live cast album! Recorded at the Noël Coward Theatre, the CD was released on September 29 in honor of original ‘million dollar quartet’ member Jerry Lee Lewis’ 76th birthday.
Inspired by the famed December 4, 1956, recording session that brought together rock icons Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley, Million Dollar Quartet recreates the legendary session and the story of the men who made it happen. With a book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux, the production features a roster of classic rock and country hits, including “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Fever,” “Sixteen Tons,” “Great Balls of Fire,” “I Walk the Line,” “Folsom Prison Blues” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On.”
The Million Dollar Quartet London cast includes Ben Goddard as Jerry Lee Lewis, Derek Hagen as Johnny Cash, Michael Malarkey as Elvis Presley, Oliver Seymour-March as Carl Perkins, Bill Ward as Sun Records founder Sam Phillips and Francesca Jackson as Dyanne.
Over the past year, Broadway.com has been floating around the idea of a theatrical offshoot for the Bravo Real Housewives franchise: The Real Housewives of Broadway. We dreamt it up, asked readers who should be featured (Katie Finneran, Orfeh and Idina Menzel were top picks) and even got Bravo exec Andy Cohen himself to bless the fantasy project, adding his own top choice for the cast: Kristin Chenoweth.
Now Andrea McArdle wants in on the action! In an interview for Broadway.com’s Show People with Paul Wontorek, the Annie star, newly divorced and living in Manhattan with her twentysomething daughter Alexis, pitched herself as a perfect candidate for the show.
“I’m there,” she said. “When do we start? That sounds like fun. Dysfunction junction!” McArdle added that the lives of Broadway divas were ripe with drama, and that “if you could get [Broadway] music factored in there, that’s golden.”
McArdle is currently in rehearsals for Greenwood, a new musical that will be part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival. The complete episode of Show People will premiere on September 29 only on Broadway.com.
Weeds star Hunter Parrish has returned to Broadway to lead the cast of the first-ever revival of Godspell. Parrish, Godspell composer Stephen Schwartz and the cast recently invited the press into their rehearsal space at the Ballet Hispanico to get a taste of the show, which begins previews on October 13 at the Circle in the Square Theatre. Take a look below to find out about the modern twists the company plans to bring to the 40-year-old classic.
Often I cook with a glass or two (or three if it?s a particularly involved recipe or a particularly harrowing day) of wine. For me, not for the dish.?
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Often I cook with a glass or two (or three if it?s a particularly involved recipe or a particularly harrowing day) of wine. For me, not for the dish.?
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I don't really have the time to keep up with MTV reality shows (I don't have cable, either), so all I really know about former From G's to Gents contestant Riff Raff comes from his profile page on the show's website. Apparently he "says that he cheated his way through 11th grade and once started a fight in school because he was bored."?
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Abstract expressionist Mark Rothko puts more than paint on his canvases in John Logan�s Red by Tony Adler As John Logan's fascinating Red makes emphatically clear?even in its current, flawed incarnation at Goodman Theatre?Mark Rothko was no Jackson Pollock. Wyoming-bred Pollock had rough good looks and bad-boy habits.? [ Read more ]
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Andrea McArdle is a straight-shooter, which makes her guest appearance on Show People with Paul Wontorek a must-see. The original star of Annie opens up about the effect of the iconic role on her career (not great), explains why she should be considered to play Miss Hannigan in the forthcoming revival (she learned from the best, Dorothy Loudon) and offers her own casting choice for the title role. The newly single McArdle, back in New York co-starring with daughter Alexis Kalehoff in the new musical Greenwood at NYMF, also chats about censored You Tube clips, dream roles and why she can’t lie about her age. It’s an action-packed Show People, so click on and enjoy!
Over the past year, Broadway.com has been floating around the idea of a theatrical offshoot for the Bravo Real Housewives franchise: The Real Housewives of Broadway. We dreamt it up, asked readers who should be featured (Katie Finneran, Orfeh and Idina Menzel were top picks) and even got Bravo exec Andy Cohen himself to bless the fantasy project, adding his own top choice for the cast: Kristin Chenoweth.
