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		<title>On Your Toes at Encores!: Dancing With the Real Stars</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 21:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Corliss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Do you think my music will still be played 100 years from now?&#8221; asks the young composer. &#8220;If you&#8217;re still around,&#8221; his music teacher sarcastically replies, &#8220;it will be.&#8221; This exchange is from On Your Toes, the 1936 show that brought together four Broadway legends: the songwriting team of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, librettist-director George Abbott, and choreographer George Balanchine. Seventy-seven years later, folks are still humming the show&#8217;s hit song &#8220;There&#8217;s a Small Hotel&#8221; and dozens of other Rodgers and Hart tunes. Will they still be played in 2036? If the world doesn&#8217;t blow up or go under, they will be. And if there&#8217;s any justice, Encores! will still be producing three concert revivals of Broadway musicals each year from now to infinity. Since 1994, at City Center on 55th Street, the musical theater&#8217;s brightest curators have mounted spiffy reboots that are usually among any season&#8217;s most appealing shows, new or vintage. Grand old films can be found on Turner Classic Movies and on thousands of DVDs, but a stage production dies on closing night. The mission and triumph of Encores! is to bring classic musicals back to life, as they were originally scored, with the finest contemporary directors and actor-singers as loving curators. Five of the series&#8217; 60 shows have featured Rodgers and Hart scores: Pal Joey (1995), The Boys from Syracuse (1997), Babes in Arms (1999), A Connecticut Yankee (2001) and, this week through Sunday, the delightful, dance-crazy On Your Toes. (READ: Bravo! Encores!) For its 20th anniversary, Encores! has looked back on its own history, and that of the giant Moorish mausoleum that houses it. The year&#8217;s first production, of the 1958 Fiorello!, was a revival of  a revival — of the musical that launched the series in 1994 — and a reminder that New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia had converted City Center in 1940 from a defaulted Shriners&#8217; hall into a theater for the performing arts. After a fresh production of the 1966 pop-art musical It&#8217;s a Bird&#8230;It&#8217;s a Plane&#8230;It&#8217;s Superman, Artistic Director Jack Viertel and the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3539671&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neil Patrick Harris to Return as Tony Awards Host</title>
		<link>http://entertainment.time.com/2013/05/09/neil-patrick-harris-to-return-as-tony-awards-host/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 09:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) — Neil Patrick Harris will be back for his fourth turn as host of the Tony Awards. The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, joint producers of the show that honors the best of Broadway, said Thursday the 67th annual awards will be broadcast live by CBS from Radio City Music Hall on June 9. In a statement, Harris said he was excited to be back hosting the Tonys, adding: &#8220;The show will rock!&#8221; Harris previously hosted the Tonys last year and in 2011 and 2009. Last year&#8217;s telecast at the intimate Beacon Theatre was seen by 6 million viewers, down significantly from 2011&#8242;s 6.9 million. It was also the second-lowest ratings for the Tony Awards since 1988, though it was up against the season finale of AMC&#8217;s Mad Men. The 39-year-old Harris has starred in three Broadway productions, including Assassins, Proof, opposite Anne Heche, and as the exuberant master of ceremonies in Cabaret. He currently stars as dapper ladies&#8217; man Barney Stinson on CBS&#8217; sitcom hit How I Met Your Mother.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3539629&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Show Stoppers: A Brief History of Rude and Disruptive Behavior in Theater</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 17:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily Rothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Helen Mirren won an Olivier Award—the West End&#8217;s most prestigious accolade—for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in the play The Audience. And during a weekend performance of the show, she gave an impromptu performance as a Queen not at all amused. As The Daily Telegraph reports, Dame Helen went outside at intermission to loudly scold a group of nearby drummers whose playing could be heard in the theater. (The drummers were parading to promote a May 26 gay festival called As One In The Park and had stopped right outside the stage door.) And yes, Mirren was dressed in full costume while she gave delivered her royal dressing-down. One of the parade organizers told the Telegraph that seeing Mirren as the Queen &#8220;cussing and swearing&#8221; was &#8220;a new one.