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News Articles: Musical

Brianna Buckley (center) as voodoo priestess Minerva, who calls on spirits to help win Jim Williams an acquittal.

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  • Performing Arts

‘Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil’ musical heading to Broadway in 2025

The 1994 nonfiction bestseller was adapted into a musical earlier this year in Chicago.

October 03, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
J. Harrison Ghee performs as The Lady Chablis in a scene set at Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery, surrounded by ensemble members.

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  • Performing Arts

Review: ‘Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil’ takes the stage in lively musical adaptation

The musical's producers hope to bring Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil to Broadway after its initial run in Chicago. GPB Savannah reporter Benjamin Payne attended opening night in Chicago, and has this review.

July 18, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
The late musician Prince, performing at the Super Bowl in 2007 in Miami Gardens, Fla.

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  • Arts & Life

Prince's 'Purple Rain' is becoming a stage musical

Plans are still coming together, but two up-and-coming names on Broadway are already attached to the Prince project: playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and director Lileana Blain-Cruz.

January 08, 2024
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Sondheim had the highest standards for himself, the director of <em>Here We Are</em> said.

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  • Theater

The task? Finish Stephen Sondheim's last musical. No pressure.

When the composer/lyricist died in 2021 at age 91, he left behind a partly finished show called Here We Are. But his collaborators say Sondheim loved a puzzle — and he left them all the pieces.

October 23, 2023
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  • Jeff Lunden
Mary Rodgers, her memoir "Shy", and theater critic Jesse Green.

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  • Books

Political Rewind: Theater critic Jesse Green remembers Mary Rodgers in 'Shy'

Friday on Political Rewind: Mary Rodgers grew up among some of Broadway's biggest names, from Sondheim to Bernstein. Her father was one half of Rodgers and Hammerstein. We sit down with New York Times theater critic Jesse Green to discuss Rodgers' autobiography, Shy.

January 13, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
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A rare recording of <em>Phinney's Rainbow — </em>thought to be the first produced musical of Stephen Sondheim (shown here as a wizened showbiz veteran of 32, with three Broadway musicals under his belt) — has been found on a bookshelf in Milwaukee.

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  • Theater

A rare recording of a musical by an 18-year-old Stephen Sondheim surfaces

Broadway-legend-in-training Stephen Sondheim was a college sophomore in 1948 when his musical Phinney's Rainbow was produced — and recorded — at Williams College in Massachusetts.

December 02, 2022
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  • Bob Mondello
Choir rehearses

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Listen: 'Heaven Bound' musical celebrates 90th run at Big Bethel AME Church

One of the longest-running musicals in North America is back in Atlanta after a two-year break during the pandemic.

November 10, 2022
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  • Natalie Mendenhall and
  • Amanda Andrews
Broadway performers at the Tony Awards on Sunday.

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  • Arts & Life

Highlights From The Tony Awards

Moulin Rouge! The Musical took home 10 awards, including the night's biggest: Best musical. The Inheritance won for best play, and A Soldier's Play for best revival.

September 27, 2021
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  • Nell Clark
Singer and actor Leslie Grace stars as Nina Rosario (center), the beloved and brilliant neighborhood sweetheart in the film adaptation of the musical <em>In the Heights.</em>

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  • Movies

The Limitations Of 'Latinidad': How Colorism Haunts 'In The Heights'

Film critic Monica Castillo reflects on the glaring absence of Afro-Latino actors from the new screen adaptation of In the Heights and how colorism still affects Latino representation on screen.

June 15, 2021
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  • Monica Castillo
Usnavi (Anthony Ramos) runs a corner bodega and dreams of returning to the Dominican Republic in <em>In the Heights</em>.

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  • Movie Interviews

'In The Heights' Star Anthony Ramos Says The Movie Sees 'Good In Every Hood'

Ramos says Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway musical In the Heights filled him with hope. Now he's starring — and singing and dancing and rapping — in the film adaptation.

June 14, 2021
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  • Terry Gross
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony Award-winning musical <em>In the Heights </em>has been adapted for the big screen, directed by Jon M. Chu. Filming on the street, they'd stop for passing emergency vehicles and their time was limited by the natural light.

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  • Movie Interviews

'In The Heights' Dances From The Stage, To The Streets, To The Screen

Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony-winning musical is an ode to the neighborhood near where he grew up. Now a movie musical, the film's director, cinematographer and choreographer discuss the new adaptation.

June 10, 2021
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  • Mandalit del Barco
The Alliance will open its first production on the Coca-Cola Stage in Jan. 16 with "Ever After," the musical based on the hit film inspired by the Cinderella fairytale.

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  • Theater

Behind The Scenes Of The Alliance Theatre 50 Years Later

Atlanta's Alliance Theatre opened its doors 50 years ago when it premiered Henry Purcell's "King Arthur." The theatre is now the largest regional...

January 15, 2019
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  • Virginia Prescott
The cast of "Hamilton."

The Man, The Myths And The Music Of 'Hamilton'

Today we're talking about one of the biggest sensations in the history of American theatre: "Hamilton: An American Musical." Composer, lyrisict, and...

May 24, 2018
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  • Bill Nigut

The BeBe Winans Story: Gospel, Televangelism, and Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker

Siblings BeBe and CeCe Winans left Detroit as teenagers and moved to Charlotte to join a Christian TV network. They worked as backup singers for popular...

April 13, 2016
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By:
  • Celeste Headlee and
  • Linda Chen

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