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Ars Nova has just announced a three show run of a new solo musical written and performed by musical theater powerhouse Jeanette Bayardelle (The Color Purple). The show tells the tale of a girl from the Bronx beating the odds and features a score that fuses rock, jazz, blues and gospel.

Norfolk & Norwich Festival today unveiled highlights of its plans for 2012. One of the headline acts this year will be Norfolk itself, continuing the trend of recent years that has put local people at the heart of the Festival. 100% Norfolk is a show about the population of Norfolk, starring the population of Norfolk, and is the UK premiere of a show created by the German experimental theatre company Rimini Protokoll. Its cast of 100 ordinary people will headline next year's bill alongside, modern day French circus phenomena Compagnie XY and Spira mirabilis who are redefining how orchestras perform and audiences experience classical music. For children, Erth's Dinosaur Petting Zoo will be touring school playgrounds and outdoor spaces throughout the Festival, giving Norfolk children their first chance in a million years to find out what it's like to feed a dwarf allosaurus.

Broadway veteran Kristin Chenoweth recently stopped by 'The Late Late Show,' where she chatted with Craig Ferguson about an unforunate blind date. Click below to check out her full appearance!

The Original Broadway Cast Recording for THE BOOK OF MORMON was nominated for the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. The recording on Ghostlight Records made history earlier this year as the first Broadway cast recording to chart in Billboard's Top 10 since Hair in 1969 and was also cited by Billboard as the fastest selling digital cast recording release of all time. The 54th Annual Grammy Awards will be held on February 12, 2012 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and broadcast on the CBS Television Network.

NBC celebrated the lighting of the world's most famous Christmas tree with a live broadcast from Rockefeller Center in New York City on Wednesday, November 30th. The star-studded holiday special featured performances by Neil Diamond, Big Time Rush, Tony Bennett, Justin Bieber, Michael Bublé, Cee Lo Green, Carole King, Katharine McPhee, Javier Colon and The Radio City Rockettes with a mix of current hits and holiday classics. In the video below, Broadway veterans and SMASH star Megan Hilty sings at the big event. Click below to check it out!

The general on-sale for The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's hit production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR begins tomorrow, Saturday, December 3 through Ticketmaster at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 877-250-2929 . Group sales (of 15 or more) are on sale now and available by calling 1-877-536-3437 . Directed by the Festival's Artistic Director Des McAnuff, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR will open at the Neil Simon Theatre on Broadway on Thursday, March 22, 2012. Previews will begin Thursday, March 1, 2012.

On next week's episode of GLEE, the New Directions compete at Sectionals against the Troubletones; a former Glee Club member, Sam, returns to McKinley; Quinn weighs an important decision; Tina helps Mike with a problem regarding his future. Check out photos from the December 6 episode below!

On December 2, 2011 New York artists will introduce tourists and New Yorkers going to Broadway shows or shopping themselves into debt to the idea of occupation as CREATIVE resistance with non-stop free performances. We will set up in a privately owned public space (POPS) near Times Square, turning once blandified space into a space for cultural production.

One More Sleep 'Til Christmas, an evening of new holiday songs to benefit Toys for Tots, features the talents of Charlie Brady (The Burnt Part Boys/South Pacific), Claybourne Elder (Bonnie and Clyde), Hannah Elless (Mamma Mia!), Gideon Glick (Wild Animals You Should Know), Jaclyn Huberman (I Love You Because), Rebecca Naomi Jones (American Idiot/Passing Strange), Alyse Alan Louis (Mamma Mia!), Christianne Tisdale (On a Clear Day…), Taylor Trensch (Little Miss Sunshine), and Paul Wyatt (Sessions) on Monday, December 12 at 9:30pm at the Laurie Beechman Theatre (at the West Bank Café), 407 West 42nd Street.

Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the third time to host the merry annual New Year's celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of Mariss Jansons from Vienna's Musikverein. This is Jansons' second time at the podium of this much cherished event. The famed Vienna Boys' Choir will add their celestial voices to the gala.

