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| Updated | Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:11:22 -0600 | |
| Description | Theater, dance, art, music and books with the Chronicle?s arts staff | |
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| And the Tommy Tune winners are ... | ||
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| Description: | Episcopal High School's production of Urinetown, a satirical musical about town dealing with a 20-year drought, earned six Tommy Tune Awards including best musical. Cinco Ranch High School's production of Jekyll and Hyde also earned six awards including best musical... more... |
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| Things are looking up at the Alley, with a 2008-09 line-up full of fresh and interesting choices | ||
| Category | Theater | |
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| Description: | I'm the first to complain when a theater announces a season too heavily laden with overfamiliar ``Why are they doing THAT again?'' fare. So it's only right that I should be the first to commend the Alley Theatre, artistic director... more... |
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| Like great acting? Get thee to the Ensemble - one of the company's best ends this weekend | ||
| Category | Theater | |
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| Description: | The Ensemble Theatre's sterling production of Phillip Hayes Dean's The Sty of the Blind Pig is into its final week of performances. This one is so good that it deserves - and is getting - an extra plug. If you... more... |
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| A poem by Isabella Ferguson | ||
| Category | Poetry | |
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| Description: | My Little Life Before I was born, my mom had a rabbit that died for me to be born. My dad wanted a thunderstorm so when I woke I could see my first rainbow. On the day I was... more... |
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| "Baseball: Last Year and Now" by Randolphus | ||
| Category | Poetry | |
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| Description: | Baseball: Last Year and Now Last Year I used to get dirt in my eyes. I used to miss the ball. I used to get hit by the ball. I used to fall down. I used to hit my... more... |
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| "April is the cruelest month" | ||
| Category | Poetry | |
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| Description: | So wrote T.S. Eliot. "It is our hope that National Poetry Month lessens that effect," says the Academy of American Poets, which established the celebration in 1996. Share your original work here.... more... |
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| Tommy Tune nominations | ||
| Category | Theater | |
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| Description: | Episcopal High School's production of Urinetown scored 15 nominations for Tommy Tune Awards, which honor the best of high school musical theater. The nominations, which included those for best musical, best direction and best lead actors, were the most for... more... |
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| Dance Salad, Program 2 | ||
| Category | Dance | |
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| Description: | Program two of this year's Dance Salad Festival made me think about stamina. By repeating Thursday's two longest works, producer Nancy Henderek made Friday's show a marathon. The Cold Dagger and Among the Mountains are both composed in sections with... more... |
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| Neville Marriner to conduct SPA-sponsored Houston concert by the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields | ||
| Category | Classical Music | |
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| Description: | Renowned conductor Sir Neville Marriner will be leading the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the chamber orchestra he founded, when it plays Houston's Jones Hall on March 25. Marriner is replacing the previously announced Murray Perahia, with rising classical pianist Yuja... more... |
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| Adele Anthony replaces Benjamin Schmid as guest soloist for this weekend's Houston Symphony concerts | ||
| Category | Classical Music | |
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| Description: | "You're going out there a youngster but you've GOT to come back a star!" OK, now that I have your attention... This last-minute replacement scenario is nowhere near as dramatic as the one in "42nd Street." Violinist Adele Anthony is... more... |
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