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The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying musical instruments and uniforms for a boy's band he vows to organize - despite the fact he doesn't know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian, the town librarian, with chaos ensuing as the townsfolk get wind of his scheme. Filled with classical musical fun, tender romance and show tune favorites, including 'Ya Got Trouble,' 'Seventy-Six Trombones,' 'Goodnight My Someone,' 'Gary, Indiana' and 'Till There Was You,' THE MUSIC MAN is the perfect All-American Musical.

DONNA McKECHNIE, Tony-Award winner and star of the original 'A Chorus Line' performs her unique theatrical experience, 'MY MUSICAL COMEDY LIFE' in an exclusive, South Florida engagement as part of The PlayGround Theatre's new project, Between Engagements. Ms. McKechnie, one of Broadway's most beloved and enduring stars appears in the limited, three-performance run at The PlayGround Theatre in Miami Shores on Saturday, February 12th at 8pm and Sunday, February 13th at 2pm and 7:30pm. 'MY MUSICAL COMEDY LIFE,' is Directed by Richard Jay-Alexander with Musical Direction by Eugene Gwozdz.

Broward Cultural Division invites artists, gallery owners and creative entrepreneurs to hear author and artist Heather Darcy Bhandari speak at a closing forum for Doing Business As...Artist Entrepreneurs, DBA 2011, on February 23, 2011, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. D.B.A 2011 features eight South Florida artists who are graduates of the Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute (AEI). This third annual exhibition will be located at gallery six, in the Broward County Main Library, 100 S. Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301.

MIAMI CITY BALLET continues its 25th Anniversary Season in South Florida with Program III and the Company Premiere of Paul Taylor's powerful Promethean Fire. Program III also features these audience favorites: George Balanchine's enthralling Scotch Symphony and Twyla Tharp's popular Nine Sinatra Songs. The Opus One Orchestra will play, under the baton of maestro Gary Sheldon, 42 to 56 musicians strong, supported by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Knight Arts Challenge.

Stage Aurora Theatrical Company presents the Award winning Broadway Play and Film, FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF by Ntozake Shange, March 18-20 and 25- 27, 2011 at the Stage Aurora Performance Hall -5188 Norwood Avenue, Jacksonville, FL.

The Tony Award nominee Ann Hampton Callaway made her Royal Room debut in January 2002 and is returning for her sixth engagement at The Colony. One of the finest singer/songwriters of our time, the statuesque performer dazzles music lovers as a singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger, and quick-witted actress. Her talents have made her equally at home in jazz and pop as well as on stage, in the recording studio, on TV and in film. She is best known for starring in the hit Broadway musical Swing! and for writing and singing the theme to the internationally successful TV series, The Nanny.

For over 50 years Ann Landers dished out direct, insightful, and honest advice to millions of Americans. From lovelorn teens to housewives in distress, no topic was off limits for the no-nonsense Ann Landers, but now, with a deadline looming, she finds herself facing a new kind of heartbreak. Her own.

Florida Studio Theatre launched a special online discussion about the new play Race and the issues that arise in David Mamet's most recent work, now playing on the Keating stage. This online forum is in conjunction with the panel discussion that was held last Friday, February 4 with community leaders about race in our society. The online discussion can be found at http://RACEatFST.wordpress.com.

Gulfshore Playhouse was named 14th of 89 top-rated Arts nonprofits nationwide by the GreatNonProfits website. A total of 288 nonprofit organizations working to promote the arts were rated and reviewed by stakeholders. Over the course of the campaign, more than 60,000 people visited the GreatNonprofits site to read and write reviews.

Written by Kim Ehly, who has been seen previously on The New's stage in Mauritius, The Hour of the Tiger, The Gates of Choice and Fill Our Mouths. The screenplay version of Baby Girl recently placed as a finalist in the NewFest Film Festival in New York City.

Casting has been announced for the premiere Miami engagement of the Tony®, Grammy® and Olivier Award-winning hit musical JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, playing at the Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County from March 2 - 20, 2011. The cast of JERSEY BOYS will be led by Matt Bailey (Tommy DeVito), Joseph Leo Bwarie (Frankie Valli), Michael Lomenda (Nick Massi) and Quinn VanAntwerp (Bob Gaudio) as The Four Seasons, with Jonathan Hadley and Joseph Siravo.

