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Drama, 4 musicals are new this week

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From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Date: 20070909
Author:Ivan M. Lincoln Deseret Morning News

Four musicals and an original drama about poet Edna St. Vincent Millay are among this week's new productions.

--JOHNNY GUITAR, THE MUSICAL, an off-Broadway send-up of the 1954 Western-noir film, opens the Grand Theatre's 2007-08 season on Friday and continues through Sept. 29.

The original movie starred Joan Crawford as Vienna, owner of a saloon; Mercedes McCambridge as Emma Small, who owns the bank and half the small frontier town; and Sterling Hayden as drifter- gunslinger Johnny "Guitar" Logan. Vienna hopes to expand her business when the railroad comes through town, but Emma, driven by ...

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