&#8221; That may be so, but the circumstances aren&#8217;t that new at all. The pesky percussionists are part of a long-ish history of dramatic disturbances, one that is— not surprisingly—dominated by mobile phones. May 31, 2006: A cell phone goes off during a matinee of The History Boys on Broadway. The late Richard Griffiths—who had also shamed owners of ringing mobile phones during previous interruptions when the play ran in London—stops the show and starts a scene over from the beginning, warning the audience that he would only do so once. June 21, 2009: Patti LuPone, in concert in Las Vegas, sees someone in the audience taking pictures. She stops the show and asks what&#8217;s going on out there, but receives no response. And it&#8217;s not her first time at that particular rodeo: earlier in 2009, during a Broadway performance of Gypsy, she stopped the show when someone else tried to take a picture. Sept. 23, 2009: A cell phone goes off during a performance of A Steady Rain on Broadway&#8230;and, minutes later, goes off again. Stars Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig stop the play to admonish the offender—and the entire incident was caught on video. December 2011: While headlining in Richard III in Sydney, actor Kevin Spacey does double duty as noise enforcer: first, admonishing (while in character) the owner of a cell phone and, during a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3539253&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Uneasy Mirror: Ron Mueck&#8217;s Super-Freaky, Hyperrealist Sculptures</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 09:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Photo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If one somehow melded the aesthetic of a Muppets puppeteer with, say, the hyperrealistic creations of Pop-Art pioneer Duane Hanson, the result might resemble Ron Mueck&#8217;s astonishing sculptures. Now on view at the Fondation Cartier in Paris through September 29, 2013, Mueck&#8217;s lifelike works are unsettling in their meticulous attention to detail, while often managing to feel humorous and haunting at once. Varying in scale from the gargantuan to the pint-sized, the reclusive Australian artist&#8217;s sculptures of men, women and children keep the viewer both enthralled and off-balance, unsure of what to expect around the next corner of the gallery or museum space. The son of a German toymaker, Mueck began his career as a model maker and puppeteer (working, for example, on Jim Henson&#8217;s 1986 fantasy film, Labyrinth), and transitioned into fine art in the late 1990s. Though his work retains some of the playfulness you would expect of a puppeteer, there is a often a dark edge to his silicon renderings that can catch viewers off-guard. Visitors at a Mueck exhibition can often be seen giggling nervously in the face of an especially intense work, or lost in deep contemplation before his expertly crafted terrains of manufactured skin, hair, eyes and teeth. James Joyce, explaining his obsession with chronicling the inhabitants and the landscape of his native Dublin, once noted that &#8220;in the particular is contained the universal.&#8221; The resonance of Mueck&#8217;s work lies in his ability to capture a moment, three dimensionally, and in his masterful manipulation of scale to elevate the minutiae of the everyday to the monumental &#8212; and the existential.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3537735&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joy and a Bit of Scary: The Whimsical Work of Chris Roberts-Antieau</title>
		<link>http://entertainment.time.com/2013/05/02/joy-and-a-bit-of-scary-the-whimsical-work-of-chris-roberts-antieau/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 16:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<title>Tony Noms: Our Critic&#8217;s Take (and the Complete List of Nominees)</title>
		<link>http://entertainment.time.com/2013/04/30/tony-noms-our-critics-take-and-the-complete-list-of-nominees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Zoglin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tony Award nominations, announced this morning in New York City, set up a clear battle in the race for Best Musical of the season, between two popular, critically acclaimed but very different shows: Matilda: The Musical, the London import based on Roald Dahl’s children’s story, and Kinky Boots, the splashy homegrown show about a struggling shoe factory that tries to save itself by producing stilettos for drag-show entertainers. If not quite a competition between class and mass (both shows are doing sellout business at the box office), it’s an intriguing matchup between a traditional Broadway crowd-pleaser, and a more daring and somewhat darker family musical. Kinky nudged out Matilda in total nominations, 13 to 12, including two nods for Best Actor in a Musical — for stars Billy Porter (as the leading drag queen) and Stark Sands (as the shoe-factory owner), and one for Cyndi Lauper’s first Broadway score. Matilda grabbed three acting nominations, including one for its own drag queen, Bertie Carvel, who plays the sadistic headmistress who makes little Matilda’s life miserable. The two other nominees for Best Musical, Bring It On, and A Christmas Story, both of which have closed, don’t stand much of a chance. But they spoiled the evening for a couple of shows that had hopes of a nomination: Motown: The Musical, a jukebox show that is drawing big crowds (and picked up four nominations) and Hands on a Hardbody, the offbeat, country-flavored show about a dozen down-on-their-luck Texans competing to see who can keep their hands on a pickup truck the longest (which got three nominations). Two musical revivals also got a lot of love from the Tony nominators. Pippin — a new