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Story: “Classic Singin’ in the Rain’ comes to Walnut Creek’s Lesher Center

"Anyway, that was my experience with the woman who played Kathy Selden, and Feb. 8 I'll reconnect with a real, live "Singin' in the Rain" when I see Melissa WolfKlain as Selden..."
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Story: “His Way”

A show coming to the Lesher Center for the Arts explores the music of Sinatra and by extension its meaning in our lives. In Diablo Theatre Company’s My Way, A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra four singers and eight dancers take the reins of Sinatra’s songbook...
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Story: “‘Hairspray’ is STARS 2000 Teen Theatre’s 20th Anniversary Show”

"Stars 2000 allows teens and young adults to come together to put on a professional show,"
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Story: Braden Sweeney Co-Choreographs STARS 2000 Teen Theatre’s HAIRSPRAY

Braden’s rare combination of initiative and determination, combined with sparkling talent, gives his colleagues reason to be confident he has a great future in front of him in the performing arts.
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Story: “Danville Mom Is New East Bay Impresario”

"Krissy Gray is the new managing director of central Contra Costa's venerable Diablo Theatre Company."
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Story: “Walnut Creek ‘Legally Blonde’ gets Broadway veteran as its star”

"Five years and six days ago, "Legally Blonde" opened its pre-Broadway preview in San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre. About that same time, Bailey Hanks was a kid living in South Carolina, eating, sleeping and breathing theater, and vowing that one day she would be Elle Woods on stage."
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Story: “Blonde Ambition” – Diablo Magazine

"After years of singing lessons, dance classes, and community theater, she won the MTV reality contest Legally Blonde, the Musical: the Search for Elle Woods. That landed Hanks the starring role in the Broadway adaptation of the hit Reese Witherspoon movie, and now she is re-creating the part for...
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Story: “What You Can Learn From a Blonde”

"The show is about Elle proving to her boyfriend, all the rest of us, and ultimately herself that she is anything but a stereotype."
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Story: “BWW Interviews LEGALLY BLONDE’s Bailey Hanks!”

"Hanks talked with BWW's Linda Hodges about what it was like to be in the MTV spotlight, how she handles the challenges in her life what scrumptious thing she and Elle have in common - besides being blondes!"
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Story: “A Blizzard in Walnut Creek”

"Diablo Theatre Company provides a Walnut Creek blizzard of nostalgia and love with the second annual presentation of White Christmas..."
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