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HAPPY SUNSHINE KUNG FU FLOWER will play their last show on Saturday October 25th, at 10:30 PM at the Zipper Factory Theater.

Camp Broadway, the award-winning theater arts education and audience development company and American icon, Kermit the Frog, will lead 300 performance-loving kids, ages 10-17, in an original Closing number 'I Believe in Santa Claus,' live in the 82nd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, which will be televised on NBC-TV on November 27, 2008 beginning at 9am.

Broadway In Chicago is delighted to announce that Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage will extend its Chicago engagement to January 17, 2009.

Comic singers Booth Daniels and Patrick Frankfort make their Los Angeles debut with their hilarious duo act on November 14 at 8PM & November 16 at 7PM at the Art/Works theatre after successful shows in New York City over the past year.

Broadway legend Bernadette Peters just announced from the podium at the ribbon cutting ceremony* for the opening the revitalized Duffy Square and new TKTS Booth, that the first 1,000 tickets sold will be courtesy of Target. Ticket buyers standing in line for the booth's 3pm opening will have the opportunity to receive one or two vouchers, each redeemable for one free ticket.

DRG Records is thrilled to announce the release of Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder, the new album by legendary performer Barbara Cook, on November 11th, 2008.

New York University will present a tenth anniversary production of King David, a modern oratorio by musical theater legends Alan Menken and Tim Rice, at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South) on Thursday, Nov. 13 and Fri. Nov. 14 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $10 ($5 with a valid NYU ID). The public may purchase tickets online at www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu or by phone at 212.352.3101 (daily between 12 p.m. and 8 p.m.) In person tickets may be purchased at the box office, Tuesday through Saturday, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.

The photographs of celebrated theatre photographer Reg Wilson are to be exhibited at the Playhouse Theatre by the Victoria & Albert Museum Theatre Collection as part of the Society of London Theatre's centenary celebrations.

WritersBloc Productions will present the world premiere of NO ENTRANCE, written by Alec Gutherz on Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 8PM at the Access Theater, 380 Broadway, 4th floor. The official opening will be on Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 5PM. Sue Lawless will direct.

BC/EFA is proud to introduce their brand-new merchandise for 2008-2009. The web-store and the newly printed A Catalog of Giving (available upon request) are chock-full of exciting gift ideas for Broadway and theatre-lovers everywhere.

Broadway, film, and television stars - Alec Baldwin '94 (30 Rock), Broadway legend Elaine Stritch (At Liberty), Filmmaker Joel Coen '78 (No Country for Old Men), Rainn Wilson '89 (The Office), Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order: SVU), Laura Benanti (Gypsy), and Raul Esparza '92 (Company) - will be on hand at Tisch on Stage, the annual gala benefiting NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Baldwin, along with philanthropist and patron of the arts Iris Cantor; inventor, philanthropist, and patron of Tisch's Kanbar Institute of Film and Television Maurice Kanbar; and 'architect of American regional theater' Zelda Fichandler will be honored at the gala on November 17th at the Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

The American Theatre Wing and XM Satellite Radio proudly present an interview with Playwright Lanford Wilson, on their weekly theatrical interview show, 'Downstage Center,' on XM's On Broadway (XM Channel 28).

Tonight, October 16th, 2008 Seth's Chatterbox will deconstruct the LEGALLY BROWN episodes and unearth some of the show's 'lost' footage.

The exciting conclusion to the runaway Web series 'Legally Brown: The Search For The Next Piragua Guy' will be posted this weekend to coincide with the closing of Legally Blonde, The Musical on Broadway which plays its final performance at the Palace Theater on October 19th.

The Los Angeles premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan's By the Waters of Babylon brings two award-winning, long-time theater actors to the Geffen stage for the first time: Demián Bichir and Shannon Cochran. Bichir, who is currently starring as Mary Louise-Parker's love interest on Showtime's Weeds, will play the role of Arturo, a Cuban immigrant who is hired to (coincidentally) weed the garden of unconventional Austin widow Catherine. Cochran, who will star as Catherine, is straight from Chicago where she starred in sold out performances of The Lion in Winter at the Writers Theatre.

Guthrie Director Joe Dowling today announced directors for the three productions slated to headline the theater's 2009 Tony Kushner celebration, in addition to three speaking events designed to expand and enhance the issues raised in the work of this Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.

Last night, Liza Minnelli decided to treat co-workers Johnny Rodgers, Jim Caruso, Cortes Alexander and Tiger Martina to an evening of...cabaret! The five-some took time off from rehearsals to cheer musical cohort Billy Stritch and Klea Blackhurst, who dazzled the crowd with an evening of Hoagy Carmichael songs at the Metropolitan Room.

The cast has been set for the Center Theatre Group's presentation of Douglas Carter Beane's Tony Award-nominated farce 'The Little Dog Laughed,' the second production of the Kirk Douglas Theatre's 2008-2009 season. 'The Little Dog Laughed' opens November 23, 2008, and continues through December 21. Previews begin November 16.

Kevin Early (A Tale of Two Cities),Sandy Binion ( and Herschel Sparber (Guys and Dolls) have joined the cast of the by-invitation-only reading of the new musical How The Nurse Feels will be presented Oct. 20 at in New World Stages in Manhattan.

On October 17th, 2008 from 11:00 am- 12:00 PM the cast of the Braodway production of A TALE OF TWO CITIES will perform at the United Nations lawn near the peace bell.