| Broadway Palm makes a killing with murder mysteries
For the longest time, it seems, the Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre has struggled to find a profitable purpose for its Marquee Room. Share Comments E-Mail Print Save License Related Links Arts For the longest time, it seems, the Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre has struggled to find a profitable purpose for its Marquee Room. You probably don�t recall the Mesa supper-and-showhouse�s ill-fated efforts at a regular Sunday brunch three years back in that space, a banquet room adjoining the mainstage theater. That was a $10,000 misstep. A room with dining tables and access to a full kitchen? It�s a wonder the Palm took this long to tap into the Valley�s most reliably popular theatrical entertainment form � murder mysteries. Rival theater troupes from Scottsdale to Peoria have been serving up three-course comic whodunits, trading body counts for boffo box office receipts, for years.
St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran in New City marks 100 years
NEW CITY - The bishop opened his sermon with a line from a show tune. "Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes. How do you measure, measure a year?" the Rev. Stephen P. Bouman, the bishop of the Metropolitan New York synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, sang yesterday morning during a sermon to celebrate the 100th anniversary of St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church in New City. After he delivered the line from "Seasons of Love," the theme song from the popular Broadway musical, "Rent," Bouman, a New City resident, examined St. Paul's 100 years of worship and service in Rockland. In a brief sermon that elicited laughter at several points, Bouman told the church that its work was a comfort to many, much like a light in the dark is comforting.
Strike Update: Elizabeth Taylor Halts Strike For A Good Cause
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (November 21, 2007) – Elizabeth Taylor can still command an audience. She has asked striking film and television writers to stop the strike for one day, and they have obliged. On December 1, World AIDS Day, the Writers Guild has agreed not to picket in front of the Paramount lot, according to a report by The Hollywood Reporter. Elizabeth Taylor and James Earl Jones are scheduled to give a benefit performance of A.R. Gurney's play "Love Letters," to benefit Taylor's AIDS Foundation. The screen legend said she was not willing to cross the ongoing picket lines if the writers were still striking on December 1. She reportedly asked the WGA for a "one night dispensation." .
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