James Sims

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  • ‘Addams Family’ Lands Dead as a Doornail on Broadway

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    James Sims

    ‘The Addams Family’ is an entertainment legacy that deserves a splashy introduction to the Broadway community, yet with the small melodies by composer Andrew Lippa — a soft attempt at quirky songs that never get quirky enough — the musical comes off like an off-Broadway tuner with a dream of bigger digs. The iconic Addams…

  • Carrie Fisher Drinks Her Way to Broadway

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    James Sims

    Drugs, booze, divorces and affairs might sound like a run of the mill Jerry Springer episode, but even the rich and famous succumb to such pitfalls in Tinseltown, and when you’re the child of a movie star mother and famed crooner father, every vice runs the risk of making headlines. How does a famous person…