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The Philhallmonic Society will perform a special concert, The Best of Times - The Music of Jerry Herman on Sunday, October 16 at 2:30 pm at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center in the Bruno Walter Auditorium.

Yum! Family Series Program and Stage One Family Theatre will kick off the 65th season of theater for young audiences with the literary classic Ferdinand the Bull.

The Ordway begins its 2011-2012 Target World Music and Dance Series by welcoming Chicago-based Luna Negra Dance Theater on October 25 at 7:30 p.m. A dance company that moves beyond cultural stereotypes and expectations, Luna Negra will perform three contemporary works by prominent Latino choreographers.

Budd Friedman and Mark Lonow, co-owners of The Improv at Harrah's Las Vegas, are proud to introduce very special guest headliner Greg Behrendt to The Improv October 21st-23rd, with supporting act Mark Normand. Behrendt is a man of many talents: comedian, bestselling author, talk show host, producer and more.

The Autry National Center presents a weekend-long celebration of Native American arts and culture centered around its annual American Indian Arts Marketplace. Featuring over 160 Native American artists selling their works of art in various mediums, the weekend will also host performances, children's activities, documentary films by the Sundance Institute, a collector's lecture, a panel discussion, book signings, and theatre performances by the Autry's world-renowned theatre company, Native Voices at the Autry.

Glamour, sophistication, and elegance: these words defined the era of supper clubs and the crooners who ruled them. Florida Studio Theatre opens its Cabaret Season on October 12 with That's Life, Again, a journey to the time when livin' was easy, with stylish songs like 'New York, New York,' 'Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime,' and 'My Way.'

Timeless storytelling, classic wardrobe and authentic period set design and props will grace the Theatre Memphis Lohrey Stage with the Jon Jory adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Emma, October 7 -23, 2011.

The Flomenhaft Gallery is presenting Siona Benjamin's newest and very inspired paintings, photographs and constructions, and this exhibit welcomes her back from a four month trip to India on a Fulbright Fellowship.

Lite 100.5 WRCH's Nite of Lite Laughter featuring Dana Carvey scheduled for this Saturday, October 8 at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, has been postponed due to a family emergency.

Prospect Theater Company (Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director / Melissa Huber, Managing Director) celebrates the release of the original cast recording of their 2010 Off-Broadway production of WITH GLEE, by John Gregor, on Monday, October 17th at 7:30pm at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher St., NYC). Tickets for this special event are $25 for regular admission, and $50 for premium seating locations, and may be purchased in advance through www.ProspectTheater.org or by calling 212-352-3101.

Producers Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical Productions and Cameron Mackintosh today announced full casting for the Toronto engagement of MARY POPPINS. Toronto's most eagerly anticipated stage production will begin performances at the Princess of Wales Theatre on Thursday November 10, for a limited engagement of nine weeks, through Sunday January 8, 2012. The opening night is Saturday November 12, at 7:30pm.

Join the party! Tease it up. Throw on your best A-line and go-go boots...or that shagadelic wide tie - and put on your dancin' shoes. On Saturday, November 5th at 8:00pm, Signature Theatre will be transforming their theater into a Hairspray-style dance party with ‘The Big Hair Ball.'

Fair Lawn Recreation Department's Resident Theatre Company, Old Library Theatre, will present 'Spring Awakening,' a new musical exploring the inner yearnings, and very real growing pains, of a group of teenagers in a provincial 19th century German town.

After stepping down last December from the throne that he held for 25 years and 60,000 interviews on Larry King Live, the broadcasting icon stepped back up on the air with 'Larry King To Life' hosting the 31st Chabad Lechaim To Life Telethon, with celebrity guests Howie Mandel, Oscar winners John Voight and Elliot Gould, Brad Garrett, Tom Arnold and Paula Abdul, among others. It was broadcast live from Hollywood Sunday Sept 25 and reached over 45 million households worldwide, breaking the record as the most viewed Jewish holiday program of all time!

The Los Angeles Philharmonic's dynamic Music Director Gustavo Dudamel plays the dual role of conductor and host in the first LA Phil LIVE concert of the 2011/12 season to be broadcast live in select movie theaters throughout the U.S., Sunday, October 9, at 2 p.m. Pacific/5 p.m. Eastern.

Founding Music Director George Rothman will lead Riverside Symphony in three fascinating programs at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center this season. The orchestra's critically acclaimed programming will be in full view in three stimulating concerts blending old, new, familiar and obscure repertory ranging from Elizabethan song to a newly penned work commissioned by Riverside Symphony.

NBC has picked up the new comedies 'Up All Night' and 'Whitney' for the remainder of the 2011-12 season, it was announced today by Robert Greenblatt, Chairman of NBC Entertainment.

Casting has been announced for the much-anticipated Washington, D.C., return engagement of the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning hit musical JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, playing the National Theatre November 10, 2011, to January 7, 2012. The cast of JERSEY BOYS will be led by Preston Truman Boyd (Bob Gaudio), Joseph Leo Bwarie (returning to D.C. as Frankie Valli), John Gardiner (Tommy DeVito), and Michael Lomenda (Nick Massi) and as The Four Seasons, with Jonathan Hadley and Washington-area native, Joseph Siravo.

As part of Intervals, an ongoing series, the Guggenheim Museum presents Brooklyn-based artist Nicola López with a site-specific sculptural collage environment in the rotunda, titled Landscape X: Under Construction, on view October 11-25, 2011. Conceived to reflect the spirit of today's most innovative practices, Intervals invites a diverse range of artists to create new work for the interstitial spaces of the museum, in individual galleries, or beyond the physical confines of the building. This exhibition marks López's first solo institutional presentation in New York. Intervals: Nicola López is organized by Helen Hsu, Assistant Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard honors Franz Liszt's 200th birthday (October 22) with his most ambitious recording for Deutsche Grammophon, The Liszt Project. Over the course of more than two hours of music Aimard compares and contrasts works for solo piano by Liszt with a thought-provoking selection of works by Wagner, Berg, Scriabin, Bartók, Stroppa, Ravel and Messiaen. This is Aimard's fourth solo album for Deutsche Grammophon and follows his highly acclaimed recordings of Bach, Messiaen and Ravel. The album is in stores and available today.