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The international stage hit Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage will make its Pre-Broadway East Coast premiere at the Boston Opera House for a limited engagement February 7 through March 15, 2009. Tickets go on sale to the public Sunday, October 5th at 10AM. For full ticketing information please go to the end of this release. Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage is part of the Lexus Boston Area Dealers Broadway Across America - Boston Series.

Michael Arden will sings the Joni Mitchell Blue CD on Tuesday - Thursday, October 28 - 30 at 11:30 PM.

Sarah Brightman is giving away 4 pairs of meet-n-greet backstage passes.

'What happens when several composers each try their hand at the same song? What do you get when you combine an amazing theatre composer with a great twentieth-century poet? What happens if you ask a pop composer to write for a string quartet?' Find out the answers on Sunday, 12 October, 2008 at 7:30 p.m., when Artistic Director Joel Fram brings his acclaimed New York New Voices series to London's Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre. An astonishing line-up of cutting-edge musical theatre composers include Jason Robert Brown, Sam Davis, Joel Fram, Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich, Andrew Lippa, Paul Loesel, Steve Marzullo, Marc Smollin, Georgia Stitt, and Joseph Thalken.

This October Barnes and Noble at Lincoln Triangle will host some of the entertainment industry's favorite writers, celebrities, newsmakers, and musicians such as Diahann Carroll, Tom Perrotta, Lea DeLaria, Nicholas Sparks, Geoffrey Canada, Isaac Mizrahi, Cesar Milan, Sarah Vowell, Tony Curtis, Dave Barry, Robert Vaughn, Victoria Osteen, Naomi Wolf, George Hamilton, Richard Belzer, Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen, Maya Angelou, and many more.

Every Sunday in October -- in support of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month -- Sharing Miracles, a 30-minute public affairs television program that tells the compelling and inspirational stories of real patients, will feature Academy Award-winning actress and patient advocate Marcia Gay Harden. Sharing Miracles now shows on 185 television stations across the United States.

Linny Fowler, Beth Falcone and Karla Mosley to present BROADWAY FOR OBAMA, over twenty Broadway performers will join local High School 'rising stars' in a concert that will send Barack straight to the White House. This amazing one-night event will take place on Monday, October 20, 2998 at the State Theatre in Easton (53 Northampton Street, Easton, PA 18042.)

Now celebrating ten years of entertainment across the country, the record-breaking smash hit musical CHICAGO will come to the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts this January. Tony nominee Tom Wopat stars in the upcoming tour set to play the SJCPA for a limited engagement January 14 - 18, 2009. Mr. Wopat is currently starring in the role of Billy Flynn on Broadway.

To celebrate the show's Broadway premiere, 300,000 new tickets will be released for sale on 1 October for the London production of Billy Elliot the Musical, taking bookings to 24 October 2009.

I was one of the creators of Naked Boys Singing, and it was amazing to me that my dirty mind and sparkling wit (I say with a wink) could combine to help create what became pretty much a phenomenon…people love it. I caught a lot of flak for writing 'that kind' of show…a boyfriend split with me over it, my mother thinks I'm a pervert…but the truth is, that's how I think…sex, and all the accoutrements that come with it, is funny to me, but that's not all I'm about…I'm incurably romantic and I think smart is sexy

A hit in London and one of the most highly anticipated shows of the upcoming theatre season, Billy Elliot the Musical begins preview performances tonight, October 1, 2008. With music by Elton John, book and lyrics by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot the Musical opens at Broadway's Imperial Theatre (240 W 45th St) Thursday, November 13th.

MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, Artistic Directors; William Cantler, Associate Artistic Director; Blake West, Executive Director) presents their first preview performance of Tony Award-winner Michael Weller's new play Fifty Words tonight, October 1st, 2008. The opening night, originally scheduled for Sunday evening at 6:30 p.m., has been rescheduled to Wednesday (10/1) at 7 p.m.

