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Showing posts with label James Rocco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Rocco. Show all posts
Saturday, February 17, 2024

"Broadway Songbook: Broadway in Love" at Park Square Theatre

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As part of their soft reopening after some financial troubles over the last year, Park Square Theatre is bringing James Rocco's Broadway...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

"The Holiday Songbook" by Songbook Live! at Lakeshore Players Theatre

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After cancelling the first of three planned shows this season at Lakeshore Players Theatre, Songbook Live! is back, and just in time for the...
Sunday, April 10, 2022

"The California Songbook: Unplugged" at Lakeshore Players Theatre

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During his 13-year tenure as Artistic Director of the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, James Rocco created the "Broadway Songbook...
Saturday, September 16, 2017

"In the Heights" at the Ordway Center for Performing Arts

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Before writing the brilliant Pulitzer Prize winning musical theater masterpiece that is Hamilton , Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote something a li...
Friday, July 21, 2017

"Jesus Christ Superstar" at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

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The Ordway's recent string of excellent locally produced Broadway sized musicals continues with the popular Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim R...
Saturday, May 20, 2017

"Broadway Songbook: Hollywood and Broadway" at the Ordway Center

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Thursday night I attended my 13th show in the Ordway's Broadway Songbook series , an edutainment series about musical theater (I thin...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

"Irving Berlin's White Christmas" at the Ordway Center

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There's no denying that 2016 has been a less than stellar year, but inside the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts , it's nothin...
Saturday, September 24, 2016

"Broadway Songbook: Rebels! On Broadway" at the Ordway Concert Hall

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Now in its 6th season, the Ordway's Broadway Songbook series is a unique opportunity to learn about the history of American musical t...
Friday, February 19, 2016

"A Chorus Line" at the Ordway Center for Performing Arts

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The 1975 smash hit Broadway musical A Chorus Line  truly is a singular sensation. After winning nine Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize (one...
Saturday, October 10, 2015

"Broadway Songbook: The '70s Songbook" at the Ordway Center

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In the 12th installment of the Ordway's fun and educational "Broadway Songbook" series ( and the 11th I've seen ), host ...
Friday, August 7, 2015

"The Pirates of Penzance" at the Ordway

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I interrupt this all-Fringe-all-the-time coverage to bring you some theater news that exists outside of the Fringe Festival. Yes it's...
Friday, June 19, 2015

"Damn Yankees" at the Ordway Center

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In the fall of 1987, I was in my second year of junior high, a time that's not kind to a quiet, smart girl with glasses, braces, and f...
Monday, April 20, 2015

"Broadway Songbook: Rock & Roll on Broadway" at the Ordway Center

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In case the Ordway was not sufficiently rocked in the recent month-long " Rock the Ordway " celebration, the rockification conti...
Thursday, December 4, 2014

"A Christmas Story" at the Ordway Center

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St. Paul's Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is returning to its tradition of an original and (mostly) locally cast production d...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

"33 Variations" at Park Square Theatre

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33 Variations is part fascinating music history, part poignant family drama, and part classical music concert, which adds up to an entert...
Friday, August 8, 2014

"Broadway Songbook: The First 100 Years of Broadway" at the Ordway Center

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The Ordway is opening its fourth season of the Broadway Songbook  series with a retrospective of the first 100 years of Broadway. If you...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

"Broadway Songbook: Comden and Green" at the Ordway Center

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"Make someone happy, make just one someone happy." What makes this someone happy is an entertaining and informative lesson ...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

"Broadway Songbook: Musicals of the 1950s" at the Ordway

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In the continuing musical theater history seminar that is the Ordway's Broadway Songbook series, today's lesson is on the musicals...