The year might be 1960, but not much has changed in the arena of dirty politickin’ in this revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man. Eric McCormack and John Larroquette face off as t…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 10:45PMBlair Underwood, Cynthia Nixon By Patrick Christiano
“It’s a Hard Act To Follow” was the topic of a special Drama Desk Panel Discussion and luncheon hel…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 10:30PMJust released tonight is the first trailer for Aaron Sorkin's new HBO drama, 'The Newsroom' a new hour long series premiering this June that centers on the behind-the-scenes workings of a ca…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:24PM"Call Me Adam" chats with actor and comedian Aaron Berg about his new one man show "The Underbelly Diaries," playing at Theatre Row complex in NYC through April 7 as well as other details of…
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 10:22PMA starry but sluggish Broadway revival, “Gore Vidal’s The Best Man” stars John Larroquette, James Earl Jones, Eric McCormack and Angela Lansbury.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMMario Fratti's mystery about the death of a sexually adventurous Democratic fundraiser is ploddingly plotted.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMArin Arbus directs a rib-tickling, well-acted production of Shakespeare's comedy for Theatre for a New Audience.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMMichael Wison's star-studded Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's prescient political play couldn't be bettered.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMLea DeLaria is delightful as an Icelandic television personality in Drew Larimore's otherwise predictable play.
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Gore Vidal's THE BEST MAN began previews on Tuesday, March 6th, 2012 and opened tonight, Sunday, April 1st, 2012 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Let's see what the critics had to say...
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:38PMA deluxe cast breathes fresh life into this entertaining round of political marksmanship by a keen-eyed observer whose experience in the D.C. swamp informs every line.
SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:32PMPeter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk with Terence Blanchard who wrote the score for A Streetcar Named Desire, Peter and Michael review Jesus Christ Superstar, Pipe Dr…
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Emmy Rossum is surprised how relaxed she has become with the raunchy, explicit and unabashedly profane side of Showtime hit "Shameless." "You can't imagine ever getting co…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:43PMWith its talk of sex in the White House and God on the campaign stump, “The Best Man,” which debuted in 1960, long has seemed prophetic. But the references to the 2012 campaign are downr…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 08:30PMPolitics, the writer Gore Vidal once reminded us, is made up of two words: "`Poli,' which is Greek for `many,' and `tics,' which are bloodsucking insects." What was implied was also true -- …
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 08:29PMNEW YORK - I was on Broadway when I suddenly walked right into Center City Philadelphia. It was weird - a big banner on the stage of the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre announced "PHILADELPHIA WEL…
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A play of boundaries, limitations, barriers, one that gazes outwards while never crossing the threshold, Uncle Vanya is often betrayed by the physical space of major stagings. In a new produ…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:07PMBecause personality is the driving force behind theatre and politics, it only makes sense that overtly political plays be full of it.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:01PMAlfred Hitchcock had a lifelong obsession with Mary Rose, the haunting and achingly strange 1920 play by J M Barrie, and in the 1960s he commissioned a screenplay that opened it up but retai…
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Seattle playwright Yussef El Guindi has won the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for "Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World," which premiered …
SOURCE: The Seattle Times at 04:52PMTom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia 2002 trilogy of plays and Abel Gance's 1927 biopic Napoleon have a great deal in common: They both portray famous revolutionary European figures and explor…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 04:45PMThe great American theatrical classic ‘West Side Story’ comes to the Clowes Memorial Hall in Indy for a week-long run from June 4 to 9, 2013. John Lahr of The New Yorker writes, “(West…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 04:31PMI Love You Because is a paper-thin off-Broadway musical now playing at the Toronto Centre for the Arts.