The Hollwwood reporter is stating that actor Thomas Dekker is currently in talks to play the lead role of 'Marco' in the remake of the 1990 musical. The film, adapted for the screen by Allison Burnett will be directed by Kevin Tancharoen. Filming will begin in February with a potential release date of September 25th, 2009.

Dress Circle the 'greatest showbix shop in the world' is celebrating its 30th anniversary. To mark this landmark event Dress Circle has launched an online poll to find the UK's 'Greatest Musical' of the last thirty years. Theatregoers worldwide can cast their votes now at www.dresscircleawards.com. In order to qualify for entry a pforessional production of the show must have been performed live on stage in the UK between January 1978 and July 31st 2008. Voters can make their selection from a choice of over 300 musicals. Only one vote per person will be counted.

The current cast of GREASE stars American Idol's Ace Young, NBC's 'Grease: You're the One That I Want' finalists Derek Keeling as 'Danny' and Ashley Spencer as 'Sandy' along with Ryan Patrick Binder as 'Doody,' Susan Blommaert as 'Miss Lynch,' Will Blum as 'Roger,' Jeb Brown as 'Vince,' Janine DiVita as 'Rizzo,' Allison Fischer as 'Patty,' Robyn Hurder as 'Marty,' Lindsay Mendez as 'Jan,' Jose Restrepo as 'Sonny,' Jamison Scott as 'Eugene' and Kirsten Wyatt as 'Frenchy.' The ensemble of GREASE features Ashley Arcement, Brian Crum, Natalie Hill ('Cha-Cha'), Keven Quillon, Josh Rouah, Allie Schulz, Brian Sears, Christina Sivrich, Amber Stone, Anna Aimee White.

As of September 30th 2008 the cast of Jersey Boys is now led by Sebastian Arcelus (Bob Gaudio), Matt Bogart (Nick Massi), Dominic Nolfi (Tommy DeVito) and Jarrod Spector (Frankie Valli) as The Four Seasons; with Peter Gregus and Mark Lotito. The cast also includes Miles Aubrey, Bridget Berger, Kris Coleman, Douglas Crawford, Ken Dow, Heather Ferguson, Russell Fischer, Eric Gutman, Katie O'Toole, Joe Payne, Dominic Scaglione Jr., Sara Schmidt, Eric Schneider and Jake Speck.

Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced additional casting and details for the third production of its 2008/2009 Season, the New York premiere of PRAYER FOR MY ENEMY, a new play by two-time Tony Award nominee, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and two-time Obie Award winner Craig Lucas (Small Tragedy at Playwrights Horizons, The Light in the Piazza, Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless, The Dying Gaul). PRAYER FOR MY ENEMY is the first of two plays by Mr. Lucas that will receive their New York premiere this season.

NYMF Presents PROZAK AND THE PLATYPUS CONCERT & PARTY on October 2, 2008 8pm at The Zipper Factory, 336 West 37th Street, New York, NY 10018. The theatre is located between 8th & 9th Ave.

For the first time, the Metropolitan Opera will present a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams: Doctor Atomic, his opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb. The piece is set in New Mexico in the summer of 1945, as scientists, led by Oppenheimer, and the military prepare to test the first nuclear bomb, events that will radically change the course and fabric of history. The new production, starring Gerald Finley in the title role, will open at the Met on Monday, October 13, at 8:00 p.m. When the opera premiered in San Francisco in October of 2005, The Guardian said, 'Adams's ecstatically lyrical writing and the music's visionary eloquence make this a modern masterpiece.' The New York Times later wrote that Doctor Atomic was 'the most complex and inventive of Mr. Adams's works, an engrossing operatic drama.'

On Sunday, October 19, Signature Theatre will audition boys and girls, ages 7 - 12, for two singing roles and one non-singing role in its innovative new production of Les Miserables, which will run December 2 through February 22. Signature is looking for six children (two boys and four girls) all under 50 inches (4' 2''), who will alternate performances in their respective roles.