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First Things First for Lari White
Source: USA Today
Lari White is working her way down her career checklist. "I'm trying to check them all off, slowly but surely," says the 40-year-old jill-of-all-trades.
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Video: Opening Night for Ring of Fire
Source: Broadway.com
Broadway.com presents a video from Opening Night. Watch exclusive interviews with Director Richard Maltby, Jr. and stars Jeb Brown, Jason Edwards, Jarrod Emick, Beth Malone, Cass Morgan and Lari White.
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The Talk of the Town
Source: New Yorker Magazine
Two Sundays ago, John Carter Cash woke up at four-thirty in the morning, drank some coffee, and kissed his wife goodbye. He got in his Ford F-150 and drove a few miles to pick up John Jackson Routh. John Carter is, technically, John Jackson’s half uncle, but the two men call each other cousins. “Actually, he’s more like a big brother to me,” John Jackson said. The pair like to fish together, and go to movies, but that day (after having consolidated their suits in one hanging bag) they were on their way to the Nashville airport. They were flying to New York City, for the premičre of “Ring of Fire,” a Broadway show built around the music of Johnny Cash, who was John Carter’s father, John Jackson’s step-grandfather, and the namesake of them both.
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Review: Johnny Cash Tribute is Money Well Spent
Source: USA TODAY
The man in black was both a country icon and a roots maverick, a red-state favorite and a hero to the disenfranchised and to modern rock fans. That Fire succeeds in capturing these various aspects is a credit to Maltby and his collaborators, notably a cast that offers some of THE BEST SINGING YOU’RE LIKELY TO HEAR ON BROADWAY THIS SEASON. This GIFTED ENSEMBLE sounds entirely at home delivering gritty, witty tunes. An EXCELLENT BAND appears on stage, taking part in the numbers and further enhancing their authenticity.
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Review: Now He's Stagedoor Johnny
Source: The Star-Ledger
A 'RING' worth grabbing! With IMMENSELY TALENTED people who rustle up STERLING SONGS to EXHILARATING LIFE, and a GENUINE ATMOSPHERE OF CELEBRATION, 'RING OF FIRE' shines brightly.
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Review: Musical Places Cash’s Songs Centerstage
Source: The Journal News
BREATHTAKING & VIBRANT! A STYLISH, SPIRITED MUSICAL CELEBRATION, EXQUISITELY STAGED BY THE SUPREMELY GIFTED RICHARD MALTBY JR. Broadway audiences will emerge with a richer sense of Johnny Cash and his music."
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RING OF FIRE to be featured on VH1’s “Top 20 Video Countdown”
Ring of Fire will be featured on VH1’s “Top 20 Video Countdown” this week (first broadcast: Friday, March 17th at 6:00-8:00PM). Tune in to see Ring of Fire’s Lari White and Jarrod Emick discuss their experience performing Johnny Cash’s famous songs onstage. Please check cable listings channel information.
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Video: On the Aisle with Broadway's Ring of Fire
Source: CBS
An inside look at Johnny Cash, his music, and how it translates to the Broadway stage.
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RING OF FIRE EXCLUSIVE
Source: Broadway.com
Go behind the music with Ring of Fire cast members. This week, Beth Malone explains the genesis of the title song, "Ring of Fire."
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A Master of Puzzles Unlocks the Man in Black
Source: New York Times, Arts & Leisure
The cast of three men and three women sitting around a table in a spare studio on 45th Street were rehearsing for the March 8 Broadway opening of "Ring of Fire," the new show based on Johnny Cash's songs. Only on this cold January day, there wasn't going to be any music. Just reading. Richard Maltby Jr., the director and a pioneer of the popular jukebox musical, wanted to hear Mr. Cash's lyrics recited.
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Country Singer Helps Bring 'Fire' to Broadway
Source: The Star Ledger
Lari White has an ease about her that suggests a life well chosen. Her
eyes are alert, her smile ready and she's at home in boots and jeans.
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No need for Cash in 'Ring of Fire'
Source: Bergen Record
Although he said he admired "Walk the Line," the recent Cash bio film, Maltby said he wasn't interested in using the songs to narrowly and specifically tell Cash's story.
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CASH-ING IN ON HOUSE
Source: Broadway Matinee
THE Godfather's out, the Man in Black is in. A revival of "Or phans" starring Al Pacino, which was aiming to open at the Ethel Barrymore this season, has fallen apart under murky circumstances.
In the wake of its sudden collapse, the producers of "Ring of Fire," a musical about Johnny Cash that's trying out in Buffalo, have snapped up the Barrymore. "Ring of Fire" will open there in mid-February.
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Ring of Fire to play Broadway's Barrymore Theatre
Source: Playbill.com
Ring of Fire, the new Johnny Cash-inspired musical currently playing the Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo through Oct. 9, will open at Broadway's Barrymore Theatre in 2006.
The producers of Fire announced Sept. 28 that the musical, directed and co-conceived by Richard Maltby, Jr., will begin performances at the Barrymore (243 West 47th Street) in mid-February...
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The Buffalo News Raves!
"Ring of Fire: The Johnny Cash Musical Show" ….is a fabulous piece of entertainment, a show that gracefully, beguilingly, transcends its own limits at every turn. It goes on to San Francisco in January and then, if it's the hit I think it will be there, on to Broadway in March. If I'm any judge, Buffalo has launched a big one here.
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Variety Raves!
"Ring of Fire" (in Buffalo on the initial stop of its pre-Broadway tour) is being called the Johnny Cash musical show and at first glance, it may seem to be light years apart from Maltby's classic 1978 Fats Waller revue, "Ain't Misbehavin'." But on closer examination, it shares many of the admirable traits of its predecessor...
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Even in death, Man in Black looms large
Source: USA Today
Both icon and iconoclast, Johnny Cash began his career as a tormented superstar possessed of a black-clad, James Dean cool. He ended it as a soft-spoken sage who showed future generations of musicians how to stare down age and death with dignity.
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Bird in a Guilded Cage
Source: LOS ANGELES TIMES MAGAZINE
Among Johnny Cash's lifetime achievements--a buckboard full of Grammys, admission into both the Rock and Roll and Country Music halls of fame, that enviable blue-black pompadour--is this: He executed the definitive middle-finger salute.
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