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According to Michael Riedel of the New York Post, 'Promises, Promises' may be getting a Broadway revival.

Signature Theatre (Eric Schaeffer, Artistic Director) is pleased to present the Kander & Ebb Celebration, the highlight of the Theatre's spring 2008 season, opening on March 11 and running through June 22. The festival is a four-month celebration of the works of the great Broadway songwriting team of John Kander & Fred Ebb. Kander and Ebb were the longest-running songwriting partnership in Broadway musical history, working together from 1965 until Ebb's death in 2004.

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre in association with The Institute for Vietnamese Culture & Education (IVCE) and Music Fan Company announces the North American premiere of THE MISSING WOMAN, a Vietnamese folk tale examining the lives of women in Vietnamese society. Written and directed by NGUYEN Thi Minh Ngoc and music by TRAN Vuong Thach and HAI Phuong, THE MISSING WOMAN is performed in Vietnamese with English narration and plays April 2nd - April 12th at the West End Theater, 263 West 86th St. Opening night is Monday, April 7th at 7:30 PM. For more information please visit www.PanAsianRep.org.

Jersey Boys, the award-winning Broadway musical, will open in London's West End at the Prince Edward Theatre on Tuesday, March 18 2008, following previews from February 28.

The Theatre Royal Haymarket London present their production of The Sea by Edward Bond, directed by Jonathan Kent, starring Eileen Atikins.

Natalie Joy Johnson, audience favorite in Legally Blonde and Bare: A Pop Opera, premiered her new club act at Therapy with Musical Direction by Brian Nash, Special Material by John Hill and directed by Ben Rimalower. Natalie's new act channels old school show business through a contemporary lens harkening back to a time when the great ladies of stage and screen entertained in rooms all over New York on any given night. She brings her powerful and expressive voice to an evening both irreverent and compelling and completely unlike any other show in town. March 13th closing was a wild, late-night star studded affair. For more information on Natalie including upcoming performances please visit www.nataliejoyjohnson.com

The Laurie Beechman Theatre is pleased to announce the return of the new talk/variety evening, Saturday Night Underground. The evening will be a casual variety show, featuring interviews and performances from some of New York's most intriguing personalities. And the fun doesn't stop there, audience members are encouraged to get up on stage and sing a song or tell a joke, recommend a great restaurant or complain about a bad date. Host Ben Rimalower will mingle with the crowd, inviting people to join the show. So bring your sheet music or guitar, your funny stories and your axes to grind. From 11pm til 2am, join host Ben Rimalower (director of The Fabulous Life of a Size Zero, Joy and Leslie Kritzer is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches), the fabulous Dreams (Larry Hamilton, Rob Tucker and Jamaal Wilson) and pianist Mark Hartman (Avenue Q) for this regular event in the theatre district.

REVIEW: Kiss of the Spider Woman kicks off Kander and Ebb Celebration with dazzling brilliance.

On April 28, 2008 Joan Baker, author of Secrets of Voice-Over Success, the Alzheimer's Association and in partnership with the organization Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids will present 'Voices Remember' -- a star-studded charity event in support of a cure for Alzheimer's disease. The evening will be an intimate musical cabaret and schmooze fest among New York socialites.

The John W. Engeman Theater at Northport and Commerce Bank are pleased to announce the Children's Theater production of Jack and the Beanstalk running May 10, 2008 to June 1, 2008.

Founded earlier this year by Kelly Gonda, President of East of Doheny Productions, BKC brings together the children from current and past Broadway shows, affording them the opportunity to perform community service and, in the process, instill a strong philanthropic sensibility and foster a sense of community among the young actors and their families.

Lifeline Theatre Artistic Director Dorothy Milne and the artistic ensemble announce their 2008-2009, 26th anniversary season of presenting Big Stories, Up Close.

Anthony Minghella, who won an Academy Award for for Best Director for The English Patient and recently made a big splash in opera with his production of Madame Butterfly, died suddenly on March 18. The cause could not be immediately determined. He was 54.

Producers Victoria Lang, Pier Paolo Piccoli, Mark Schwartz and Robert Dragotta are proud to announce the groovilicious Chicago premiere of 'Shout! The Mod Musical'this spring with a limited engagement at the Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut St.) from April 30 - June 22, 2008.

Hourglass Group (Trouble in Paradise, Beebo Brinker) and 45 Bleecker present BabyLove, written and performed by Christen Clifford, directed by Julie Kramer.

