Category: News
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Review: “Parade” (Sunday Independent, London, 9/30/07)
Kate Baxter’s review here. At the Donmar, Parade is an unusually dark Broadway musical by Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown, based on the notorious case of Leo Frank in Georgia in 1913. A factory superintendent and Jewish Yankee, Frank was found – very dubiously – guilty of the murder of a 13-year-old worker, Mary…
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Review: “Parade” (Sunday Guardian, London, 9/30/07)
Susannah Clapp’s review here. Sunday September 30, 2007 Susannah Clapp The Observer Parade Donmar, London WC2 No one should rain on Parade. It’s that rare thing, a really surprising musical. It’s new (transferring to the Donmar after a hugely successful Broadway debut); it’s based on a true and grim story; it packs a huge sound,…
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Review: “Parade” (Sunday Times, London, 9/30/07)
Christopher Hart’s stupid review here. The Sunday Times September 30, 2007 PARADE Christopher Hart at the Donmar Warehouse, WC2 Two stars Parade is a newish (1998) American musical about the real-life trial, conviction and lynching of a Jew called Leo Frank in Georgia in 1915. His alleged crime was to have raped and murdered a…
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Parade Preview: “The Next Andrew Lloyd Webber?” (What’s On Stage, September 2007)
I couldn’t loathe the headline more, but here’s a tantalizing excerpt from an interview, at any rate. (There are instructions for downloading the entire magazine at the bottom of the link above.) First preview tomorrow night! The Next Andrew Lloyd Webber? 10th September 2007 by Roger Foss Musicals are everywhere. But where are the new…
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Labor Day Concert with the National Symphony!
Come hear the opening of Songs for a New World with the National Symphony Orchestra on the West Lawn of the Capitol! Also, some Rodgers, some Copland, some Gershwin, some Light In The Piazza, some Dvorák, some John Williams, some Tchaikovsky, some Leroy Anderson, some Stravinsky, and “The Star-Spangled Banner.” That’s some good company I’m…