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Today, Bill Geddie, executive producer of ABC's Emmy award-winning talk show 'The View,' announced that Dame Edna Everage is confirmed to co-host ABC's 'The View,' live on Thursday, March 25 (11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon, ET), a first for the international superstar. She will also perform a song from her new Broadway show ALL ABOUT ME, starring Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein, who is also scheduled to make an appearance.

The producers of ROCK OF AGES announced today that the critically acclaimed, five-time Tony Award® nominated Broadway musical ROCK OF AGES will launch a 60-city, first national tour at The Bank of America Theatre, 18 West Monroe, Chicago, IL as part of ‘Broadway in Chicago' on September 21, 2010.

Broadway In Chicago has announced the complete 2010/2011 Broadway In Chicago Season Series. The shows in the 2010/2011 Season Series include the Chicago premieres of FUERZA BRUTA: LOOK UP, ROCK OF AGES, TRACES, GOD OF CARNAGE and 9 to 5: THE MUSICAL. BURN THE FLOOR also makes a special return to Chicago as part of the Season Series. Smash-hits WICKED and THE LION KING return to thrill Chicago audiences as off-season specials. The 2010 Season Series emphasizes Broadway In Chicago's long-standing commitment to bring the best of Broadway to Chicago.

Past Oscar winners Kathy Bates, Barbra Streisand and Charlize Theron will join former Oscar nominees Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Queen Latifah and John Travolta as presenters at the 82nd Academy Awards®, telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic announced today. Collectively the group has earned 16 nominations and won four Academy Awards.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, a DVD recording of Barbra Streisand's performance at the Village Vanguard on September 26, 2009 will be released this spring on May 4. Today, the cover art has been released!

MARY POPPINS will welcome to the company Karl Kenzler as George Banks and Megan Osterhaus as Winifred Banks tonight, Monday, March 1. Kenzler and Osterhaus reprise the roles they originated in the critically-acclaimed North American touring production (currently performing in Tempe, Arizona through February 28 before opening in Denver, Colorado on March 5). Produced on Broadway by Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical Productions and Cameron Mackintosh, MARY POPPINS performs at the New Amsterdam Theatre.

Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle (1972 Broadway at 66th Street) will host an evening celebrating the hit Off Broadway show Love, Loss, and What I Wore by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron on Monday, March 1 at 7:30 p.m. The evening will include a short performance from the show, as well as a discussion featuring Love, Loss, and What I Wore cast members (past and present): Lucy DeVito, Carol Kane and Caroline Rhea. Following the discussion, DeVito, Kane and Rhea will be joined by Ilene Beckerman, author of the best-selling book on which the show is based, for a book signing. The event is free and open to the public.

Signature Theatre Company will celebrate the construction of the theatre's future home, The Signature Center, at its 2010 annual gala on Monday, March 1 at Espace. Guest of honor will be Frank Gehry, architect of the Signature Center. The evening will also include the presentation of Signature's Playwrights' Award to actress Hallie Foote, daughter of the late playwright Horton Foote, who is currently starring at Signature in her father's critically acclaimed world premiere trilogy, The Orphans' Home Cycle.

The Grand Jury for 2010 Next Link from the New York Musical Theatre Festival will include Donna Lynne Champlin, Ken Davenport, Kimberly Grigsby, Beverley MacKeen, Tom Meehan, Jack Viertel, and Scott Wittman. Next Link is presented annually as a part of the NYMF.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, a production of Jonathan Larson's Tony-winning RENT is set to run three performances at the Hollywood Bowl from August 6 through August 8, 2010.

Following critically acclaimed and sold-out engagements on the West Coast, the musical MEMPHIS made its Broadway debut October 19, 2009, earning accolades for its score, which features music by Bon Jovi's founding member/keyboardist David Bryan and lyrics by Bryan and Joe DiPietro (I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change).

According to The Hollywood Reporter, former stage mother-daughter duo, Patti LuPone and Laura Benanti, may get a round two. Like thier Gypsy counterparts, LuPone has reportedly signed on to star as Benanti's tough-loving mother in the new CBS pilot, Open Books, to which Benanti has been long attached.

Tippi Hedren, the quintessential Hitchcock heroine and star of the legendary director's The Birds and Marnie, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at The Humane Society of the United States' 24th Genesis Awards for dedicating more than 40 years to the protection of animals. Actress Melanie Griffith will present the prestigious honor to her mother at the gala event on Saturday, March 20, 2010, at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the USA Network announced that the ten honorees for the second annual Character Approved Awards, include Green Day and playwright Nora Ephron. The Character Approved Awards are a multimedia campaign honoring individuals who are changing the face of American culture. Inspired by USA's Characters Welcome brand, the initiative is dedicated to celebrating the true trailblazers across a variety of disciplines such as art, philanthropy, new media and film.

Following critically acclaimed and sold-out engagements on the West Coast, the musical MEMPHIS made its Broadway debut October 19, 2009, earning accolades for its score, which features music by Bon Jovi's founding member/keyboardist David Bryan and lyrics by Bryan and Joe DiPietro (I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change).

Billboard's Top Cast Albums chart for week ending 2/27/2010.

BWW Discounts is offering you the chance to purchase tickets at a very special price to the highly anticipated Chicago-land import, MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, the new musical inspired by the famed 1956 recording session which brought together four of the most legendary figures in the history of rock 'n' roll - Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley.

Classic Stage Company (CSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will present two-time Academy Award-winner Dianne Wiest in THE FOREST, by Alexander Ostrovosky, translated by Kathleen Tolan, and directed by Brian Kulick, beginning performances Friday, April 23 at CSC with an official press opening Thursday, May 6 at 7pm. THE FOREST will also star Obie Award-winning actor John Douglas Thompson, who earned great acclaim last year for his title role performance in Othello at Theatre for a New Audience. THE FOREST will play a limited engagement through Sunday May 30 only.

Anna Mackmin returns to The Old Vic to direct a cast led by Toby Stephens in Tom Stoppard's multi-award winning modern classic, The Real Thing , opening on Wednesday 21 April 2010, with previews from 10 April.

BILLY ELLIOT, currently playing at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway, dedicated the February 24th performance to The Actors Fund, granting proceeds to the fund in support of their programs and services. Michael Dameski and Jake Schwencke took the stage for the benefit.