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		<title>Review: La Cage Aux Folles/Broadway In Chicago</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/12/22/review-la-cage-aux-follesbroadway-in-chicago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musicals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Though the idea of mainstream audiences being even modestly scandalized by drag queens and the depiction of gay characters as loving, funny—well, as human beings is, like, so eighties, I am sad to report that &#8220;La Cage Aux Folles&#8221; is every bit as relevant today as it was when it debuted on Broadway in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Spring Awakening/Griffin Theatre Company</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/12/11/review-spring-awakeninggriffin-theatre-company/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 03:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Buscani</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aja Wiltshire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Wedekind]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Josh Salt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lindsay Leopold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Fletcher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paige Collins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Listen to the “Spring Awakening” lyrics and realize how little things have changed. In our climate of abstinence-only sexual education, this musical version of Frank Wedekind’s scandalous 1906 play chronicling the sexual awakening of repressed German teenagers still packs a bittersweet punch. Wendla (Aja Wiltshire) flirts with S&#38;M and starts a sexual relationship with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Pirates of Penzance/The Hypocrites</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/12/05/review-the-pirates-of-penzancethe-hypocrites-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neal Ryan Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musicals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gilbert & Sullivan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sean Graney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Hypocrites]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED The Hypocrites haven&#8217;t simply reimagined this Gilbert &#38; Sullivan classic; they&#8217;ve wholeheartedly re-appropriated it, paring its grandiosity down to a much more streamlined, folksier scale. Light-opera purists might scoff at the idea of putting the Major General in Big Bird slippers or introducing the daughters by having them sing &#8220;Milkshake,&#8221; but those people would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Pump Boys and Dinettes/Theo Ubique</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/12/02/review-pump-boys-and-dinettestheo-ubique/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Buscani</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alex Stage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christina Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cody Siragusa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courtney Crouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danni Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim DeSelm]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Country living’s not my thing. I find that which is down-home and cornpone kind of cringe-worthy. But if you put enough catchy energy behind it, I’ll buy anything. That’s what kept me engrossed in Theo Ubique’s latest; it’s a hayseed hoedown with heart. There’s not much to the” Pump Boys” book; it’s just a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Memphis/Broadway in Chicago</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/11/29/review%c2%a0memphisbroadway-in%c2%a0chicago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bon Jovi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Bryan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Felicia Boswell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happy McPartlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mama Rose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perry Como]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sergio Trujillo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The newly launched national touring production of “Memphis” that has landed in town for a short run features such dazzling choreography from Sergio Trujillo and such a hard-working and energetic cast that it almost makes you forget what a mediocre show it actually is. Almost. Basically a dishwater “Dreamgirls,” the premise is much the same: that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Jackie Wilson Story/Black Ensemble Theater</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/11/21/review-the-jackie-wilson-storyblack-ensemble-theater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musicals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chester Gregory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dionne Warwick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jackie Taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jackie Wilson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Morris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kelvin Roston Jr.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED The stakes are high for any theater on opening night, but they were doubly, or triply so for the Black Ensemble Theater this weekend. For not only were they reviving one of their most acclaimed shows, &#8220;The Jackie Wilson Story,&#8221; but they were sharing the realization of theater founder Jackie Taylor&#8217;s dream, the nineteen-million-dollar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Rock of Ages/Broadway In Chicago</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/11/11/review-rock-of-agesbroadway-in-chicago-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Buscani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musicals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dominique Scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ford Performing Arts Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Nolan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shannon Mullen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I’ll admit it. In the eighties, I rocked the Acqua Net; I worked the spandex pants until the pants begged for mercy. But this musical ode to the era of excess is less than totally rad. Fer sher. Sherrie (Shannon Mullen) heads to 1980s Los Angeles to “make it.” Drew (Dominique Scott) gets her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Sound of Music/Drury Lane Theatre</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/10/31/review-the-sound-of-musicdrury-lane-theatre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musicals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Blood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Adams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patti Cohenour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Rockwell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED “The Sound of Music” is one of the most often performed, and often one of the most poorly performed, musical-theater properties out there. Most productions simply ride the coattails of the movie’s immense popularity and employ a spunky guitar-slinging Maria and a gang of saccharine-sweet children. It was enough to make one critic infamously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Follies/Chicago Shakespeare Theater</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/10/18/review-follieschicago-shakespeare-theater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brad Haak]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Siegel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Griffin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hollis Resnik]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Valerie Maze]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Back in the 1990s when Gary Griffin was artistic director of Drury Lane Oakbrook where he had directed some of his first musicals, he programmed Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies.” Curiously, despite his longtime love for that show, he allowed his associate director to take it. Thus, despite Griffin’s later reputation for directing Sondheim as associate artistic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Mary Poppins/Cadillac Palace Theatre</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/10/18/review-mary-poppinscadillac-palace-theatre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Drewe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fred Astaire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gavin Lee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Stiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julie Taymor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Poppins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Bourne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicholas Dromar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[P. L. Travers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Wallace]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Schumacher]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Part P. L. Travers, part Disney, part Cameron Mackintosh, “Mary Poppins” is a surprisingly and refreshingly enchanting family show that, like the wondrous nanny herself, is practically perfect in every way. Mackintosh, the same producer that brought us such mega-hits as “Cats,” “Les Miserables,” “Phantom of the Opera” and “Miss Saigon,” among others, had [...]]]></description>
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