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		<title>Gordon MacRea and Howard Keel DVD&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/02/08/gordon-macrea-and-howard-keel-dvds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theatre Shelf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The pickings from the Bell Telephone Hour that Video Artists International delves into must be getting slim. It isn&#8217;t that the material on latest releases in VAI&#8217; Music&#8217;s series isn&#8217;t first rate. Indeed, there are some tasty morsels in these collections of musical segments from the ten year run of that television variety show which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seminar</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/02/06/seminar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Theresa Rebeck is a playwright who combines the politically active mind of the late Lillian Hellman and the brittle wit of the late Jean Kerr, two formidable playwrights who greatly enriched Broadway seasons from the 1930s through the 1960s.  Rebeck has  learned her craft, her plays are well constructed, and they offer rich roles for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Show Tunes: The Songs, Shows and Careers of Broadway&#8217;s Major Composers &#8211; Fourth Edition</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/31/show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadways-major-composers-fourth-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theatre Shelf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I may be excused for presuming that, if you have a theater shelf, it already sports a copy of Steven Suskin&#8217;s book. Equal parts reliable reference book and entertainingly written opinionated history, your shelf may have the first edition from 1985 when it instantly became indispensable as the book to check for quick information on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acme and UnSaddest team up for Rogue Waves</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/31/acme-and-unsaddest-team-up-for-rogue-waves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baltimore Backstage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last summer, for this column, I took a brief look at Baltimore&#8217;s Ten-Minute Play Festival, hosted by the UnSaddestFactory Theatre. The most mind-blowing feature of that weekend of occasionally brilliant controlled chaos was the audience. First, the audience was standing-room only. Many of the chairs were filled with members of Baltimore&#8217;s DIY community. [The acronym [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (revisited)</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/30/how-to-succeed-in-business-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I caught a matinee of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying this week, and as I watched young Nick Jonas prancing about as J. Pierrepont Finch in the current Broadway revival of  the Frank Loesser-Abe Burrows master work, I suddenly had a revelation about the recent and current  Broadway scene. Nick Jonas as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wit</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/27/wit-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Margaret Edson is that rare bird, a playwright whose first play, Wit, earned a Pulitzer Prize for Drama.  That alone makes her unique, but she becomes more so when we realize that she has never had another play produced and is &#8220;committed to teaching, now&#8221;, but unlike the heroine of her play, who as teacher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Burnt Part Boys &#8211; Original Off-Broadway cast recording</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/24/the-burnt-part-boys-original-off-broadway-cast-recording/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/24/the-burnt-part-boys-original-off-broadway-cast-recording/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theatre Shelf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Few scores establish their &#8220;voice&#8221; quite as rapidly as does the score for this poorly titled but highly intriguing one-act musical that had its Off-Broadway premiere in 2010. First, let&#8217;s get past the issue of the title. This is not a musical about child abuse by fire, as the title suggests to some. Nor does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Porgy and Bess</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/23/porgy-and-bess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The battle has begun. I&#8217;ve been reading followup columns from the critics of the New York Times and other prominent commentators admitting that some of their nitpicking reviews of the current revival of Porgy and Bess are not consistent with the reaction they have been receiving from their readers.  I am not a student of opera, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Road to Mecca</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/18/the-road-to-mecca-2/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/18/the-road-to-mecca-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Athol Fugard, South African playwright, had been writing plays for 20 years when The Road to Mecca was first mounted in 1988. Clearly a personal diatribe against the platitudes inherent in so much of organized religion, he should have known by the time he wrote this play that a debate between two opponents a play [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death Takes a Holiday</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/17/death-takes-a-holiday-2/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/17/death-takes-a-holiday-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theatre Shelf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you look for ravishing romantic beauty in your musicals? If so, Maury Yeston is probably on your list of favorite composers. Think of &#8220;Only With You&#8221; (Nine), &#8220;We&#8217;ll Meet Tomorrow&#8221; (Titanic) or &#8220;Love Can&#8217;t Happen&#8221; (Grand Hotel). If you are a