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Late last year, it launched the restaging of the Broadway hit "Dreamgirls," now on tour. When James Brown died in late 2006, his body was placed on the Apollo stage, drawing thousands of mourners.
If you've ever dreamed of stepping onto the Apollo stage for Amateur Night, dazzling the audience with a rookie performance and taking your first step toward stardom, the dream is still alive ...
“She’s Gotta Have It” and “Three Women” star DeWanda Wise took to the Apollo stage to accept her flowers at The Root 100. She offered an inspiring speech to the audience, emphasizing ...
Homegirl had a masterful command of the stage, and lyrics, too. As everyone knows, the Apollo/New York crowd can be rough if not apathetic, but Kyah rose to the occasion.
Just to say you know I was on the Apollo stage, this little ol' girl from Iowa," she laughs. Calister and her band, "The Feel Right" band, perform regularly throughout central Iowa.
And the theater lays claim to being the stage where Ella Fitzgerald shoo-bee-dee-doo-whopped for the very first time. Vaughan won the weekly Amateur Night contest in 1943; Brown won in 1956; and ...
The preservation grants are significant for the money, 'but also as a recognition of the ongoing efforts to preserve history and culture.' ...
Shaw was aboard the USS Hornet, when Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 returned from the moon. “My assignment was to be a photographer, ...
Once America's most experienced astronaut, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell, who died at 97, was the first to visit the moon twice.