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15 hrs ago | Regina Leader Post

Hallelujah for Allison Crowe

One of Allison Crowe's favourite songs to perform at her Tidings holiday concerts is Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," her signature song.

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Related Topix: Allison Crowe, Canada,

Thu Nov 26, 2009

San Diego Reader

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

The fourth installment in J.K. Rowling's series of children's books yields a two-and-a-half-hour movie which, for all its furious activity, gets virtually nowhere.

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Related Topix: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Mystery Movies, Adventure, Potter, KS, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter, Books, Dance with a Stranger, Thriller, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Movies, Entertainment

Mix 104.5 KKMY-FM

Twelve Days... - Ferrante & Teic...

Piano duo Ferrante & Teicher were one of the best-selling easy listening acts of the '60s, offering light arrangements of easily recognizable classical pieces, movie soundtrack themes, show tunes, and similarly compatible fare.

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Related Topix: Ferrante & Teicher, Wilkes-Barre, PA, Scranton Metro

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Abc13.com

Julie Andrews announces London concert

Julie Andrews is to perform in London, 30 years after her last appearance on the British stage.

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Related Topix: The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Family, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Comedy Movies, The Princess Diaries, Musical Movies, Julie Andrews

Philly.com

Singer Nellie McKay, sweetness and fight

Nellie McKay has three loves - animals, the Poconos, and Doris Day. She's penned her share of songs with pithy social criticism on subjects such as gay marriage and feminism.

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Related Topix: Doris Day, Animal Rights, Activism, Bob Dorough, Jazz, Phil Woods

Tue Nov 24, 2009

EDGElosangeles.com Entertainment Feed

Tales of rich and poor loom large at book awards

The smash Broadway musical Rent will be coming to Providence Performing Arts Center on November 17 and will run though November 22.

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Related Topix: Mary Poppins, Family, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Julie Andrews

Sun Nov 22, 2009

OUPblog

Five Things You Never Knew about West Side Story

Geoffrey Block , Distinguished Professor of Music History at the University of Puget Sound, is the author of Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical From Show Boat to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber .A The book offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of Americaa s best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals, as well ...

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Related Topix: University of Puget Sound, Broadway

Fri Nov 20, 2009

EDGElosangeles.com Entertainment Feed

March of the Penguins - Limited Edition Gift Set

Kevin Williamson is no stranger to the horror genre , nor is he a stranger to network television .

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Related Topix: Mary Poppins, Family, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Julie Andrews

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Yorkshire Evening Post

Mothercare to create 400 jobs

Mothercare will create 400 new jobs in the UK as part of plans for another 33 of its biggest format stores over the next two years, it said today.

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Related Topix: Early Learning Centre

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Thiamin Trek

Notes on "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

As I've been re-reading the Harry Potter series aloud to Kevin, I have enjoyed revisiting the story, but this book didn't hold up very well to a re-read. The ham-handed bits about house-elf slavery are annoying and don't pay off until a later book, and the Tri-Wizard Tournament seems to go on forever.

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Related Topix: J.K. Rowling, Books, Harry Potter

WHER-FM Hattiesburg

Jingle Bells - Ray Conniff

The man who popularized wordless vocal choruses and light orchestral accompaniment on a mix of popular standards and contemporary hits of the 1960s, Ray Conniff was a trombone player for Bunny Berigan's Orchestra and Bob Crosby's Bobcats before being hired as an arranger by Mitch Miller for Columbia Records in 1954.

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Tvnz.co.nz

Melbourne production searches NZ for actor to play Mary Poppins

A Melbourne stage production is to search New Zealand for a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious actor to play Mary Poppins, after failing to find anyone suitable in Australia.

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Related Topix: Mary Poppins, Family, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Julie Andrews

Mon Nov 16, 2009

NY Daily News

Judge gives Kerik early X-Mas gift, sends him home for holidays

Bernie Kerik arrives at court. A Federal judge released him from jail for the holidays.

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Related Topix: Xmas, White Plains, NY, Valhalla, NY

Sat Nov 14, 2009

Sunday Herald

Coward's way was a brave choice for Aly

ALY MACRAE: Likes his songs to have a story-telling element. Neil Cooper Published on 10 Nov 2009 Noel Coward is not the first songwriter who springs to mind when you listen to Aly Macraea TMs Popstardombeckons album.

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Related Topix: Noel Coward, Games, Dick Gaughan, Folk, Scrabble

Thu Nov 12, 2009

Cape Cod Times

'Art of Murder' blends mystery, comedy

Director Fran DeVasto refers to the tone of his production of "Art of Murder" as "Alfred Hitchcock meets Carol Burnett." The Joe DiPietro script is a mystery with twists and turns, but DeVasto has also tried to give the show a comic edge.

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Related Topix: Murder!, Drama Movies, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Alfred Hitchcock, Vocal, Doris Day, Orleans, MA, Theater, Arts, Harwich, MA

Wed Nov 11, 2009

680News

Harvey Fierstein replacing Chaim Topol in 'Fiddler on the Roof' tour

Harvey Fierstein and Andrea Martin, of "Fiddler on the Roof," acknowledge audience applause after they performed during the 19th annual Broadway's Stars in the Alley, in New York's Shubert Alley, Wednesday June 1, 2005.

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Related Topix: Fiddler on the Roof, Family, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Torch Song Trilogy, Harvey Fierstein, Broadway

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Customer Interaction Solutions

Stage Notes: Broadway star to perform cabaret at Akron fundraiser

Actress/singer Rachel York will bring a dose of Broadway glamour to Akron on Sunday with her cabaret For the Love of It, which she'll perform at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. at the Akron-Summit County Main Library Auditorium.

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Related Topix: Akron, OH, Kiss Me, Kate, Short, Comedy Movies, Musical Movies, Summit County, OH, Julie Andrews, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Theater, Arts

Mon Nov 09, 2009

San Diego Magazine

Starry Nights Dream

Voices for Children held Starry, Starry Night, 2009 at philanthropist and honorary chairwoman Joan Waitt's La Jolla estate.

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Related Topix: Pink Martini

Sat Nov 07, 2009

This is The West Country

Pre-school wins t-shirt decorating competition

BURNHAM'S Fairstart Pre-school won a t-shirt decorating competition run by Octopus Children Centre to celebrate National Surestart Week.

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Related Topix: Early Learning Centre

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Redditch Advertiser

Sure Start staff out and about in Redditch

STAFF from Sure Start Redditch Childrena s Centres will be out and about in the town next week promoting the work of the centres.

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Related Topix: Worcestershire County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Early Learning Centre

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