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April, 2005 - Table of Contents & Preview
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COVER STORY
Maureen McGovern: The Singer, The Actress & Little Women
by T.J. Fitzgerald

Professional Theatre:
bulletAcorn Productions Presents 4th Annual Maine Short Play Festival (ME)
bulletBob Newhart at the Palace Theatre (NH)
bulletHuntington Presents Culture Clash in AmeriCCa (MA)
bulletAlive and Swingin': A Tribute to Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin at The Regent Theatre (MA)
bulletActing FAQ: Door-Keepers are the Actor's Natural Enemies by Bob Fraser
bulletPlaywrights' Roundtable Seeks Forum Members (CT)
bulletStrouse's You Never Know: New Musical with An Award-winning Pedigree Born in Providence (RI)
bulletPuppetry Series Concludes with Dan Hurlin's Hiroshima Maiden on the Flynn MainStage (VT)
bulletPlayhouse on the Green Presents "Spring Festival" (CT)
bulletNew Cast Members Join King's Feast (RI)
bulletThe Penis Monologues: Men Speak (NY)
bulletAssassins Takes the Metro Stage (MA)
bulletBroadway Today: Kelli O'Hara by Jim DeBlasi of The Cue
bulletStamford Center for the Arts Presents 6th Annual Fringe Festival (CT)
bulletVibrant Gershwin Extravaganza Crazy for You at Providence Performing Arts Center (RI)
bulletProtecting Your Good Ideas: Success from the Start by Sydelle Pittas
bulletNorth Shore Music Theatre Celebrates 50 Years with a Musical Season of Premieres, New Works & Expanded Programs (MA)

Colleges/Universities/Schools/Training

bulletPeru's Award-winning Theatre Collective Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani at Yale (CT)
bulletSummer Cabaret Announces 2005 Season (CT)
bulletRoyal Shakespeare Company Voice Coach Offers Workshop (MA)
bulletCTI Announces 23rd Annual Intensive (NY)
bulletFlynnArts Summer Semester features New & Old Favorites in Music, Theater & Dance (VT)
bulletWaterford High School Presents Bye Bye Birdie (CT)
bulletJekyll & Hyde at Burlington High School (MA)

Community Theatre

bulletSalem Theatre Seeks Interim A.D. (MA)
bulletJesus Christ Superstar Celebrates Actorsingers' 50th Season (NH)
bulletThe Community Players Present Evita (RI)
bulletCheshire Community Theater Takes a Walk Down the Aisle in Father of the Bride (CT)
bulletM&D Productions Announces 2005 Season (NH)
bulletThe Memory of Water at Concord (MA)
bulletWhat's the Buzz? Jesus Christ Superstar in Westfield (MA)
bulletTheatre Company of Saugus Presents The Mousetrap (MA)
bulletBelfast Maskers Open 2005 with Proof (ME)
bulletArlington Friends of the Drama Presents Kiss of the Spider Woman (MA)

Children's/Youth/Family Theatre

bulletUNH Drama Day: Field Trip for School Groups, Grades 3-8 (NH)
bulletAll New Picturesque Under the Big Top (MA)
bulletSpring Into ACTing Classes with All Childrens Theatre (RI)
bulletRobbins-Zust Marionettes Open 2005 (MA)
bulletShakespeare & Company's Julius Caesar Joins One of the Largest Theatre-in-Education Tours in American History (On Tour)
bulletBoston Conservatory Presents Free Children's Opera: Little Red's Most Unusual Day (MA)
bulletJunior Actorsingers Present Wonderland! (NH)

Film/Video/Tech

bulletIntroducing Richard Griffin by William Gynan
bulletAction/Cut Turns Dreamers Into FIlmmakers in 2 Days (MA)
bulletTHINKFilm Wins First Oscar with Born Into Brothels (NY)
bulletWilliams' Museum of Art Celebrates Traditions of American with Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910 (MA)

