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Today, I came across these articles related to the topic of theater. I think the first one is very interesting. Regards, David Caban
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‘Lord of the Rings’ to Close in June
Newsday - With a budget of $24 million, “The Lord of the Rings” is one of the most expensive musicals ever produced. It had its world premiere in Toronto in March 2006, but closed six months later.

Home-schooled children ask to join public school extracurricular
Buffalo News - The children then could be eligible to join not just an elementary after-school sports program, but the whole range of extracurriculars, from intramurals and clubs to band, dramas and musicals.

Tom Kerrigan
American Reporter - My least favorite films were musicals, though I was familiar with them all, having heard them at home on the Lux Radio Theater. Imagine anyone today sitting in front of a radio for hours listening to actors read from screenplays!

How genius went wrong in Stratford
Globe and Mail - The 2009 season –their first together – was planned, an ambitious program of 16 plays, five by Shakespeare, two musicals (Cabaret and The Music Man), and one (Emilia Galotti) by the visiting Deutsches Theater Berlin, a distinguished company.

Kathleen Turner, Debbie Allen direct on Broadway
Newsday - Allen’s background is as a dancer in musicals, most memorably (in different ways) as the star of the 1986 revival of “Sweet Charity” and as the choreographer of modern Broadway’s most infamous floppola, “Carrie, the Musical” in 1988.

As always, thanks for reading!

David Caban
Producer/Host of Sunday Matinee