SOURCE: Toronto.com at 04:31PM‘Les Miserables’, the legendary Broadway masterpiece from Boublil and Schonberg celebrates its 25th anniversary via a national tour. As part of its jaunt, this Cameron Mackintosh-produce…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 04:26PM‘Priscilla Queen of the Desert’ rides to the tropical south in spring 2013. This glamorous musical will play the Ziff Ballet Opera House of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing A…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 04:22PMPlease note: This review contains spoilers. The isle is full of noises and the stage is filled with wailing, haunted, urchin-like figures. J.M. Barrie’s 1920 ghost story (which Alfred Hitc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:14PMThe Tony Award winning rock musical ‘American Idiot’ will play the Clowes Memorial Hall in Indianapolis from April 2 to 7, 2013. From Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong and Tony winner M…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 04:11PMRejoice not only for the arrival of spring but for the arrival of Broadway’s most glorious and feel-amazing musical in Indy! ‘Sister Act’, the funniest Broadway adaptation of last seas…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 04:07PMGet ready to say ‘Oh What a Night’ for two weeks at the start of 2013 as the Broadway phenomenon ‘Jersey Boys’ comes to Indy from January 9 to 27 at the Murat Theatre at Old National…
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Indy’s 2012-2013 Broadway season will open with the Tony Award winning musical ‘Billy Elliot’. This inspiring production will play the Murat Theatre at Old National Centre from Novembe…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 03:58PMThe Tony Award winning musical ‘Wicked’ returns to Philadelphia due to insistent public demand. It is slated to play the Academy of Music at the Kimmel Center for six weeks, from June 26…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 03:44PM‘War Horse’, the 2011 Tony Award winner for Best Play comes to Philadelphia this fall to open the city’s Broadway season. It is slated to play the Academy of Music of the Kimmel Center…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 03:40PMChannel your inner groupie or rock n’ roll junkie and sing along with the ‘Million Dollar Quartet’. This Broadway smash hit comes to Philadelphia for a week-long run at the Forrest The…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 03:40PMAmerican Idol finalist and Tony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis hits the stage once again, this time, not as a rocker wannabe circa 1980s but as the schizophrenic love and horror icons Dr…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 03:33PMStart the year off with an adventure in the skies spanning two continents and a throwback to the ‘60s with the savviest musical adaptation to hit Broadway in 2011 and Philadelphia in 2013.…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 03:29PM‘Sister Act’ comes to Philadelphia for a week-long run at the Academy of Music at the Kimmel Center from April 2 to 7, 2013. Celebrate spring with one of the funniest and most glorious m…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 03:25PM‘The Book of Mormon’, the big winner at the 2011 Tony Awards and Broadway’s biggest blockbuster is coming to Seattle for a two-week run at the Paramount Theatre from January 8 to 20, 2…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 03:25PMA witty translation, an evocative, claustrophobic setting, performances that hum with trapped energy – this is great Chekhov, writes Sarah Hemming
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 03:22PMThe ghosts of two great dancers were present in ENB's second programme inspired by Ballets Russes, writes Clement Crisp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 03:22PMWelcome the summer with a week-long celebration of music, dancing, freedom and the life and journey of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, one of Nigeria’s most celebrated political and social heroes in …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 03:22PMThe ghosts of two great dancers were present in ENB’s second programme inspired by Ballets Russes, writes Clement Crisp
SOURCE: The Financial Times Subscription at 03:22PMSpring will sizzle up in Seattle when ‘Flashdance’, the most anticipated musical adaptation of the season goes on its first national tour, marking a week-long stop at the Paramount Theat…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 03:20PMIt’s going to be a glorious summer in Seattle as the hit Broadway musical ‘Sister Act’ comes to the Paramount Theatre from August 20 to 25, 2013. Based on the ‘90s cult film starring…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 03:14PMBy: Dan Mason @djdan1079 Tensions are high as two political candidates arrive at their party’s nominating convention in Philadelphia. On one hand, you have a millionaire, whose critics…
