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...Brits have stuck by us in Iraq, and they continue to supply a good portion of our Broadway theater. But that doesn't mean we have to thank them for everything. Take Democracy, the new Michael Frayn play about former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt that just opened on Broadway. The play won nearly unanimous critical raves in London, walked away with major awards and promised to provide Broadway with at least one prestige dramatic hit of the season. But Democracy is one British import that doesn't survive the crossing...
DIDN'T YOU SING ON BROADWAY ONCE...
Cheng cites the talent level on the team as a main factor of their stellar results so far. The current 16-member team contains an eclectic range of dance backgrounds: Broadway, ballet, hip-hop, jazz and cheer...
...mother that her husband and children want, but who has in the process lost her identity. It works because women in the audience can relate to that." Relative unknowns have been cast in the leads. Laura Michelle Kelly, 23, has appeared in My Fair Lady for Mackintosh and on Broadway, but this is her first shot at originating a star role. Wiry 33-year-old Gavin Lee was even more of an outsider for the role of Bert, the chimney sweep. He auditioned to be an understudy, but Mackintosh identified him as "the real thing." He loves Bert and Mary...
...Kiss Me Kate might be subtitled 'The Taming of the Show.' Based on the Broadway musical based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, which was based on an Ariosto comedy based on an old folk tale, the picture is pretty far off any kind of base ... The plot, a musical within a musical, with its noisily surreptitious shifts from onstage to off, appears just too heavy and elaborate a vehicle for the camera to prod along. Even so, if other performers had spread the wings of song as grandly as Howard Keel (Petruchio), the picture might have been better...