AP - Jan 31, 2008
For Idina Menzel, love means never having to close the bathroom door. As the Tony-winning star of Wicked unveiled tracks from her first major-label CD in small private concert in Hollywood, she announced...
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Producer Gregg Field says that creating the new Ray Charles album Ray Sings, Basie Swings, due October 3 from Concord Records and Starbucks Hear Music, was like painting the Sistine Chapel with a Q-tip...
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Leading names from Broadway and country music have signed on for the aptly named benefit concert Broadway Meets Country, which will take place November 12 as part of a series of events leading up to the...
More »Reuters - Feb 13, 2005
Following is a list of winners in miscellaneous fields at the 47th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday. BLUES BEST TRADITIONAL BLUES ALBUM Blues to the Bone - Etta James BEST CONTEMPORARY BLUES ALBUM...
More »AP - Dec 8, 2004
Gift cards are everywhere this time of the year, so why should Broadway be excluded from what could be the perfect stocking stuffer this Christmas? Now, the League of American Theatres and Producers...
More »AP - Jun 7, 2004
It s five minutes to show time, and Hugh Jackman s microphone cord is too short. A sound technician rushes past, in search of another. Outside the stage door, a makeup artist frantically tries to talk...
More »AP - Jun 7, 2004
The irreverent little show Avenue Q came out a surprise winner as best musical at this year s Tony Awards , where the much more expensive and lavishly mounted Wicked had been favored. Tonight was about...
More »AP - Jun 2, 2004
Will it be a Wicked 2004 Tony Awards ? Yes, with the lavish Wizard of Oz musical taking the biggest prize of all best musical and at least three other awards during Sunday s three-hour...
More »AP - Jan 14, 2004
A smoke-breathing dragon flaps its wings and cranks its head. Monkeys fly from a tangle of vines that frames a giant fantasy clock. A witch in a sparkling blue gown travels on a bubble-blowing pendulum...
More »AP - Dec 10, 2003
Taye Diggs is joining his wife, Idina Menzel , in the Broadway musical Wicked on Christmas night for a four-week run. Diggs will play Fiyero, the romantic lead in the show, which is based on Gregory...
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