GOOD MUSICALS, FINALLY: Contemporary Classics presents its fifth annual "New Voices" festival tonight at Seattle Rep's PONCHO Forum. Bringing together songs from leading musical theatre composers and Seattle's top performers, local musical guru Brandon Ivie seeks to dispel the notion that musical theatre is dead, whatever the mediocre fare on Broadway. As composers incorporate modern forms like rock and hiphop into the repertoire, and writers see the campy theatricality of musical as a means to discuss our every faker culture of "reality" shows and infotainment, the American musical theatre is as exciting as ever, and this one night only revue is Seattle's best chance to catch something better than yet another lame musical adaptation of a movie. more ›