Music

bulletPine Tree State Country Music Association Annual Talent Search & Competition (ME)
bulletSimsbury Light Opera COmpany Announces Dates for 60th Sullivan and Gilbert a la Carte (CT)
bulletAward-winning Beethoven Lives Upstairs Program Featured in Final PSO Youth Concert of 2004-2005 (ME)
bulletBeethoven Headlines German Gems in the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra's 89th Season Finale (MA)
bulletCount Basie Big Band Bash at Portland Symphony Orchestra Pops (ME)
bulletNew Chamber Ensemble "Mistral" Presents Heaven and Earth (MA)
bulletChamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Offers All-Brahms Program (CT)
bulletMeryl Galaid Presents Broadway's Best (MA)
bulletLawrence Welk's Stars Play Reagle (MA)
bulletWorld Music Presents Scotland's Premiere Celtic Group Battlefield Band (MA)
bulletKevin, Nan & Sean in Concert to Benefit Lincoln County Community Theater (ME)
bulletIreland's Foremost Celtic Band: Altan at Somerville Theatre (MA)
bulletThe Boston Debut of Mauritania's Malouma April 15 (MA)
bulletComposer/Pianist Donal Fox Performs Monk and Bach at the Regattabar (MA)
bulletFolk/Rock Singer/Songwriter Steve Forbert Returns to Stamford's Acoustic Studio (CT)
bulletStacey Kent Concert Proceeds Benefit Local Agency (MA)
bulletWorld Music Presents South Africa's Ladysmith Black Mambazo (MA)
bulletFrom a Dog's Stance - the Perceptions of Jay Mankita by Devin Travers
bulletBoston Musicians Unite for Onstage Benefit (MA)
bulletEight to the Bar at Playhouse on the Green (CT)
bulletWords from the Soul: "O" How Damien Rice Shines by M. William Phelps
bulletOrganist from Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral to Play at FOKO (ME)
bullet47@47 - An Anniversary Celebration at Club Passim (MA)
bulletDavid Wilcox Returns at Emerson Umbrella to Benefit Animals as Intermediaries (MA)

Dance

bulletMaster Class Ballet Series Features Three Internationally Recognized Masters (RI)
bulletDancers Stomp'n at Evenign with the Arts (NH)
bulletJose Mateo Presents Time Beyond Time (MA)
bulletCudamani: Balinese Gamelan & Dance at Sanders Theatre (MA)
bulletRussian National Ballet Theatre of Moscow with Sofia Symphony Orchestra Perform Swan Lake (MA)
bulletCRASHarts Presents Ten's the Limit: 8 Boston-based Companies - 10 Minutes Each (MA)
bulletUNH Dance Company Presents Triple Bill: Wild Things; Concierto de Aranjuez; Maungatautari (NH)
bulletPreventing Dance Injuries - 2nd Edition, book pReview by R.J. Nickerson
bulletBates Dance Festival Announes 23rd Season of Contemporary Dance & Music (ME)
bulletWorld Music Presents Boston Debut of India's Nrityagram Dance Ensemble (MA)
bulletSt. Petersburg State Ballet Theatre at Fairfield University's Quick Center for the Arts (CT)

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Reviewed In This Issue

bulletQuartet (Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Lowell)
bulletNothing But the Truth (American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge)
bulletThe Glass Menagerie (Lyric Stage Company, Boston)
bulletThe Sea Horse (Nora Theatre Company, Boston)
bulletWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Wilbur Theatre, Boston)
bulletAnna in the Tropics (SpeakEasy Stage Company, Boston)
bulletDido Queen of Cathage (American Repertory  Theatre, Cambridge)
bulletTop Dog/Underdog (New Repertory Theatre, Newton)
bulletHomebody/Kabul (Boston Theatre Works, Boston)
bulletNobody Don't Like Yogi (Wilbur Theatre, Boston)
bulletThe Producers (Colonial Theatre, Boston)
bulletBlue/Orange (Zeitgeist Theatre Company, Boston)
bulletThe Little Prince (Boston Lyric Opera, Boston)
bulletLa Sylphide (Boston Ballet, Boston)
bulletJabu (Flea  Theatre, NYC)

Monthly & Regular Features...

bulletNEED Theatre Listings
bulletNEED Audition Listings
bulletNEED Music Listings
bulletNEED Dance Listings
bulletOpportunity Knocks
bulletQuick Takes by Jules Becker
bulletActing FAQ by Bob Fraser
bulletBroadway Today by Jim DeBlasi
bulletBehind the Scenes by Chuckie Finn
bulletTwo on the Aisle by Shirley Esthimer
bulletTheatre Matters - Connecticut Style by Joanne Greco Rochman
bulletScreen Reels by Cecille Markell
bulletJump Cut by George T. Marshall
bulletWords for the Soul by M. William Phelps
bulletProtecting Your Good Ideas by Sydelle Pittas

 

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