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Bedside Story

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Can Howard Gordon provide a wake-up call for NBC? He's trying; it helps that he's executive producer for Awake , an alarm-bell bombshell of a show that gives the rubric of "reality TV" a twist and shout -- and then some. The scripted drama -- which premiered last week on the sleepy ratings-deprived network on Thursday nights -- turns the...

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Some Window Dressing

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Michael Elkin

Nan Latona does windows. Lots and lots of windows. See for yourself: "Window Wonderland" is a wondrous work of art, an exhibit of decorated windows crafted and created by Latona and a litany of area artists, many of them whom call the Kaiserman JCC home -- or at least their workplace. Including Latona: The development director at Kaiserman, she developed...

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The Sisters Feld

Yes, life's a three-ring circus for the Sisters Feld — and they're bringing it to Philly

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Michael Elkin

They are women, hear them roar! Wait. No. That's the big circus cats in the background; the Sisters Feld are fielding questions amiably, gently. Which is not to imply they are pussycats. No, to get to where they are -- executive vice presidents and producers of Feld Entertainment -- they have made sure their field of dreams is paved with...

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It's Shul Time for 'Hairspray'

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Michael Elkin

Jay Leistner is getting in touch with his feminine side. All 300 pounds of it. An architect and interior designer who runs his own company in Jenkintown, Leistner has designs on what may be the role of his lifetime: Edna, the hefty housewife and heroine of Hairspray , the award-winning Broadway musical with a history of untraditional casting that puts...

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Smash Must-Sing TV?

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Michael Elkin

It's a show about "Let's put on a show!" But its production values are none that Mickey Rooney or Judy Garland would recognize, and its gamble more a multimillion buck bet than a dime-a-dozen lucky shot. Welcome to the pink-hair coiffed, too.And along the way, it smashes stereotypes that theater can only accommodate the purple-hair set. Smash , Steven Spielberg...