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IN THE HEIGHTS is the winner of four 2008 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Lin-Manuel Miranda won the 2008 Tony for Best Music and Lyrics, Andy Blankenbuehler won the 2008 Tony for Best Choreography, and Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations. The production recently welcomed new cast members Marcy Harriell and Rick Negron.

George Street Playhouse begins 2009 with its production of Donald Marguiles' Sight Unseen. When first presented in 1992, the play won the OBIE Award for Best New American Play, was nominated for a Drama Desk, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. George Street Playhouse Artistic Director will helm the production, slated to run at the New Brunswick theatre January2020 - February 15, 2009. Matthew Arkin, last seen at GSP in their production of Theresa Rebeck's The Scene, leads an ensemble including Heidi Armbruster, Christopher Curry and Kathleen McNenny.

Perez Hilton is reporting that the moive musical Mamma Mia! has just become the top-selling DVD in the United States, as of Wednesday. The big screen transfer of the stage hit bested projected champ The Dark Knight, both films were holiday shopping favorites.

Beloved stage icon Angela Lansbury is featured in a wonderful article in PARADE magazine, she gives a relaxed and witty interview to long-time PARADE scribe James Brady.

Doubt stars Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis. The film is earning high praise from critics and audiences alike, in this dramatic scene from the film you are witness to the emotion charged confrontation between Streep's character, Sister Aloysius and Hoffman's Father Flynn.

Actress, comedienne, author, singer and provocateur Sandra Bernhard promises plenty of holiday 'cheer' as she begins her limited run at Joe's Pub tonight, Friday December 26th at 9:30PM.

GrooveLily returns to The Zipper Factory (336 West 37th Street) for the holiday season to spread some holiday warmth on cold winter nights performing their critically acclaimed musical, STRIKING 12. Performances begin December 26th for a limited run through the 31st.

Oscar & Emmy Award winning screen legend JANE FONDA will return to Broadway in MOISES KAUFMAN's 33 VARIATIONS. Performances begin on Monday, February 9th, 2009 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 West 49th Street). The official opening will be Monday, March 9th, 2009. The engagement will play through May 24th, 2009. Tickets are now available for sale to the general public.

Due to popular demand, additional dates have been added to Florida Studio Theatre's production of Opus! The critically-acclaimed production and audience pleaser has lead to Sold-Out houses! Added performances will include Sunday, January 11 at 8:00 PM; Thursday, January 15 at 8:00 PM; Sunday, January 18 at 3:00 PM and Tuesday, January 20 at 8:00 PM.

Marketwire has revealed that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Board of Directors has chosen the official poster of 'The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards.' Los Angeles artist Colin McGreal completed the poster in association with Famous Frames. The bold and dynamic artwork features the famous golden orb flanked by parallel rows of palm trees that give a sense of the iconic Los Angeles setting for the event recognized worldwide as 'The Party of the Year.'

The New York Times is reporting that the Fiorello H. La Guardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts has postponed its annual musical this fall and is now considering canceling it due to current economic constraints. La Guardia High is best known for being featured as the 'FAME' school in film, television and stage, in addition to several touring companies, an Off-Broadway musical based on the motion picture FAME played the Litte Shubert Theatre 2003.

The New York Times is reporting that ticket holders for the now-bankrupt Baltimore Opera Company won't be without holiday entertainment this season. Several area arts companies have announced they shall honor any nonrefundable tickets for productions of 'Porgy and Bess' and 'The Barber of Seville' planned by the Baltimore Opera Company, which the Times details filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this month.

Gossip icon Cindy Adams reports in The New York Post that former governor Eliot Spitzer treated himself to a performance 'All My Sons' on Broadway. She details a witty exchange he had with a fellow theatergoer.

It's The Housewives! - The hit rock musical comedy that played to sold-out houses last fall re-opens for a 12-week run January 10 through March 29. Move over 'Spinal Tap.' Three young moms get their humble start at the PTA talent show, then go on to 'clean up' as the most celebrated, yet unlikely girl group in history with their 'domestic' brand of rock 'n roll. The sidesplitting songs in this world premiere comic rock musical, with titles like 'In Sink And At Your Disposal,' 'Ironing Bored' and 'I've Been Defrosting All Day,' are by two-time Grammy winning guitarist Laurence Juber (Paul McCartney's Wings) and his Emmy-nominated wife, television writer Hope Juber. Get ready for the Divas of Domesticity!

Following critically acclaimed performances at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe in Scotland (Pick of the Fringe), the 10th Annual Festival Internacional de Puebla in Mexico, and 303 Bond in Brooklyn, Company XIV proudly presents a revival of their hit show, The Judgment of Paris. Dubbed by the company as 'A dramatic entertainment,' this erotically charged show fuses theater, dance, music, naughty cabaret and can-can! The Judgment of Paris is conceived, directed and choreographed by Austin McCormick, with adapted text by Austin McCormick and Toby Burns.

BarbraArchives.com has once again gotten the scoop on the The Yentl Extended Director's Edition Two-Disc DVD set. The long awaited release includes never before seen bonus features such as Barbra Streisand's Original Concept Reel, rehearsal/final film comparisons, storyboard montages for musical numbers, deleted scenes, and much more, and will be available for a suggested retail price of $29.98 U.S./$37.98 Canada.

Grammy Award and Emmy Award winner and two-time Tony Award nominee Harry Connick, Jr.'s holiday musical, The Happy Elf completes scheduled run today, December 24th at Milwaukee's Todd Wehr Theater.

Dorothy Sarnoff was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1914 and graduated in the Cornell University class of 1935. She became an accomplished singer on Broadway, television, and in Opera, starring in 'The King and I' with Yul Brynner.

Stormy Weather, starring Tony and Emmy Award-winner Leslie Uggams, celebrates the life of the legendary Lena Horne. The West Coast premiere is conceived and written by Sharleen Cooper Cohen, directed by Michael Bush and choreographed by Randy Skinner. The production features music by Cole Porter, Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer, Rodgers & Hart, Billy Strayhorn, and more. Stormy Weather, is suggested by the biography Lena Horne, Entertainer published by Chelsea House.

Variety is reporting that David Cromer will direct the upcoming Broadway revivals of 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' and 'Broadway Bound.'