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Special guest stars Joy Behar, Bruce Vilanch, Sutton Foster, Ute Lemper, Maureen McGovern, and Kate Clinton will perform in honor of the winners!

Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST had its highest gross ever in its 11-year history on Broadway for the week of December 27-January 2. The production grossed $1,044,028, filling the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre to 100% capacity, and breaking last year's record for BEAUTY AND THE BEAST for $986,950 for the same New Year's Eve holiday week.

Broadway's best musical theater vocalists will gather at the Irvington Town Hall Theater this Sunday, January 9th at 8PM to perform A Benefit Concert/Fundraiser for the Tsunami Relief Fund. This Broadway night features the most popular and memorable songs written for the Great White Way. The urgency of this event is obvious, and all proceeds will go directly to the American Red Cross Tsunami Relief Fund.

MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB will present its annual Winter Benefit, 'An Intimate Night,' an evening featuring Broadway stars LESLIE UGGAMS, PATRICK CASSIDY and KELLI O'HARA on Monday, January 24 at the Plaza Hotel (Fifth Avenue at Central Park South).

BroadwayWorld.com's Front and Center series is back with a bang as some of Broadway's brightest stars sing some fabulous Andrew Lloyd Webber tunes - some you'll know, and some you might not...

The Winter 2005 SEASON OF SAVINGS campaign officially launches on Sunday, January 2, 2005. Theatergoers can access easy-to-use discount coupons online at www.SeasonOfSavings.com.

Ken Davenport and Robyn Goodman today announced that the international search for the fifth member of ALTAR BOYZ is over. Matthew (who has taken the secular name Scott Porter) was recently discovered singing for thousands of dedicated worshippers at Disney World and Universal Studios in Florida, all without forsaking the boy-band roots that have allowed him to open for Orleans and 98 Degrees.

HBO and BROADWAY CARES EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS present a preview screening of HBO's new comedy series 'UNSCRIPTED'

For the week ending January 2nd, Roundabout Theatre Company's Twelve Angry Men grossed $408,192.63 at Broadway's American Airlines Theatre. The previous high for the Roundabout's American Airlines Theatre was during The Women, the week ending December 30th, 2001 which grossed $364,342.00.

Ergo Entertainment, producers of the feature film Paper Clips, and last years Tony Award Winning play Long Day's Journey into Night, is pleased to announce that it is sponsoring its first annual New York Winter Theatre and Arts Festival at the Producers Club Two, 616 Ninth Avenue (between 43rd & 44th St.) in New York City.

The smash hit musical, MAMMA MIA!, which in 2004 surpassed a worldwide gross of $1 billion dollars since opening in London five years ago, broke another record this week at the Cadillac Winter Garden Theatre.

THIS WEEK: A KENTERTAINMENT! KLASSIC: Last Year's CHRISTMAS CAROL featuring CAROL CHANNING!

For One Night Only (January 7th) - The Drama Desk Award winning group returns!

The Winter Season, a series of 7pm Monday night concerts at BIRDLAND featuring top Broadway and cabaret performers, continues with composer/lyricists Amanda Green & Tom Kitt, who will be performing their original songs January 24th and 31st at 7pm. The duo will be joined by special guest stars Brooks Ashmanskas, Mario Cantone, Jenn Colella, Gavin Creel, Jerry Dixon, Matt McGrath, Julia Murney, Greg Naughton, Alice Ripley, Amy Spanger and the Tom Kitt Band. The writing team is currently adapting the popular book and film High Fidelity for the Broadway stage as a musical, and will premiere several songs from the musical during the concert.

Wonderful Town has announced that it'll play it's last performance on January 30th, the same day that star Brooke Shields is scheduled to perform in the show.

Stage and Screen star Jerry Orbach lost his battle with prostate cancer and has passed away at age 69.

Fred Caruso is proud to present the incomparable Kim Cea straight from her star-turning performance in Off-Broadway's Newsical in Kim Cea LIVE at Studio 54 Upstairs (located at 254 West 54th Street Between 8th and 9th Avenues).

Oberon Theatre Ensemble brings theatergoers another diverse season of plays in 2005 with three works which deftly blend humor and drama.

In a show originally produced by the Ars Nova Broadway Spotlight series, Jesse Tyler Ferguson moves downtown to Joe's Pub where he name drops, practices the art of storytelling and sings the music of Michael John LaChiusa and William Finn, including songs from their new works, R SHOMON and THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE. The evening is directed by Jason Eagan and musical directed by Mary Mitchell Campbell.