La Cieca’s nomination for Song of the Year 2016: an elaborate but hideously tasteless unintentional joke.
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Kitsch is alive and well in Rossini’s La Cenerentola at the War Memorial.
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Francesca Zambello (center), universally critically slammed for her production of The Little Mermaid, has been tapped as director of yet another musical, as if Little House on the Prairie and Rebecca are not enough to keep her busy. She’s helming First Wives’ Club for a July opening at the Old Globe Theatre in Baltimore San…
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