SOURCE: The Broadway Critic Blog at 03:04PM Famous historical and contemporary figures captured through photography can be seen in a new Getty exhibition. Portraits of Renown: Photography and the Cult of Celebrity, on vi…
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Jesus Christ has returned (not really) in the new production of Jesus Christ Superstar which just arrived on Broadway from Stratford via La Jolla. At the helm of this new production is Des M…
SOURCE: The AndyGram at 01:46PMFor a whole month this fall, the Tony Award winning musical ‘Wicked’ returns to Seattle. It is slated to play the Paramount Theatre from October 10 to November 17, 2012. They say so much…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:31PM‘Traces’, the mind-bending acrobatic show of the year, comes to Dallas in summer 2013 for a two-week run at the Winspear Opera House of the AT&T Performing Arts Center from June 11 …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:27PMThe Frank Wildhorn musical ‘Jekyll & Hyde’ stirs the happy and wonderful month of December with a two-week run from the 4th to the 16th at the Winspear Opera House of the AT&T …
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:20PM‘War Horse’, the Tony Award winning and compelling drama whose film adaptation also earned an Academy Award nod, comes to Dallas for a two-week run at the Winspear Opera House of the AT&…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:17PMFor two weeks this summer, Dallas will once again get a taste of old show business glamour and controversy via the long running, Tony and Olivier Award winning and Broadway and West End lege…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:13PM‘Fela!’, the vibrant and inspiring biographical musical about one of Nigeria’s most celebrated activists, comes to Dallas for two weeks in May 2013, from the 7th to the 19th, at the Wi…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:11PMIt could be quite the coincidence that Manhattan Transfer was picked for the opening concert at the Elaine Wolf Theatre.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 01:10PMCelebrate the holidays with a Cirque Dreams spectacle perfect for the family. This is Cirque Dreams ‘Holidaze’, and it’s coming to Dallas only for a week, playing the Winspear Opera Ho…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:07PMThe Frank Loesser Broadway comedy masterpiece ‘Guys and Dolls’ is coming to Cleveland for a two-month run at the Hanna Theatre from May 1 to June 23, 2013. Produced by Cleveland’s very…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 01:03PM‘Anything Goes’, the “glorious and exuberant” (USA Today) “musical comedy joy” (The New York Times) sails to Dallas in late winter for a two-week run at the Winspear Opera House …
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Cleveland’s 2012-2013 Broadway season opens with ‘Anything Goes’, the Roundabout Theatre Company revival of the Cole Porter classic that is scheduled to play the Palace Theatre from Oc…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 12:57PMGrace CosgroveMarch came in like a lamb and went out like a lion! Not only weather-wise, but with the culmination of the 26th Annual MAC Awards. Everyone was gussied up on March 29th a…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:55PMDisney classic and Broadway hit ‘Beauty and the Beast’ comes to Cleveland for a two-week run at the Palace Theatre from November 6 to 18, 2012. Featuring dazzling set designs and captiva…
SOURCE: broadwaytour.net at 12:53PMPaul Nolan in JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
People have all sorts of opinions as to what defines an opera as compared to a musical. I think one important difference is that, in opera, the music mak…
SOURCE: artsamerica.org at 12:47PMShakespeare’s “Winter’s Tale” is presented by the Yale Repertory Theater at the University Theater in New Haven through April 7.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:30PMGeorge Street Playhouse presents “Twelve Angry Men,” Reginald Rose’s 1950s work about the deliberations of jurors in a capital-murder trial.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:30PMMr. April 2012Andrew Keenan-BolgerWHY HE'S MR. BROADWAY: He's the ultimate sidekick in a show about overcoming obstacles, battling the big guys in that David vs Goliath kind of way. No…
SOURCE: JK's TheatreScene at 12:01PMHappy Birthday Debbie Reynolds Reynolds regularly appeared in movie musicals during the 1950s and had several hit records during the period. Perhaps her most high-profile film role was in Si…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:00PMCheck out the latest in upcoming releases of Broadway and theatre Books and DVDs for April 2012.
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The soundtrack of NBC's hit musical drama Smash will be released on May 1, according to Amazon.com.
