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'So You Think You Can Dance': lots of props, plenty of awesome dancing
Reality CheckJohn-John Williams IV is in Chicago at a hotel that does not have Fox (to our disbelief). So I'm filling in and recapping a well-danced So You Think You Can Dance. There's new partnering tonight (again). Each pair will dance......Tags: Hip Hop (genre), Georgia Brown, Celine Dion, John F. Williams, Fergie (singer)
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WBC plans to carry on, with or without Alex Rodriguez
WatchdogI contributed some TV-related stuff to Ken Davidoff's Wednesday newspaper extravaganza on the World Baseball Classic, which opens at 4:30 a.m. Thursday. Naturally, I mentioned the level of interest in the Dominican team because of its third baseman,...Tags: Alex Rodriguez, Sports, Babe Ruth, Major League Baseball, World Baseball Classic
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Joe Buck is better at announcing than playing softball
WatchdogVideo here of Joe Buck promoting his new HBO show while playing softball (badly) in the Broadway Show League in Central Park. (Love the St. Louis Blues cap, Joe.) Here is an interview with Buck from The Big Lead. Coming......Tags: HBO (tv network), St. Louis Blues, Central Park, Theater
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Shaq gets new team, sheds Star Island home
The Business of Sports | Sun-Sentinel BlogsFormer Heat center Shaquille O???Neal finally unloaded his Star Island home on Wednesday, a day before he was traded from Phoenix to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Philip Freedman, a broker with Flagstone Realty, said the deal to sell the 2.5 acre......Tags: Emilio Estefan, Homes, Theater, New York Yankees, Rosie O'Donnell
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'So You Think You Can Dance' recap: Top 10 perform
Reality CheckTonight, the Top 10 on So You Think You Can Dance get new partners, new dances and voted on solely by the viewers. It's a whole new ball game, is what I'm saying.The first couple (no intros!) is Ryan and......Tags: Halloween Costumes, Science and Technology, Entertainment, Theater, Music Theater
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Take a Pythonesque cruise with 'Pirates'
One hundred and thirty-two years after W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan dreamed up a preposterous operetta involving a very modern major-general, his bevy of beautiful, naive daughters and a dutiful young Englishman apprenticed to a band of big-hearted...
Tags: Piracy, Music, Arts and Culture, Arthur Sullivan, Marriott Theatre
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Tevye reigns in rich 'Fiddler on the Roof'
"Fiddler on the Roof" is among the greatest Broadway musicals for any number of reasons: a score without a single dud; rich, sturdy, funny characters who somehow reward with each revisit; a high-stakes story that not only blends the personal and religious...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Judaism, Entertainment, Theater, Religion and Belief
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'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,' rail-splitter, head lopper ✭✭
The first in what I dearly hope is a trilogy to include "Calvin Coolidge: Exorcist" and "George W. Bush: Werewolves Is Comin'," the frenzied and occasionally diverting mashup"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" rewrites American history so that the Civil War...
Tags: Wanted (movie), Slavery, Entertainment, Animation (Movie Genre), Hunting
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Steppenwolf gala nets $1.1 million
The Steppenwolf Theatre Company said Thursday it raised $1.1 million at its annual gala last Saturday — for its artistic, educational and community programming. Items at the live auction including opening-night tickets to the upcoming Broadway...Tags: Laurie Metcalf, Rick Bayless, Bruce Norris, William Petersen, Steppenwolf Theatre
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'Pajama Game' a labor of love with a conscience
Granted, it ends not with "Strike! Strike! Strike!" but with a man and a woman sharing the same set of jammies. But "The Pajama Game," the racy-for-its-day 1954 musical about a union official in a pajama factory who gets romantically sewn up with a member...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Music, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Theater
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This comic's life, sans sleep, in 'Sleepwalk With Me' ★★★
One night in a La Quinta motel room, comedian and storyteller Mike Birbiglia jumped through a second-story window while acting out one of his dreams, ending up in the hospital with a leg full of broken glass. Well, it's a living. Since then he has...
Tags: Music, Music Box Theatre, Arts and Culture, James Rebhorn, Victory Gardens Theatre
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Summer 2013: 10 theater shows for a sunny Chicago
Two components of many a Chicago summer of live entertainment are absent this year — there's no Cirque du Soleil tent at the United Center and no Riverfront Theater at the Tribune Company's Freedom Center. So you'll have to go camping for fun...
Tags: Music, Next to Normal (musical), Entertainment, Music Theater, Tribune Company
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