Frank Sinatra News

The only show with producers and cast members who have real ties to the real Rat Pack, 'Sandy Hackett's Rat Pack Show" has entertained millions of people worldwide. The most successful show of its kind, with over 70 performance dates across the country last year while maintaining its home base in Las Vegas, the talented ensemble (in association with Orin Wolf/OBB NYC - Off Broadway Booking) kicks off its 2012-13 U.S. Theatre Season and Casino tour at the Spirit Lake Casino in Spirit Lake, N.D. on August 31, 2012.

Westchester Broadway Theatre presents Can-Can, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and book by Abe Burrows. The production is directed by Richard Stafford with musical direction by Craig Barna and choreography by Richard Stafford, and runs August 30 - October 7, 2012. Can-Can stars Glory Crampton and Tony Lawson.

Tonight, August 23 at 6:00 PM, the Ribbon Cutting and Official Relighting of the Marquee of the Historic North Theatre in Danville, VA, will take place. It is free and the public is invited. Directly afterwards at 8:00 PM the Preview Show-Magic of the Masters Close-Up Magic Show, starring celebrity magician and World Champion Illusionist, Wayne Alan, will take place in the Balcony Mini Theatre. Only 100 seats will be available for this intimate show of world class sleight of hand. Admission is $25.00-10.00.

Popular ‘60s entertainers Gary Lewis and The Playboys will perform their greatest hits at the Suncoast Showroom, September 29 and 30.

The Segal Centre for Performing Arts will inaugurate its 2012-2013 theatre season with the Tony Award winning musical Guys and Dolls.

Lampkin Music Group is proud to present the NY Solo Debut of Singer, Laury Shelley, in 'My Time With Legrand' at the Metropolitan Room on Monday and Wednesday, October 8th and 10th at @ 9:30 p.m. Two Shows Only! Music Cover : $20.00. Two Drink Minium. MAC Member Discount - $15.00. 34 West 22nd Street, NY. RSVP @ 1-212-206-0440.

On Thursday, August 23 at 6:00 PM, the Ribbon Cutting and Official Relighting of the Marquee of the Historic North Theatre in Danville, VA, will take place. It is free and the public is invited. Directly afterwards at 8:00 PM the Preview Show-Magic of the Masters Close-Up Magic Show, starring celebrity magician and World Champion Illusionist, Wayne Alan, will take place in the Balcony Mini Theatre. Only 100 seats will be available for this intimate show of world class sleight of hand. Admission is $25.00-10.00.

JAZZ ROOTS: A Larry Rosen Jazz Series, created by acclaimed record and television producer Larry Rosen, comes to The Smith Center for the Performing Arts this season. Considered one of America's premier concert series, JAZZ ROOTSbrings to life the story of jazz, while also providing local schools and universities the opportunity to work with American music legends.

Growing up in Newark, New Jersey is tough enough but when you are a scrawny, horny, near-sighted Italian teenager it is even worse. And when the chicks don't dig you, there is only one man you can turn to for romance advice and guidance - the man and the legend himself, Frank Sinatra - who also happens to be from New Jersey. So when the ghost of 'Old Blue Eyes' shares his ring-a-ding-Rat Pack rules of how to get the dolls with his biggest fan, it takes him on a journey of awkward, hilarious and sometimes raunchy, self-discovery in the one-man music-comedy "Frank Sinatra Screwed Up My Life".

In preparation for the All-Day Long Island Al Jolson Festival (in Oceanside, NY) on Saturday, August 18, BroadwayWorld.com cabaret columnist Stephen Hanks offers his take on what made the 'World's Greatest Entertainer' so great, and muses about the reasons as to why he is such a devotee of the man who once owned Broadway and starred in the first talking picture.

At BroadwayWorld we pride ourselves in showcasing theater content from all corners of the globe. Our regional contributors do an amazing job each day of bringing you the latest theater news in their cities and countries and to acknowledge this, we launched a new weekly column called 'Around BWW: Regional Highlights of the Week'. Read on for our most-read features, interviews, breaking news and more for the week of August 13!

GPR Records will release a recording of Catherine Zeta-Jones narrating The Runaway Bunny, based on the best selling children's classic by Margaret Wise Brown. Also on the CD will be English Baritone Mark Stone singing Goodnight Moon and a special guest superstar narrating Poulenc's Babar, The Elephant. The CD will be released on November 15th, will be available at www.GPRRecords.com, Amazon, and iTunes.

Westchester Broadway Theatre has announced its evening events through December 2012. Call the box office at 914-592-2222 or visit www.broadwaytheatre.com for more details and check out the list below.

We enjoyed an evening of Sinatra music and dined at a restaurant that is surrounded by glimpses of Ole Blue Eyes himself both in the heart of South Jersey.

Carpenter Square Theatre will host "Best in Ten 2012," an event to benefit the theater, on Saturday, August 18. The event will be held at 800 W. Main , located at the southwest corner of Main and Shartel in downtown Oklahoma City . Proceeds from "Best in Ten" will help support the theater's building fund, as well as programming for the theatre's 29th Season, which includes eight productions and educational outreach to at-risk students in the metro area. The theme for this year's benefit is "little theatre…Big Ideas!"

Performing Arts Fort Worth welcomes the return of legendary singer Tony Bennett to Bass Performance Hall on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $78 and are on sale NOW.