The 13-track CD will include numerous tunes penned for the series, which looks at th…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:51AMThe continuation of Broadway's longest-running musical The Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies closes tonight at Melbourne's Regent Theatre.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:47AMGore Vidal's THE BEST MAN opens today, Sunday, April 1st, 2012 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Previews began on March 6th, 2012. The strictly limited 18 week engagement is directed by Dra…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:32AMLike other great artists –- Martha Argerich and Steve Lacy come to mind right away -- pianist Kirill Gerstein approaches every note with a sense of how important that note is in relation t…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:16AMThe Night of a Thousand Gowns celebrating the LGBT community - the colorful cross-dressing segment of that community -took place on Saturday, March 31 in New York City. In its twenty-six yea…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:15AMHello Darlings! My name is Judy Stadt and I am a professional actor, vocalist, playwright, illustrator, jewelry designer … so let’s just call me an artist. So, what am I doing now?…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:07AMWhen I was a young singing actress, there were a few artists I wanted to emulate-Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald, and Lena Horne.
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Gore Vidal’s 1960 political drama The Best Man opens April 1 at Broadway’s Schoenfeld Theatre. Directed by Michael Wilson, the production will play a limited engagement through J…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:50AMThe Manhattan Association of Cabarets amp Clubs presented the 26th Annual MAC Awards Show on March 29th. The awards ceremony was held at B.B. King Blues Club, and the show was directed by Le…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:50AMHello Darlings! My name is Judy Stadt and I am a professional actor, vocalist, playwright, illustrator, jewelry designer … so let’s just call me an artist. So, what am I doing now?…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45AMApril is an unusually excellent month for Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts -- a promisng match up of programs and conductors.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:45AMAre critics up on "Newsies"?
SOURCE: StageGrade at 09:29AMThe American Theatre Critics Association named Yussef El Guindi's Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World, a play about immigration and assimilation, winner of the $25,000 Harold and M…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:14AMThose of you who are faithfully watching SMASH on NBC will remember a little show lovingly referred to by Debra Messing’s character Julia as “that Bruno Mars thing at La Mama.…
SOURCE: BroadwaySpotted at 09:00AMWay Off Broadway Dinner Theatre in Frederick, MD presents the classic tale of duality, Frank Wildhorn’s musical Jekyll & Hyde, directed by Justin Kiska. Teresa: What was your first…
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Creators Tom Salamon and Betsy Salamon-Sufott are going strong after many seasons - sending their agents (that's you, the audience) out on the street to deliver tickets to a network of "asso…
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:52AMToday! 12-6pm at the City Reliquary 370 Metropolitan Avenue FREE FOR ALL! City Reliquary’s 10th Anniversary Celebration Today they promise to unveil… An all new GIFT SHOP featuring l…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:48AMToday is the birthday of the great blues singer Alberta Hunter (1895-1984). A Memphis native, she ran away from a bleak life to pursue a music career in Chicago. Starting in the seediest pos…
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Everyone in the …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 1 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMThe provocative author discusses his popular play about the Stonewall Riots.
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Legit News:
'Pilgrims' honored in regional premiere
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Esposito, Pinkins in Off Broadway cast
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Riding a wave of increased interest in our 16th president, Hershey Felder has written, composed and arranged, and is enacting, "Lincoln -- An American S…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:45AMIn Michael Wilson's crackling take on "Gore Vidal's The Best Man," Eric McCormack, John Larroquette, James Earl Jones, Angela Lansbury, and more are tops.
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IT’S JUST IT’S JUST SEX Cole Porter wrote sex comedies; Richard Brinsley Sheridan and William Shakespeare wrote them. Michael Frayn wrote them. Georges Feydeau and Arthur Schnitzler …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:39AMFEEDBACK: THE BIG TEASE Everything that works and doesn’t work about Jane Miller’s new play Feedback turns on one thing: Nudity. In terms of talking the talk, the whole exercise is about…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:32AMMCC GETS CARRIE-D AWAY The myth that youth market musicals are a low-risk venture has gained strength over the last few years in New York City. Short-sighted producers will overlook disast…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:25AMBORN-AGAIN PORN STAR? Nudity can have a sacred character to it, depending on one’s motives. There are Christian nudist colonies, for example, whose goal is to return humankind to its p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:13AMDirector Manuel Pickett has vivid memories of the first time he saw Luis Valdez's original production of "Zoot Suit" at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
Martin J. Rodriguez, left, D…
SOURCE: The Sacramento Bee at 03:00AMTheatre for a New Audience's Wild West take on Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" has a rollicking style that can't accommodate the "taming" itself.
