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...series, Discover the Lost Musicals, has flourished since 1988. In 1994, the year Encores! began, the York Theatre uptown inaugurated a Musicals in Mufti series (its motto: "Think Encores! on a budget") to spotlight "underappreciated" musicals by such highly appreciated composers as Richard Rodgers, Kurt Weill, Duke Ellington, Jule Styne, Harold Rome, Noel Coward and Alan Menken. Downtown, and way downscale, there's Mel Miller's Musicals Tonight! series, which this week finished a run of the 1926 "The Girl Friend," by Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, and which last month won a Village Voice Obie grant for trying really hard...
Women jazz singers are popping up like new sitcoms these days, but Kendra Shank's delectable voice--warm-toned, fine-grained, quietly sexy--sets her well apart from the crowd, as does her knack for picking unhackneyed, slightly off-center material (Abbey Lincoln's Angel Face, Jule Styne's You Say You Care). Add in the crystalline piano playing of Frank Kimbrough, and you get an album that clings to the memory. The up-tempo tunes swing hard; the ballads shimmer and shine. Get in on the ground floor: this lady is going...
Boston Conservatory. 536-3063. A Tribute to Jule Styne Feb. 16-19 at 31 Hemenway St. Boston Conservatory Chamber Ensemble on Sunday, Feb. 19 at 4 p.m. at 8 The Fenway...
...brisk, not too smarmy recap of the day's entertainment news, the E! cable channel's little noticed E! News Daily gives the most bang for the buck. The show last Tuesday, for example, covered everything important that its rivals did (the death of songwriter Jule Styne, Katie Couric's interview with O.J. Simpson's grown children). But it had several other newsy tidbits too, from Elizabeth Montgomery's suit for $5 million in residuals from Bewitched to a piece on the pollution problems caused by Woodstock. E! of course has plenty of publicity fluff elsewhere; it devotes whole shows...
...season of high promises, broken: To such fallen stars as Brian Friel, Jule Styne and Frank Gilroy, add David Rabe (Streamers, Hurlyburly), whose own off-Broadway staging of his logy Those the River Keeps went down faster than a victim of the Mob hit men it portrayed...