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	<title>Newcity Stage &#187; Musicals</title>
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		<title>Review: A Little Night Music/Writers’ Theatre</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/05/14/review-a-little-night-musicwriters-theatre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 22:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musicals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brandon Dahlquist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brianna Borger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deanna Dunagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Weir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristen French]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royen Kent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shannon Cochran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shannon Corey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Sondheim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiffany Scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valerie Maze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Brown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Although Writers’ Theatre is celebrating its twentieth anniversary season, it only began performing musicals a few seasons ago and with mixed results. But with William Brown on board to direct an all-new production of Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music” perfectly suited to its intimate stage, Writers is giving us a musical production worthy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Rent/American Theater Company &amp; About Face Theatre</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/05/08/review-rentamerican-theater-company-about-face-theatre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 22:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musicals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[About Face Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aileen May]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Schmuckler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Theater Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cromer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Derrick Trumbly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Esteban Andres Cruz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grace Gealey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Larson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcitystage.com/?p=18519</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED That director David Cromer has developed a reputation for an ability to work magic on even the most taken-for-granted shows made his interest in “Rent” particularly intriguing, to say the least. No ordinary show, part of the mystique of “Rent” was the stranger-than-fiction reality that the composer of this updated transposition of Puccini’s “La bohème” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Rise of the Numberless/Bailiwick Chicago and The New Colony</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/04/26/review-rise-of-the-numberlessbailiwick-chicago-and-the-new-colony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Buscani</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theater]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Hobgood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bailiwick Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Gingrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evan Linder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patriac Coakley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New Colony]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This Bailiwick Chicago/New Colony musical collaboration focuses on a dystopian future where every American family is limited to one child; every additional child is raised underground, ignored by the surface world. If you can’t remember that, it tells you so in the program. Five musical numbers reinforce the show’s thesis. We get it already. It’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Jersey Boys/Broadway In Chicago</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/04/13/review-jersey-boysbroadway-in-chicago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musicals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob Gaudio]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Four Seasons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frankie Valli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Leo Bwarie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preston Truman Boyd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tommy DeVito]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcitystage.com/?p=18017</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED It has been nearly five years since “Jersey Boys” first took Chicago by storm with a subsequent two-plus-year-run that had it following the Broadway In Chicago “Wicked” template of opening here with a national tour but subsequently creating its own Chicago production. The 2006 Tony Award-winning musical which tells the story of Frankie Valli [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shostakovich, The Musical? Chicago Opera Theater Premieres a Lighthearted Satire by a Serious Composer</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/04/11/shostakovich-the-musical-chicago-opera-theater-premieres-a-lighthearted-satire-by-a-serious-composer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musicals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frank Zappa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerard McBurney]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stalin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Dennis Polkow “Musical” and “Shostakovich” are two words few might expect to hear together. “Various people looked at ‘Moscow, Cheryomushki,’” explains the work’s adapter Gerard McBurney over tea, &#8220;but the reaction of most presenters in the West was, ‘Shostakovich? Oh, he wrote gloomy symphonies and string quartets. Not exactly a marketing dream.&#8217;&#8221; McBurney—a composer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Re-Spiced: A Silk Road Cabaret/Silk Road Rising</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/04/10/review-re-spiced-a-silk-road-cabaretsilk-road-rising/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2012/04/10/review-re-spiced-a-silk-road-cabaretsilk-road-rising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musicals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amira Sabbagh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brenda Didier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christine Bunuan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danny Bernardo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dipika Cherala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Warren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jaii Beckley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamil Khoury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joel Kim Booster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joyee Lin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mort Dixon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neal Ryan Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silk Road Rising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toby Keith]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://newcitystage.com/?p=17927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Consider the holiday that many Americans just celebrated: a god, with a three-part persona, is one-third executed, only to return from the dead in, natch, three days. And part of the celebratory ritual is an act of metaphorically cannibalizing the deity. And, to top it off, add in painting the eggs of chickens and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Fela!/Broadway In Chicago</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/03/30/review-felabroadway-in-chicago/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2012/03/30/review-felabroadway-in-chicago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musicals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill T. Jones]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sahr Ngaujah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Some called him a prophet. When he died of AIDS-related causes in 1997, more than a million people attended his funeral. And now Fela lives. At least as long as Tony nominee Sahr Ngaujah is playing him on stage, the Afrobeat pioneer and political activist from Nigeria is brought to life in an astonishing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Bring It On: The Musical/Broadway In Chicago</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/03/12/review-bring-it-on-the-musicalbroadway-in-chicago/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2012/03/12/review-bring-it-on-the-musicalbroadway-in-chicago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ella Christoph</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musicals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andy Blankenbuehler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avenue Q]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[In the Heights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Whitty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lin-Manuel Miranda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Next to Normal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Kitt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Attempting to trade on the success of “High School Musical” and the myriad of musicals-derived-from-popular-films shows, “Bring It On: The Musical” is in part a corporate creation of Universal Pictures Stage Productions based on the studio’s popular 2000 cheerleading movie. The show has an impressive pedigree on paper with a host of Tony Award winners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: American Idiot/Broadway In Chicago</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/02/14/review-american-idiotbroadway-in-chicago/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2012/02/14/review-american-idiotbroadway-in-chicago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Originally a 2004 concept album by Green Day, “American Idiot” is not your typical Broadway show. Staged like a rock oratorio rather than a book show, the show’s set is a cross between “Rent” and U2’s “Zoo TV” tour with its many television monitors that are often reflecting the world and the feelings that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Show Boat/Lyric Opera</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/02/14/review-show-boatlyric-opera/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2012/02/14/review-show-boatlyric-opera/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opera Reviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alyson Cambridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Renée Simpson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ashley Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cindy Gold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edna Ferber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florenz Ziegfield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francesca Zambello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerome Kern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John DeMain]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morris Robinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Gunn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Hammerstein II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Robeson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ross Lehman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED In the world of musical theater, the genre is divided between B.S.B. (Before Show Boat) and A.S.B (After Show Boat), so revolutionary a work was “Show Boat” when it first premiered nearly eighty-five years ago. So revolutionary, in fact, that we have to almost remind ourselves that “Show Boat” began life as a 1926 [...]]]></description>
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