Now Andrea McArdle wants in on the action! In an interview for Broadway.com’s Show People with Paul Wontorek, the Annie star, newly divorced and living in Manhattan with her twentysomething daughter Alexis, pitched herself as a perfect candidate for the show.
“I’m there,” she said. “When do we start? That sounds like fun. Dysfunction junction!” McArdle added that the lives of Broadway divas were ripe with drama, and that “if you could get [Broadway] music factored in there, that’s golden.”
McArdle is currently in rehearsals for Greenwood, a new musical that will be part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival. The complete episode of Show People will premiere on September 29 only on Broadway.com.
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The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader by Michael Miner "This is a profitable business. The company has a good cash flow.? [ Read more ]
The last home games of the baseball season are always bittersweet, but this year there was a divide between the north and south sides. The White Sox' last home game Wednesday was more bitter, because of the Sox' higher hopes for this season (which nonetheless found the team finishing below .500) and the fresh departure of Ozzie Guillen for Miami.?
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The Signature Theatre Company has revealed initial plans for seven productions, including a world premiere by Edward Albee, during its upcoming inaugural season at the new Signature Center. Signature veterans such as Michael Urie, Lois Smith and Frank Wood donned hard hats during a September 28 press conference in the theater's still-under-construction space as board member Edward Norton took to the podium to speak about the company's future.
“I have no words to describe how exciting it is to be involved as a part of this journey,” Norton said, noting the new building will allow the company to explore playwrights' work in the manner similar to art museums displaying the works of famous painters. “We’ve never had the opportunity to examine bodies of work in the theater in the same way that we have come to expect from other cultural forms of expression. The theater needed an institution in which you could see the works of Edward Albee or Tony Kushner examined as a landscape in their own right.”
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In Follies, Danny Burstein is stuck in a love triangle. His character, Buddy Plummer—once a stage door Johnny, now a salesman—is hopelessly in love with his wife, Sally (played by Bernadette Peters), who has in turn been in love with someone else their entire marriage. Luckily, ubertalented character actor Burstein doesn’t have the same problem. The low-key Broadway vet, who has appeared in everything from The Seagull and Saint Joan to Company, South Pacific, The Drowsy Chaperone and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, has been happily married to fellow Broadway favorite Rebecca Luker since 2000. Burstein recently invited Broadway.com photographer Jenny Anderson to tag along and capture the pre-show rituals that get him ready to tackle this taxing role. Click on to join them!
As I wrote in a blog post last week, fall offers an embarrassment of riches when it comes to live music. In this week's Soundboard the Reader covers 14 artists playing in town over the next week (plus two festivals), but of course that's just scratching the surface.?
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The last home games of the baseball season are always bittersweet, but this year there was a divide between the north and south sides. The White Sox' last home game Wednesday was more bitter, because of the Sox' higher hopes for this season (which nonetheless found the team finishing below .500) and the fresh departure of Ozzie Guillen for Miami.?
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Age & hometown: “Oh, say something funny”; Lowell, Massachusetts
Current role: Bringing her powerhouse operatic vocals to her Broadway debut performance as former showgirl Heidi Schiller in Follies.
Black Sheep: The youngest of 13 children of parents from “the old country,” Beirut, Lebanon, Elias didn’t grow up among performers. “Only bad girls go on stage,” she says of her parents’ attitude towards the arts, but she listened to Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts while doing her chores and imagined a career on that stage. “That was my dream,” she says, “and my dream came true.” But it wasn’t an easy sell. “I would talk to my sister who would talk to my mother who would talk to my father," she remembers. “They thought I’d get over it.” At 14, a determined Elias was finally allowed to start studying voice, which led to a degree from New England Conservatory.
Big Break: Elias made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1954, but her big break came four years later as Erika in Samuel Barber’s Vanessa. “I auditioned four times,” she remembers, but the opera wasn’t exactly as she’d imagined. “I went to my boss and said, ‘I’m the ...
