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Carole W. Nussbaum, Cabrillo Music Theatre President and Chief Executive Officer, proudly announces Cabrillo Music Theatre?s 2009-2010 season. Fresh from such recent smash hits as 42nd Street and Breaking Up is Hard To Do, Cabrillo Music Theatre will present its biggest season yet. In addition to the four-show season, Cabrillo will introduce a bonus holiday production at the Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

Two countries, three generations, 22 turbulent years?and a dynamic soundtrack ranging from Syd Barrett to The Plastic People of the Universe to U2?are at the heart of Rock 'n' Roll, a sweeping and passionate drama about love, music and revolution from Academy Award and four-time Tony Award-winner Tom Stoppard. For the play?s Chicago premiere at Goodman Theatre, Artistic Director Robert Falls taps director Charles Newell, whose reputation for directing acclaimed Stoppard productions precedes him. Newell?s cast of 12 is led by Stephen Yoakam and Chicago favorites Timothy Edward Kane and Mary Beth Fisher, who explore the unique intersection of politics and art against the background of John Culbert?s rock concert-inspired set design?complete with a floor resembling the cover art of Barrett?s solo album, Madcap Laughs. Rock ?n? Roll will be performed in the Albert Theatre May 2 ? June 7, 2009. Tickets are $25 ? $75. A complete performance schedule including dates, times and ticket prices appears at the end of this release. The Edith-Marie Appleton Foundation and Goodman Theatre Women?s Board are the Major Production Sponsors for Rock ?n? Roll and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP is the Corporate Sponsor Partner. Additional support is provided by the Director?s Society Sponsors. WXRT is the Official Radio Sponsor of Rock ?n? Roll.

Captain Smartypants goes ?native? when a luxury airliner nosedives into the Pacific, the shipwrecked Air Smarty crew takes to the airwaves. It?s a unique taste of homo-comedy at its talented and flagitious best. ?Mayday? turns to musical mayhem as their increasingly creative distress signals attract all sorts of characters. Part Tempest, part Gilligan?s Island, part Lost, part American Idol, this show demonstrates just how creative, and desperate, a group of nine survivors can get. Air Smarty features songs by Annie Lennox, a tribute to gay and straight composers, and a medley of songs shown to drive people clinically insane. Peppered with commercials for new and cryptic products, the evening is all done up by a parade of undaunted, unbalanced, and unearthly characters who will definitely keep you laughing.

Carol Mayo Jenkins, a veteran actress who has starred on Broadway and is remembered as English teacher Elizabeth Sherwood in the award-winning television series Fame, returns to Petaluma to star the upcoming Cinnabar Theater production of Collected Stories.

WaterTower Theatre (WTT) concludes its 2008-2009 Discover Series with the regional premiere of Adam Bock's The Receptionist. It will run June 4 - 21, 2009.

Shakespeare Festival/LA (SF/LA), a professional and community-based non-profit theater company, is auctioning off a speaking role alongside Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks in the 2009 Simply Shakespeare adaptation of ?The Comedy of Errors? under the direction of Ben Donenberg, founding Artistic Director, SF/LA. The winner will participate in rehearsal, gain admission to the VIP post-show party and take a group photo with the cast, which the cast will all sign. The auction began May 1 and will end at 7pm PDT on May 11, 2009.

With more that 4,000 in attendance, Carol Channing was honored for her unstinting support of the arts in education at the PTA Convention on May 2nd, 2009. The Children's Arts Advocate Award 2009 - the state PTA's first such award - was presented to the First Lady of Musical Theatre during an appearance at the organization's 110th annual convention. She and her husband, Harry Kullijian spoke to a crowd of thousands of PTA members and delegates, representing the organization's nearly 1 million volunteer members in the state of California

The Children?s Playhouse of Maryland, in residence at the Community College of Baltimore County, Essex, presents the uproarious musical comedy, Once Upon A Mattress. Performances are 1 p.m., May 9 - 10, 16 - 17, 23 - 24 and a special 4 p.m. performance May 17 and will be held in the ?J? Building Lecture Hall (J-137) at CCBC Essex, 7201 Rossville Boulevard. Tickets, which are $10 regular admission and $8 for birthday parties and scout troops, are available from the CCBC Box Office at 443-840-ARTS. (Actorlist recipients under the age of 18 get in for $5.00 with a copy of Art Notes.)

Portland State University School of Fine And Performing Arts and the Department of Theater Arts is set to present The Imaginary Invalid by Molière. This Oregon premiere of a new adaption by Constance Congdon is directed by Glenn Gauer. Performances at Portland Center for the Performing Arts will be in the Dolores Winningstad Theater and will take place Saturday, May 30 - Sunday, June 7, 2009: Tuesday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, May 31 & June 7 at 2:00 p.m.

