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PHOTO CALL: Tracie Bennett Stars as Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow
PHOTO CALL: Tracie Bennett Stars as Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow
By Matthew Blank
23 Feb 2012
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As previously reported, Bennett, who earned an Olivier Award nomination for her portrayal of Garland in the final year of her life, will repeat her performance for American audiences. Peter Quilter's music-filled drama will officially open at the Belasco April 2, 2012, under the direction of Tony Award-winning La Cage aux Folles director Terry Johnson.
Joining Bennett will be Cumpsty (The Constant Wife, Democracy) as Garland's accompanist, Anthony, with Emmy winner Pelphrey ("Guiding Light") as her husband, Mickey Deans, and Russell (Our Town, The Play What I Wrote) in a variety of roles.
Lee Dean, Laurence Myers, Jenny Topper and Joey Parnes produce End of the Rainbow. Prior to their Broadway arrival, the American cast of End of the Rainbow will first play Minneapolis’s Guthrie Theater Jan. 28-March 11, 2012.
According to the producers, "End of the Rainbow is set in December 1968 and Judy Garland is about to make her comeback... again. In a London hotel room preparing for a series of concerts, with both her new young fiancé and her adoring accompanist, Garland struggles to get 'beyond the rainbow' with her signature cocktail of talent, tenacity, and razor-sharp wit. This savagely funny drama offers unique insight into the inner conflict that inspired and consumed one of the most beloved figures in American popular culture. End of the Rainbow features some of Garland’s most memorable songs, performed with the show-stopping gusto for which she will always be remembered."
Bennett previously worked with Johnson in the London revival of La Cage aux Folles. She earned Olivier Awards for her performances as Velma Von Tussle in Hairspray and as Ilona Ritter She Loves Me. Her stage credits also include Les Miserables and Cash On Delivery. Numerous screen appearances include "Vincent," "The Long Firm," "Heroes and Villains," "Next of Kin," "Coronation Street," "Going Out," "Shirley Valentine," "Knights and Emeralds" and "Deep Red Instant Love."
Visit EndoftheRainbowBroadway.com.
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Nuts.com Migrates Domain, Follows Google's Instructions But Rankings Don't Follow
I've been following a thread at Google Webmaster Help where a webmaster said he migrated his site from one domain to another, followed the moving site instructions Google has laid out for webmasters exactly and almost two months later still doesn't have the rankings the old site had on the old domain.
The site migrated from NutsOnline.com to Nuts.com, the webmaster said:
On January 6th, we submitted a change of address for http://www.nutsonline.com to nuts.com. We followed everything to the T. 301s, change of address in webmaster tools, and even tried to consolidate old indexed pages with rel=canonical and redirects.
Yea, this is a large site and it will take time, but Googler John Mueller chimed in with his somewhat disappointment in Google taking this long to pick up the new site. John wrote:
I'm sorry to hear that it's been this frustrating for your site. We worked hard to make our systems as fast and as pain-free as possible when it comes to site moves, so it's particularly frustrating for us to see situations where algorithmic fluctuations from such a change last longer than we'd want. Looking into your site, the issues you're seeing are very likely to settle down over time, as our algorithms get used to the new content and are able to migrate all associated signals properly.
He basically said, yea - you did everything right but Google's algorithms were in flux causing a slow down in the migration time. At least that is how I read it.
Maybe more interesting is the comment he made about "over time, as our algorithms get used to the new content and are able to migrate all associated signals properly." So no, 301 redirects do not lead to immediate ranking signal migration from the origin URL to the destination URL.
Alistair Lattimore who has been in correspondence with me on this thread felt that you can look into his comment as saying, a " 301 redirect doesn't magically transfer all ranking data over to the new domain/URLs, such as Google Panda signals as an example."
I hope the webmaster keeps us posted on the migration status.
Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.
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Nuts.com Migrates Domain, Follows Google's Instructions But Rankings Don't Follow
Gannon women beat Slippery Rock, clinch No. 2 seed in PSAC playoffs
SLIPPERY ROCK -- The Gannon women's basketball team clinched the No. 2 seed in the PSAC playoffs with a 75-59 win over Slippery Rock Wednesday.
Caitlyn Lowe scored 16 points to lead the 18th-ranked Golden Knights.
Gannon (21-4 overall, 18-3 PSAC West) jumped to an early 5-2 lead before the Rock's Jasmine Cooper hit a 3-pointer to tie the game 2 minutes, 20 seconds into the first half to tie the game.
From there, it was all Gannon.
With 14:29 left in the first half and Gannon up 11-10, Lowe hit a 3-pointer to spark an 11-0 run to pull away.
It was all Gannon in the second half.
The Knights forced 20 Slippery Rock turnovers and scored 30 points off those turnovers.
Doriyon Glass and Nettie Blake each had 15 points and nine rebounds for Gannon.
Cooper scored a game-high 20 points for the Rock (5-20, 2-19).
Gannon will travel to 24th-ranked Indiana Saturday before a rematch against IUP in the PSAC quarterfinals Tuesday at Hammermill Center. Tickets for the quarterfinal will be available today, Friday, Monday and Tuesday.
General admission tickets are $7 for adults and $2 for students and senior citizens. Students at any participating school will be admitted free by showing a valid school ID at the door.
Plush and chairback seats cost $10. Season-ticket holders can renew their seats today, Friday and Monday between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the Carneval Athletic Pavilion, located through Gannon's Athletic Department doors at Third and Peach streets.
For information, call Dan Teliski, Gannon director of athletics media relations, at 871-7418.
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Gannon women beat Slippery Rock, clinch No. 2 seed in PSAC playoffs