It’s time for episode six of Sister Lives: Backstage at ‘Sister Act’ with Sarah Bolt, and our fabulous Broadway.com vlogger went trolling her Twitter feed to find out what her equally fabulous fans wanted to know! This week’s question: What would you do if you weren’t on Broadway? Bolt, for one, nannied the entire Upper East and West Sides of Manhattan before hitting the big time, but admitted that her post-Sister Act dreams include voicing a squirrel in a Disney cartoon. (Hint, hint, Alan Menken.) Marla Mindelle remembers her days as a signing waitress and considering being a foot fetish model, while other post-Broadway plans include being a sex therapist, children’s book writer, coaching football and touring with Beyonce. Oh, and you’ll find out which dancing priest has a law degree. As a bonus, Bolt heads out of town and takes Sister Lives on a Philly field trip. Check it out!
The Signature Theatre Company has revealed initial plans for seven productions, including a world premiere by Edward Albee, during its upcoming inaugural season at the new Signature Center. Signature veterans such as Michael Urie, Lois Smith and Frank Wood donned hard hats during a September 28 press conference in the theater's still-under-construction space as board member Edward Norton took to the podium to speak about the company's future.
“I have no words to describe how exciting it is to be involved as a part of this journey,” Norton said, noting the new building will allow the company to explore playwrights' work in the manner similar to art museums displaying the works of famous painters. “We’ve never had the opportunity to examine bodies of work in the theater in the same way that we have come to expect from other cultural forms of expression. The theater needed an institution in which you could see the works of Edward Albee or Tony Kushner examined as a landscape in their own right.”
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Lauren Samuels, Alasdair Harvey and Wayne Robinson will join the cast of the West End's Queen musical, We Will Rock You, on October 10 at the Dominion Theatre. Samuels will take on the role of female lead Scaramouch, with Harvey playing the villain role of Khashoggi and Robinson taking over as brave-hearted rebel Brittany.
Kevin Kennedy (Pop), Brenda Edwards (Killer Queen) and Rachel John (Meat) will continue with the show alongside recent new addition Alex Gaumond, who plays hero Galileo.
Samuels recently appeared on Andrew Lloyd Webber's Wizard of Oz TV casting competition series Over the Rainbow. She has previously appeared on the West End as Sandy in Grease. Harvey's many credits include Phantom of the Opera, Side By Side By Sondheim, Sunday in the Park With George, Les Miserables and Beauty and the Beast. Robinson recently finished a run on the We Will Rock You U.K. tour. His other credits include Hairspray and The Lion King and he has worked as a songwriter for Lulu and Lionel Richie.
We Will Rock You is entering its 10th year in the West End. Featuring the song catalog of Queen, the musical is set in a dystopian future ...
The hit musical adaptation of Ghost, currently running at London's Piccadilly Theatre, has set a Broadway opening date of April 23, 2012, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Previews will begin at an unspecified date in March, directed by Tony Award winner Matthew Warchus. No casting has been announced.
Ghost follows a young couple, Sam and Molly, who get mugged while walking home to their New York apartment one night. Sam is murdered and becomes trapped in this world as a ghost, unable to leave Molly, who he learns is in grave danger. With the help of a phony storefront psychic, Oda Mae Brown, Sam tries to communicate with Molly in the hope of saving and protecting her. The London production opened on July 19 with a cast that includes Hair vet Caissie Levy as Molly, Richard Fleeshman as Sam and Sharon D. Clarke as Oda Mae.
Ghost features a book by Bruce Joel Rubin (adapted from his screenplay for the hit 1990 film starring Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg) and a score by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard. The show also features the Righteous Brothers’ “Unchained Melody,” which became the love theme of the movie.