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WHICH AMERICAN IDIOT ARE YOU? If you know and love Green Day’s studio concept album on which it is based, American Idiot is the show for you. If, like me, you are a stranger to the or…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:50AMA few years ago, I spent some time with the Seagram Rothkos in the Tate Modern collection. Grouped together in a specially designed gallery, they are extraordinary paintings: their profound …
SOURCE: Theatre Notes at 01:40AMFollowing the success of Godspells February 19th Tweet Seat experiment, producer Ken Davenport announces Broadways first Kindle Night.
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Vintage at the Café Carlyle By: Sandi Durell
The name may or may not be vaguely familiar, but say Gregory Charles in Canada, Paris or around the world, and ey…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 12:52AMThe field of 64 is down to two ladies. Diana and Elphaba will now square off for the Musical Madness title. Diana is here after taking out Bobby from Company, Roger from Rent, The Witch from…
SOURCE: The Broadway Critic Blog at 12:15AMMaria Ricossa (Bev), Audrey Dwyer (Francine) Joel Greenberg (Director) (photo credit: Robert Harding)DeparturesClybourne Park has an unapologetic approach to uncomfortable issuesby Joel Gree…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:02AMLPTW’s Blog30 was created to highlight the diversity, passion and brilliance of the individual members of the League of Professional Theatre Women in celebration of the organization…
SOURCE: The League of Professional Theatre Women at 12:01AMThe Best Man, Gore Vidal's 1960 play about the lead-up to a U.S. presidential election, about two candidates seeking their party's nomination, gets its second Broadway revival &mdash…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMAlice Cooper (courtesy Alice Cooper)VaudevillainTheatre villains on the stage and off. And who is the queerest of them all? With cameos by Alice Cooper, David Bowie, Sarah Bernhardt, The Jok…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMThe Sweet Shit of FringePhone sex. Food service. Fringe festival. In all of those environments, I learned to move fastby Cameryn MooreFringe, man. It’s hard. Every day it’s get to the ve…
SOURCE: The Charlebois Post at 12:01AMBarack Obama figures in the title of the newest play by Mario Fratti, but he is not its subject. Instead, Obama 44, which is receiving its world premiere from Voyage Theatre Company at La Ma…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMA starry revival of The Best Man, Gore Vidal's 1960 play about the lead-up to a U.S. presidential election, is now playing on Broadway at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Michael Wilso…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMIn the comedy-folklore mash-up Out of Iceland, presented at walkerspace by Alfred R. Kahn in association with Culture Project, Caroline, an American writer with a painful secret, is compelle…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMMichael Wilson Directs; Others Invest, Perform Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook PageWhen the revival of Gore Vidal's "The Best Man" …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AMFor most of us, our bathing rituals are rejuvenating, positive moments in our daily lives. They jolt us awake in the morning, preparing us for the day ahead, or they ease into bed in the eve…
SOURCE: The New York Theatre Experience at 12:00AMBroadway's Seminar, the new play by Theresa Rebeck, loses Alan Rickman, Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater following the April 1 matinee at the Golden Theatre. They exit at the end of their …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThe Australian production of Love Never Dies, which gave new life to Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera sequel, ends its run April 1 at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAlfred R. Kahn, in association with Culture Project, presents the Off-Broadway premiere of Drew Larimore's Out of Iceland, which officially opens April 1 following previews that began Ma…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMAlexander Sage Oyen was selected the winner of Scott Alan and YouTube sensation Michael Buckley's "I'm a Star Contest," which sought a singer to record a brand-new song by …
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