Bebe Neuwirth News

Stage and screen star Brooke Shields will join THE ADDAMS FAMILY in the role of Morticia beginning Tuesday, June 28 at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre. Two-time Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth will play her final performance in the role on Sunday, June 26. Ms. Shields will play opposite Roger Rees, who stars as Gomez. Shields has been making the promotional rounds this week and stopped by The View yesterday to talk about stepping into the iconic persona.

Stage and screen star Brooke Shields will join THE ADDAMS FAMILY in the role of Morticia beginning Tuesday, June 28 at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street). Two-time Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth will play her final performance in the role on Sunday, June 26. Ms. Shields will play opposite Roger Rees, who stars as Gomez.

The Actors Fund's annual gala on May 23, 2011 at the New York Marriott Marquis honored Tony and Emmy Award winning actress and current star of 'The Addams Family,' Bebe Neuwirth ('Chicago,' 'Sweet Charity,' 'Cheers,' 'Frasier'); Tony, Emmy and Academy Award winning actor Al Pacino ('The Godfather: Parts I, II and III,' 'Scent of a Woman,' HBO's 'Angels in America' and 'You Don't Know Jack,' 'The Merchant of Venice'), and Vice President, Market General Manager for New York City's Marriott & Renaissance Hotels Michael J. Stengel. Check out Neuwirth's acceptance speech by clicking below!

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The Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown, NJ has announced their upcoming season. Included in the listings are Broadway regular Bebe Neuwirth, IN THE HEIGHTS, 'The Best of Broadway: The Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber,' and more.

If you're looking for a quick roundup of all of this week's events in the theatre world, look no further: here are some of the best news articles that the week had to offer!

Stage and screen star Brooke Shields will join THE ADDAMS FAMILY in the role of Morticia beginning Tuesday, June 28 at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street). Two-time Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth will play her final performance in the role on Sunday, June 26. Ms. Shields will play opposite Roger Rees, who stars as Gomez.

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Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters will host the 13th annual BROADWAY BARKS!, a star-studded dog and cat adopt-a-thon benefiting New York City animal shelters and adoption agencies. The event, produced by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is sponsored by official charity partner, the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) with additional sponsorship by the New York Times. The event will take place on Saturday, July 9 in Shubert Alley (located between 44th and 45th Streets, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue). The festivities begin at 3:30 p.m.; celebrity presentations of pets from citywide animal shelters will take place between 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Following their current season which has included the sold out critical and box-office hits Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov and David Ives' The School for Lies, Classic Stage Company (CSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, has announced details for their upcoming 2011-12 season, the esteemed Off-Broadway downtown theater company's 45th.

The hit musical THE ADDAMS FAMILY, based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams, celebrated its 500th performance with a special cake-cutting with the cast: Tony Award winner Roger Rees as Gomez; two-time Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia, Brad Oscar as Fester, Rachel Potter as Wednesday, Jackie Hoffman as Grandma, Zachary James as Lurch, Heidi Blickenstaff as Alice Beineke, Adam Grupper as Mal Beineke and Jesse Swenson as Lucas Beineke.

Ten emerging and world-renowned dancers, dance companies and choreographers will join two-time Tony Award-winner and celebrated dancer Bebe Neuwirth at Fire Island Dance Festival 17, the most anticipated cultural event of the season at Fire Island Pines. Scheduled for July 16-17, this outdoor celebration of dance is produced by and benefits Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

The 60th anniversary of State of Israel Bonds will be commemorated at a gala evening of celebration and pageantry on Monday, June 13 at 6 p.m. at New York's Gotham Hall, 1356 Broadway.

BroadwayWorld.com has learned that two-time Tony Award-winner Bebe Neuwirth will host Fire Island Dance Festival 17, the most-anticipated cultural event of the Fire Island season as Dancers Responding to AIDS welcomes the country's most exhilarating dance companies.

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine, and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, has just announced its Fall 2011 season, which will feature a slew of Broadway's brightest stars.

The producers of the Tony Award-winning musical CHICAGO announced today that supermodel Christie Brinkley will now make her Broadway stage debut in the role merry murderess Roxie Hart beginning Friday, April 8, 2011.

THE ADDAMS FAMILY, Broadway's musical comedy based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams, will receive its first international production when it debuts at Teatro Abril in Sao Paulo, Brazil next spring (2012), produced in partnership with Time for Fun Productions.