Donny & Marie Reunite at MGM Grand July 2008

Show business legends Donny Osmond and Marie Osmond will reunite at MGM Grand's Hollywood Theatre for eight performances July 17 – 23, 2008.  Show times are 8PM July 17 and 21 – 23 and 8:30PM July 18 – 20, with a 4PM matinee July 19.

Tickets are priced at $95 inclusive and are available at all MGM Grand box office locations.  To charge by phone call (800) 929-1111 or (702) 891-7777.  Tickets also are available for purchase online at www.mgmgrand.com and www.ticketmaster.com.  VIP packages including a meet-and-greet with Donny & Marie, attendance at sound check and exclusive merchandise are available for purchase online at www.mgmgrand.com and www.ticketmaster.com.

"During this rare limited engagement (the first time the pair has played a Las Vegas run since 1979), Donny & Marie will perform their greatest hits on a custom stage designed specially for this historic reunion.  The show will be a state-of-the-art extravaganza utilizing multiple projection screens, interlacing rare archival footage with the world premier of brand new videos produced by Donny," explain press notes.

Donny & Marie made television history when the seminal variety show "The Donny & Marie Show" debuted on ABC in 1976 – they were the youngest hosts ever of a primetime network series.  This wildly successful show solidified their worldwide fan base still numbering in the millions.  After multiple solo successes, the duo teamed up once again in 1998, hosting the nationally syndicated daytime talk show "Donny & Marie."

Beginning his illustrious career at the age of five on The Andy Williams Show performing with The Osmond Brothers, Donny has been awarded a grand total of 33 gold records.  His most recent album (his 55th), "Love Songs of the 70s" immediately went gold in the UK .  His multi-faceted career includes being a national television host ("Pyramid"), a best-selling author (his autobiography debuted at #1 on the UK bestseller list) and the Theater (over 2,000 performances starring in Andrew Lloyd Weber's Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and most recently on Broadway starring in Disney's Beauty and the Beast).  College Road Trip, the Disney movie in which Donny co-stars with Raven Symone and Martin Lawrence, opens this March.  He has even been a champion race car driver.

Making her debut at the age of three on The Andy Williams Show, Marie has had an equally stellar recording career, making history at the age of thirteen with her very first single, "Paper Roses," the first time that a female artist debuted at #1 in the country music charts.  She has starred in several television movies and feature films, the ABC sitcom "Maybe This Time" co-starring with Betty White, and on stage in The Sound of Music and on Broadway in The King and I.  A New York Times best-selling author ("Behind The Smile"), Marie was a judge on Fox's "Celebrity Duets" in 2006 and was most recently a finalist on the #1 smash series, ABC's "Dancing with the Stars."  Her award-winning "Marie Osmond Fine Porcelain Collector Doll" line, debuted in 1991 on QVC, and has grown into one of the most beloved doll lines in the industry.

The Children's Miracle Network, a project of the Osmond Foundation, the Osmond family charity which Marie oversees, has thus far raised almost $4 billion for children's hospitals in North America , and will soon expand internationally.

Donny Osmond and Marie Osmond (Photo by Walter McBride / Retna Ltd)

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