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More Than a Little Night Music

Cherry Hill's Aaron Lazar adds to his Broadway bounty with Feinstein's premiere

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Barricades do come down for Aaron Lazar, star of the 2006 revival of "Les Misérables" and the most happy fella -- well, he hasn't done that show yet -- to come out of Cherry Hill, N.J., chomping at taking the reigns of Broadway. Of course, there was the reign of terror that he was involved in two years ago, but...

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Cumming to the Cabaret...

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Michael Elkin

Who better to wish "Wilkommen" to the cabaret than Alan Cumming? The Tony Award-winning actor whose sexually charged m.c. provided major wattage for the 1996 "Cabaret" that was a stun-gun of a Broadway revival, recently reiterated musically why there's no putting this Broadway baby in a corner. Cumming to the cabaret, old chum: As the showpiece of an extended engagement...

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… Young at Heart

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Michael Elkin

Love, exciting and new -- or is that exciting and ... old ? "Just exciting!" exclaims actor Bernie Kopell. Come aboard: "The Love Boat" is setting sail for "Viagara Falls" and Kopell, the former doc holiday as the dreamboat medic Adam Bricker on "The Love Boat" some 30 years ago, has docked into the Little Shubert Theatre in New York...

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The Way We Were ... Well, He Still Is

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Michael Elkin

Barbra Streisand is Steven Brinberg's bread and ... buttah. You don't need the Coffee Lady to know that people who like people are lucky; but people who adore people like Brinberg adores Streisand, well, they're ... fabulous! A great turn -- turn around and just listen; is it him or "Memories"? -- is what Brinberg does as "Simply Barbra," his...

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Sole Man

'Dreamgirls' surviving creator rocks on

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Michael Elkin

Girl groups -- the supreme beings of the Motown Sound, the sexy sultry soul sisters who couldn't hurry love, but knew how to stop it when it hit their hearts. "Dreamgirls" pulls out all the stops in its highly stylized vision of such a girl group from rags to riches to rock royalty and back again when nothing but heartaches...