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Theatre in 2001 (Blogathon ’09 #41)

Mel Brooks makes his Broadway debut with Tony Award winning Best Musical The Producers.  By far the most successful of all his theatrical productions, The Producers is hilarious! This post is for the Blogathon 2009! I am blogging for The Actor’s Fund. For more information about what I am doing, please click here, or you [...]

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Theatre in 2000 (Blogathon ’09 #40)

At the turn of the century, Broadway figured it was time to redefine the musical yet again.  Enter Contact, a dance musical that won the Tony Award for Best Musical with much controversy.  So much so that they created a whole new award called Special Theatrical Event for future Tony Award seasons (well, that is [...]

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Theatre in 1998 (Blogathon ’09 #38)

Image via Wikipedia The Lion King cleaned up at the Tonys, including Best Musical.  With music by Time Rice and Elton John, and both direction and design by the talented Julie Taymor, The Lion King shook Broadway again, this time with the sheer magnitude of the big pocketbook that Disney could offer.  It wasn’t long [...]

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