regular follower of this column and took my advice last February, think of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stick Fly</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/17/stick-fly-4/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/17/stick-fly-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorraine Treanor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reviewing Stick Fly a couple of weeks after it opened on Broadway because when it was announced, I didn&#8217;t have much interest in seeing it. The title eluded me, I&#8217;d not heard of any in the cast, I didn&#8217;t know the author (Lydia R. Diamond) though she&#8217;s had exposure in a variety of regional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come for the gumbo. Stay for the plays</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/13/come-for-the-gumbo-stay-for-the-plays/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/13/come-for-the-gumbo-stay-for-the-plays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baltimore Backstage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday night, January 12th, Preston Street in Baltimore was packed with cars. That was thanks to Itzhak Perlman, an out-of-town violin player who had decided to drop by the Baltimore Symphony and play Vivaldi’s &#8216;Four Seasons.&#8217; I have no problem with violin players, unless they cause traffic jams. But since I can’t tell the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broadway Musical MVPs</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/11/broadway-musical-mvps/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/11/broadway-musical-mvps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theatre Shelf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Filichia has done it again What is a reviewer to do when a book shows up for review that has a pull quote from him praising the author to high heaven? Is it a conflict of interest to praise the new volume as well? When Peter Filichia&#8217;s newest book hit my desk I was presented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New year, big deal for Baltimore</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/06/new-year-big-deal-for-baltimore/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/06/new-year-big-deal-for-baltimore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baltimore Backstage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I started writing this article as a retrospective of Baltimore theatre in 2011. But I couldn’t help thinking a little bit about what Baltimore is looking at in 2012. In Baltimore, thanks to the Orioles, (and in DC, thanks to the Nationals), we’re sick of hearing that next year Could Be the Year. But things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The King and I recordings</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/03/the-king-and-i-recordings/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/01/03/the-king-and-i-recordings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theatre Shelf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rodgers and Hammerstein&#8217;s &#8220;The King and Who&#8221;? Or perhaps the question should be &#8220;The Who and Who?&#8221; Surely The King and I is just about the most glorious score ever written for, how shall we say this, a leading lady of limited vocal range. It is also one of the best scores ever written for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accidentally, Like a Martyr</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/31/accidentally-like-a-martyr/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/31/accidentally-like-a-martyr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually take you along with me when I go trouping off/off Broadway, but I&#8217;m making an exception because last evening I stumbled on a special treat and as it will run through January 7th, you might just catch it if you plan to be in New York during this next week. From left: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musicals by French composers</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/28/musicals-b-french-composers/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/28/musicals-b-french-composers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theatre Shelf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OK &#8211; its the week after Christmas. Maybe some kind soul gave you every item that you didn&#8217;t already have from our Holiday Gift Guide – plus perhaps a gift certificate or cash. What to do? You might devote some attention to the world of musical theater beyond Broadway and its national touring spawn. There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Close Up Space</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/23/close-up-space/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/23/close-up-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David Hyde Pierce clearly likes to keep working, for which we are grateful. Ever since his long run as Frasier&#8217;s brother Niles on the sitcom &#8220;Frasier,&#8221;  he has returned to his stage roots by appearing seasonally, showing us the range of his talents. For though the basic Pierce shines through in each of his characterizations, there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baltimore and Bulgarian theatremakers meet</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/20/baltimore-and-bulgarian-theatremakers-meet/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/20/baltimore-and-bulgarian-theatremakers-meet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baltimore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baltimore Backstage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nathan Cooper, the artistic director and actor for Baltimore’s Single Carrot Theatre, recently returned from the Festival for Independent Performing Arts in Sofia, where he spent four days with Lola Pierson (playwright and founding member of Baltimore’s UnSaddest Factory Theatre Company) on a grant from the Trust for Mutual Understanding. Nathan Cooper from Single Carrot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follies &#8211; new Broadway Cast Recording</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/20/follies-new-broadway-cast-recording/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, my! What am I to do now? The 2011 Broadway Revival Cast recording of Follies has just come out on PS Classics and now my &#8220;desert island&#8221; list of recordings I&#8217;d want with me if I was shipwrecked has two – count &#8216;em, two – two-disc sets of the same score. Since the entire concept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lysistrata Jones</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/19/lysistrata-jones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in what now seems like the &#8220;not so good old days,&#8221; each Broadway season seemed to offer at least one fun filled show about athletes (all male then)  and the ladies in their lives.  