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		<title>Review: Miracle on 34th Street/Porchlight Music Theatre</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/12/15/review-miracle-on-34th-streetporchlight-music-theatre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Yes, Virginia, there is a musical version of “Miracle on 34th Street.”  It is called “Here’s Love” and was written by Meredith Wilson of “The Music Man” fame, and in newer versions is sometimes called “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” since Wilson also wrote that classic Christmas song and it was used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review:Rudolph the Red Hosed Reindeer/Hell in a Handbag Productions</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/12/14/reviewrudolph-the-red-hosed-reindeerhell-in-a-handbag-productions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Buscani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alex Grelle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher  Walsh]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Shine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Hell in a Handbag kinks up the holidays with its parody of the Rankin/Bass classic. This Christmas universe features a twist or two: Santa’s a profit-mad bastard, the Mrs. is a lush, all the elves are gay and  Rudolph’s  a sweet transvestite. The  Mary’s Attic stage doesn’t give the fifteen-person ensemble much room to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Oh, Coward!/Writers’ Theatre</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/12/08/review-oh-cowardwriters%e2%80%99-theatre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Doug Peck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Corti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Sanders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kate Fry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noël Coward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rob Lindsey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roderick Cook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED When the Noël Coward revue “Oh, Coward!” opened in late 1972, Coward himself was still around but his detached and wry style had fallen way out of fashion. British actor/director/playwright Roderick Cook thought that the time was right to remind us all of what an original voice Coward had been, and the result was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: Nutcracker/Joffrey Ballet</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/12/08/preview-nutcrackerjoffrey-ballet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Hoyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dance Previews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Halloween]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gerald Arpino]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED The first snowfall descends on Chicago, bringing with it the reality of the approaching holiday season and a hearty craving for diversions, rich foods and elaborate sweets. Enter the Joffrey’s annual sugar-encrusted treat, a Baroque construction of eye candy replete with children’s choruses, puppetry, the Chicago Sinfonietta, an immense Christmas tree on hydraulics, well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life: Live at the Biograph!/American Blues Theater</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/12/07/review-its-a-wonderful-life-live-at-the-biographamerican-blues-theater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ashley Bishop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Capra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grant Sabin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gwendolyn Whiteside]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Möhrlein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin R. Kelly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marty Higginbotham]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shawn J. Goudie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Creating a dramatic story to celebrate the spirit of Christmas is far more challenging than it seems. It&#8217;s far too easy to try and simply trade on the cloying sweetness of hackneyed sentimentality (see the annual rollout of made-for-TV movies), rather than to construct something that evokes the seasonal themes in a manner that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play/American Theater Company</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/12/07/review-its-a-wonderful-life-the-radio-playamerican-theater-company/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Buscani</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bernard Balbot]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kareem Bandealy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED ATC&#8217;s holiday perennial blooms again, transporting audiences to the forties and the Golden Age of Radio. Its news reports, dedications and re-creation of Frank Capra&#8217;s classic make for poignant, gentle entertainment. The ensemble&#8217;s impressive vocal dexterity enables it to handle the multiple castings with aplomb; Bernard Balbot gives Mel Blanc a run for his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Merry Widow/Lyric Opera</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/12/07/review-the-merry-widowlyric-opera/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opera Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ardis Krainik]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carol Fox]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Futral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evelyn Lear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franz Lehár]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Griffin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kiri Te Kanawa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maria Ewing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheldon Harnick]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“I will wear the orchestra out with my dance card,” says the Merry Widow herself (Elizabeth Futral) at the Act I party where her countrymen are trying to make sure that her fortune stays within their country. The irony is that the old gal almost didn’t have an orchestra at all, as the Lyric Opera [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Santaland Diaries/Theater Wit</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/11/30/review-the-santaland-diariestheater-wit/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2009/11/30/review-the-santaland-diariestheater-wit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mitchell Fain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Even the most merry among us can stand a bit of humbug, especially when it&#8217;s delivered with the upoarious laughter inherent in David Sedaris&#8217; &#8220;SantaLand Diaries.&#8221; The essay, a memoir of the author&#8217;s bizarre experience working in Macy&#8217;s SantaLand one New York Christmas, was Sedaris&#8217; breakthrough when he read it on NPR back in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: A Christmas Carol/Goodman Theatre</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/11/30/review-a-christmas-carolgoodman-theatre-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Larry Yando]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED “I pay him a just wage,” defends Larry Yando’s Scrooge to the Ghost of Christmas Present (Penelope Walker) as the pair is eavesdropping on the Cratchits’ meager holiday feast which Tiny Tim (John Babbo) alone could easily devour in a single swoop.  “What is a just wage?” retorts the Ghost.  “What the market will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant/A Red Orchid Theatre</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/11/16/review-a-very-merry-unauthorized-children%e2%80%99s-scientology-pageanta-red-orchid-theatre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Buscani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Red Orchid Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Red Orchid’s Youth Ensemble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Rebora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Travolta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kyle Jarrow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L. Ron Hubbard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Najwa Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Haggis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Wilson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED The Church of Scientology is back in the news, with recent French fraud charges and acrimony among high-profile members like director Paul Haggis and John Travolta. It’s also back onstage in this Red Orchid remount detailing the life and teachings of founder L. Ron Hubbard, as performed by children. A Red Orchid’s Youth Ensemble [...]]]></description>
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