Reynard Loki - Page 99

On October 8, 2008, actor Alec Baldwin joined Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director Marin Alsop conducting the New York Philarmonic in rehearsal for INSIDE THE MUSIC at Avery Fisher Hall on October 8, 2008 in New York City. Baldwin was rehearsing for his October 10th New York Philarmonic debut as the narrator for Inside the Music: Dvorák's New World Symphony.

On Friday, October 10th, THE AFTER PARTY hosts the fifth annual Brandon and Ray's Birthday Bash. This annual event celebrates the birthdays of The After Party's own Brandon Cutrell and Ray Fellman. Now going strong its third year, THE AFTER PARTY is billed as 'a weekly schmoozefest for the theatrically inclined.'

HERE Arts Center in New York has announced that ARIAS WITH A TWIST has been extended to run through December 31, 2008. The CD ARIAS WITH A TWIST was released on October 3.

Things To Ruin, an incendiary collection of songs by Joe Iconis returns for a limited, four-performance run at The Zipper Factory in New York. The musical, directed by John Simpkins (Theatreworks USA's The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks) will be performed at 8pm on Friday, October 31, Friday, November 14, Saturday, November 22 and Friday, November 28.

On October 16, Dance Numbers from Musicals You've Not (Yet) Heard Of will bring together over sixty musical theatre writers and performers at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York.

Amas Musical Theatre presents two free performances of BURLY-Q! A Gay Burlesque, a show created by Phillip George (co-director of Forbidden Broadway) on Tuesday, October 22 at 7:30pm and Wednesday, October 23 at 6pm at the newly-restored Actors Playhouse, 100 Seventh Avenue South in New York.

South Coast Repertory's first NewSCRipts reading of the 2008-09 season will be Mat Smart's Thomas Repair. Thomas Repair is the 106th play to receive a staged reading as part of SCR's venerable play reading program. Smart also had the honor of kicking off the 2006-07 NewSCRipts season with his play The 13th of Paris. The NewSCRipts reading of Thomas Repair will take place on October 27 at 7:30pm on the Julianne Argyros Stage.

Tonight on 'That's Kentertainment!,' host Ken Kleiber brings you the cast of [title of show] in an encore airing celebrating their run on Broadway which concludes October 12.

After celebrating the 2nd anniversary of Wicked at the Apollo Victoria in London on Saturday, September 27, the cast and crew started preparing for their annual charity fundraising day. Wicked Day 2008 will be held on Sunday, October 26, with events scheduled across eight cities around the globe designed to raise money for good causes.

Wicked at the Apollo Victoria in London celebrated its second anniversary on Saturday, September 27, with the cast and crew thanking the fans for two years of support.

Dress Circle will release 'Act One - Songs from the Musicals of Alexander S. Bermange,' a new CD featuring 26 West End stars, including members of the cast of Wicked, performing 20 brand-new recordings.

Aldo Perez's The Renaldo The Ensemble will perform on Saturday, October 11, 11pm at the Living Room in New York, touching on opera, rock, Latin jazz, tango and hip-hop in a Kurt Weill-esque melange.

New York Festival of Song, whose recent 'A Bernstein/Bolcom Celebration' was performed with 'Comic and dramatic flair,'(The New York Times) presents Fugitives, songs by composers who fled Hitler's Europe, on November 18 and 20 at the newly restored Merkin Concert Hall in New York. The program will feature music from Broadway, the concert stage and Berlin cabaret by Kurt Weill, Erich Korngold, Alexander Zemlinsky and many others.

B.B. King Blues Club and Grill and The Highline Ballroom, two of the nation's most respected music venues and New York's premier home for Broadway stars and cabaret, present their schedule of performances, with recently added or altered shows.

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will hold a Prop and Costume sale on Saturday October 25 at the Shakespeare Theatre's Main Stage, the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre.

The Zipper Factory Theater will host Hey, You Know What Movie Would Make a Good Musical? on October 13 at 10pm, featuring some of Broadway and Off-Broadway's finest talents.

Hot off sold-out runs in Washington D.C., Chicago and New York, Political Idol, a hilarious spoof of the presidential elections, returns to Off-Broadway's Triad Theatre opening on Tuesday, October 14 (9PM) for a three week run and will play preview performances on Tuesday, Sept. 30th at 9pm and Thursday, October 2nd at 9pm.

Anne Ewers, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, announced the appointment of Charles Croce to the position of Vice President for Marketing and Public Relations at the Kimmel Center.

Kicking off their 2008/2009 season with Blue Before Morning by Kate McGovern, terraNOVA Collective joins the DR2 Theatre (103 East 15 Street, east of Union Square, New York) as their newest resident theatre company. terraNOVA Collective will be joining the Women's Expressive Theatre (WET) as only the second theatre company to be offered residency at the DR2 Theatre.

The New Group presents the U.S. premiere of Kevin Elyot's Mouth to Mouth directed by Mark Brokaw as the first production in its 2008-2009 season. Slated for a limited Off-Broadway engagement from October 21 - December 27, this production features New Group artist David Cale, Lisa Emery and Elizabeth Jasicki. Mouth to Mouth will have its Official Opening on Thursday, November 6 @ 7:00 PM at The New Group @ Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street).