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Victorian sex lives exposed in Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room by Tony Adler The occasional world war, economic meltdown, or ecological collapse notwithstanding, bourgeois society is a fabulous thing. It's given millions upon millions of average people luxuries they couldn't have contemplated under more primitive arrangements, including clean water, plentiful food, warm shelters, store-bought clothes, imported rugs, and a reasonable expectation that they won't get stoned to death by a mob.? [ Read more ]
Bob Katzman tries to hang on with his Magazine Museum by Michael Miner In 1976 a young writer named John Baskin published his first book, an exploration of an Ohio hamlet doomed by a new dam. The New Yorker gave it the highest imaginable praise.? [ Read more ]
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Recording star Shayne Ward is a 2005 winner of Simon Cowell’s X Factor, but only now is the Twitter favorite making his West End debut. Ward, soon to be 27, has signed on through March to play bad boy rocker Stacee Jaxx in Rock of Ages, the wild 1980s songfest set to open at the Shaftesbury Theater September 28. Broadway.com joined the instantly likable and engaging Ward in his dressing room during previews to find out what it's like swapping Cowell-style fame for life in a raucous, hit-filled stage musical.
It certainly looks from the posters and images in this dressing room as if you’re getting into the Rock of Ages groove.
As you can see, I’ve got Bon Jovi, Journey, Jimi Hendrix, AC/DC, Ozzy Osbourne—even Samantha Fox up there.I suppose you might call it method acting, but it’s just that I like to get myself so involved in the moment that the minute the costumes and the wig go on, I become that character.
And those nails [painted a slightly chipped black]…
That’s Kristin’s decision [director Kristin Hanggi]. See the nail varnish on the shelf? I have to ...
Bob Katzman tries to hang on with his Magazine Museum by Michael Miner In 1976 a young writer named John Baskin published his first book, an exploration of an Ohio hamlet doomed by a new dam. The New Yorker gave it the highest imaginable praise.? [ Read more ]
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With his musical theater experience limited to a bit part in the Encores! production of Bells Are Ringing, Bobby Cannavale wasn’t the most obvious choice to play Nicky Arnstein in the upcoming revival of Funny Girl. But he’s certainly an exciting choice, thanks to his risk-taking reputation and recently acclaimed Tony-nominated work in The Motherf**ker with the Hat.
“I’m very excited,” Cannavale told Broadway.com. “I hope that I can do some justice to the memory of [original Funny Girl star] Sydney Chaplin. And we’re all excited cause it’s a show that hasn’t been seen in so long.”
The musical theater novice admitted he’s taken a shine to Chaplin’s performance opposite Barbra Streisand on the original cast recording, although he’s stopped listening to it to prepare for rehearsals. “It’s not really helping me,” he laughed. “I’m just going to my voice teacher and doing what she says and listening to my director.”
Although he worked opposite Funny Girl star Lauren Ambrose for “like two seconds” on an episode of HBO’s Six Feet Under, Cannavale didn’t audition opposite the new Fanny to land the role. “But I ...
The off-Broadway hit Silence! The Musical, a spoof of the Oscar-winning 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs, has found a new home at 9th Space Theater at P.S. 122. The production, directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, will begin an open-ended run on October 25. Jenn Harris will reprise the role of Clarice Starling, with casting for Hannibal Lecter to be announced shortly. Original star Brent Barrett is unable able to continue with the show due to prior commitments.
Silence! The Musical, which debuted at the 2005 Fringe Festival, features a book by Tony nominee Hunter Bell and music and lyrics by Jon and Al Kaplan. The show received its first full New York mounting this summer at off-Broadway's Theatre 80. The production opened on July 9 and extended twice before closing on September 24.
In the original film, rookie FBI agent Clarice Starling matches wits with the brilliant but insane cannibal, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, to catch the serial killer known only as Buffalo Bill. Clarice must face her own demons and race the clock to unlock Lecter’s clues before another innocent girl is killed. In the musical version, the action is narrated by a singing ...
Dirk Flanigan of Henri and the Gage brings out the big knives to tackle these five-foot-long stalks by Julia Thiel The Chef: Dirk Flanigan (Henri and the Gage) The Challenger: Luke Creagan (Pops for Champagne) The Ingredient: Sugarcane When sugarcane stalks are cut for commercial use, it usually requires a machete or larger machine?both of which Dirk Flanigan lacked.? [ Read more ]
Tony nominee Dee Hoty, Samantha Mathis and Concetta Tomei will join previously announced star La La Anthony in the October cast of Love, Loss and What I Wore, joining current cast member Zuzanna Szadkowski, who has signed on for an additional month. The women will join the production on October 5 and remain with the show through October 30 at off-Broadway's Westside Theatre.