version of the Bob Fosse show, reconceived as an acrobatic spectacle by director Diane Paulus — got 10 nominations, and  Rodgers &#38; Hammerstein’s Cinderella — originally done for television but making its first appearance Broadway — garnered  9. They’ll compete in the Best Revival category with Annie (which, surprisingly, snagged only a single nomination) and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (which got 5). In the acting categories, the focus as usual was on the snubs. Chief among them was the absence of Bette Midler,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3538659&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Kinky Boots&#8217; Gets a Leading 13 Tony Award Nods</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(NEW YORK) — The Cyndi Lauper-scored &#8220;Kinky Boots&#8221; has earned a leading 13 Tony Award nominations, with the British import &#8220;Matilda: The Musical&#8221; close behind with 12. Tom Hanks, making his Broadway debut, earned a nod as leading man in a play. &#8220;Kinky Boots&#8221; is based on the 2005 British movie about a real-life shoe factory that struggles until it finds new life in fetish footwear. Lauper&#8217;s songs and a story by Harvey Fierstein have made it a crowd-pleaser. &#8220;I walked my dog early this morning so I&#8217;d be back in time to listen to the announcement. It&#8217;s so great. It&#8217;s so great. I&#8217;m done crying a little bit. But I&#8217;m still thrilled and a little stunned,&#8221; Lauper said. The haul did not match the record number of nominations for a musical, which is 15, set by &#8220;The Producers&#8221; in 2001 and &#8220;Billy Elliot&#8221; in 2009. &#8220;The Book of Mormon&#8221; nabbed 14 Tony nods in 2011. In addition to Hanks, the leading actor in a play nominees are Nathan Lane for &#8220;The Nance,&#8221; Tracy Letts from &#8220;Who&#8217;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?&#8221;, David Hyde Pierce from &#8220;Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike&#8221; and Tom Sturridge from &#8220;Orphans.&#8221; (MORE: The Tony Awards 2012: Best and Worst Moments from Theater’s Biggest Night) &#8220;Matilda: The Musical&#8221; is a witty musical adaptation of the novel by Roald Dahl and is true to his bleak vision of childhood as a savage battleground. Both &#8220;Kinky Boots&#8221; and &#8220;Matilda&#8221; will compete for the best musical prize with the acrobatic &#8220;Bring It On: The Musical&#8221; and &#8220;A Christmas Story, The Musical,&#8221; adapted from the beloved holiday movie. Among the flurry of nominations, &#8220;Kinky Boots&#8221; also earned Fierstein a nod for best book, David Rockwell got one for sets, Jerry Mitchell for directing and for choreography, and nominations for its two leading men, Billy Porter and Stark Sands. Annaleigh Ashford earned a featured role nomination. &#8220;Matilda&#8221; earned nominations for choreography, Matthew Warchus&#8217; directing, Chris Nightingale&#8217;s orchestrations, best book by Dennis Kelly, Tim Minchin for lyrics and songs, and Bertie<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3538661&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Musical of Rocky Heading to Broadway</title>
		<link>http://entertainment.time.com/2013/04/29/musical-of-rocky-heading-to-broadway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Mark Kennedy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) — It&#8217;s been a knockout in Germany. Now Sylvester Stallone hopes a musical based on his beloved boxing film Rocky will also be a hit on Broadway. Producers said Sunday they plan to get Rocky up and punching at the Winter Garden by February following a successful debut in Hamburg last fall. Based on the Oscar-winning 1976 film, the musical features a score by Ragtime veterans Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, and a story by Thomas Meehan, who wrote The Producers and Hairspray. Originally written in English but translated into German for its world premiere and billed as Rocky: Das Musical, the show is produced by Stallone and Stage Entertainment USA. (MORE: TIME&#8217;s original review of Rocky) &#8220;The reason I think it has worked so well there and why I think it&#8217;ll work on Broadway is that, yes, it&#8217;s a story about boxing, but the real story is actually an intimate, powerful and gritty and moving love story between two people who are both lonely and in a difficult place in their worlds,&#8221; said Bill Taylor, managing director of Stage Entertainment USA. &#8220;They rescue each other. It&#8217;s very uplifting.&#8221; The musical stays close to the film, which charted the rise and romance of amateur boxer and debt collector Rocky Balboa, played in Germany by Drew Sarich. No casting has been decided for New York. In the story, Balboa, nicknamed the Italian Stallion, gets his shot against undefeated heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, played in the film by Carl Weathers. He also woos a love interest, Adrianna &#8220;Adrian&#8221; Pennino. Stallone wrote the screenplay and it won the best picture Oscar in 1976. The film made famous the image of Balboa running up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the quote &#8220;Yo, Adrian!&#8221; The German production kept the trumpet-laden funky theme &#8220;Gonna Fly Now&#8221; and the anthem &#8220;Eye of the Tiger,&#8221; written for &#8220;Rocky III.&#8221; Both will also be in the Broadway version. (MORE: 10 Questions for Sylvester Stallone) The director is Alex Timbers, who directed Broadway&#8217;s The Pee-wee Herman Show and directed and wrote<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3538540&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Macbeth, Mary and Midler: Solo Turns on Broadway</title>