The Broward Center for the Performing Arts is holding auditions for singers to perform alongside world-class Cirque Dreams athletes, performance artists and Broadway's biggest stars in the March 24 world premiere of Cirque Dreams Broadway directed by Neil Goldberg. Auditions will be held on Saturday, February 12 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Abdo New River Room at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m.

For over 50 years Ann Landers dished out direct, insightful, and honest advice to millions of Americans. From lovelorn teens to housewives in distress, no topic was off limits for the no-nonsense Ann Landers, but now, with a deadline looming, she finds herself facing a new kind of heartbreak. Her own.

RESPECT, which has been continuously evolving since its debut as a one-woman show in 1999, is an entertaining, exuberant and exhilarating look at the lives of women as reflected in the popular music of the 20th Century. The show ran for over a year at the Cuillo Centre for the Arts in West Palm Beach and for six months at the Stage Door 26th Street Theatre in Fort Lauderdale, before ‘going on the road' and playing in multiple cities across the United States - including Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Detroit, Green Bay and Minneapolis. RESPECT has also ‘gone international' - playing to enthusiastic houses in Melbourne and Brisbane Australia. This production arrives in Coral Springs fresh from a 20 week engagement in Philadelphia, and 8 sold out weeks in Phoenix.

'Glengarry Glen Ross' explodes at the Waterfront Playhouse' says Mark Howell in his rave review in Solares Hill. David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is wowing audiences and sparking debate at the award-winning Waterfront Playhouse through February 12th. Considered to be one of the theater's masterworks of the late 20th Century, 'Glengarry' has been the recipient of every major theater award available. Directed by George Gugleotti, 'Glengarry' features a powerhouse ensemble of actors. The production is sponsored by AT&T, The Real Yellow Pages. 'Glengarry' carries an audience advisory of 'adult language.'

The Lake Worth Playhouse continues its 58th season with the modern madcap musical comedy, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS. The production features a cast of Playhouse favorites mixed with new talent from throughout South Florida. Performances run from January 21 through February 6 2011, with a Preview Night performance on January 20, on the stage of the Lake Worth Playhouse located at 713 Lake Avenue in downtown Lake Worth.

West Palm Beach's longest residing professional theatre, Palm Beach Dramaworks, continues its 11th anniversary season with Donald Margulies' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, 'Dinner with Friends' on Friday, February 25th (8PM) at their intimate downtown theatre (322 Banyan Boulevard). Special priced preview performances are slated for February 23rd & 24th (8PM) and the production will play through April 17th.

Rising Action Theatre is honored to present the South Florida Premiere of the Tony Award-winning Grey Gardens, the Musical. Based on the highly acclaimed 1975 Maysles Brothers film documentary, it is the story of Jackie Kennedy's relatives 'Big Edie' Bouvier Beale and her adult daughter 'Little Edie' and the overgrown, crumbling East Hampton mansion they shared for decades. Set at the Grey Gardens mansion, the musical follows the progression of the lives of the two Edies from their original social status as wealthy and polished aristocrats in the 1940's to their eventual existence as penniless eccentrics in a crumbling home. But, the real focus is clearly on the unending psychological struggle between a mother and a daughter. The story is joyous, heartwarming, sad, and funny.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, one of the world's favorite dance companies, returns to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County February 17-20, as part of a 24-city U.S. Tour celebrating 50 years of Alvin Ailey's timeless masterpiece, Revelations. Ailey's acclaimed dancers, including Miami natives Amos J. Machanic, Jr. and Jamar Roberts, will move audiences with exciting premieres, dramatic new productions, repertory favorites and classic Revelations.

Written by Kim Ehly, who has been seen previously on The New's stage in Mauritius, The Hour of the Tiger, The Gates of Choice and Fill Our Mouths. The screenplay version of Baby Girl recently placed as a finalist in the NewFest Film Festival in New York City.