The Fabulous Fox Theatre
How much do you know about The Fox Theatre? Encore Atlanta takes an in-depth look at the history and heritage of this amazing cultural icon.
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Keeping an Elephant Eye on Broadway
The Fox Theatre and Theater of the Stars (TOTS) are planning to bring Atlanta a little closer to Broadway by partnering with Elephant Eye Theatrical, a production company specializing in creating new works for Broadway…
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Mullets vs. money By Kristi Casey Sanders Actress Erin Elizabeth Coors isn’t old enough to remember the 1980s (she was born in 1982), but she’s gotten a crash course in …
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STOMP cast member Louis Labovitch didn’t play drums until he was 17. “But after I started playing them, I became obsessed with them and played five hours a day every day,” he says. Playing in a band proved unglamorous (he slept in his van with his drum kit for six months). Theater school at Fresno State was an interesting experience. But the majority of the jobs Labovitch held (dishwasher, greenhouse worker) had nothing to do with his passions…
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It’s been more than 40 years since the Rat Pack – Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. – shared the stage for a legendary two-week engagement at Las Vegas’ Sands Hotel in 1960, but theatergoers can experience what it was like at this month’s The Rat Pack – Live at the Sands…
Read MoreThe wizard behind Oz
“When you need kids, call Bill Newberry,” says Theater of the Stars [TOTS] Producer Christopher B. Manos. Newberry has carved out a niche for himself as a children’s director, teaching young cast members how to sing, dance and hit their marks like professionals. This month, you can catch his handiwork in TOTS’ production of The Wizard of Oz , in which several Atlanta children play the munchkins of Oz. Encore Atlanta spoke to him about the challenges and joys of working with children…
Read MoreWest Side Story:
Where were you the first time you saw West Side Story? Christopher B. Manos, Theater of the Stars [TOTS] producer, was on a date with his wife, dancer Glenn Ryman, in 1957…
Read MoreA woman in love
Jennifer Holliday lights up Dreamgirls By Kristi Casey Sanders Theater lovers are in for a special treat this month. Jennifer Holliday is reprising the role of Effie in Theater of …
Read MoreCamp Broadway helps kids hit all the right notes
Set the stage, light the lights and prepare for the heights: It’s time for Camp Broadway. From July 30 to Aug. 3, more than 20 young performers between the ages of 11 and 17 will train with New York professionals to learn what it takes to be a professional triple-threat on Broadway…
Read MoreIf music be the food of love…
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night famously begins with the lines, “If music be the food of love, play on.” Love and music play starring roles in all of David E. Talbert’s plays, including Love in the Nick of Tyme, which comes to The Fox Theatre this month.
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