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Come give your happy feet a chance and jump, jive and wail at Pittsburgh CLO's production of Swing!, playing June 20 through 26 at the Benedum Center in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh's Cultural District.

Electric Youth, a dynamic ensemble of talented singers and dancers backed by an eight piece band of Boston?s Finest musicians will bring its live performance to three local venues in the summer months. Electric Youth performances offer exciting family entertainment with an extensive repertoire of pop, rock and Broadway music staged and choreographed to entertain and delight audiences of all ages.

After keeping holiday audiences rolling in the aisles, Who Wants Cake? brings The Book of Liz, another Sedaris treat, to Ferndale?s The Ringwald Theatre for a four week summer run. The Book of Liz is written by the hilarious sibling team, David and Amy Sedaris, and will play Friday, Saturday, and Monday nights at 8PM from July 10 through August 3rd.

The New York Philharmonic has become the first orchestra with its own Apple iPhone application (app). Any iPhone or iPod Touch user now can download the app at the iPhone App Store or through iTunes, and have easy access to information about the Philharmonic ? all free of charge.

The following is the Media Theatre's listings for its 2009/10 season of Broadway musicals. Ticket prices rance from $22 - $42.50. All Broadway musicals share the same weekly schedule, unless noted. Performances are on Wednesdays at 2:00pm and 7:30pm (exception: The first week of each run has only a 7:30pm on Wednesdays). Thursdays at 7:30pm (exception: The first week of each run has a 2pm and a 7:30 on Thursdays). Fridays at 8:00pm, Saturdays at 2:00pm and 8:00pm. Sundays at 3:00pm.

The free concert is set to take place on Friday, June 19 at 5:00 p.m. The stars of Million Dollar Quartet will draw crowds to the Dock Street Stage, playing two 20-minute sets of beloved hits including ?Blue Suede Shoes,? ?Great Balls of Fire,? and ?Who Do You Love,? among others.

A backstabbing, bitchy, conniving, manipulative, sexy, lustful, and wickedly funny man that changed the world. His real name was Octavius, and for 8 years he ruled the world. He was a lover of women and men, and he was appointed Pope at the age of 18. Was he a devil or a saint? You decide. This comedic drama is based on the historical, outrageous, and controversial events surrounding John?s ascent to the papacy.

Following last season?s triumph of Rodgers & Hammerstein?s Carousel, Lyric Stage Founding Producer Steven Jones has reunited director Cheryl Denson and music director Jay Dias for the world premiere of the newly restored The King and I, featuring a 35-piece orchestra playing the original Robert Russell Bennett orchestrations. Performances are June 19, 20, 25, 26 and 27 @ 8:00 PM and June 21 & 28 @ 2:30 PM. Performances are in the Irving Arts Center?s Carpenter Performance Hall, 3333 N. Mac Arthur Blvd,. Irving, Texas. Tickets, priced from $20-$50, are available online at www.lyricstage.org or by calling 972-252-2787.

The following is Comedy Works Landmark's show calendar.

Author/performer Frank Blocker's highly acclaimed and multi-nominated ?Southern Gothic Novel? The Aberdeen, Mississippi Sex-Slave Incident will play its last performance at the Stage Left Studio Theatre (438 West 37th Street - between 9th & 10th Avenues) Wednesday, June 24th.

MotorCity Casino Hotel is proud to announce that our very own Radio Bar DJ Linda Lexy has been awarded a Detroit Music Award for 2009 Outstanding DJ.

If you purchase a ticket on Friday, June 19 (7:30pm), Saturday, June 20 (7:30pm), Sunday, June 21 (2:00pm) you can get the second for $5.

The After Party welcomes Broadway's Adinah Alexander June 19th at 10:30 pm. The show features Nat and Kat's Adventures' Kat Sherrell at the piano.

The Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF) presents their Tenth Anniversary Season Launch Party on Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 7pm (doors open at 6pm) at the Bleecker Street Theatre, 45 Bleecker Street, NYC. Tickets are $20 and are available now at www.midtownfestival.org or by phone at 866-811-4111.

The Uneasy Chair closed and Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead doesn't open for a few weeks. Can't do without your CoHo Theater fix? Do not fear!

Paper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee-Artistic Director, Mark W. Jones-Executive Director) The Rising Star Awards are modeled after the Tony® Awards and Paper Mill?s program serves the entire state of New Jersey with 100 entered productions from high schools. The 2009 Rising Star Award ceremony was held at Paper Mill Playhouse on Tuesday, June 16th in which the nominees performed and the award recipients were presented with a crystal award from Rising Star Award partner Tiffany?s & Co. Investors Savings Bank Foundation is the title sponsor of the 2009 Rising Star Awards.

Broadway legends Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin open their critically acclaimed theatre concert, 'An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin,' at the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre on Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Performances for this one-week-only engagement continue through June 29.

A Noise Within, the highly regarded repertory theatre company and a leading force in arts education, presents Summer With Shakespeare, an intensive summer program for ages 10 to 18 on acting, improvisation, voice, speech, movement technique, mask technique, textual analysis, and stage combat. 'Summer With Shakespeare' culminates in a presentation of scenes from the plays of William Shakespeare. The five-week, Mon-Wed-Fri sessions led by professional faculty run from July 6 to August 8, 2009. 'Sorcerers, Spectres and the Supernatural' is this year's theme, and the selections focus on the wide range of Shakespeare's otherworldly characters -- ghosts, witches, sorcerers, sprites and supernatural forms.

Home of the Prune Festival and the famous bee-beard contest, Yuba City is an invisible gem tucked away in the desert. If you stare long enough it might vanish like a mirage. Rest here on your travels along that long unswerving snake we call the interstate, park your rig, unfold your legs, drain the main vein, and try our world-famous jackalope stew.

Using a singular sense of comedy, symbolism, and satire, The Wedding on the Eiffel Tower serves up what Cocteau describes as ?the miraculous poetry of daily life.? Also on the bill of three short plays are the absurdist comedy Jack, or the Submission by Eugene Ionesco and Humulus the Mute by Jean Anouilh.