The package included  melodic scores, topical lyrics and ebullient dancing. The genre slipped away in the post-WWII evolution of musicals, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinglish</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/15/chinglish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we have a comedy, a first, dealing with meeting the needs of the USA and China when doing business together. In Chinglish,  David Henry Hwang&#8217;s play, a smalltime American business man is visiting a small company in Guiyang,China in an attempt to get a contract for his sign company to produce signs in English [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look, I Made a Hat</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/13/look-i-made-a-hat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Sondheim&#8217;s second volume of &#8220;Collected Lyrics with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany&#8221; titled &#8220;Look, I Made a Hat&#8221; has arrived just in time for either giving as a gift during the holiday season or sitting and reading during any time off a theatre lover has in a busy holiday month. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hugh Jackman &#8211; Back on Broadway</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/12/hugh-jackman-back-on-broadway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are several Hugh Jackmans.  The most familiar perhaps is the X Man &#8220;Wolverine,&#8221; but that hairy ape has little to do with at least four other Jackmans on display in this event.  There is the beautifully produced baritone, the one who can sing the leads in Kiss Me, Kate, Show Boat, Oklahoma! or just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neighborhood Watch</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/12/neighborhood-watch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 75 plays under his belt, it would appear that Alan Ayckbourn can find two hours worth of entertainment and enlightenment in  any of his own actual or imagined experiences as he lives out his life in Scarborough, England.  It is in that seaside town that he has a theatrical home in the Stephen Joseph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elf</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/07/elf/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/07/elf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The successful holiday run that the musical version of the film &#8220;Elf&#8221; had at the Hirschfeld Theatre on Broadway for Christmas 2010 was expected by many to lead to a return for the Christmas season this year and, perhaps, for years ahead. The show didn&#8217;t come back this season, but the recording of the score [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Holiday Gift Guide</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/05/2011-holiday-gift-guide/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/05/2011-holiday-gift-guide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brad Hathaway has checked his theatre shelves and found the perfect gifts for theatre lovers everwhere. Tell us &#8211; what&#8217;s on your gift list? CategoryDescription (sort by title)Click to Buy (Sort by price) CDs - Currently on BroadwayAnything Goes - The 2011 Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Musical went to the shimmeringly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sons of the Prophet</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/05/sons-of-the-prophet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s difficult to offer you a focused picture of Stephen Karam&#8217;s Sons of the Prophet at the Roundabout&#8217;s Laura Pels Theatre. It manages  to tell a dark story with humor and insight, and even at 100 uninterrupted minutes, it never fails to engage and intrigue, but ultimately it is more interesting than moving.Set in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonnie and Clyde</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/02/bonnie-and-clyde/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/12/02/bonnie-and-clyde/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NY Theatre Buzz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It took 25 producers and/or production companies to offer Frank Wildhorn a seventh crack at Broadway after his six previous attempts didn&#8217;t quite work out. His first, Jekyll and Hyde, did manage a very good run ten years ago , and Victor,Victoria to which he contributed three songs, also had a decent run with Julie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hirschfeld On Line</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/29/hirschfeld-on-line/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/29/hirschfeld-on-line/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theatre Shelf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Set aside a month or two to absorb this book. It isn&#8217;t that it is extremely lengthy, its just 350 pages measuring 9&#8243; by 12&#8243;. But most pages should be viewed and contemplated as a separate experience. If you rush through you will miss a great deal as the magic of a Hirschfeld drawing is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City