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September 2019

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‘Miss Saigon’ Reveals Consequences of War at ASU Gammage

September 29, 2019 Arts & Culture Featured Articles Rebecca Rudnyk

Miss Saigon is generally considered a modern classic. A cannon work in Broadway’s soaring age of powerful, post-Golden Age, works. It opened in the West End in 1989 and premiered on Broadway in 1991, winning several Tony Awards for performances, although none for technical or developmental components. Based on Puccini’s Madame Butterfly and inspired by a photograph of painful childhood separation after the Vietnam War, it was the Schonberg/Boublil collaborative work immediately following Les Misérables…

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Radio Phoenix Broadcast of It’s Not Our Fault: Lydia Lunch

September 28, 2019 Amy Young Dan Schwartz Featured Articles It's Not Our Fault Radio Phoenix Tom Reardon

On this edition of It’s Not Our Fault w/ Tom and Amy on Radio Phoenix, Tom talks to the fierce, confrontational writer, visual, and spoken word artist and musician Lydia Lunch! Join as they chat about her new book, So Real It Hurts, her show at Valley Bar, and more. Lunch has worked with artsy visionaries including Nick Cave, Karen Finley, Jerry Stahl, and Hubert Selby Jr….

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Radio Phoenix Broadcast of It’s Not Our Fault: Soundtrack Songs

September 22, 2019 Amy Young Dan Schwartz Featured Articles It's Not Our Fault Radio Phoenix Tom Reardon

On a bonus episode of “It’s Not Our Fault” with Tom and Amy on the YabYum Hour, the hosts discuss soundtrack songs that are meaningful to them and examine how. This is the first part in a soundtrack series that will lead up to a guest-filled final episode to discuss three specific titles and their soundtracks…

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