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May 2001 - Table of Contents & Preview

COVER STORY
Top Composers Featured in Goodspeed Musicals' 2001 Season

Professional Theatre:
bulletComics 4a Cause Presents Brett Butler (MA)
bulletShakespearean Comedy Staged at Portland's Newest Theater (ME)
bulletCabaret Concludes Theater Project Season (MA)
bulletHolbrook Continues Twain Tradition for 47th Consecutive Season (MA)
bulletSUNDAYS @ 7 Series Concludes with World Premiere (MA)
bulletWestchester Broadway Theatre Presses On with its Series of American Musicals (NY)
bulletIRNE Holds 3rd Annual Awards Ceremony by Jules Becker
bulletProvidence Performing Arts Center Concludes 2000-2001 Season with Fosse (RI)
bulletThe Park & Ride Caper by Chuckie Finn
bulletBig River Brings Huck Finn's Adventures to Northern Stage (VT)
bulletA Woman's Place is in the Theatre: 9th Annual Women's Playwriting Festival Announces Winners (RI)
bulletPPAC 2001-2002 Citizens Bank Broadway & Contemporary Classics Series (RI)
bulletThe PPAC Prepares Ye for Godspell (RI)
bulletEmbassy Players Presents Fire Belle! (ME)
bulletThe Coyote Theatre PResents BASH-The Latterday Plays (MA)
bulletCopacabana Comes to Hartford (CT)
bulletLyric Stage Presents World Premiere (MA)
bulletBrothers Jim & Bob Walton Open Goodspeed's Norma Terris Season (CT)
bulletO Brave New World!  Hold on to Your Seats...Now They're Reserved! (MA)
bulletIn Your Face, Comrade by Steve Capra
bulletBig River at Seacoast Repertory Theatre (NH)
bullet19th Annual Elliot Norton Awards (MA)
bulletThe Amen Corner at the Huntington Theatre Company (MA)

Colleges/Universities/Schools

bulletNorthern Stage Announces Summer Performing Arts Classes (VT)
bulletHilarious Political Farce, We Won't Pay!  Final Show in USM Season (ME)
bulletAndrocles & the Lion at Eastern Nazarene College (MA)
bulletYale Rep Finishes Anniversary Season with Dawn Powell's Big Night (CT)
bulletConnecticut Repertory Theatre Concludes with Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good (CT)

Community Theatre

bullet12 Theaters Bring Their Best to Brandeis for EMACT 48th Annual Community Theater Drama Festival (MA)
bulletFootlighters to Stage Sweet Charity (MA)
bulletBurlington Players are On the Razzle (MA)
bulletYCP TheatreWorks Stages Noel Coward's Present Laughter (NY)
bulletHarlequins Present Social Security (NY)
bulletHull Performing Arts Gets a Visit from John Barrymore (MA)
bulletThe Norton Singers to Present The Pajama Game (MA)
bulletAuntie Mame Comes to Saugus (MA)
bulletHovey Players Presents The Gingerbread Lady (MA)
bulletAll's Well That Ends Well in Old Greenwich (CT)
bulletTOMFOOLERY at Vokes Theater (MA)
bulletMaine Association of Community Theaters (MEACT) 2001 Annual One-Act Play Festival - May 4  & 5
bulletTheatre to Go Presents The Secret Garden (MA)
bulletStunning Thriller Set to Open at Clockwork Repertory Theatre (CT)

Children's/Youth/Family Theatre

bulletSeacoast Repertory Youth Theatre Presents Aesop's Fables (NH)
bulletShel Silverstein's Magic Comes to Bushnell Children's Theatre (CT)
bulletA Blue Dog & a Fairy Godmother at Providence Performing Arts Center (RI)
bulletRamona Quimby is Next Quick Center's Schooldays Series Offering (CT)
bulletOddfellows Playhouse Presents Lope de Vega's Fuente Ovejunna (CT)
bullet131st Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Tours New England

Film/Video/Tech

bulletRampion Visual Products Turns 20 (MA)
bulletHey, There's a Kid Behind that Camera! KidsEye Movie Camp Returns to Newport (RI)
bullet14th Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (CT)
bulletRIIFF to Present a New Program That Showcases the Work of Women in Cinema (RI)
bulletSnyder Now a Regular Radio Guest (MA)
bulletAndover Youth Appears on 'GBH 89.7FM's From the Top (MA)

Music

bulletJo Dee Messina "Burns" Up at Meadowbrook (NH)
bulletCasey: Play Ball! at Boston Center for the Arts' Cyclorama (MA)
bulletJames Paul Returns to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra (CT)
bulletPLEIADES at UMass (MA)
bulletNorthern Lights Releases Another Sleepless Night - May 8
bulletCelebrate Spring with the Return of the Wurlitzer (RI)
bulletFashion & Music Communities Gather for a Cause (MA)
bulletGospel Star John P. Kee Headlines 2nd Annual Hartford Celebrates Hartford (CT)
bulletMingus Big Band Swings at the Shubert (CT)
bulletHartford Symphony Orchestra Embarks on Unprecedented Touring Schedule (CT)
bulletMasterworks Performs Mozart's "Mass in C Minor" (MA)
bulletWill the Next Aaron Copland Please Step Up? (CT)
bulletNashua Symphony Orchestra Welcomes Eula Lawrence for Season Finale (NH)
bulletConnecticut Commissions on the Arts & Ridgefield Playhouse Host State Troubadours Concert (CT)
bulletNew Hampshire Philharmonic & the Concord Chorale Join Forces to Present Carmina Burana (NH)
bulletBrilliant Pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn Completes CSO's Season of Surprises (MA)
bulletCheryl Wheeler Performs at Emerson Umbrella (MA)

Dance

bulletBoston Ballet Announces 2001-2002 Season (MA)
bulletDanceMonth'01 at Dance Complex (MA)
bulletBates Announces 2001 Season (ME)
bulletFestival Ballet Dance Center Students Named Finalists for the Youth Grand Prix (RI)
bulletNew England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) Awards $240,000 to Support Contemporary Dance in New England
bulletJacob's Pillow Dance Festival Named to National Register of Historic Places (MA)
bulletMaine State Ballet Presents Coppelia (ME)
bulletThe Royal Ballet's Swan Lake at the Wang (MA)
bulletNew Appointments at Boston Ballet: Company Takes First Step in Artistic Transition (MA)
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People/Announcements

bulletMedia Executive Paul E. McCartney Dead at 44 (MA)
bulletGoodspeed Raises the Curtain for On-line Ticketing (CT)
bulletGloucester Stage Introduces New General Manager (MA)
bulletArts Contributors to be Honors at The Bushnell's Big Bash 2001 (CT)
bulletNorthern Stage Hires Managing Director (VT)
bulletBoston Theatre Works Wins 4 IRNE Awards (MA)

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bulletOpportunity Knocks
bulletQuick Takes by Jules Becker
bulletTwo on the Aisle by Shirley Esthimer
bulletAppleSource w/Gary Stevens
bulletScreen Reels by Cecille Markell
bulletWords for the Soul by Mathew Phelps

 

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