And there's some clunky stuff in musical theater that's not as lush as it could be.
In 1997, her staging of The Lion King made her a superhero of the musical theater.
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Even the lion of musical theater composers, Richard Rodgers, comes in for some withering revisionism.
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No other work of musical theater is so driven by the concept of magical transformation.
Mr. Ives's way with language earned him passage to the land of musical theater.
This oddity alone would make this innovative musical theater troupe a Name You Need to Know in 2011.
More like performance art or musical theater, the spectacles offer a dose of levity and form a lasting impression.
He believes dance lost its centrality to musical theater after the industry lost a generation of talent to the AIDS epidemic.
Bono and the Edge knew how to write rock songs, but did they know how to write songs for musical theater?
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The original production starred two rising musical theater stars: Norbert Leo Butz, who has since won two Tonys, and Sherie Rene Scott.
It's a key principle in politics, and apparently in musical theater, too.
For Nate and for Federle, a love of musical theater is what sets them apart from their classmates, but it's also their life-saver.
In college, Coleman was aspiring to a career in musical theater.
It was the original concept for West Side Story, one of the most successful musical theater productions ever and an Academy Award-winning 1961 motion picture.
For Judge Rakoff, a 68-year-old musical theater buff, the bench is often a stage where he tells stories and unleashes punch lines with a throaty laugh.
The club is a creation of Broadway producers Tom Viertel, Marc Routh, Richard Frankel and Steven Baruch, who were looking to create a place for smaller-scale performances rather than full-blast musical theater.
Hwang's piece of musical theater, loosely based on a Chinese folk tale about the forbidden romance between a mortal cowherd and a goddess, was lauded for Ong's staging if not for the music and singing.
Whether it's musical theater, sports or academics, Federle encourages young people to find that thing that makes them unique and hold on to it, because it could very well be their ticket to greatness and success as an adult.
Teachers and administrators have told me that demand for musical-theater training has risen steadily in the last 10 to 15 years: applications to college programs are increasing, and dance schools have seen musical-theater workshops overtake traditional jazz classes in popularity.
The elements of her Spiderman failure were her own ideas for spectacle (good), her own ideas for story (bad), and songs (so-so) from musical-theater novices.
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With this in mind, the owners decided to hold the two-week grand opening to cover the full gamut of musical styles that fully encapsulates the diversity of the theater.
There was a time when singer-pianist Diana Krall (who is also appearing at the Borgata in Atlantic City on Saturday and the Beacon Theater next Friday) was labeled a musical "conservative" apparently the proper term for an artist whose songs were popular before she was born.
Henderson, a wealthy widow who buys a London theater in the 1930s and hires Bob Hoskins to stage nude musical revues to entertain the troops.
His musical ensembles and "old-fashioned" style made him a favorite with Hollywood elites, theater-goers and dignitaries, and earned him three Oscars, four Grammys, four Emmys, a Tony and three Golden Globe awards -- one of only 11 people ever to do so, according to The Broadway League, a trade group for the industry.
Though the two have musical backgrounds Montermini attended Berklee, and Paternostro studied music at the Boston Conservatory and recently graduated with a theater degree but the idea to team up on a project was fairly new.
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