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Theatre luminaries host 'A Musical Celebration of Broadway Honoring Roger Berlind' presented as the the 24th annual spring gala benefit concert for The Drama League at The Rainbow Room on Monday February 11, 2008.

Theatre luminaries Mary-Louise Parker, Debra Monk, Scott Ellis, Walter Bobbie, Karen Ziemba and Jason Danieley are set to join the cast of Curtains and previously announced Broadway stars Brian Stokes Mitchell, David Hyde Pierce, Donna Murphy, Carolee Carmello, Gregg Edelman and James Naughton in 'A Musical Celebration of Broadway Honoring Roger Berlind,' presented as the 24th annual spring gala benefit concert for The Drama League.

Broadway luminaries Brian Stokes Mitchell, David Hyde Pierce, Donna Murphy, Carolee Carmello, Gregg Edelman and James Naughton are set to appear in 'A Musical Celebration of Broadway Honoring Roger Berlind,' presented as the 24th annual spring gala benefit concert for The Drama League. The event will take place on Monday, February 11, 2008 at the famed Rainbow Room

Foothills Theatre opens 2007-2008 season with revue of songs by popular Broadway composing duo.

The White Horse Theater Company will present their inaugural workshop production of a new American play, 'Half' by Greg Lemoine, at The Workshop Theater Company from May 30 - June 3 directed by Cyndy A. Marion.

And The World Goes 'Round: The Songs of Kander & Ebb, will close St. Bart's Playhouse's 79th Season, running Thursday through Friday at 8PM, with matinees Saturday at 2PM and Sunday at 3PM, through April 29.

An array of Broadway stars will take part in a January 26th reading of the Jule Styne musical Bar Mitzvah Boy, which will be presented at Chelsea Studios

Robert McWhir's staging of the Kander and Ebb song showcase 'The World Goes Round', with musical direction by Heather Weir (currently playing at the Landor Theatre until February 10), displays an uneven mix of superb musical renditions and some near misses. Most of the songs are delivered with a high degree of accomplishment and the staging is generally full of energy and sophistication, perfectly balancing the layers of poignant emotion, cutting wit and Broadway bravado that pervades Kander and Ebb's musical theatre work. But some numbers miss the mark, let down by awkward, almost substandard, vocals - and the staging of 'All That Jazz' not only fails to conjure up anything that remotely resembles the choreographic arcs of the Fosse original but is also lacking in the sensuality that the number begs for. Ebb's lyric calls for them to 'let their stockings down' but the nylon seems reluctant to slip from the garters.

Encores! takes a chance with a Kander and Ebb musical about shoplifting senior citizens

Pit Bull Theatre Productions will present a one-night only reading of Kander and Ebb’s Flora, The Red Menace Sunday, March 26, 2006 at 7pm.