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Article: BROADWAY STAR TERRENCE MANN NAMED TO LEAD MUSICAL THEATRE PROGRAM AT WESTERN CAROLINA
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 17, 2006
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Western Carolina University issued the following news release:
Students in Western Carolina University's musical theatre program soon will be learning from a Broadway veteran with a reputation for being a real "beast" on the set.
Terrence Mann, who originated the role of the Beast in the Broadway production of "Beauty and the Beast," is the new Carolyn Plemmons Phillips and Ben R. Phillips Distinguished Professor in Musical Theatre at Western. Mann, who earned Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for best actor for his performance of the Beast, joins the WCU faculty beginning this fall semester.
"Our students in the performing arts already have access to one of the best ...