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There Is An Epic ‘Prince of Egypt’ Live Musical Happening In Utah
The outdoor production uses water features and wind effects.
‘Wicked’ Composer Nixes North Carolina Shows Over Anti-LGBT Law
Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz said North Carolina theaters would not be allowed to produce his shows, in reaction to a new state law that blocks legislation meant to fight discrimination against LGBT people.
April Classical Concerts Turn Cruelest into Coolest Month
A notoriously anti-Semitic poet claimed that April is the cruelest month; all the more reason for Manhattanites to sweeten it with delightful classical concerts redolent with Yiddishkeit. On March 29, the Israeli-American violinist Yuval Waldman will perform “Music Forgotten and Remembered” at Merkin Concert Hall, including such rarities as Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s 1952 “Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes,” and works by two Czech Jewish composers: Gideon Klein, who was murdered at Auschwitz, and “Colloque Sentimentale” (A Chat about Feelings) by Jaromir Weinberger.