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  • London Dance Review: ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (The Royal Ballet)

    By Tony Frankel | November 22, 2013
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    BALLET THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the Royal Ballet’s first full-length story ballet since 1995, received mixed reviews but was nonetheless an audience-pleasing success when it premiered in 2011. It returned in all its glory this year and a performance from March, 2013 was beamed to more than 500 cinemas…

  • Book Review: SHOWBIZ (Dress Circle Publishing)

    By Sarah Taylor Ellis | February 3, 2013
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    MOUNTING OLYMPUS Think of it as Twilight for the theater geek or Smash in literary form. You may love to hate it or hate to love it, but Ruby Preston’s new novel Showbiz is an undeniable page-turner: a fabulously fun, fictional glimpse into the drama of mounting a Broadway musical today. Scarlett Savoy is an…

  • Regional Theater Attraction: TEN CHIMNEYS ESTATE (Genesee Depot, Wisconsin)

    By Dan Zeff | August 9, 2012
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    THE THEATER WAS HOME TO THE LUNTS, BUT THIS WAS THEIR HOME FROM THE THEATER From the 1920’s through the 1950’s, the husband and wife team of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne were the First Couple of the American theater. The Lunts, as they were universally known, dominated the American stage with their successes extending…

  • Theater Review: LA NOUBA (Cirque du Soleil in Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando)

    By Tony Frankel | January 12, 2011
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    A KINDER, SIMPLER CIRQUE Commedia dell’arte is a form of theatre characterized by masked ’˜types,’ which began in Italy in the mid-1500s. About one hundred years later, Italian troupes (known as Comédie-Italienne) had achieved success in France where Moliére, inspired by the use of stock characters, introduced a lovelorn peasant named Pierrot in the play…

  • Attraction Review: HARRY POTTER AND THE FORBIDDEN JOURNEY (Universal’s Islands of Adventure in Orlando)

    By Frank Arthur | December 29, 2010
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    HIS JOURNEY IS NOW YOURS Universal’s Islands of Adventure has always been one of the most astounding theme parks imaginable. But the  new Wizarding World of Harry Potter actually puts the rest of the park to shame. The world  offers guests  a one-of-a-kind experience complete with multiple attractions, shops and a signature eating establishments. This completely immersive environment…

  • Extras prior to August 2010

    By John Topping | November 9, 2010
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    EXTRAS 2010 The ACME Comedy Theater in Los Angeles Harvey Perr is still not dead Harvey Perr, troublemaker at large John Topping, blogger and future predictor Planet Connections Theater Festivity World of Color, Disney California Adventure  (review) 2009 Chester Gregory Benefit Concert for DOE Serious Moonlight NYC red carpet premiere photos

  • Attractions Reviews: BELLAGIO GALLERY OF FINE ART; TITANIC; BODIES; SHARK REEF AQUARIUM

    By Tony Frankel | November 9, 2010
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    EXHIBITIONISTS {UPDATED November, 2022} Las Vegas has been trying to crack the cultural market for some years now – it seemed the collection of Liberace memorabilia was the only show in town for tourists. Hopes were high that Vegas could become a cultural Mecca to rival Los Angeles and New York, but it seems that…

  • Attraction Review: WORLD OF COLOR (Disneyland)

    By Tony Frankel | June 23, 2010
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    MIXED COLORS When, in 1991, the Disney Corporation unveiled its plans to pave over the  Disneyland parking lot and build WestCOT, Disney fans were thrilled. Modeled after EPCOT in Florida, the new park would offer attractions focusing on the imagination and technological achievements of mankind in Future World, and celebrate different cultures in the World Showcase….

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