of Angels</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/23/city-of-angels/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/23/city-of-angels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut is to be commended for unearthing City of Angels, a 1989 hit Broadway musical that is rarely done. It&#8217;s a very different sort of musical, with a jazzy score by Cy Coleman who has said: &#8220;I wanted to present real jazz as opposed to pastiche or the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melissa Errico: Legrand Affair</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/22/melissa-errico-legrand-affair/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/22/melissa-errico-legrand-affair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Theatre Shelf reader, in a comment to the column on Kate Baldwin&#8217;s album of songs by Sheldon Harnick, said she really liked collections devoted to one composer or lyricist. I resolved to include more of them in future columns. This week I got the opportunity when Ghostlight Records released a delicious collection of Michel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standing on Ceremony, the Gay Marriage Plays</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/17/standing-on-ceremony-the-gay-marriage-plays/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/17/standing-on-ceremony-the-gay-marriage-plays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The closet is, at last, wide open. No more need for gay characters to parade around pretending to be women, which was the game played up through the mid-twentieth century.  When even a hint of the love that dare not speak its name was offered onstage (The Captive, The Green Bay Tree) whispers were heard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Babes in Arms</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/15/babes-in-arms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re-Release of the 1951 Studio Cast Recording I guess I was wrong &#8211; again. When I first discovered the 1989 recording of Rodgers and Hart&#8217;s Babes in Arms under Evans Haile with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra on New World Records (NW386-2 &#8211; ASIN B0000030ES), I was so enraptured by the wit and energy of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venus in Fur</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/14/venus-in-fur-2/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/14/venus-in-fur-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Ives&#8217; contribution to our Broadway season, courtesy of the Manhattan Theatre Club is, as the King of Siam used to say, &#8220;a puzzlement.&#8221;  Starting as a hilarious backstage comedy involving a playwright/director and an aspiring actress who, though late for her audition, is desperate to be allowed to read, and through all sorts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venus in Fur opens on Broadway to strong reviews</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/09/venus-in-fur-opens-on-broadway-to-strong-reviews/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/09/venus-in-fur-opens-on-broadway-to-strong-reviews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven McKnight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Ives&#8217; Venus in Fur, which had an acclaimed and multi-extended run at Studio Theatre earlier this year, opened on Broadway last night to strongly favorable critical response. Most of the reviewers’ attention focuses on the performance of Nina Arianda, who reprises her off-Broadway performance originating the role of aspiring actress Vanda.  Vanda turns the tables on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian play about judicial corruption comes to the Capitol</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/09/russian-play-about-judicial-corruptioncapitol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The City of Baltimore has recently found itself under the harsh gaze of the Russia Today: in a 500 word piece, shaped by an hour or so of immersion in Baltimore’s one-block red zone, and many hours evidently spent watching &#8220;The Wire,&#8221; a Russian reporter dutifully described Baltimore as a war zone of economic imbalance. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Raitt and Alfred Drake on the Bell Telephone Hour</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/08/john-raitt-and-alfred-drake-on-the-bell-telephone-hour/</link>
		<comments>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/08/john-raitt-and-alfred-drake-on-the-bell-telephone-hour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alfred Drake and John Raitt must have been the two most important Broadway leading men of the 1940s. There were others of note. There were the Ray Bolgers and the Danny Kayes and the Gene Kelleys. They had hits of note: Lady In The Dark for Kaye, Where&#8217;s Charley? for Bolger, Pal Joey for Kelly. There was even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bing Thom Works</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/01/bing-thom-works/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hathaway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Mid-Atlantic States to the Pacific Northwest, theatergoers can enter into a world of drama even before the play begins if they attend their theater in structures designed by Vancouver architect Bing Thom. His work is always atmospheric, and, at its best, it is exquisite. Architect Bing Thom at the Mead Center Now, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children</title>
		<link>http://dctheatrescene.com/2011/11/01/children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1974, A.R.Gurney&#8217;s Children was produced by Lynne Meadow at the Manhattan Theatre Club. It was Gurney&#8217;s first full length play and it arrived on our shores following a successful London run at the Mermaid Theatre which starred Constance Cummings. Here, its four person cast included Nancy Marchand, Swoozie Kurtz, Holland Taylor and Dennis Howard; under [...]]]></description>
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