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'Les Misérables' broke box office records at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre for the final four weeks of its run, beginning the week of July 4, 2011, and continuing through the closing week ending July 31. The closing week gross was $1,530,099, the highest for a single week in Ahmanson history.

With his gift for bebop, ballads, blues, and swinging jazz, baritone Kevin Mahogany has been called 'the standout jazz vocalist of his generation' (Newsweek) and Billboard has declared him to be 'unquestionably one of today's most exciting and musically adept jazz vocalists.'

Recent desert transplant, actress and singer Francesca Amari will reprise her new show You Make Me Laugh at The Arthur Newman Theatre at The Joslyn Center in Palm Desert on Sunday, August 21st at 2 PM.

Good news keeps rolling in for A.C.T. Young Conservatory (YC) alumnus and Glee star Darren Criss. He is preparing to make his Broadway debut in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, taking over the role of J. Pierrepont Finch from Daniel Radcliffe (of the Harry Potter films) for a limited three-week engagement, January 3-22, 2012. Criss was also just announced as part of the cast for the upcoming movie Imogene (alongside A.C.T. Master of Fine Arts Program graduates Annette Bening and Christopher Fitzgerald), in which he will make his big screen debut.

The El Capitan Theatre will be accommodating a special date in the August 8, 2011 premiere episode of Bachelor Pad. The episode will cover an unique 1-on-1 date above the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on ABC's hot summer series.

The Windham Theatre Guild will hold Open Auditions for their November production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

More than three decades after the debut of 'Cosmos,' Carl Sagan's stunning and iconic exploration of the universe as revealed by science, FOX sets off on a voyage for the stars with COSMOS: A SPACE-TIME ODYSSEY. Seth MacFarlane (FAMILY GUY, AMERICAN DAD) has teamed up with Sagan's original creative collaborators - writer/producer Ann Druyan and astrophysicist Steven Soter - to conceive a 13-part 'docu-series' that will serve as a successor to the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning original series.

The B Street Theatre, Sacramento's Resident Professional, New Works Theatre, today announced its fall play selections for the Mainstage and B-3 Series.

THE X FACTOR is the new competition series that gives viewers the opportunity to help choose the next global superstar or breakout music group. Judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, L.A. Reid and Nicole Scherzinger will travel the nation searching for undiscovered talent 12 years old or over - both solo artists and vocal groups - who are worthy of the largest prize in television history: a $5 million recording contract with Syco/Sony Music.

Local theatre artist Mark Kennedy will present a world premiere solo performance piece, Checkers, as part of the 2011 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Checkers will run from September 7th through the 11th at the Fleisher Art Memorial Sanctuary, 719 Catherine Street. For tickets, contact the Festival Box Office at (215) 413-1318 or visit www.livearts-fringe.org.

The Farmington Players 2011-12 season has something for everyone: classic drama, holiday cheer, cheeky comedy, and a musical 'horror' love story, and this year the Barn is offering reserved seats.

Hush the Musical, a production from Charles Mandracchia in association with the Frizzi & Lazzi Musical Theatre Company, has emerged as the Winner of the Mid-Winter Madness Theatre Festival after playing sold out shows at the Roy Arias Theatre in Times Square, NYC and returned for a sold out encore run at the world famous Triad Theatre NYC.

The world premiere of The Apartment: A Play with Four Sides has sold out its opening night performance at the 15th Annual New York International Fringe Festival.

Theatre Memphis' Lohrey Stage will soon be home to the story of Conrad Birdie, a famous rock-n-roll star, in the production of the lively family musical classic Bye Bye Birdie. Playing August 19 - September 11, 2011, the plot surrounds Birdie being drafted into the army and Albert Peterson, his agent, and Albert's secretary, Rosie, concocting one final national publicity plan before Conrad's induction.

As announced on the FOX dance competition SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE, Katie Holmes and Kenny Ortega will step in and judge the final four dancers this week.

Pink, pink, pink! More than anything, Pinkalicious loves pink, especially pink cupcakes. But what happens when you eat too many pink cupcakes? Well, get ready to find out what becomes of Pinkalicious in the Ogunquit Playhouse production of this fabulously pink musical Pinkalicious on stage Saturday, August 13th at 10am and 1pm and Sunday, August 14th at 10am and again September 3rd and 4th at 10am.

Patty Duke's first major starring role was playing Helen Keller (with Anne Bancroft as Annie Sullivan) in the Broadway play The Miracle Worker, which ran for nearly two years (October, 1959 - July, 1961).

ENTER LAUGHING, The Musical, the hilarious Broadway-bound production, begins previews on August 9 with a limited number of 'Pay What You Can' tickets that will be available on that date after 2 pm at the Box Office. Previews continue on August 10, 11 and 12.

Set on the rugged western coast of Vancouver Island and narrated by Ryan Reynolds, THE WHALE describes what happens when Luna, a baby orca, gets separated from his family and unexpectedly starts making contact with people along a scenic fjord called Nootka Sound. Because orcas are highly social creatures who spend their lives traveling with their pods, Luna attempts to find a surrogate family among the area residents, much to their delight. But as word spreads about Luna, people become torn between their love for the lonely young whale and fears that human contact might harm him.

Written in 1664 by French playwright, Molière, this satire of religious quackery was censored by King Louis XIV and the French Roman Catholic Church. In this rollicking comedy, Tartuffe, is a haughty, self-righteous phony that inveigles his way into Orgon's wealthy household.