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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: Georgia Brown, John F. Williams, Theater, Dancing, Nigel Lythgoe
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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: Baseball, Major League Baseball, World Baseball Classic, Babe Ruth, Theater
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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, Theater, Central Park
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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: Baseball, Theater, Rosie O'Donnell, Shaquille O'Neal, Basketball
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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: Stranger Than Fiction, Danny Kaye, Education, Theater, Holidays
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'Oklahoma!' comes sweepin' into Lyric Opera
If ever a musical theater work deserved its exclamation point, it's “Oklahoma!” Breathes there a man or woman of a certain age who hasn't at one time or another succumbed to the nostalgic charms of this classic American show, whose spirit...
Tags: Poetry, Entertainment Events, Theater, Civic Opera House, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
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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, Entertainment Events, Music, Theater, Entertainment
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Broadway review: 'Pippin' pulls off a theatrical high-wire act
NEW YORK — There are shows that revive aging material through revisionism. And there are productions that prefer to celebrate the pull of nostalgia, especially when the songs are great. "Pippin," the brilliant Diane Paulus revival of the...
Tags: Terrence Mann, Entertainment Events, Music, Theater, Entertainment
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Heat rises at Porchlight in this most Chicago of musicals
When you're sitting watching a new musical, it's easy to focus on a book or a score and underestimate the perennial dependency of Broadway tuners on lyrics. And if you're ever looking for lyrical excellence, the songs of Lorenz Hart (an early...
Tags: Bewitched (tv program), Poetry, Entertainment Events, Music, Theater
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Annoyance Theatre on the move
The Annoyance Theatre, a venerable Chicago comedy theater, is on the move. Jennifer Estlin, the theater's owner and executive producer, said Wednesday that it will exit its Uptown digs on the same block of North Broadway as the Uptown Theatre and move...
Tags: Lakeview (Chicago, Illinois), Entertainment Events, Uptown, Theater, Entertainment
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Broadway: Bette Midler serves up Hollywood dish in 'I'll Eat You Last'
NEW YORK — Almost none of us would have been invited to one of the famous parties at Sue Mengers' swishy pad in "The Hills of Beverly." Those networking opportunities — wherein Faye Dunaway could get cast in "Chinatown" between appetizer and...Tags: Chinatown (movie), Entertainment Events, Theater, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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Writers' Theatre to stage 'Hamlet,' chamber 'Sweet Charity,' as part of 2012-13 season
Writers' Theatre, the Glencoe-based theater company, will stage an intimate version of the classic Broadway musical "Sweet Charity" in 2013, the ambitious company announced Wednesday. Doug Peck, who also is working on the upcoming Mary Zimmerman...Tags: Entertainment Events, The Jungle Book (movie), Theater, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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