Reuters - Jan 24, 2008
Thousands of actresses throughout Canada will be vying for a chance at stardom when auditions begin on Friday to select who will play Maria von Trapp in a new production of The Sound of Music, which will...
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Hundreds of musical wannabes lined up on Broadway in the chilly dark early on Friday morning in hopes the producer of the musical Grease would tap them and say, You re the one that I want. A new NBC...
More »AP - Sep 26, 2006
Julie Andrews, whose film career has ranged from magical nanny in an Oscar-winning performance in Mary Poppins to regal queen in The Princess Diaries, will receive a life achievement award from the Screen...
More »AP - Sep 17, 2006
The Sound of Music has a new Maria and the hills are alive with the sound of skepticism. An aspiring actress named Connie Fisher has been chosen to star as the novitiate-turned-nanny in Andrew...
More »Reuters - Jun 18, 2006
Two decades ago, Tony Bennett recorded an album titled The Art of Excellence. It s an art he continues to uphold, even as he nears his 80th birthday in August. He truly is a treasure for all generations...
More »Reuters - Jun 14, 2006
Eclectic pop singer Rufus Wainwright bridged musical generations on Wednesday with a daring re-creation of Judy Garland s legendary 1961 concert at Carnegie Hall. Wainwright took the stage to thunderous...
More »AP - Apr 22, 2006
Call it Alpine Idol. Aspiring stars strutted their stuff at a Belfast hotel Saturday, hoping to win the part of novitiate-turned-nanny Maria in a big-budget London production of The Sound of Music....
More »Reuters - Mar 8, 2006
In front of a roaring log fire in a mountain lodge, Walter Eppich sips a cold lager after a day of skiing and discusses the score from The Sound of Music. An odd apres-ski conversation? Not really....
More »Reuters - Sep 15, 2005
Hollywood filmmaker Robert Wise, a four-time Academy Award winner who brought the beloved musicals West Side Story and The Sound of Music to the big screen during a career that spanned six decades, died...
More »Reuters - Sep 15, 2005
Hollywood filmmaker Robert Wise, a four-time Academy Award winner who brought the beloved musicals West Side Story and The Sound of Music to the big screen during a career that spanned six decades, died...
More »AP - Sep 14, 2005
Sandy Wilson describes his fascination, some might say obsession, quite simply. The 1920s impinged on me as a child and have remained with me ever since, the composer states with crisp understatement...
More »E! Online - May 13, 2005
Has all that beat-boxing shredded Justin Timberlake s pipes? The Rock Your Body singer has undergone surgery in Los Angeles to remove throat nodules from his vocal cords, People magazine reports....
More »AP - Apr 29, 2005
Richard and Robert Sherman are the authors of the most-played song on Earth, and for that they would like to apologize to some of you. The song is It s a Small World (After All), the tune that plays...
More »AP - Dec 15, 2004
The world s most famous nanny is back. A big-budget Mary Poppins musical was to open Wednesday night at the Prince Edwards Theatre. And the eccentric, umbrella-toting favorite of generations of readers...
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 »Reuters - Dec 6, 2004
Emma Bunton was once known as Baby Spice; that is, when she was one-fifth of multi-million selling girl group the Spice Girls . These days, she is known as Emma. Period. Her U.S. solo debut, Free Me...
More »AP - Nov 9, 2004
Thanksgiving came early for the stars of Shrek 2 as the cast celebrated record-breaking DVD sales. Mike Myers, Julie Andrews and Eddie Murphy walked a fairytale-themed carpet Monday night at the famed...
More »Reuters - Oct 28, 2004
Country singer LeAnn Rimes has been tapped to host the third season of USA Network s talent competition series Nashville Star. She replaces Access Hollywood anchor Nancy O Dell, who hosted the first...
More »AP - Mar 17, 2004
Her four-octave voice silenced by a throat operation in 1997, Julie Andrews is once again singing in the movies. Musical scenes she shot recently for The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement may not...
More »Reuters - Nov 19, 2003
The Swiss do it, cowboys do it, even educated rappers do it. Let s all do it, let s yodel-ay-ee-ooo. From opera to hip-hop, there s barely a musical genre that hasn t turned to yodeling now and then...
More »AP - Oct 30, 2003
Very few people know how to entertain children like Julie Andrews does. She s Mary Poppins. She s Eloise s nanny. She s the queen in the upcoming Shrek 2. She even has made medicine more tolerable for...
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