		<link>http://entertainment.time.com/2013/04/25/macbeth-mary-and-midler-solo-turns-on-broadway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Zoglin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One actor alone onstage — not necessarily my idea of a good time at the theater. Yet one-person shows continue to have enormous appeal: for actors (the ultimate ego trip), for producers (less expensive to stage), and very often for critics, who find it hard to resist a showboating star. I usually do, but two extraordinary new solo shows on Broadway have almost revived my faith in the genre. A third, not so much. The Irish actress Fiona Shaw and director Deborah Warner have collaborated on on adventurous solo pieces several times before. Some of them, like their adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland, I found pretty hard going. But their latest, The Testament of Mary — the Virgin Mary, in a monologue imagined by Irish novelist Colm Toibin — is both an absorbing piece of theater and a challenging work of theological inquiry. Toibin’s take on the religious icon is revisionist without being dismissive (which hasn’t stopped at least one Catholic group from calling it “blasphemous”). His goal is to strip away the Biblical iconography and speculate on what the mother of Jesus might have been like in the real world — to separate the human from the holy. His Mary is not the mother of God, but the mother of a man; she’s grief-stricken, sardonic, suspicious of her son’s followers (“misfits,” she calls them), skeptical of his divinity. Her narrative is fragmented and impressionistic, but with two moving extended passages: her haunting account of the raising of Lazarus from the dead (a miracle that she views as transgressive and dangerous) and the Crucifixion itself, rendered in language as graphic and harrowing as any I’ve encountered on stage. Shaw, donning a drab brown cloak and wandering in an abstract, Beckett-like landscape (a ladder, an uprooted tree, an empty birdcage, rolls of barbed wire) gives a titanic performance: earthy, poetic, brutally honest (she strips naked at one point, climbing into her bath), so intense it leaves you exhausted. In her many classic roles, ranging from Medea to Hedda Gabler, Shaw has sometimes struck<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3538220&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now Hear This: In Praise of Record Store Day</title>
		<link>http://entertainment.time.com/2013/04/19/now-hear-this-in-praise-of-record-store-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Cosgrove &amp; Tanner Curtis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, when anyone with a digital device can download a song or a full album (in mere minutes) from pretty much anywhere on the planet, the singular thrill and appeal of actually going to a record store (a what store?) and rifling through record bins (what bins?) while arguing with fellow vinyl and CD geeks might seem a vanishing phenomenon. Thankfully, some people aren&#8217;t taking this slow erosion of record-store culture lying down. Since 2007, thousands of independent record stores around the world have designated one day each year as &#8220;Record Store Day&#8221; — a loud and proud celebration of B-sides, 45s, jewel cases, box sets and other hands-on marvels of the old-school music lover&#8217;s universe. This year, the hallowed event falls on Saturday, April 20. So, happy Record Store Day, everyone &#8230; and good luck finding that blue vinyl jukebox-ready Beatles 45 with &#8220;Come Together&#8221; on the B-side. You know it&#8217;s out there.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3537698&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Nance: Gay Burlesque and Straight Plays</title>
		<link>http://entertainment.time.com/2013/04/17/the-nance-gay-burlesque-and-straight-plays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Zoglin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people ask me how the theater season is going, I can, for once, be honestly upbeat. One great musical, Matilda, and several very good off-Broadway plays, among them Amy Herzog’s Belleville and Annie Baker’s oddly riveting three-hour slice of cinema-house verite, The Flick — that’s plenty to get excited about. Still, there is one glaring hole that has become endemic to the New York theater scene: the lack of any good straight plays on Broadway.   