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Don?t miss intimate conversations with their most notable neighbors as part of Bay Street Theatre?s brand new ?Own Town? series beginning Thursday, June 11 at 4pm. For nine Thursdays this summer, Bay Street?s Artistic Director Murphy Davis will chat with some of the most interesting people who live and work in our area, from artists and authors to playwrights and producers. Come join the conversation!

The sounds you hear will be harmonious. They will be plentiful. And they will be uniquely American in their roots, but expansively international in their impact. They will come from thousands of people gathering to join in song in Anaheim, California June 28 ? July 5.

Windy City Media Group along with Miller Lite and Skyy Vodka present the seventh annual Windy City Gay Idol Finals at Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted on Sat., June 13 with doors opening at 1pm and the show starting at 4pm. Singers Jason Antone and Suzanne Palmer will also perform at the finals.

What a difference a quarter century makes. From July 10 - 12 at San Francisco?s ODC Commons (351 Shotwell Street at 17th), one of San Francisco?s cultural icons, dancer and choreographer Anne Bluethenthal (www.abdproductions.org), looks back on her first 25 years and anticipates the next in an epic evening of performance entitled Pluto in Capricorn: New, Reconstituted, and Spontaneous Dances for the 25th anniversary of Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers/ABD Productions.

New Harmony Theatre, the Tri-State?s only professional Equity theatre, will stage a season of classics of the American stage in 2009. The season, which opens runs June 12 ? August 16, 2009 at New Harmony?s Murphy Auditorium, features a company of seasoned performers with credits including Broadway, major regional theatre, film, and television. According to Lenny Leibowitz, artistic director, the season ?celebrates the American dreamer in all of her grace, fragility, and oddball exuberance. These plays ? ?A Streetcar Named Desire,? ?Harvey,? and ?Guys and Dolls? ? capture the limitless vitality of our nation?s spirit. When audiences first encountered these plays, they were finding their footing after a generation of war and upheaval. These three pinnacles of post-war American theatre ask us ? now as they did then ? to reflect on and re-chart our course. Their leading players - Blanche, Elwood, and Sky ? are inveterate dreamers who hold fast to their aspirations and ideals, resisting the inexorable drumbeat of conformity. They embolden us all to dream with ardor and panache.?

The Hartt Community Division dance program presents its Spring Dance Festival in four performances ? Friday, June 12, at 7:00 PM; Saturday, June 13, at 2:00 PM and 5:30 PM; and Sunday, June 14, at 3:00 PM. All performances occur at Hoffman Auditorium at the Carol Autorino Center, Saint Joseph College, located at 1768 Asylum Avenue in West Hartford. Tickets are $15 general admission and $10 for youth under 18 years of age, and are available at the Lincoln Theater box office on the University of Hartford campus. For additional ticket information call (860) 768-4228 or visit http://harttweb.hartford.edu/performance-boxoffice.htm.

?It's the Talk of the Town? a Musical Tribute to Jerry Livingston begins performances on Thursday, June 4th through Saturday June 13th at The Laurie Beechman Theatre, located within The West Bank Café, 407 West 42nd Street at of 9th Avenue, in the heart of New York?s Theatre district.

ABBA The Music, ?the best ABBA tribute show in the world,? according to ABBA?s Official International Fanclub, and the wildly popular Neil Diamond tribute band, Super Diamond, return to The Hollywood Bowl for an encore to their 2004 performance, Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 7:30 PM.

Light Up the World is a multicultural dance show choreographed by International Union Club, a group of Cleveland High School students. The show includes 13 dances from around the world. The purpose of this show is to raise money and donate the proceeds to the Children's Cancer Association.

RMTC announces its 2009/10 season entitled, Season of Love.

Act II Playhouse officially announces its 2009-10 season, a four-show lineup that begins in September and runs through May 2010.

At a press conference in Tokyo today, New York Philharmonic Music Director Designate Alan Gilbert and President and Executive Director Zarin Mehta announced the details of Asian Horizons: Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic, October 8?24, 2009. This will be the Orchestra?s inaugural international concert tour under the leadership of Alan Gilbert, who will begin his tenure as Music Director in September 2009. Asian Horizons will consist of eleven concerts, spanning five Asian countries, with performances in Tokyo, Japan (a destination of special significance in light of Mr. Gilbert?s Japanese heritage); Seoul, Korea; Singapore; and the Philharmonic?s debut performances in Hanoi, Vietnam, and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Pianist Emanuel Ax and violinists Frank Peter Zimmermann and Ye-Eun Choi (Philharmonic debut) are the featured soloists on the tour. Asian Horizons marks the fourth New York Philharmonic concert tour under the aegis of Credit Suisse, the Orchestra?s Global Sponsor, and the second in Asia.

42nd Street Moon kicks off its upcoming 2009-10 Season with its annual fundraiser, this year titled We?re In The Money! -- Hollywood Sings Away the Depression Blues. A one-night-only event at the Alcazar Theatre on Monday, June 22, the evening salutes the whimsical, eccentric, and often, enchanted world of 1930s movie musicals ? the talking picture era.

Natalie Douglas brings a brand new show to Birdland next Monday, June 8th at 7pm. Entitled 'The Heart of the Matter,' it is a collection of songs that transfixed Natalie as a child and teenager in Los Angeles. These are the songs that she would listen to over and over in her bedroom, crying, laughing and, of course, singing as she discovered the power of music and how it could indeed, reach to The Heart of the Matter with intelligent lyrics, beautiful melodies and that dash of magic.

It?s been just over a decade since Jane Monheit first made a name for herself after placing second in the Thelonious Monk competition in 1998. Since then, she?s been touted one of the next great vocalists of her generation, and she?s now on tour in support of her seventh release and second for the Concord Label, The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me. The recording features arrangements by Gil Goldstein and songs ranging from standards by the likes of Cole Porter and Leonard Bernstein, a pop song by Fiona Apple, and love songs like ?The Rainbow Connection,? a children?s song she sings to her son, Jack, who was born during the making of the recording. Monheit will appear at the Blue Note in June during the first leg of the June Vocal Series, which will feature Spencer Day, Sophie Milman, Bilal and Rachelle Ferrell throughout the month.

'How much are you willing to change for the one you love?' is the premise of Bay Street's first Main Stage production of the 2009 Summer Season, the betwitching romantic comedy Bell, Book and Candle. Written by John Van Druten, the play served as the inspiration for the hit television series Betwitched and was also a 1958 film starring Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart.

The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, a new musical comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award-winning smash The Producers, opened on Broadway November 8th 2007 at the Hilton Theatre and opens its national tour at the Providence Performing Arts Center, September 29 - October 4, 2009.

Explore ancient and modern Persian cultures at Safeco Insurance Festál: Iranian Festival, June 20, 11:00 a.m. ? 11:00 p.m., in Center House at Seattle Center. This new addition to the Safeco Insurance Festal roster features a melting pot of experiences as it unites a multifaceted community ? young and old from all walks of life.

The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) is pleased to announce details for the 2009-10 CCM Mainstage Series of drama, musical theater and opera productions. Brimming with 20th-century American classics along with a British operatic tragedy, the series features six fully-staged works, with performances taking place Oct. 29, 2009 through May 16, 2010.

First Run Theatre, a professional company dedicated to presenting world premiere productions of unpublished plays by local-area playwrights, continues its seventh season with 'The Last Memory of an Ol? Brownie Fan,' a one-man play by Bill Borst. It will be directed by Jim Meady and produced by Brad Slavik. Performance Dates are: evening performances on September 25, 26, and October 1, 2 and 3; and a matinee performance on September 27.