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NEWS ABOUT: revival

revival stories: 3 news summaries

 Bye, Bye Birdie 
 Scene Too Risque 
 for Broadway 

Revival will be even more PC than high school productions

Aug 24, 09 8:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - High school drama clubs have been putting on Bye Bye Birdie for nearly 50 years—apparently they didn’t realize they've been staging a certain scene so risque it makes Broadway blush. The upcoming Broadway revival will cut a dance sequence featuring Rose cavorting on and around a table... More »

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entertainment • Broadway • musical theater • musical • revival • Gina Gershon • Bye Bye Birdie

Theater review


 New Bilingual 
 West Side Story 
 Tender, Uneven  

Production can be uneven, but still enjoyable

Mar 20, 09 11:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - The highly anticipated revival of West Side Story on Broadway opened last night to solid reviews, with critics applauding an unusually tender interpretation in which the women rule. Highlights:
  • “Even when they’re flashing switchblades and kicking people in the ribs, the teenage hoodlums who maraud through Arthur
... More »

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theater • Broadway • musical theater • musical • West Side Story • revival • theater reviews • Stephen Sondheim

THEATER REVIEW

 Critics Agog Over South Pacific 

Show's first Broadway revival draws unanimous praise

Apr 4, 08 12:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - The first Broadway revival of South Pacific opened last night, and the critics agree: It's outstanding. "Its brilliance hasn’t faded," Richard Zoglin writes in Time, calling the new production of perhaps the best Rodgers and Hammerstein collaboration “surprisingly fresh, astringent, meaty and convention-defying." Writes Ben... More »

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theater • Broadway • World War II • Rodgers and Hammerstein • revival

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