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Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus' global smash hit musical MAMMA MIA! will welcome Brandi Burkhardt to the Broadway cast as bride-to-be 'Sophie Sheridan' when she begins performances at the Winter Garden Theatre on Tuesday, January 27th, 2009. Allison Case will play her final performance in the role on Sunday, January 25th.

Jimmy Osmond announced today that the legendary Osmonds will return to The Osmonds Theater in Branson, Missouri to perform several engagements in 2009. Celebrating 50 years in show business and having just returned from a sold-out world concert tour, the Osmonds look forward to playing daily to Branson audiences later this year.

Various online reports are indicating that Tony Winner Lin-Manuel Miranda will play his final performance as 'Usnavi' in his acclaimed Broadway hit, IN THE HEIGHTS on Sunday, February 15th, 2009 at 7pm. IN THE HEIGHTS opened to critical acclaim, going on to win four 2008 Tony Awards (Best Musical, Best Score, Best Choreography, Best Orchestrations), and garnering a 2008 Grammy Award nomination for the original cast album. In November, 2008, Universal Pictures acquired the rights to produce a feature film based on IN THE HEIGHTS.

Former Speed-The-Plow star Jeremy Piven was out and about at last night's Golden Globe Awards, and was vocal regarding his scandalous exit from the Broadway production.

Roundabout Theatre Company's (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents a once-in-a-lifetime gala concert reading of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's enchanting, Tony Award-winning masterpiece A Little Night Music tonight Monday, January 12th, 2009 at 7:30PM at Studio 54 (254 West 54th St.)

Jean Doumanian Productions and Barrow Street Theatre(Scott Morfee and Tom Wirtshafter) today announced that they will produce director David Cromer's acclaimed staging of Thornton Wilder's Our Town at Off Broadway's Barrow Street Theatre. Performances will begin on February 17, with anofficial opening night set for Thursday, February 26. The production will require acomplete redesign of the theater space.

Saving a Drowning Man is directed by Autumn Clark and features Tom Bartos, Lyndsay Becker, Curran Connor, Jamie Currier, Heather Dilly, Reggie Oldham, and Jesse Wilson. It will be presented as a workshop performance at The Barrow Group, 312 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor. January 30-February 2 at 8pm with an additional matinee on February 1 at 2 pm. Tickets are limited and can be purchased in advance at Smarttix.com.

Alec Baldwin has won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical for his work in NBC's 30 ROCK. The show was also honored with the Globe for Best Television Series - Comedy or Musical.

Laura Linney has a won a Golden Globe for Best Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television for her role in HBO's John Adams.

The Magic Theater in San Francisco, a 42-year-old institution that has staged the premieres of works by Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Nilo Cruz and many others, may be on the verge of closing unless the company can raise $350,000 by Midnight, Monday January 12th. The theater's Web site, magictheatre.org is urging audience members to help it survive.

WALL-E has won the award for BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM at the 2008 Golden Globes!

The official web site of Akron's Carousel Dinner Theatre confirmed various published reports that the 35-year Summit County institution would go out of business on Sunday after closing its final show, 'All Shook Up'.

On the NBC Globes Pre-Show, appearing with Entourage producer Mark Walberg, Mark joked 'I'm hoping your mercury poisoning isn't contagious.' As he stepped away, host Tiki Barber asked Piven how he was feeling after having to leave his Broadway show and Piven said 'You know what, I'm so unbelievably grateful to be here and it was a completely humbling experience.

Liza's at the Palace...! ended her extented run on January 4th, 2009. But the excitement of the show doesn't have to be just a memory because 'Palace' souvenirs are now available online for her fans, exclusively through her website, OfficialLizaMinnelli.com

South Coast Repertory starts off the New Year with the World Premiere of You, Nero, a comedy by Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Freed. Commissioned by SCR, You, Nero imagines a meeting during the declining years of the Roman Empire between Scribonius, a put-upon playwright, and Emperor Nero, the all-powerful, narcissistic arbiter of art. The production sent along a few very funny clips of this new comedy, here is second segment!

The YORK THEATRE COMPANY (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) announced that its acclaimed production of ENTER LAUGHING: THE MUSICAL will return for a limited seven-week engagement to accommodate the demand. Performances will begin January 21st, and continue until March 8th; all performances will be at the company?s home at The Theatre at Saint Peter's (54th Street just East of Lexington). Casting news has now revealed that and Bob Dishy (Sly Fox) and Marla Schaffel (Jane Eyre) will join the production replacing George S. Irving and Janine LaManna.

During the first live show on Saturday 10th January, it was announced that world-renowned lyricist Diane Warren would be joining the Eurovision: Your Country Needs You team, providing the lyrics to the song that will be written by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

UK Press reports have revealed that Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber decided not to save professional singer and musician Damien Flood after he was one of the two acts with the fewest votes from the public in the BBC's Eurovision: Your Country Needs You.

Bernadette Peter is currently starring on ABC's 'Ugly Betty' as Jodie Papadakis the editor running YETI, he recently chatted with 'Ugly Betty' star, Michael Urie for the 'Ugly Betty' podcast, it is now available on iTunes.

The Tony Award-winning Old Globe presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning Six Degrees of Separation, by John Guare (The House of Blue Leaves, Landscape of the Body), directed by Trip Cullman, to run in the Old Globe Theatre January 10 - February 15 (press opening: Thursday, January 15 at 8pm). Broadway veteran Karen Ziemba, who will play 'Ouisa,' won the Tony for the musical Contact and was nominated for her work in Steel Pier, Never Gonna Dance and Curtains!.