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NEW YORK, March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- D3 LED, LLC (D3), the global leader in design, engineering and technology for the LED (light emitting diode) display market, today announced its completion of the first state-of-the-art LED display marquee and digital media system in Broadway theatre history for New Amsterdam Theatre at 214 West 42nd Street in New York City. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120326/NY76541) Completed in 1903, the landmark New Amsterdam...
SAO PAULO, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- T4F-TIME FOR FUN has signed a partnership with Disney Theatrical Group (DTG) to promote three major Broadway musicals in South America over the next five years. T4F acquired the exclusive rights to promote three main contents of the Disney-DTG: "Mary Poppins", "The Little Mermaid", and "The Lion King", one of the most successful musicals of all time and which for the first time will have an authentic montage in the continent. "The Lion King" is...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110428/DC91889LOGO) SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25: CHIMNEY SAFETY Profile America -- Sunday, September 25th. According to the song "Chim-chim-cher-ee" from "Mary Poppins," a soot-covered chimney sweep is a sign of good luck. While there may be fewer chimneys today than in old London, just over half of new homes in the U.S....
BURBANK, Calif., July 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Disney fans attending the first day of Disney's D23 Expo, presented by D23: The Official Disney Fan Club, August 19-21 at the Anaheim Convention Center, will be able to end their day with an unforgettable evening of harmony provided by Dick Van Dyke & The Vantastix. The popular vocal quartet is comprised of legendary television, Broadway, and film star Dick Van Dyke and three renowned west coast musicians--Mike Mendyke, Bryan Chadima and Eric...
NEW YORK, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- On Monday, November 8th, the VH1 Save The Music Foundation will honor, a living legend, Julie Andrews along with previously announced Grammy® Award Winners John Legend, John Mayer and The ASCAP Foundation. Paul Williams, the legendary songwriter, and now president of ASCAP, will accept on behalf of the Foundation. Natasha Bedingfield, a member of the VH1 Save the Music Alumni Ambassador Group is scheduled to perform. The program for the evening will...
MALIBU, Calif., May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- A standing room only crowd gave film and TV star Dick Van Dyke a warm welcome after he made a personal appearance at the Malibu Film Festival on Thursday. Van Dyke plays the title role in The Caretaker 3D, a glowing tribute to the Hollywood Sign, produced under the Demand Z Content shingle by Jeffrey Amaral, who co-wrote the film along with director Sean Isroelit. 50 years after Mary Poppins, the 84 year old star is still enthusiastic about working on...
ANAHEIM, Calif., March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- They've written some of the most memorable songs in Disney theme park - and motion picture - history, and on March 11, 2010, the Academy Award-winning composers of the music from "It's a Small World" and The Enchanted Tiki Room, as well as "Mary Poppins," will receive the highest honor that the Disneyland Resort bestows. The Sherman brothers, Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, will receive a tribute window on Main Street, U.S.A. Among the...
Actor Dallas McKennon, who offered his voice to animated film characters, has died in Raymond, Wash., at the age of 89, his daughter Barbara Porter says. The Los Angeles Times reported Saturday McKennon died of age-related causes at the Willapa Harbor Care Center, ending a career in which his voice was featured in movies such as Lady and the Tramp, 101 Dalmatians and Mary Poppins. Fellow voice actor Will Ryan remembered McKennon, who died Tuesday, as an actor capable of lending enthusiastic...
A Chicago audience for a weekend stage performance of Disney's Mary Poppins was sent home after computer malfunctions forced its cancellation, producers said. Several people who e-mailed the Chicago Tribune said the Saturday show at the Cadillac Palace Theatre was shut down after 15 minutes and audience members waited 45 minutes before it was announced the show would not go on due to safety concerns, the newspaper reported Monday. Mary Poppins has two weeks left to go in its Chicago run. The...
Disney's musical Tarzan has completed its Holland engagement at the Circus Theatre in Scheveningen, just outside Amsterdam after 900 performances. The production, which opened in April 2007 and wrapped last Sunday, was seen by 1.6 million audience members during its run, making it one of the most successful musicals in Holland, representatives for the show said in a news release. Based on the story Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Disney animated film, Tarzan, the stage...
