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'Walking With Dinosaurs' show coming to Southland
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWHEN THE angry, life-size mama T. rex came roaring through a curtain to defend its young during the St. Paul, Minn., run of "Walking With Dinosaurs — the Live Experience," Kristi Curry Rogers momentarily stopped thinking like a professor and...Tags: Los Angeles, Anaheim, Celebrity, Natural Resources, Celebrity Mothers
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'WALL-E': 4 stars! Pixar's trash-compacting robot will be collecting hearts
Tribune criticIt's the surest thing in the infinitely malleable world of animation: Get the eyes right, and you're halfway home. One look at the binocular-eyed trash compactor starring in the marvelous new Disney/Pixar feature "WALL-E," and you're halfway home. One...Tags: Homer Simpson, Movies, Jeff Garlin, Pixar, Sigourney Weaver
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'Charlie Wilson's War'
jan.stuart@newsday.com; VERNE GAYYou certainly can't accuse Hollywood of being a quitter. Studios have been trying to sell the turmoil in Iraq and neighboring lands all year, and still, no one's buying. Maybe we need a dose of sophisticated fizz with our fizzled global policies. Perhaps...Tags: Johnny Depp, Walter Matthau, Movies, Central Intelligence Agency, Mike Nichols
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'Lestat' is a feast for fools
If "The Producers" were taking place in 2006, Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom would not need to produce "Springtime for Hitler" as their commercial box-office bomb. They could simply create Broadway's newest vampire musical.
In spite of the economic...Tags: Roman Polanski, Tom Cruise, Bram Stoker, Theater, Music Theater
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Linda Winer's review: Scenery steals the show
STAFF WRITERThere are three heroines in "The Woman in White," and two actually do wear white. There are also two villains - one brutal, one buffo - along with yards and yards of Andrew Lloyd Webber music, much of which sounds as if it could be snipped from any part...Tags: Natural Resources, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Theater, Music, Broadway
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Phantom of the Opera
STAFF WRITERManifold Delights in the 'Phantom' BYLINE: Allan Wallach BODY: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, book by Richard Stilgoe and Lloyd Webber, and lyrics by Charles Hart (additional lyrics by Stilgoe). Directed by...Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Movies, Theater, New York, Broadway
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'Phantom' becomes longest-run champion
With a burst of confetti, balloons and streamers -- plus an emotional appearance by the musical's original star -- Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" set a theatrical record Monday night, becoming the longest-running show in Broadway...Tags: Celebrity, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Theater, New York, Broadway
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Mental Illness Plagued Church Musical Director
Times Staff WritersPianist Roger Williams called Johnnie Carl late Thursday afternoon. Williams was playing Christmas Eve at the Crystal Cathedral, where Carl was musical director, and the two men needed to talk. Carl's voice was almost unintelligible, more growling than...Tags: Los Angeles, Illnesses, Christmas, Jimmy Carter, Music
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Deck the screens
From the popular to the prestigious, this week's new movies offer plenty of variety. For some people, it is traditional to go to the movies over the long Christmas holiday. And for a change, this year's offerings include risk-taking films as well as the...Tags: Air and Space Accidents, Ava Gardner, Celebrity, Jim Carrey, Katharine Hepburn
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Movie Review: 'Phantom of the Opera'
Newsday Staff Writer1 1/2 Stars (out of 4) The history of the Broadway musical on film is a potholed trail strewn with butchered scores, songs patched in from other shows, frantically edited dance numbers, movie stars who can't sing, screenplays ludicrously tailored to...Tags: Movies, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Minnie Driver, Dancing, Theater
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Great Windy Way continues
Tribune arts reporterThe sudden strong flow of pre-Broadway shows to Chicago will continue next season when Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Woman in White" holds a holiday pre-Broadway engagement here from Nov. 15 to Jan. 8, 2006. "The Woman in White," a popular hit in London,...Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Wilkie Collins, Theater, Broadway, Music Theater
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A debut at home
Sun Theater CriticWhen Hairspray launches its national tour at the Mechanic Theatre on Tuesday, one cast member will be making his professional debut in his former home state. And no one is more surprised than that actor himself - Bryan West. A 1995 graduate of the...Tags: Mariah Carey, Los Angeles, John Waters, Celebrity, Tickets
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