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According to contactmusic.com, FELA! has been asked by officials at the Nigerian Ministry of Culture to perform in Nigeria this October. A FELA! performance would be part of the celebration for the country's 50 years of independence.

E!Online is reporting that Brooke Shields may very well be heading back to the Great White Way next season, telling friends that she is preparing to begin rehearsals for a show at the end of the summer. The show is unknown, however, internet rumors have associated the star with Leap of Faith, which is being helmed by Promises, Promises director/choreographer Rob Ashford.

The New York Times has just revealed that BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON, which is playing the Public Theatre through June 27 after multiple extensions, has been offered the Jacob's Theatre on Broadway for a fall opening by the Shubert Organization, should producers choose to make the quick transfer.

According to published reports, Kristin Chenoweth has confirmed that she will be departing PROMISES, PROMISES on September 26, 2010 and head back onto the GLEE set to film additional guest appearances.

The Roundabout Theatre Company has put out a casting call for a New York production of Noel Coward's BRIEF ENCOUNTER, currently playing in London, presented by the Kneehigh Theatre. Production contract details reveal that Emma Rice will direct.

RZA of the hip-hop group The Wu-Tang Clan harbors dreams of making the group's album 'Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)' into a Broadway musical, theboombox.com reported today.

Fueling the already-started rumors, the 2010 Off-Broadway musicals BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON and THE KID may receive commercial productions, the New York Times has reported.

Matthew Morrison, who originated the role of Lieutenant Joseph Cable in the current Broadway production of SOUTH PACIFIC, may be returning to the production in order to appear in the 'Live from Lincoln Center' performance on August 18, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday. According to a Lincoln Center spokesman, Morrison's return will depend on his filming schedule for 'Glee,' the hit television show of which he is a star.

Whatsonstage.com is suggesting that Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking may get West End Treatment as year as later this year. If true, this would be the second big announcement surrounding the show, which is being filmed at the South Orange Performing Arts Center on June 25th for an HBO documentary feature, BroadwayWorld learned today.

Rumors have been abound that Elaine Stritch and Bernadette Peters could succeed Angela Lansbury and Catherine Zeta-Jones in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning masterpiece A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC. It now appears that might be just the case.

64th Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards, the culmination of the theatrical awards season, will take place on Sunday, June 13th, live from Radio City Music Hall. The Tony Awards will air live on CBS from 8:00-11:00PM (ET/PT time delay), presented by The Broadway League and The American Theatre Wing. PROMISES, PROMISES star Sean Hayes hosts.

Actress Kim Cattrall wants to return to Broadway in a new revival of Noel Howard's Private Lives.

According to Variety, a recent industry reading of the 1978 musical Ballroom has incited some speculation about a 2012 Broadway revival with Jerry Mitchell at the helm as director/choreographer.

Australian singer Kylie Minogue is rumored to be collaborating with London's RENT director William Baker on an untitled Broadway project. This is not Minogue's first encounter with Baker; he was the creative director of her 2008 tour, 'KYLIEX2008.' The new musical project will be the story of her extensive musical career and incorporate the best of her musical library. The piece will reportedly be in the style of Mamma Mia, according to Whatsonstage.com.

Deadline.com is reporting that Sting and NEXT TO NORMAL's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and lyricist Brian Yorkey. Few details on the nature of the show have been revealed, however it is believed that it is inspired by Sting's memoir, Broken Music. The show, however, is allegedly not a autobiographical. No word on whether or not the score would be original.

During an interview with Graham Norton (who was standing in for Chris Evans) on BBC Radio 2 Debbie Reynolds said she is in talks to replace Angela Lansbury in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.

Michael Riedel, in today's New York Post reports that Sutton Foster has been cast in an upcoming Roundabout Theatre Company revival of ANYTHING GOES.

The U.K. Daily Mail is speculating that the current revival of PROMISES, PROMISES, which opened on Broadway on April 25, 2010, may be getting West End treatment with the show's star, Sean Hayes.

The U.K. Daily Mail is reporting that the Broadway production of FENCES, starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis may transfer to the West End following it's final curtain call in New York on July 11, 2010. Washington is reportedly in the early stages of negotiations to make the transfer with the show.

Michael Riedel reports in the New York Post this morning that Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline may headline a production of Theresa Rebeck's POOR BEHAVIOR on Broadway in the fall of this year. According to Riedel, a 'top secret' reading of the play was held on Monday, April 19, with Weaver, Kline, Dylan Baker and Laila Robbins. Doug Hughes directed.