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MID-AFTERNOON ADDITIONS

New York Magazine Vulture Blog

Awesome: ‘August: Osage County’ to Be a Movie!

Chad Jones' Theater Dogs Blog

The brilliance, literally, of Dolly Parton

Back Stage

Growing Up Groff
After playing a brainy, hormonal student defying the strict world of 1891 Germany in Spring Awakening, Jonathan Groff is once again playing a rule-breaking youth

Playbill

* 13 the Musical Is Now Also a Novel, With a Musical Surprise Imbedded

Casting Announced on Frost/Nixon Tour

* Andrews, Ari, Hope, Koch and More Will Join Keach and Cox in Frost/Nixon Tour (Playbill)
* Full Casting Announced for Frost/Nixon National Tour (TheaterMania)

Casting Announced on Legally Blonde Tour

* Bonds, Johnson, McLean, Lewis and Land Join Cast of Legally Blonde National Tour (Playbill)
* Bonds, Hansen, Johnson, Lewis et al. to Join Gulsvig in Legally Blonde National Tour (TheaterMania)

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EARLY AFTERNOON ADDITIONS

Bloomberg.com

`Little House' Star Gilbert Sings in Prairie Musical on Minneapolis Stage
``We have a problem,'' actress Melissa Gilbert announced onstage at a rehearsal at Minneapolis's Guthrie Theater. ``None of us can make our quick changes because the wheat is in the way.''

Playbill

* Judy and Me to Play Open-Ended Run at Off-Broadway's St. Luke's Theatre

TheaterMania

All A-Bard
Barrett Foa, Autumn Hurlbert, Mark Rylance, George Wendt, Martha Plimpton, Christian Hoff, Denis O'Hare, Anthony Rapp, and other stars show off Shakespeare. Plus: The openings of Buffalo Gal and Flamingo Court.

Broadway.com

John Simon, etcetera: The Oxford Companion to the American Musical
Nobody has a harder time of it than the heroic compiler of a lexicon. Call it, if you prefer, dictionary or, by a friendlier name, companion—if not, indeed, by the formidable moniker enchiridion—his or hers is an awesome task.

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