The difficulties faced by non-musicals on Broadway are built into the system. For a play to have a viable chance of success with mainstream audiences, it generally needs one of three things. The first is a bankable star — usually starring in something closer to an actor’s vehicle than a full-bodied play. Hence this season’s Lucky Guy, with Tom Hanks as New York newspaper columnist Mike McAlary, and the upcoming I’ll Eat You Last, a one-woman show with Bette Midler playing the late Hollywood talent agent Sue Mengers. In lieu of a star, you must have laughs. Exhibit A this season is Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike, the unaccountably popular new comedy by Christopher Durang. I was left totally cold by the relentless stream of one-liners and frantic overacting in Durang’s amped-up family comedy, with strains (very strained) of Chekhov. But audiences are roaring, critics are swooning, and, given the typically weak competition, the play probably has the inside track for top Tony awards. The third kind of play that can occasionally make it on Broadway is one geared to a reliable theatergoing constituency. Thus, we have Richard Greenberg’s new play Assembled Parties, a scattered and unconvincing comedy-drama about an Upper West Side Jewish family, aimed squarely at those Upper West Side Jewish theatergoers (and their relatives in Westchester County) who used to congregate at Neil Simon comedies. And then there is Douglas Carter Beane’s new play The Nance. Actually, The Nance has all three things going for it. Set in 1930s New York City, it revolves around a gay stage performer who plays a mincing gay caricature— a “nance” — in burlesque. His onstage<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3537511&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Silent Song of Maria Tallchief: America’s Prima Ballerina (1925-2013)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Chua-Eoan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ballet is a series of the strictest, most rigid disciplines invented to portray ultimate suppleness and effortless musicality. And of all the ballerinas of the last century, few achieved Maria Tallchief’s artistry, a kind of conscious dreaming, a reverie with backbone. To George Balanchine, the choreographer who revolutionized ballet, she was both muse and, briefly, wife. She would admire him all her life—and help propagate his vision of dance with her own schools and students. The first Native American prima ballerina in history retired from regular performance in 1965. She died on Friday at the age of 88. Betty Marie Tall Chief was born of an Osage Indian father and a Scotch-Irish mother in Oklahoma. Realizing that Betty Marie and her sister Marjorie’s talents for dance were not going to be cultivated in rural Oklahoma, their mother Ruth Tall Chief moved the family to California. There the girls eventually came under the tutelage of Bronislava Nijinkska, the sister of the legendary Russian danger Vaslav Nijinsky and a graduate of the grand ballet academies of the Tsars. (MORE: Did this Bolshoi Ballerina Inspire an Acid Attack?) In California, Tallchief recalled being discriminated against for the first time in her life as classmates reacted to her two-word surname with ignorant teasing (whooping in the style of Indian war cries; mock feather headdresses). Eventually, to help ease the confusion, she combined the two words of Tall Chief into one name. At 17, she moved to New York and joined the branch of the prestigious Ballet Russe associated with Balanchine. Eventually, she took on the stage name Maria Tallchief. With her height (5’9”) and her high cheekbones, she was one of the most stunning presences on the stage of the Ballet Russe and, after 1948, the New York City Ballet, becoming the first prima ballerina of that company, Balanchine’s vehicle for transforming the art form. She originated the title role of The Firebird, an incredibly complex performance to Igor Stravinsky’s music, that caused a sensation in 1949 when it debuted in New York. In 1955,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3537244&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Matilda: The Best Musical Since The Lion King</title>
		<link>http://entertainment.time.com/2013/04/11/matilda-the-best-musical-since-the-lion-king/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 03:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Zoglin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matilda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roald Dahl]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ “My Mummy says I’m a miracle!” sings the first child to appear onstage, in the opening number of Matilda: The Musical. He’s quickly joined by more kids, all singing about how their parents treat them like princes and angels and Daddy’s “special little guy.” The delicious irony, of course, is that they’re a bunch of brats, and Matilda, the precocious four-year-old who outshines them all, has been sentenced to the two most neglectful, self-absorbed parents on earth. Her pompadour-haired Dad can’t even get it through his thick skull that she’s a girl. The real miracle, though, is not Matilda, but Matilda, the wondrous new musical from London that has just arrived on Broadway. It would be easy to call it the best British musical since Billy Elliot, but that, I’m afraid, would be underselling it. You have to go back to The Lion King to find a show with as much invention, spirit and genre-redefining verve. After plugging through years of slick but workmanlike musicals, crowd-pleasing song cycles and formulaic spirit-lifters (latest example: Kinky Boots), Matilda seems to clear away the deadwood and announce a fresh start for the Broadway musical. The Royal Shakespeare Company production is based on Roald Dahl’s famous children’s story, about a little girl who reads Dickens before most kids can spell, glues her father’s hat to his head, and battles injustices with a little talent for moving objects with her eyes. It’s a children’s story, to be sure, but with its jaundiced satire of good family values and deep understanding