Stage Door Canteen: Broadway Responds To World War II, a new studio cast recording inspired by Ted Chapin's highly-lauded Lyrics & Lyricists program at New York's 92nd Street Y, has just been released by DRG Records. Featuring a stellar line-up of New York talent -- including Anderson Davis, Jeffry Denman, Brandon Victor Dixon, Debra Monk and Betsy Wolfe -- Stage Door Canteen presents a wide selection of musical responses to World War II, including both rarities and standards by some of the biggest songwriters of the day: Rodgers & Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Lorenz Hart, Irving Berlin, Frank Loesser, Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Kurt Weill, Leonard Bernstein, Comden & Green and more. The recording is produced for DRG Records by Hugh Fordin.

The Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston brings back its annual holiday revue 'Christmas Time,' now in its 29th spectacular season, for eight performances December 3-11 at the Robinson Theatre, 617 Lexington Street, Waltham. This joyous musical celebration presents all the comfort and joy of the season in heartwarming choral and dance numbers, beautiful costumes, and breath-taking custom scenery designed and painted by world renowned artist Robert Moody. Created and directed by Reagle's founder and executive producer Robert Eagle, 'Christmas Time' boasts a feast of timeless holiday favorites plus a full, live professional orchestra.

The 40th Anniversary production and first-ever Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's rock musical GODSPELL officially opened at the Circle in the Square Theater on November 7. The cast just visited 'The View' where they performed a medley of songs from the show. Click below to check it out!

According the the NY Times, Kelli O'Hara is set to lead a New York workshop for a musical version of THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY later this month. Featuring a a score by Jason Robert Brown, the workhop will feature direction by Tony winner Bartlett Sher.

Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of CLOSE UP SPACE, the new play by Molly Smith Metzler, directed by Leigh Silverman begins previews tonight, December 1 at 8 PM at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street). The limited engagement will open Monday, December 19.

Broadway Kids Care just hosted its first Dinner with a Director Education Series, featuring director and choreographer Kenny Ortega and young Broadway performers. Check out photos from the big event below!

Columbia Records and Twentieth Century Fox Television have just announced the release of Glee: The Music, Volume 7 available on Tuesday, December 6, 2011. Featured on this release is the widely praised mash-up of Adele's "Rumour Has It" and "Someone Like You", which soared to #1 on the iTunes Top Songs Chart with the official video garnering 5.3 million views on Vevo.com. This collection is also filled with memorable tracks from the third season of Glee including Michael Jackson's "Man In The Mirror," Beyonce's "Run The World (Girls)," and Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night" (see below for full track listings). Glee: The Music, Volume 7 will be available both in standard and deluxe versions.

The producers of STICK FLY have just announced that beginning Friday, December 2nd the show will offer a limited number of rush seats at $35. The seats will be available for purchase at 10 a.m. when the Cort Theatre box office opens and for performances that day only. There is a limit of 2 tickets per person, some seats may be considered "partial view" and rush tickets are only available for purchase at the box office.

Due to extraordinary demand, The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Patrick Willingham) announced today that Mike Daisey's critically acclaimed THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS will return in January for an additional five week run in the Martinson Theater. Created and performed by Mike Daisey and directed by Jean-Michele Gregory, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS began previews at The Public on October 11, officially opened on October 17, and was originally scheduled to close on November 13. It was extended an additional three weeks to December 4. The return engagement will run January 31 to March 4, 2012. Tickets, priced at $75-$85, are on sale now. Public Theater Member tickets are $40. Tickets can be purchased at (212) 967-7555 or www.publictheater.org.

Sex In A Coma, a new play by Susan Eve Haar, will make its New York City debut directed by renowned director Lee Breuer, in his first collaboration with a living American playwright. The play stars Tony® Award nominee Paul Kandel (The Who's TOMMY, Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame), David-Julian Melendez (User 927 and Romeo & Juliet at HERE), Obie Award winner Maude Mitchell (Mabou Mines Dollhouse, The Laramie Project), Obie Award winner Ching Valdes-Aran (Oresteia, Flipzoids), Jessica Weinstein (Mabou Mines DollHouse, The Best), and Wendy vanden Heuvel (The Barbie Project, Resurrection Blues). Music for the play will be composed by Eve Beglarian (Mabou Mines DollHouse, Animal Magnetism). The show plays tonight, December 1st through December 11th, at HERE Arts Center (145 Sixth Avenue, NYC).