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Just in time for the holidays, Glee brings joy to the world with the release of Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume 2, available Tuesday, November 15, 2011. The Glee holiday cheer is spread with the cast's own festive renditions of such Christmas staples as 'Little Drummer Boy', 'Let It Snow' and 'All I Want For Christmas Is You'. Especially poignant is the GLEE Cast's interpretation of Band Aid's 1984 hit 'Do They Know Its Christmas?,' which raised money to benefit famine relief in Ethiopia and sold 1 million copies in it's first week. New cast members, Lindsay Pearce, Alex Newell, and Damian McGinty, from the wildly popular show The Glee Project are featured on 'Do You Hear What I Hear?' and 'Blue Christmas', along with fellow discovery Samuel Larson accompanying the GLEE Cast on 'Santa Claus Is Coming To Town'. Among the 12 tracks on Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume 2 are two original songs 'Extraordinary Merry Christmas' and 'Christmas Eve With You', both written by Adam Anders, Peer Astrom and Shelly Peiken (see full track listing below). Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume 2 is available today for pre-order on iTunes.

Broadway In Chicago has just announced that COME FLY AWAY is coming to the Bank of America Theatre (18 W. Monroe St., Chicago) for a limited two-week engagement Jan. 10-22, 2012. COME FLY AWAY is a new Broadway musical that brings together the legendary music of FRANK SINATRA and the creative vision of Tony Award®-winner TWYLA THARP (Movin' Out). Individual tickets go on sale Friday, Nov. 11, 2011 at 10 a.m.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater announced today that its world premiere of Asuncion, the new comedy written by and starring Academy Award-nominee Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network), will extend its run at The Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street). Originally scheduled to close on November 27, Asuncion will now play an additional three weeks and conclude following the Sunday, December 18th performance.

According to the Guardian, several West End productions might close for the 2012 Summer Olypics, which will be held in London. Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group is considering closing such West End shows as THE WIZARD OF OZ and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, commenting: 'It's being discussed, although nothing has yet been confirmed.'

Think your child is the best dressed in Neverland? Prove it in the Peter Pan Photo Contest. It just takes a little imagination and a sprinkle of pixie dust (and a great costume). The top 50 contestants will be included in a vote to see who represents the never-grow-up spirit best. The winner will receive a booty-ful prize package that would make even Captain Hook jealous.

Fanny Brice, America's Funny Girl and Love, Loss, and What I Wore will be the final two shows of Asolo Repertory Theatre's 53rd season.

Closing the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum 2011 season is the wickedly funny 'Vigil,' a dark comedy written and directed by Morris Panych and featuring Marco Barricelli and Academy Award-winner Olympia Dukakis, through December 18. Check out photos from opening night below!

On November 8th, A Christmas Story, The Musical! launches its National Tour at The Hershey Theatre in Hershey, PA. America's #1 Christmas movie comes to life on stage as hilarious holiday musical featuring a bright holiday score by composer/lyricist team Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and a book by Joseph Robinette based on the writings of radio humorist Jean Shepherd and the 1983 holiday film favorite. Tony Award winner John Rando (Urinetown, The Wedding Singer) will direct the production with Warren Carlyle (Finian's Rainbow, Follies, An Evening With Hugh Jackman) choreographing. Peter Billingsley, who starred as Ralphie in the original 1983 film, serves as a producer for the holiday tour.

Manhattan Theatre Source, the Greenwich Village theatre space named 'one of the top five Off-Off Broadway theaters in New York' by New York Magazine - will close its doors permanently in January 2012, it has been announced by the MTS Board of Directors. 'Despite efforts to save it, we have finally reached a point where we can no longer sustain the running of our space at 177 MacDougal Street,' stated Board member Doug Silver. 'Our deficits have grown too high, and the terrible economy has badly hurt small theater companies in NYC, not only The Source itself, but even more significantly the companies that we depend on to rent our theater all year long. These harsh realities have left us no choice but leave our space.'

New Line Cinema's film version of the smash hit Broadway musical 'Rock of Ages' is currently filming under the direction of Adam Shankman (HAIRSPRAY). Tom Cruise, who will star as Stacee Jaxx in the film, recently chatted with the LA Times about putiing on his dancing shoes for the film. Cruise told LAT: 'I had started dancing because I was inspired by my wife. She kept saying, 'You've got to do a musical sometime. Kate's a dancer, so she would say, 'Let's go to dance class,' and she would take us and that's how I kind of came up with the idea of Les Grossman doing hip-hop. And then to take it to this level with this? It was really fun.'

Transport Group's Queen of the Mist is a world premiere musical with words and music by 5-time Tony nominee Michael John LaChiusa (The Wild Party, Marie Christine, Hello Again). Based on an astounding, outrageous, and haunting true story, two-time Tony nominee Mary Testa (Guys and Dolls, Xanadu, 42nd Street) stars as Anna Edson Taylor, who, in 1901, set out to be the first woman to shoot Niagara Falls, in a barrel of her own design.

According to published reports, Broadway veteran Phyllis Love passed away October 30 in Los Angeles of complications from Alzheimer's disease.

Tshidi Manye, who currently stars as 'Rafiki' in the Broadway production of The Lion King will be performing in concert Monday, November 7th at 8pm at dromNYC (85 Avenue A between 5th and 6th Streets) to celebrate the release of her debut album, WILDFLOWER. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door and can be purchased at www.dromnyc.com.

The Actors Fund announced today that the Special Benefit Performance of ANYTHING GOES, winner of three Tony® Awards including Best Musical Revival, has been rescheduled for Sunday, December 11 at 8 pm. The Special Benefit Performance of ANYTHING GOES was originally scheduled for Sunday, November 6.

The Evening Standard Theatre Awards, established in 1955, are presented annually for outstanding achievements in London Theatre. Sponsored by the Evening Standard newspaper, this year's awards will be announced on November 20.

The Broadway at Birdland concert series has just announced that Christine Ebersole will be performing with the Aaron Weinstein Trio on Sunday, November 27 (6pm) and Monday, November 28 (7pm).

A CHARITY CASE starring Two-Time Tony Nominee Alison Fraser, Alysia Reiner (Sideways) and Jill Shackner (Les Miserables) opened last week, November 2nd at The Clurman Theatre (410 West 42nd Street- between 9th and 10th Avenues). This new play about adoption is written and directed by Australian playwright Wendy Beckett. A CHARITY CASE will play through November 20th. Check out photos of Shirley Knight, who just visited the show, below!

Sony Pictures Classics's CARNAGE will be released in select theaters in New York and Los Angeles on December 16th, 2011. The upcoming film adaptation of Yasmina Reza's original play and Tony Award winning Broadway production GOD OF CARNAGE! is an ensemble cast of Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, and John C. Reilly. It is directed by Roman Polanski and produced by Ben Said. Check out photos from the premiere at the 2011 AFI Fest below!

On Saturday 5th November, the winners of this year's English Heritage Angel Awards were revealed on BBC 2's Culture Show in a special ceremony, hosted by presenters Clare Balding and Graham Norton and held at the Palace Theatre in London's West End. Michael Winner and Danielle Hope helped to present the awards.

The continuation of Broadway's longest-running musical The Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies, which opened May 21 at Melbourne's Regent Theatre, will move to Sydney's Capitol Theatre on January 12, 2012. Previews will begin on January 8, and the production will continue for 12 weeks through April 1.