Hoty has received Tony nominations for Footloose, Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public and The Will Rogers Follies. Her other Broadway credits include Bye Bye Birdie, Mamma Mia!, Me and My Girl, City of Angels, The Five O'Clock Girl and Shakespeare's Cabaret.
Mathis has appeared on Broadway in 33 Variations and The Man Who Had All The Luck. Her film and TV credits include American Psycho, First Years, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Broken Arrow, Super Mario Bros. and Little Women.
Tomei's Broadway work includes Cyrano, The Elephant Man, Noises Off and Goodbye Fidel. Her other credits include The Clean House, Richard II, The Normal Heart, Fen and Cloud Nine.
Szadkowsi is best known as Dorota on TV's Gossip Girl. Her other TV work includes Guiding Light, The Sopranos and Law and Order. She has ...
Tony winner Joanna Gleason returns to the New York stage on September 28, as Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet begins previews at the Laura Pels Theatre. Peter Dubois will direct the Roundabout Theatre Company's limited engagement, which runs through December 23.
Broadway regular Santino Fontana joins Gleason in this story of a Lebanese family in Pennsylvania who never lose their sense of humor as they struggle with crazy bosses, medical mysteries and other issues. With unexplained chronic pain and the fate of his reeling family on his shoulders, Joseph Douaihy (Fontana) takes a job with a kooky former book editor named Gloria (Gleason).
The cast of Sons of the Prophet also includes Yusef Bulos, Jonathan Louis Dent, Lizbeth Mackay, Dee Nelson, Chris Perfetti and Charles Socarides. Head to the Laura Pels Theatre and see this family drama unfold!
If you have a soft spot in your heart for newspapers, here's some troubling news:
"Most Americans (69%) say that if their local newspaper no longer existed, it would not have a major impact on their ability to keep up with information and news about their community."
But most Americans might be wrong. The new report I'm quoting from continues:
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Adam Dunn set the White Sox season strikeout record last night?and he did it in one of the stranger at bats you'll see.
A week ago I thought he no longer could break the record; he simply had too few whiff opportunities remaining.?
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In 2007, median household income for Asian-Americans was $66,000, compared with $52,000 for European-Americans, $39,000 for Hispanic-Americans, and $34,000 for African-Americans. This likely is due in part to a striking difference in educational attainment between racial and ethnic groups: in 2003, 50 percent of Asian-Americans 25 or older had a bachelor's degree or higher, compared with 30 percent of European-Americans, 17 percent of African-Americans, and 11 percent of Hispanic-Americans.?
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Judging by the stories I've heard from people who've worked with Peter Hook and interviews with him I've read, the guy is about as awful at being a person as he is amazing at writing bass lines?i.e., he is apparently pretty much a shitty dude. So my first reaction to hearing that Hook was embarking on a tour playing songs by Joy Division with a band that includes neither of his former Joy Division bandmates?who recently reached some sort of breaking point after several decades of putting up with him and finally booted him out of New Order?was to mentally roll my eyes and make barfing motions.?
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Two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster has nabbed the starring role in Bunheads, a forthcoming ABC Family pilot from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Foster will play Michelle, a Las Vegas showgirl who impulsively marries a man and moves to his sleepy coastal town, taking a role at her mother-in-law’s dance school. No other casting has been announced.
Foster is currently starring as Reno Sweeney in the Broadway revival of Anything Goes, for which she won the 2011 Best Actress Tony. She received her second Tony for Thoroughly Modern Millie and received Tony nominations for Little Women, Shrek and The Drowsy Chaperone. On TV, Foster has guest-starred on Flight of the Conchords and Law & Order: SVU.
The Massachusetts legislature is considering a bill that would give 2 percent of tax revenues from casinos in that state to arts programs, according to a report in the Boston Globe. The proposed legislation also includes audience size and booking restrictions for casino entertainment, which arts groups there regard as competition.?
