NEWS
October 12, 2006 | Diane Haithman
A behind-the-scenes look at Los Angeles Opera's critically acclaimed production of Massenet's "Manon" -- starring opera's couple du jour, Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon -- is now available via podcast. The company's new podcast series, "Behind the Curtain," explores the making of "Manon" through the eyes of Netrebko, Villazon, director-choreographer Vincent Paterson, costume designer Susan Hilferty and others. The four-episode series is available on the company website, www.laopera.
ENTERTAINMENT
October 7, 1992 | ALEENE MacMINN, Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press
Having Their Say: Choreographers who have created production numbers for the Academy Awards since 1970 complained Tuesday about mistreatment by the show's producing organization, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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November 10, 1997 | LEWIS SEGAL, TIMES DANCE CRITIC
Winners of the fourth annual Bob Fosse Awards, honoring choreographic excellence in the entertainment industry, were announced Sunday at a gala benefit dinner and celebration at the Palace in Hollywood. Proceeds of the event supported Arnold Schwarzenegger's Inner City Games plus the Michael Peters and Bob Fosse scholarship programs.
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November 5, 1994 | LYNNE HEFFLEY
Theodor Geisel, better known to millions as Dr. Seuss, was a unique artist, a comic genius whose signature drawings and rhythmic language reflected a deeply felt social conscience. "In Search of Dr. Seuss," a delightfully quirky, celebrity-studded mix of documentary and family entertainment airing Sunday on TNT, captures the life and art of the man who found his inspiration and his sense of humor by "looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope." The show, written by Keith R.
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October 8, 2006 | Diane Haithman
IT'S the 1950s -- but like no decade you've ever seen before. Susan Hilferty, costume designer for "Manon," says she and director / choreographer Vincent Paterson updated Jules Massenet's 1884 opera because the progression of fashion in the '50s parallels Manon's transformation from innocent gamine to jaded socialite. But the designer, winner of a 2004 Tony Award for "Wicked," says the opera's 400-plus costumes represent the "dream '50s," a deliberately heightened reality.
ENTERTAINMENT
September 12, 1988 | CHRIS PASLES
With the laudable purpose of raising money to benefit AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), eight local choreographers collaborated in "Lifeleap: A Celebration of Life Through Dance" at the Wilshire Ebell Theater on Friday. Under the circumstances, one expected works of the deepest honesty, probity and soul-searching. What one got too often were works devoted to the body beautiful and flashy, vacuous, high-energy choreography, not all that securely danced.