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Broadway In Chicago and the producers of CHICAGO The Musical are delighted to announce that John O'Hurley will star as Billy Flynn in a limited engagement of the hit musical, CHICAGO, beginning February 25, 2009 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre (24 W Randolph St).

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes Dublin, Ireland's Rough Magic Theatre Company in their US premiere with their masterful wartime musical comedy IMPROBABLE FREQUENCY, with book and lyrics by Arthur Riordan and music by Bell Helicopter

Composer/lyricist STEPHEN SCHWARTZ and KERRY ELLIS, current star of the Broadway smash WICKED, dressed as the show's green heroine, Elphaba, The Wicked Witch of The West, will light the Empire State Building green on Monday, October 27 at 12:00PM. The building will shine WICKED green from dusk to midnight on Monday in honor of Wicked's 5th Anniversary Celebration.

In an exclusive arrangement with iTunes©, Broadway Asia Entertainment (producers Steven Baruch / Richard Frankel / Simone Genatt / Marc Routh / Tom Viertel) proudly announces the upcoming international release of the 2008 Original International Tour Cast Recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein's CINDERELLA starring Tony Award winner Lea Salonga available exclusively online beginning Tuesday, October 28, 2008.

LIZA MINNELLI will bring her unmatchable magic back to the Palace Theatre on Broadway in December. 'LIZA'S AT THE PALACE ...' opens Wednesday, December 3, for a limited engagement of just nine shows only through December 14. Members of BroadwayWorld have the opportunity to get their tickets to this rare event before they go on sale to the general public

LAByrinth Theater Company (John Ortiz, Artistic Director; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Co-Artistic Director; John Gould Rubin, Co-Artistic & Executive Director) have announced that their annual BARN SERIES will begin on October 23rd, 2008.

The world premiere of 'Becky's New Car,' written by Steven Dietz and directed by Kurt Beattie opens October 23, 2008 at the ACT Theatre, 700 Union Street, Seattle WA 98101. Tickets are $10/$15 (for students/people 25 and under) to $55, with a Pay-What-You-Will showing on October 30 at 2:00 p.m. Call (206) 292-7676 or (253) 839-4204 (for group sales) or visit www.acttheatre.org for tickets and information.

YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA (James Bundy, Dean; Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean) presents MAN=MAN by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Gerhard Nellhaus, directed by Erik Pearson, October 28-November 1 at the New Theater (1156 Chapel Street, New Haven).

James Naughton, Tony Award winning actor, headlines the cast of The Irish Repertory Theatre's THE MASTER BUILDER which began preview performances on Friday, October 10, 2008, and opens tonight October 23rd, 2008 at the Irish Repertory Theatre. The cast also features Charlotte Parry, Letitia Lange, Kristin Griffith, Daniel Cameron Talbott, Herb Foster and Doug Stender. Ciaran O'Reilly Directs.

Broadway By the Bay, the largest theatre organization on the Peninsula, completes its 43rd season with DEFYING GRAVITY: STEPHEN SCHWARTZ AND FRIENDS featuring Stephen Schwartz live, composer and lyricist of Broadway hits including Wicked, Godspell, and Pippin.

'Spring Awakening,' winner of eight Tony Awards including best musical, opens at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre on October 30 and will run through December 7, 2008.

Starting October 24th, 2008 filming will commence on a new feature musical film 'Big Gay Musical'.

At their 20th Annual Festival of New Musicals today, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) announced the launch of the National Fund for New Musicals, a new program which will provide grants to support producers and writers during the process of creating, developing, and producing new musicals.

Since 1993, the OBIE-winning HERE Arts Center has been a premier arts organization in NYC and a leader in the field of new, hybrid performance work. October 2008 marks HERE's 15th Anniversary, and in celebration of that landmark date, HERE is throwing a Street Fair for its neighborhood, its audience, its friends, family and supporters.

AQUILA THEATRE (Peter Meineck, Artistic Director) is proud to announce the complete cast for the World Premiere of the stage adaptation of Joseph Heller's Catch 22, adapted and directed by Peter Meineck.

New York: Recent recipient of the IT Awards'Caffe Cino Award, Boomerang Theatre Company (Tim Errickson, Artistic Director; Francis Kuzler, Managing Director) is proud to announce its 10 Year Anniversary season. Boomerang continues to celebrate the classics while creating the new and innovative, with a focus on language, this year's playwrights include Tennessee Williams, Colin McKenna and Eric Overmyer.

Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg's Our Mother's Brief Affair will receive its World Premiere at South Coast Repertory as part of the theater's 12th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival. Commissioned by SCR and directed by Pam MacKinnon, Our Mother's Brief Affair will run April 3 through May 3, 2009 on the Segerstrom Stage. Low-priced previews are available from April 3 through April 9.

On Sunday October 19th, Marjorie de Hartog and Stella Ferrer, widows of Tony Award-winners Jan de Hartog and José Ferrer, were on hand to toast the opening of Keen Company's revival of The Fourposter.

ANDREA MARCOVICCI - the celebrated singer and actress lauded as 'the greatest cabaret star of her generation' by The International Herald Tribune and 'the epitome of elegance and showbiz savvy' by Variety - will return to the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel (59 West 44th Street) for an exclusive seven-week run from November 11 to December 27 with a special new program 'Marcovicci Sings Movies II.'

Due to medical reasons, Crystal Gayle will no longer be performing with Laura Bell Bundy in the scheduled Feinstein's show KENTUCKY GIRLFRIENDS, which was set to play October 28th through November 1st. Instead, Bundy will be performing a show titled JUST ME, featuring her Broadway material on October 30th and Nov 1st, 2008.