Singing nuns, fabulous drag queens and even a little orphan named Oliver, when it comes to London's West End, there's a little something for everyone. NY1’s Frank DiLella traveled across the pond and filed the following report on its theater scene.
The 1992 film "Sister Act,” which starred Whoopi Goldberg as a soul singing nun on the run is now a full-scale musical with music and lyrics by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater with a 1970’s backdrop. The show, which debuted at California's Pasadena Playhouse in 2006, has crossed the pond for an open-ended run.
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SUNRISE, Fla. - They were out of gas and nearly out of the building with a regulation win.
Down one defenseman for nearly the whole match and two defensemen for the final 14:40 of the third, the Rangers' conservative approach earned them two hard-won points when they pulled out a 2-1 win in a shootout on Henrik Lundqvist's three shootout saves and P.A. Parenteau's goal.
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Anna Mejia of Arleta planned to start her Christmas shopping at 1 a.m. today, staking out her local Walmart store in order to get first dibs on discounted electronics when the doors opened four hours later.
With a holiday budget of $1,000, the store manager hopes to snap up a laptop computer and two iPod Touches, music and games.
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Each year, at the onset of monsoon, around half a million people gather together in Maharashtra, India, to participate in a unique pilgrimage that has an unbroken tradition of over 800 years. The wari tradition has entirely been a peoples' initiative. The wari helps warkaris draw the Divine closer to the very essence of the soul, preparing the individual to return to daily life with a renewed sense of purpose.
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Out of a fractured region in 9th century AD rose the magnificent Imperial Cholas, a power that forged the future on the anvil of their times. They left an indelible mark not merely on all aspects of life in the region but also on the story of international trade, reaching out both east and west to create linkages that would have far reaching consequences.
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IT will be a bleak Hari Raya Haji this weekend for Sugiarni Nordin and her housemates. They lost all their worldly possessions when a fire razed their Kampung Baru house in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Nevertheless, the 43-yearold widow was fortunate as no one in her family was injured when the singlestorey house — partitioned into several rooms for rent — was destroyed during the 9.30am incident.
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SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Education (MOE) said that effective communication skills are essential in the information age.
At a teaching seminar, the ministry emphasised that teachers play a key role in ensuring that students are able to use English to communicate effectively.
Launched on Wednesday, the "EL Cube" is an example of an online resource developed to help teachers plan English lessons more efficiently.
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