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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Ginger Rogers Century\nEvent Url: http://www.artsbo
 ston.org/event/detail/441420084/Ginger_Rogers_Century\nEvent Date Begin: 2
 011-10-24\nEvent Date End: 2011-10-25\n\nGINGER ROGERS\, the Academy Award
  winning screen legend from the films 42nd Street\, Top Hat\, The Gay Divo
 rcee and dozens more\, would have been 100 this year. She will be celebrat
 ed with a live performance and an exhibition of her archive and memorabili
 a created as a tribute to her life and career as one of America's most lum
 inescent and talented motion picture actresses. The special exhibition ope
 ns at Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center on Monda
 y\, October 24. Hosted by Nick Clooney\, the event will feature an appeara
 nce by special guest Angela Lansbury. The live performances will debut at 
 the Tsai Performance Center (October 24) in Boston and the Coolidge Corner
  Theatre in Brookline (October 25).\nThe items shown in the exhibition are
  exclusive\, and the show is being written especially for the event &ndash
 \; containing stories and music about and by Ginger. It paints a portrait 
 of this incredible Oscar winning actress\, dancer\, comedienne\, artist\, 
 and singer who was a cosmopolitan woman\, leading the way in a career in m
 otion pictures\, as well as in her personal life.\nThis exclusive engageme
 nt (in Boston in October\, and NYC in early 2012) will include not only th
 e songs written especially for her by Irving Berlin\, the Gershwins\, Jero
 me Kern\, and many more &ndash\; but it will tell stories from her life th
 at have never been heard\, contain songs that she wrote\, and share moment
 s kept in diaries by her very creative writer/mother Lela. Some of the fil
 m clips will include her fantastic dancing\, her Oscar winning performance
  in Kitty Foyle\, her creation of the character Roxie Hart (that was to be
 come the basis for the musical Chicago) and her comic turns with Cary Gran
 t.\nHosted by famed film historian Nick Clooney and starring the wonderful
  singer and actress Karen Oberlin backed by a fine quartet of musicians &n
 dash\; this show will be a first for the nation in 2011. Also at each perf
 ormance\, a special invited guest star will appear to reminisce about Ging
 er's importance to American film\, and to American society. \n\nStart time
 : The special live performance will be on Monday October 24 at 8:00 PM at 
 Tsai Performance Center (685 Commonwealth Avenue\, Boston\, Massachusetts 
 02215).\nThere will be a second performance on Tuesday\, October 25 at 7:3
 0 PM at the Coolidge Corner Theatre (290 Harvard Street\, Brookline\, MA 0
 2446).
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