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History of Tales of Tinseltown

By Michael Colby   Posted 4.12.2016   Backstage, History, Musicals, Movies, Hollywood
Actors Co-Op, Los Angeles, CA

“Strip the phony tinsel off Hollywood and you’ll find the real tinsel underneath.” –Oscar Levant

Hollywood Babylon. Rodgers & Hart. That’s Entertainment II. Those were some of the inspirations behind the creation of Tales of Tinseltown by composer Paul Katz and myself.

In the movie tribute, That’s Entertainment II (1976), there’s a section about a bunch of Hollywood stars who hopped on the musical movie bandwagon ...

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Becoming Britney NYC Fringe

It was one of our first complete run-throughs of Becoming Britney. Putting the pieces together had been a stressful rush since May 4th when we received our acceptance letter from The New York International Fringe Festival, and we were just over a week from departing for New York, where we would stay ...

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