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  • March is almost over, but we’re still in time for one of the monthly celebrations on this week’s Dress Circle (3/30 7:00 p.m.): celebrating Foreign Language Month! We’ve dug through out collection to come up with fourteen songs from English language musicals from foreign casts.
  • The theme for this week’s Dress Circle (3/16 7:00 p.m.) came about as we were researching ideas for future programs. We noticed that almost all musicals feature songs where someone is leaving, telling someone else to leave, hinting someone else should leave, or is caught between leaving and staying. We came up with a list long enough to do several programs, so we thought we’d start this week with songs “Saying Goodbye or Not.”
  • In the past, we’ve “marched” into March, but we’ve decided to “Parade into March” on this week’s Dress Circle (3/9 7:00 p.m.) with songs from a variety of musicals from stage and screen. We’ve done a program of parades before, but this time, the titles must contain the word “parade.”
  • Paul J. Smith wrote or orchestrated over 55 scores for animated films and 25 live action projects for The Walt Disney Studios. We're going to introduce you to the man whose music you probably already know through three of his scores for animated features and three from live-action films.
  • Not all animated musicals come from the Disney Studios, and we’re going to look at four of them on this week’s Dress Circle (11/22 7:00 p.m.). From an…