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Aside from their flawless presentation of the yearly Golden Pineapple Awards for excellence in theatre (an annual event in which this season's recipients included playwrights Charles Busch, Israel Horovitz and Doric Wilson, and Back Stage editor-at-large Sherry Eaker), the International CringeFest (also known as the ICF) takes place at the Producer's Club on 44th Street, and in every way possible comes up swinging mightily against all of the other Off-Off-Broadway gatherings of the same type every summer, namely the Fresh Fruit Festival, the Midtown International Theatre Festival and, of course, the New York Fringe Festival.
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The word "glee" has been bandied about quite a bit over the last season in pop culture, most probably because of the groundbreaking series of the same name on the Fox Network, which has made household names of Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison, Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele and Chris Colfer, among others. It therefore, must have seemed a natural step for writer/composer/lyricist John Gregor and the Prospect Theater Company to name his latest musical opus With Glee, as a means of capitalizing on this new phenomenon.
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Like so many million other schoolchildren from New York in the 1970s, your humble writer and his siblings would race home every day to watch "The Magic Garden," the daily half-hour TV show presented by co-hostesses Carole Demas and Paula Janis on WPIX-TV Channel 11; therein, the two took their throng of youthful spectators through a magical thirty minutes of song, stories, short plays, lessons about the world, and such characters as Sherlock the pink squirrel and Flapper the bird (both given virtual life by the great puppeteer Cary Antebi) as well as journeys with the Storybox, the Chucklepatch, and the Magic Tree growing lollipop sticks.
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For nearly the last two decades, songstress Perry Payne has retained a most interesting reputation in the cabaret arena; she's a true Southern belle by birth in Lynchburg, VA, a champion real estate agent by day, and a top-notch entertainer by night. And she proved all beyond compare in her most recent annual turn at the Metropolitan Room. Directed by perennial Broadway mainstay and international theatre star Evan Pappas, and backed musically by Michael Rice on piano, Ray Kilday on bass, Steve Bartosik on drums and the truly sensational Amy Hamilton Soto on violin, Payne once again comes up swinging, as always.
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Australian chanteur Darren Williams, who has spent the last several seasons delighting audiences both in mainstream theatrical productions in his homeland and on cruise ships, recently brought his one-man show and Peter Allen tribute, Not the Boy Next Door, to the Metropolitan Room. While the hour might occasionally smack of being a tad too glitzy and over-the-top, for the most part Williams isn't merely captivating, but paints an absolutely glorious love letter to the late great composer and showman.
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