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As part of Boys & Girls Clubs of America's (BGCA) new advocacy campaign - BE GREAT - Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter, actress and Boys & Girls Club alum Ashanti will unveil a new billboard in Times Square on August 11, featuring her childhood picture and an aspirational message - BE AMAZING. Ashanti joins some 25 prominent alumni in the new advocacy campaign to help increase public awareness and understanding about the key issues facing America's youth, and the positive impact of Clubs.

We are pleased to announce that the International CringeFest '09 Silent Auction has been extended till August 14, 2009. We hope this will give you a better opportunity to bid for some items.The silent auction will help support our outreach work throughout the rest of the year.

Back by popular demand, the smooth, charismatic Clint Holmes returns to the Suncoast Showroom in An Evening of Romance with Clint Holmes, musically directed by Bill Fayne, August 28, 29 and 30.

A nice Jewish Girl from New York finds herself singing at the famous Italian Restaurant Rao's, hosting the Ms. Italian-American pageant, dodging bullets, becoming a member of the exclusive Friar's Club, touring the country with Les Miserables and torturing her eighty-nine year old grandma because she's still not married. Friars, Famiglia and a Yiddish 'My Way' (Mein Veg) - it's in there!

A nice Jewish Girl from New York finds herself singing at the famous Italian Restaurant Rao's, hosting the Ms. Italian-American pageant, dodging bullets, becoming a member of the exclusive Friar's Club, touring the country with Les Miserables and torturing her eighty-nine year old grandma because she's still not married. Friars, Famiglia and a Yiddish 'My Way' (Mein Veg) - it's in there!

2009 Tony Award nominee Hope Davis will take over the role of Hillary Clinton for the upcoming film 'The Special Relationship.'

Burning Coal Theatre Company's summer music series, MusiCoal, will present virtuoso musicians from two diverse cultures in concert on Sunday, June 14th at 7 pm at Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC. Tickets to the event are $10 and may be obtained at the door.

Burning Coal Theatre Company's summer music series, MusiCoal, will present virtuoso musicians from two diverse cultures in concert on Sunday, June 14th at 7 pm at Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC.

Burning Coal Theatre Company's summer music series, MusiCoal, will present virtuoso musicians from two diverse cultures in concert on Sunday, June 14th at 7 pm at Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC. Tickets to the event are $10 and may be obtained at the door.

As patrons sat in the audience at the Dallas Hub Theater waiting for the start of the 1st Annual 'Cyberfest', an electronic play festival collaboration between the Hub and the DFW Playwright's Alliance, you could sense the anticipation of start of something groundbreaking and unique: a marriage between traditional theater and technology.

2009 Tony Award nominee Hallie Foote (Dividing the Estate) will be featured in the cast of THE ORPHANS' HOME CYCLE, the nine-play three part theatrical event by her late father, the Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winning playwright Horton Foote, which will be co-produced in the 2009-2010 season by Hartford Stage (Michael Wilson, Artistic Director; Michael Stotts, Managing Director) and Signature Theatre Company (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director).

Celebrated pianist, songwriter, arranger, producer, Crescent City's own Allen Toussaint will be the headliner for Lincoln Center Out of Doors' 'Roots of American Music' concert in Damrosch Park on Saturday, August 22.

On Saturday, May 23rd the Cotuit Center for the Arts, 4404 Falmouth Road, Rte. 28 in Cotuit and Major Productions will present 'Entrain's Drums For Peace', a multi-media event specifically focusing on the theme of peace, love, unity and a greener world. Opening the show will be a local Wampanoag Indian Pow Wow group.

Burning Coal Theatre Company's summer music series, MusiCoal, will present virtuoso musicians from two diverse cultures in concert on Sunday, June 14th at 7 pm at Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC.

Great Evenings in The Great Hall- An eight-part series from April 2009- February 2010 created by The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art 'ELECTORAL POLITICS' A singular multi-media event featuring live performances

YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA (James Bundy, Dean; Victoria Nolan, Deputy Dean) presents The Fourth Annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays, May 8 to 17 at the New Theater, 1156 Chapel Street, New Haven. The Festival is comprised of three fully-produced plays by graduating playwrights performed in repertory with twelve performances over 10 days.

Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music will host its annual Big Band Extravaganza, featuring IU jazzmen David N. Baker and Brent Wallarab, Saturday, April 25, at 8 p.m. in the Musical Arts Center.

Portland Center Stage presents Frost/Nixon, the play that became the Oscar-nominated film, about the conversation between David Frost and Richard Nixon that irrevocably changed the media's relationship to the American presidency. Frost/Nixon previews on Tuesday April 14th, opens on Friday, April 17th and runs through May 10th, 2009. Tickets range from $30.00 to $66.50, with student and under 30 discounts available. Rush tickets for Frost/Nixon are $15 and available starting 10 minutes prior to curtain. Show times are 7:30 pm Tuesday through Saturday, with a 2:00 pm Sunday matinee and alternating Saturday 2:00 pm and Sunday 7:30 pm performances. See the show calendar at http://tickets.pcs.org/buytickets/calendar.asp for the complete performance schedule.

Portland Center Stage presents Frost/Nixon, the play that became the Oscar-nominated film, about the conversation between David Frost and Richard Nixon that irrevocably changed the media's relationship to the American presidency. Frost/Nixon previews on Tuesday April 14th, opens on Friday, April 17th and runs through May 10th, 2009.

JUDY CARMICHAEL, the internationally-acclaimed Grammy Award nominated stride pianist, radio host and author called 'a major figure in keyboard jazz performance' by the San Francisco Examiner, will release her new CD 'Come And Get It' on April 14. The disc, which marks her debut as a vocalist, will be available on iTunes, Amazon.com and her website JudyCarmichael.com. After upcoming CD release celebrations in London, Switzerland and Australia, she will mark the program's New York debut with an exclusive concert at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 13.