Read more musical stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/19576/musical.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:59:41 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72497/lloyd-webber-diagnosed-with-prostate-cancer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBritish composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, a spokeswoman said today in a statement that said "the condition is in its very early stages. Andrew is now undergoing treatment and expects to be fully back at work before the end of the year."http://www.newser.com/story/72497/lloyd-webber-diagnosed-with-prostate-cancer.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 25 Oct 2009 9:05:31 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70248/new-fame-aint-gonna-last.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFame , the new remake of the classic 1980 musical about students at New York's High School for the Performing Arts, will be entertaining enough for tweeners, say critics, but its sanitized feel and lightweight characters make it a forgettable inferior to the gritty original. "As a demo reel showcasing seven...http://www.newser.com/story/70248/new-fame-aint-gonna-last.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 25 Sep 2009 7:05:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68378/green-days-rock-opera-hits-the-stage.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGreen Day’s multiplatinum album American Idiot is taking the stage as a 75-minute rock opera that will “challenge the very definitions of punk, theater, and musical,” writes David Downs in the East Bay Express . A 19-member cast will showcase a “ Fight Club -esque story of self-discovery through death and destruction,...http://www.newser.com/story/68378/green-days-rock-opera-hits-the-stage.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 02 Sep 2009 11:18:50 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67606/bye-bye-birdie-scene-too-risque-for-broadway.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHigh school drama clubs have been putting on Bye Bye Birdie for nearly 50 years—apparently they didn’t realize they've been staging a certain scene so risque it makes Broadway blush. The upcoming Broadway revival will cut a dance sequence featuring Rose cavorting on and around a table with a...http://www.newser.com/story/67606/bye-bye-birdie-scene-too-risque-for-broadway.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 24 Aug 2009 8:49:48 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64348/hermione-to-star-with-marilyn-manson.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen Emma Watson said she was ready to leave Harry Potter behind, she meant it. The actor—whose only major role so far has been Hermione in the Potter films—is reportedly teaming up with shock rocker Marilyn Manson for her next project, playing a princess in a musical Goth...http://www.newser.com/story/64348/hermione-to-star-with-marilyn-manson.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 14 Jul 2009 9:24:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60580/hitler-sells-again-in-germany.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Broadway hit musical comedy The Producers finally opened in Berlin to boffo box office receipts—but not before in intense sales push to break through German reluctance to see an ersatz Hitler hamming it up on stage, reports the Los Angeles Times . "If you put it on most places,...http://www.newser.com/story/60580/hitler-sells-again-in-germany.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 31 May 2009 7:07:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54985/decades-later-hair-still-swings.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBursting with energy, the Broadway revival of Hair , recently moved indoors from Central Park, has wowed critics—though there are a few gripes. What they had to say: “ Hair , for all its references to hippies, Vietnam, free love and the revolution, feels utterly of the moment in its exuberance, its...http://www.newser.com/story/54985/decades-later-hair-still-swings.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 01 Apr 2009 11:00:36 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/53890/new-bilingual-west-side-story-tender-uneven.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe highly anticipated revival of West Side Story on Broadway opened last night to solid reviews, with critics applauding an unusually tender interpretation in which the women rule. Highlights: “Even when they’re flashing switchblades and kicking people in the ribs, the teenage hoodlums who maraud through Arthur Laurents’s startlingly sweet...http://www.newser.com/story/53890/new-bilingual-west-side-story-tender-uneven.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 20 Mar 2009 11:44:34 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/53539/china-prepares-for-das-kapital-the-musical.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagKarl Marx's Das Kapital offers hundreds of pages of dense German prose on class struggle and modes of production—so why not add some singing and dancing? That's the idea of several Chinese producers who are mounting a Das Kapital musical, which promises a live band and Vegas-style theatrics to...http://www.newser.com/story/53539/china-prepares-for-das-kapital-the-musical.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Mar 2009 10:38:34 CDT