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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “Can A Song Save Your Life?”

Less intimate but perhaps even more irresistible than his micro-indie smash Once, John Carney’s follow-up CAN A SONG SAVE YOUR LIFE? plays a similar tune with broader orchestrations. The city this time is New ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY BROADWAY JOURNAL: “Follies”

> FOLLIES may be the strangest of all Broadway masterpieces; after 40 years, it’s still the most avant-garde work of Stephen Sondheim’s career. It’s easy enough to make the show sound linear: set in 1971...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY BROADWAY JOURNAL: “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark”

> Haven’t all the jokes been made? In the history of Broadway, there may never have been a show as relentlessly ridiculed as SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK. At this point, it may be that the only interest...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Smash”

And so the curtain drops on the first season of SMASH, which may have set the all-time television speed record for going from shining beacon to punching bag. Tonight’s season finale, written by now-deposed showru...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Rock of Ages”

ROCK OF AGES: Watch It At Home – Stop Believin’ No one expects finesse from a movie musical constructed out of songs by Journey, Twisted Sister and Def Leppard. And, to be certain, the hair-band era of th...

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THE SKED PILOT REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – “Smash”

> Disclaimer: Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall. Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot. So these critiques sh...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY MUSIC: ALICEN SCHNEIDER INTERVIEW

>With the kind permission of Crushable.com, the following are excerpts from a recent interview conducted by Celine Geiger of Crushable with Alicen Schneider as part of their Hollywood Jobs feature. How did you get started...

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Glee”

GLEE: Thursday 9PM on FOX WHERE WE WERE: Post-graduation, post-national title, watching a lot of regulars on their way out of high school: Rachel off to NY and NYADA, Kurt to neither, Finn to the Army, Puck to LA, ...

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THE SKED REVIEW: THE TONY AWARDS

Even the acceptance speeches are classier on THE TONY AWARDS. Tonight’s telecast featured a eloquent salute to “All those who say ‘Yes'” in the name of theatre from the lead producer of Best Play winne...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Muppets”

THE MUPPETS: Watch It At Home – Nonstop Cuteness When it was announced that Disney’s new movie of THE MUPPETS (the Mouse House bought the entire franchise from Jim Henson’s company some year...

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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Footloose”

Our Review / 5 - Terrible

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TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “Can A Song Save Your Life?”

SHOWBUZZDAILY BROADWAY JOURNAL: “Follies”

SHOWBUZZDAILY BROADWAY JOURNAL: “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Smash”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Rock of Ages”

THE SKED PILOT REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – “Smash”

SHOWBUZZDAILY MUSIC: ALICEN SCHNEIDER INTERVIEW

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Glee”

THE SKED REVIEW: THE TONY AWARDS

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Muppets”

THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Footloose”

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