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Audra McDonald returns with new, personal CD

This May 16, 2012 file photo shows Audra McDonald at the Friars Club Roast of Betty White in New York. McDonald's new CD," Go Back Home" includes classics like Stephen Sondheim's "The Glamorous Life," the Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein II's "Edelweiss," and "First You Dream," from the John Kander and Fred Ebb show "Steel Pier."  (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)

NEW YORK (AP) — If either her husband or daughter is calling, Audra McDonald knows without looking at her phone.

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Review: Musical using Leo Tolstoy a messy thrill

This undated theater image released by The Hartman Group shows Blake DeLong, left, with an audience member in "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812," a dinner theater performance that opened Thursday, May 15, 2013 in the meatpacking district of New York. (AP Photo/The Hartman Group, Chad Batka)

NEW YORK (AP) — What do you get when you take a 70-page melodrama at the center of “War and Peace” and turn it into a musical? Now layer dance music onto the traditional Russian folk music. Now put it in a tent. While you’re at it, throw in a meal and strobe lights.

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‘American Psycho’ creators turn to crowd-funding

This May 3, 2012 file photo shows Duncan Sheik at a special screening of "Hick" in New York. Sheik is part of an unusual campaign on Kickstarter: Not to get his musical "American Psycho" up and running. It's to make it killer. The Almeida Theatre in London has already agreed to mount the world stage premiere of Bret Easton Ellis' novel this winter but Sheik wants to give it a $150,000 infusion. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)

NEW YORK (AP) — Duncan Sheik is part of an unusual campaign on Kickstarter: Not to get his musical “American Psycho” up and running. It’s to make it killer.

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Broadway’s ‘The Winslow Boy’ to star Mastrantonio

This Dec. 2, 2007 file photo shows U.S. actress Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio attends the artist-led volunteer committee "Act for Darfur" in London. Mastrantonio will star in the Broadway revival of Terence Rattigan's play “The Winslow Boy,” also starring Roger Rees. The Roundabout Theatre Company said Wednesday the play joins previously announced Donald Margulies' play "Dinner with Friends” and Tom Stoppard's play "The Real Thing." All three will be at the Roundabout's American Airlines Theatre.  (AP Photo/Nathan Strange, file)

NEW YORK (AP) — A revival of Terence Rattigan’s play “The Winslow Boy” starring Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Roger Rees is heading to Broadway next season.

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Broadway’s ‘Pippin’ to go on national tour

This theater image released by Boneau/Bryan-Brown shows Patina Miller during a performance of "Pippin," at Broadway's Music Box Theatre in New York. Producers of the Tony Award-nominated show said Wednesday, May 15, 2013, that a national tour will kick off in September 2014 at the Buell Theatre in Denver.  (AP Photo/Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Joan Marcus)

NEW YORK (AP) — The thrilling Broadway revival of “Pippin” will be taking its magic on the road.

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