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Hao Wu’s The Road to Fame’ Puts a Twist on Michael McFadden’s Broadway Musical
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Hao Wu’s The Road to Fame’ Puts a Twist on Michael McFadden’s Broadway Musical

By Cynthia Fuchs / 4 March 2014

Hao Wu’s The Road to Fame reveals the connections between the two generations shaped by China’s one-child policy.

Milos Forman’s ‘Hair’ and the Aging of Aquarius
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Milos Forman’s ‘Hair’ and the Aging of Aquarius

By Bill Gibron / 12 June 2011

As the ’60s has been strip-mined of all its nostalgic value, Milos Forman’s Hair now comes across as an artifact with good music and a less than meaningful significance.

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Cecil B. DeMille Goes to Hell with ‘Madam Satan’

By Michael Barrett / 9 December 2010
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‘Moulin Rouge’ Is a Silly, Campy, Wonderful Effort to Save the Movie Musical from Itself

By Jesse Hassenger / 2 November 2010
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Nine Is Not a 9.0, But It Tops ‘Chicago’

By Ben Travers / 21 May 2010
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Rembetiko — Special Edition

By Scott Jordan Harris / 12 January 2010
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The Monkees Musical: A ‘Head’ of Its Time

By Bill Gibron / 26 July 2007
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François Ozon’s Sensibility vs the Sensual Pleasures in ‘8 Women’

By Elbert Ventura / 19 September 2002

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That Stank Attitude: Steely Dan’s Final Albums Two Decades Later

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I Dream of Wires: Richard Evans’ ‘Listening to the Music the Machines Make’

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Paula Abdul Found Artistic Growth and Maturity with ‘Spellbound’
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That Stank Attitude: Steely Dan’s Final Albums Two Decades Later

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