The New York Philharmonic?s final Very Young People?s Concerts of the season will introduce children ages 3 to 6 to ?Treble and Bass,? a program created to show how high and low sounds make music fun, Sunday, June 14, 2009, at 12:30 and 3:00 p.m., and Monday, June 15, at 10:30 a.m., at Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th Street. The program will feature pieces by Dvo?ák, Bartók, and Smetana, along with hands-on music-making with musicians from the orchestra.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) was proud to announce the statuesque Julie Newmar as their emcee for Out of the Closet's Cheap Chic Fashion Show and Auction on Saturday night, May 2nd at their Out of the Closet (www.OutoftheCloset.org) in Hollywood at 6210 Sunset Blvd. This 21-and-over fundraising event, orchestrated by Designer Louis Natividad, was built around a timely theme-?Tough Times, Great Solutions!?-and will benefit AHF, the largest AIDS group in the US, which currently provides more than 15,000 free HIV and STD tests annually in California via its community-based testing programs. The fashion show, that began at 9:00 PM featured models decked out in trendy and affordable wares straight off the racks of ?Out of the Closet,? year-round purveyor of ?cheap chic? and great solutions in tough times!

The Covina Center for the Performing Arts is proud to present Not Fade Away: a 50s and 60s musical extravaganza, the third in our special events series. Not Fade Away: a 50s and 60s musical extravaganza is a musical tribute to the 1950s and early 60s that takes the audience back to a simpler time, a time of optimism and the youthful exuberance of a burgeoning movement called rock and roll.

Media City Ballet of Los Angeles, Natasha Middleton, Artistic Director, in association with Woodbury University will present Miriam Larici and Leonardo Barrionuevo, Best Couple Winners of NBC Television?s Premiere Season of ?SuperStars of Dance,? in ?Tango, Tonight!,? A One Night Only Special Event to be held in The New Woody?s Café at Woodbury University; 7500 Glenoaks Avenue; Burbank, CA 91510 from 6:30 ? 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 28, 2009.

Bucking the trend toward more modest offerings, Shadow Theatre Company expands its programming and offers six shows for its 2009-10 season. Celebrating its one-year anniversary in its new state-of-the-art facility in the East End Arts District in Aurora, Shadow Artistic Director Jeffrey Nickelson notes, 'One group that is under-represented in American theatre is women-especially African American woman; which is why our upcoming season celebrates women and is entitled 'Celebrating Women, Mothers and Daughters.' Women's work, energy, thought, and spirit help build the world we live in today, and each scheduled show demonstrates the strength and beauty of womanhood.' Nickelson goes on, 'Funding for Shadow and all arts institutions have declined over the past year but we have faith that this exciting season will bring people out to the theatre. In tough times, we celebrate tough women-because their devotion to goodness and community is what will bring us through the current crisis.'

After working on 'Sole Survivors' for two and a half years, Santa Fe performance artist and author/journalist Michelle Vest will open her heartfelt new play, 'Sole Survivors' in New York (June) and Albuquerque (July).

From the stories of A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh has been dramatized by le Clanché du Rand. With music by Allan J. Friedman, lyrics by A.A. Milne and Kristin Sergel, and additional Lyrics by le Clanché du Rand, Winnie-the-Pooh will be performed Saturdays, June 6, 13 & 20 and July 11 & 18 at 1:00pm and 4:00pm, and Monday - Thursday, July 13 ? 16 at 9:45am and 11:30am. School groups should call 713-524-9196 ext 101 for available field trip times for July 13 - 16. The show is directed by Daria James and will be performed at Main Street Theatre (Chelsea Market, 4617 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX 77006).

P?s and Q?s: the ABC?s of Manners, a world premiere with Book by Steven Garfinkel and Music and Lyrics by Trout Fishing in America (Keith Grimwood and Ezra Idlet) will run at Main Street Theatre (Chelsea Market, 4617 Montrose Blvd., Houston, Texas 77006) from July 5 - August 9, 2009. It is directed by Mark Adams.

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words, the hit show that just received a 2009 Drama Desk Award nomination for Unique Theatrical Experience, continues its sit-down, open-ended run at the Triad Theater, 158 West 72 Street, Sunday, May 10, at 7pm with a special Mother?s Day edition, and Monday, May 11, at 7:30pm.

Praised by Backstage Magazine for 'one of those rare voices with a soothing, almost hypnotic quality' award winning vocalist and actress Jill O?Hara, the original female lead in the Burt Bacharach-Hal David-Neil Simon Broadway musical Promises, Promises, reunites with Burt Bacharach at the annual spring gala for 92nd Street Y. What The World Needs Now?The Music of Burt Bacharach will take place at Kaufmann Concert Hall, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, Monday, May 18. Jill introduced the Bacharach/David pop classics I?ll Never Fall In Love Again, Knowing When To Leave and Whoever You Are I Love You. O?Hara went on to win a Tony nomination, the Theater World Award and New Jersey Journal Award for Best Actress In A Musical, while the cast album earned a Grammy Award. The concert event will also feature performances by Dionne Warwick, Sarah Dash and Elvis Costello. Proceeds from the Spring Gala support the 92nd Street Y's myriad of programs. Tickets are available by calling 212-415-5488 or online at www.92Y.org.

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre has announced the election of Mark D. Sylvester, Managing Director of Philadelphia?s historic Walnut Street Theatre, as its new Treasurer.