of the anxieties of both kids and grown-ups, there isn’t a more adult show on Broadway. Dennis Kelly’s book stays true to the spirit, and most of the details, of Dahl’s story, while adding some new trimmings. Matilda’s dad (the hilarious Gabriel Ebert) is a sleazy car dealer who turns back the speedometers on the junkers he sells to gullible Russians. Mom (Lesli Margherita) is a peroxide-blonde dimwit who travels the world to compete in amateur dance contests. Matilda’s chief nemesis, however, is the sadistic, hammer-throwing headmistress Miss Trunchbull — played, as in London, by Bertie<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3536949&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fastest-Closing New Broadway Musical of the Year: Hands on a Hardbody</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily Rothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hands on a Hardbody did seem like an unlikely Broadway musical: based on a documentary of the same name and with music by Phish&#8217;s Trey Anastasio, it&#8217;s the story of some down-on-their-luck individuals who enter a gimmicky contest to win a truck. Though he thought the title would be a hard sell to audiences unfamiliar with the true story behind the show, TIME&#8217;s Richard Zoglin deemed it &#8220;a surprisingly engaging little show&#8221; and &#8220;fully road-worthy.&#8221; (MORE: TIME Reviews Hands on a Hardbody) Still, it seems few were willing to take it for a test-drive: the producers recently announced that the show will close on Saturday, Apr. 13, with just 56 performances—28 of them previews—under its fan belt. As the Associated Press reports, that move will earn the show the dubious distinction of being the fastest-closing new musical of the season. (A Broadway year is measured differently from a calendar year, encompassing the period of eligibility for the Tony Awards. This year the 2012-13 season ends on Apr. 25, the date by which a show must official open in order to qualify for a nomination—and, with that cut-off looming so close, the Hands record is unlikely to be broken.) So was it the tricky-title curse that did the generally well-received show in? The New York Times suggests that another factor may be this season&#8217;s glut of grabby musicals opening around the same time, from Kinky Boots to Pippin to Matilda. There&#8217;s been no word on how much it cost producers to put Hands on a Hardbody together—though the New York Post, which saw this closing coming, suggests that it&#8217;s about $450,000 a week—but statistics over at Entertainment Weekly show that the traditionally Broadway-friendly Easter holiday did increase sales at Hands on a Hardbody for the last week of March&#8230;to a modest $321,043, about a third of the money it could have made during that week and more than $100,000 short of a profit. (On the other hand, that&#8217;s enough to buy about 50 new Nissan hardbody pickup trucks.)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3536700&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lucky Guy: A Broadway Debut for Tom Hanks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Zoglin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When he makes his first appearance onstage, Tom Hanks acknowledges the inevitable burst of applause with a little wink and a nod to the audience. It’s a friendly, self-conscious, out-of-character gesture — but an appropriate one. Hanks, the Hollywood star making his Broadway debut, is, after all, the reason Nora Ephron’s new play Lucky Guy, about New York City newspaper columnist Mike McAlary, made it to Broadway in the first place. What’s more, his chummy acknowledgement of his fans is perfectly in keeping with Ephron’s biographical drama — which is less a play than a series of barroom stories about one of the city&#8217;s most colorful journalists. McAlary was a brusque, streetwise reporter and columnist for (at one time or another) three different Gotham tabloids who broke stories of police corruption, won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing the brutal police interrogation of Abner Louima and died of colon cancer in 1998 at age 41. Ephron, the journalist-novelist-filmmaker who herself died last year of cancer, originally wanted to make McAlary’s life story into a movie. She reported it like a good magazine story, and the material is rich enough for a brisk, book-length biography. (PHOTOS: Tom Hanks: America&#8217;s Chronicler-in-Chief) But here it is on Broadway, a little uneasily. Much of the story is told, not shown — narrated by McAlary and various characters he crossed paths with, speaking directly to the audience. Chunks of dialogue simply mean nothing without any scenes to illustrate them (“He started out a little shaky at the News, but then he found a rhythm”). Cast members argue, cutely, over who gets to tell certain pieces of the story. After one character finishes a scene, she turns to the audience and says, “By the way, that is the end of me in this story,” before exiting the play, stage right. Lucky Guy mostly wins us over in spite of all this, thanks to Ephron’s genuine love of her subject and her solid grounding in the nuts-and-bolts details of the world she chronicled. We’ve had so many amped-up, overglamorized versions of the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3535836&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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