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2021 NAACP Image Award Nominations

Posted on February 3, 2021 by boz

Yesterday, Anika Noni Rose, Chloe Bailey, Erika Alexander, Nicco Annan, and TC Carson announced the nominees for the 52nd NAACP Image Awards in a virtual event on the NAACP Image Awards’ Instagram channel. Netflix led the nominations in the film … Continue reading →

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2021 Golden Globe Nominations

Posted on February 3, 2021 by boz

This morning, Golden Globe winner Taraji P. Henson and four-time winner Sarah Jessica Parker announced the film and TV nominees of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 78th annual Golden Globe Awards. The winners will be revealed on Sunday, Feb. 28, … Continue reading →

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2020 AFI Award Honorees

Posted on January 26, 2021 by boz

Yesterday, the American Film Institute announced the recipients of its 2020 AFI Awards. Among the musical honorees named on the list of AFI Movies of the Year are the adaptation of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and the Pixar … Continue reading →

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Broadway Birthday: Ariana DeBose

Posted on January 25, 2021 by boz

Happy Birthday to Tony nominee Ariana DeBose, born Jan. 25, 1991, in North Carolina. She began her dance training in Raleigh and came to national attention when she she made the Top 20 on the 2009 season of So You … Continue reading →

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Broadway Birthday: Renée Elise Goldsberry

Posted on January 2, 2021 by boz

Happy birthday to Tony-winning performer Renée Elise Goldsberry, born Jan. 2, 1971, in San Jose, Calif. She earned her bachelor’s in theater from Carnegie Mellon in 1993 and her master’s in jazz from USC in 1997. That year, Goldsberry moved … Continue reading →

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Best Musical Moments of 2020

Posted on December 6, 2020 by boz

In this unusual year, there wasn’t the usual amount of musical offerings. Broadway stages, movie houses, and TV productions all shut down in March. But some shows did premiere before the lockdown, some series did restart production (with health precautions … Continue reading →

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Billboard 2020 Year-End Charts

Posted on December 5, 2020 by boz

Billboard magazine has released its year-end charts. For 2020, the magazine teamed up with Google to debut a new chart that tracked the most popular songs searched for in Google’s “Hum to Search” feature on its new app. Among the 100 … Continue reading →

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Yellen: The Musical

Posted on December 3, 2020 by boz

When President-elect Joe Biden announced Janet Yellen as his choice for Treasury Secretary, he suggested that her historic nomination deserved the Hamilton treatment. “You might have to ask Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the musical about the first Secretary of the … Continue reading →

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Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade 2020

Posted on November 17, 2020 by boz

Broadway may be dark but four musicals will perform for the 94th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 26. The casts of Hamilton, Mean Girls, Jagged Little Pill, and Ain’t Too Proud will be filmed in the next few weeks … Continue reading →

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Presidential Musical Playlist

Posted on November 3, 2020 by boz

Happy Election Day. The musical is one of America’s unique art forms. Though many examples are little more than escapist entertainment, some shows have tackled the difficult questions of our American experiment. When you’ve returned from your polling site, please … Continue reading →

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