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During a visit to New York to promote the release of her new solo album, Some Lessons Learned, Kristin Chenoweth took a seat on the steps of a brownstone to chat with Cat Greenleaf on NBC's Talk Stoop. Chenoweth reminisced about her days in Wicked, chatted about the inspirations for her new album and previewed a few of Lessons' songs, including "Fathers and Daughters." The actress even refused to be silenced by a loud cement mixer in the background, and embraced the Big Apple craziness by continuing on with the interview. Squat on the stoop next to Chenoweth by clicking below!
Chicago uses one billion gallons of water a day, the vast majority of which is processed at the James W. Jardine Water Purification Plant, the largest treatment plant in the world. (You'd recognize it from its trademark "cribs," those little houses floating out in the lake you can see from the beach.)?
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Like Ron Howard's The Dilemma earlier this year, Moneyball is a Hollywood movie too smart to be marketed effectively, which may be the reason its 15-second TV spot is an ungainly marriage of critics' blurbs and disconnected one-liners. If you've got more than 15 seconds to spare and you want to get an idea what the movie is actually about, check out our long review.?
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Bucktown boutiques Robin Richman and Clever Alice?shops that offer very different but well-curated clothing and accessory collections of mainly European origin?both recently unveiled redesigned websites. You can now find more photos of the highly covetable goods at Robin Richman (although sadly there's still no online shopping), while things at Clever Alice are sleeker and more professional looking.?
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Chicago uses one billion gallons of water a day, the vast majority of which is processed at the James W. Jardine Water Purification Plant, the largest treatment plant in the world. (You'd recognize it from its trademark "cribs," those little houses floating out in the lake you can see from the beach.)?
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Jeremy Jordan is having quite the fall as he currently stars in the Disney musical Newsies at the Paper Mill Playhouse before bringing Bonnie & Clyde to Broadway in December. Looks like Jordan's profile is going to continue to rise in January with the release of the new movie musical Joyful Noise. Starring Tony nominee Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah (who scored an Oscar nod for the film adaptation of Chicago) as rival choir teachers, the film follows the duo as they team up for a Los Angeles competition. When Parton recruits her vocally gifted grandson (Jordan) to the team, he sparks a heated romance with Queen Latifah's daughter. Jordan recently revealed to Broadway.com he landed the role after going on for the first time as Constantine Maroulis' swing in Rock of Ages...and Joyful Noise director/writer Todd Graff just happened to be in the house! Take a look at the trailer below, in which Jordan sings a Paul McCartney classic, Queen Latifah belts out some Stevie Wonder and Dolly tackles Chris Brown! Joyful Noise hits theaters January 13, 2012.
For the last several years it's been a joy to sit in the dugout and listen to Ozzie Guillen's media sessions on a daily basis. Before the game, he'd make himself accessible to reporters to discuss the day's news?who's playing, who's not, while sizing up contenders and the given opponents?inevitably followed by a more free-ranging, off-the-record session.?
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Attendees at the American Theatre Wing's annual gala at the Plaza Hotel received a rare treat: a live performance from Oscar and Grammy winner Jennifer Hudson! The September 26 event, which honored longtime American Theatre Wing board member Sir Howard Stringer, a.k.a. Chairman, CEO and President of Sony Corporation, raised more than $550,000 for the Wing's education and outreach programs. Broadway favorites like Angela Lansbury, Elaine Paige, Colin Donnell and Kelli O'Hara were also on hand to support the cause. Score your own invite to the elegant event by checking out Broadway.com's photos below!
In Key Ingredient Pops for Champagne chef Luke Creagan takes on bamboo worms, which he ordered from a Pennsylvania bait shop?they came in cans labeled ?Not for human consumption.? Fried, they?re a common street food in Thailand, and Creagan too decided to go that route, frying them with french fries and cheese curds to make poutine. He?s not putting the dish on the menu, but he says that ?If someone comes in and asks, I?ve got cans of them, and if you?re crazy, I?ll fry some up for you.? Next up is Dirk Flanigan of Henri and the Gage, working with sugarcane.?
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