CINNA PRODUCTIONS is pleased to announce that its well-received production of 'MARK TWAIN'S BLUES,' the new play with music--with book and music by WALT STEPP and lyrics by Mr. Stepp and MARK TWAIN--will transfer to the DR2 Theatre for an extended 6 week off-Broadway run. Directed by TOM HERMAN with Music Direction by DAVID WOLFSON and Choreography by JAMES BEAUDRY, the production will run from April 2nd through May 10th with an opening scheduled for Sunday, April 13th at DR2 Theatre, 103 East 15th St. The performance schedule is Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:00 PM, with matinees on Wednesdays at 2:00 PM and on Saturdays and Sundays at 4:00 PM. Tickets are $40 and are available from Telecharge at (212) 239-6200 or via the web at www.Telecharge.com. For more information, please log onto the production's website at www.MarkTwainsBlues.com.

All the latest theatre news in Baltimore and Beyond. This week's BEST BET: Kiss of the Spider Woman at Virginia's Signature Theatre!

Stephen Kocis and Carl D. White are proud to announce that BASH'd! has been awarded this year's GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding NY Theater - Off-Off-Broadway.

Jo Stone-Fewings will take over the role of Richard Hannay from Monday 28 April in Maria Aitken's Olivier award-winning hit production of The 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre. Stone-Fewings most recently played the role of Sparkish to great acclaim in The Country Wife - the first production in Jonathan Kent's Theatre Royal Haymarket Season. He will join a cast comprising Josefina Gabrielle, Martyn Ellis and long standing cast member Simon Gregor. The 39 Steps, currently playing on Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre, will transfer to the Cort Theater from April 29 for an extended run. As well as productions on tour in the UK, in Israel, Italy and South Africa, the Melbourne Theatre Company production opens in Australia in April, with a production in Korea scheduled to open in September. In addition a further fifteen countries are scheduled to present the play over the next twelve months. To date the London production of The 39 Steps has grossed over £5 million. Best known as Hitchcock's 1935 classic movie thriller, The 39 Steps is directed by Maria Aitken, has designs by Peter McKintosh, lighting design is by Ian Scott, sound design by Mic Pool, and movement by Olivier Award winning Toby Sedgwick. The 39 Steps is presented by Edward Snape for Fiery Angel Ltd and Tricycle London Productions Ltd in association with the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Patrick Barlow's critically acclaimed adaptation has been playing for over eighteen months to sell-out houses at the Criterion Theatre since its transfer (from the Tricycle Theatre) winning a Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy and Best New Comedy at the 2007 Whatsonstage.com awards. Maria Aitken's production is performed by four actors playing a minimum of 139 roles and contains every single legendary scene from the award-winning movie - including the chase on the Flying Scotsman, the escape on the Forth Bridge, the first theatrical bi-plane crash ever staged and the sensational death-defying finale in the London Palladium, besides many other favourite cinematic moments, including the memorable and controversial 'stockings and suspenders' scene! Jo Stone-Fewings' extensive theatre credits include Nikolai Rostov in War and Peace, Barrildo in Fuente Ovejuna and Alex in Ghetto all for the National Theatre, Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew, Orsino in Twelfth Night, Richmond/Gray in Richard III and Clarence in the tour of Henry VI, Part III all for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Edgar in King Lear and Dinnesdale in The Scarlett Letter for the Chichester Festival Theatre and Clive in the West End transfer of See How They Run. His television credits include Talk To Me, Doctor Who, All the Kings Men, Waiting for God all for the BBC as well as Mine all Mine, Young Arthur and Peak Practice. On film his work includes American Friends, Wondrous Oblivion and Nine Lives. Jo Stone-Fewings will take over the role of Richard Hannay from Monday 28 April in Maria Aitken's Olivier award-winning hit production of The 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre. Stone-Fewings most recently played the role of Sparkish to great acclaim in The Country Wife - the first production in Jonathan Kent's Theatre Royal Haymarket Season. He will join a cast comprising Josefina Gabrielle, Martyn Ellis and long standing cast member Simon Gregor.

The New York City Gay Men's Chorus (NYCGMC) will hold their 2008 benefit gala, 'With a Song in Our Heart,' on Monday, April 14 from 6-9:30PM at the elegant Warwick Hotel. Scott Nevins will lead the evening with his signature humor and flare. With entertainment by Broadway notables including Ann Hampton Callaway, Liz McCartney and the Tony-nominated Sharon McNight, the gala will be a night celebrating music, diversity and support for the LGBT community. The honorary host committee includes such famed LGBT supporters as Cyndi Lauper, Charles Busch, Harvey Fierstein, Kelli O'Hara, Roberta Peters, Karen Ziemba and Elaine Stritch.