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A veteran-studded 'Rent' hits the road in 2009
Associated Press WriterWhen "Rent" debuted on Broadway in 1996, Gwen Stewart was there. When the curtain came down on its final performance last year, she came back to be there, too. So when producers decided to launch a national tour studded with original veterans, it made...Tags: Music, Music Theater, Minority Groups, Starbucks Corp., Veterans Affairs
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Lamos Named New Artistic Director At Westport Country Playhouse
The Hartford CourantMark Lamos is back leading a Connecticut theater, this time in Westport. The 62-year-old Lamos, who built Hartford Stage into a Tony Award-winning, internationally known theater from 1980 to 1997, is the new artistic director of the Westport Country...Tags: Music, Long Wharf Theatre, James Earl Jones, Jules Verne, Connecticut
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LI ARTS: "Rent" at Adelphi
WHAT The first production of "Rent" - the musical by the late Adelphi alum Jonathan Larson - since it closed on Broadway this month. Next Saturday night's gala marks the official opening of Adelphi's new performing arts center. WHEN|WHERE 7:30 p.m....Tags: Long Island, Lindenhurst (Babylon, New York), Theater, Culture
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Curtain goes up on Adelphi Performing Arts Center
robert.kahn@newsday.comMelana Tysowsky knew that Adelphi's dance department had outgrown its quarters, but "the lacrosse incident" in May underscored matters. To present a choreography project, Tysowsky and fellow ballet students had reserved the Woodruff Hall gym, a more...Tags: Music, Classical Music, Lacrosse, Music Theater, Broadway
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'Rent' brings down the curtain on Broadway run
They cheered, they cried and gave the show a standing ovation even before the first note was sung.
Broadway said goodbye Sunday to "Rent," 12 years and 5,124 performances after it first became a rock musical with a message for theatergoers of all ages....Tags: Music, Music Theater, Diseases, Rentals, Sony Corp.
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As 'Rent' closes in New York, fans mourn
Special to The TimesNEW YORK -- 5,140 performances. After 12 years, "Rent" is closing in New York. And depending on whom you talk to, it's either the end of a colorful era on Broadway, or the End of Days. Jonathan Larson's rock- fueled fable of AIDS-ravaged friends in New...Tags: Music, San Diego (San Diego, California), Florida, Music Theater, Diseases
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For Rentheads, show's eviction is bittersweet
Tribune reporterWhen the song began playing in the nightclub, the Rentheads turned their beer bottles into microphones. You're living in America At the end of the millennium You're living in America Leave your conscience at the tone Courtney Crouse, bent at the...Tags: Music, Classical Music, Awards and Prizes, Epidemics and Plagues, Condos and Houses
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2007-2008 theater season preview
Events schedules frequently change. It's best to call the venue before you go. Annie Russell Theatre The theater is on the campus of Rollins College, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park. Season tickets are $50 and $60 for general audiences, $47 and $57 for...Tags: Cinderella, Snow White, Patsy Cline, Charles Dickens, Ira Gershwin
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Pascal and Rapp back in 'Rent'
amNewYork Theater CriticBroadway's Nederlander Theatre is experiencing a sudden rebound in attendance following months of half-full houses. Almost twelve years since they first appeared in "Rent," Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp have unexpectedly returned to the roles of Roger...Tags: Music, Schools, American Idol (tv program), Television, Music Theater
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Hoping for a long-playing hit
Newsday Staff WriterEveryone is a music elitist to some degree, but even the snobbiest audiophile has a weak spot, says the man who has turned one of the past decade's bestsellers into Broadway's latest songfest. "Say you're on a road trip with four friends and a song comes...Tags: Music, Classical Music, Long Island, Music Industry, Stephen Frears
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Rent
SPECIAL TO ZAP2ITWhen it hit theaters last Thanksgiving, moviegoers gave Chris Columbus' sprawling cinematic adaptation of Jonathan Larson's Broadway smash "Rent" a kind of collective shrug, as if to say: "Yeah, okay, you got most of the original cast back and there's...Tags: Music, Harry Potter, Music Theater, Movies, Sony Corp.
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Living in Alphabet City
Special to amNewYorkIf gentrification were an earthquake, then Alphabet City would be the epicenter, from which waves of rent hikes and community upheaval spread out over New York City. Once upon a time, in the era of Jonathan Larson's rock musical "Rent," the lettered...Tags: Furniture, Theft, Minority Groups, Condos, Real Estate Buyers
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