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...here they are, at Encores!, for us to follow in their ascendancy to Broadway stardom. In 1999, when Nathan Lane headlined a delicious revival of the Styne-Betty Comden-Adolph Green "Do Re Mi," the male and female second leads were Mitchell and Heather Headley; the following year those two won the Tony's top musical awards (for their work in "Kiss Me, Kate" and "Aida"). At Encores! the veterans also mix collegially with the newbies - as Mitchell and Gravitte did with the beautiful 19-year-old soprano Anne Hathaway (star of "The Cinderella Diaries" and "Ella Enchanted...
...Wonderful Town" is based on "My Sister Eileen," the 1942 hit Broadway comedy about two sisters, intellectual Ruth and blond knockout Eileen, who emigrate from Ohio to a basement flat in Greenwich Village - Ruth looking to be a writer, Eileen with dreams of musical stardom. The musical version, composed by Leonard Bernstein and lyricists Comden and Green, arrived on Broadway in 1953, with Rosalind Russell as Ruth and Edith Adams (later Ernie Kovacs' Edie Adams) as Eileen. The show, which lasted a year, didn't spawn the hits that Bernstein's "On the Town" and "West Side Story...
...Ancient Eight, it is one thing to be dominant within the league, and another entirely to be dominant in the nation. And with her new job in Nice, Peljto is sure to translate that greatness into international stardom...
...summer 2000, Nair shot Monsoon Wedding—the film that finally caught the American public’s attention and catapulted Nair to international stardom...
...DIED. NICOLAI GHIAUROV, 74, Bulgarian bass whose warm, rich voice and striking stage presence carried him through almost half a century of opera stardom; in Modena, Italy. Ghiaurov made his debut in 1955 as Basilio in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, and went on to such signature roles as King Philip in Verdi's Don Carlo and the title role in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov...