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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has confirmed that Hugh Jackman will host the 81st annual Academy Awards.The Academy said Friday that the 40-year-old Australian actor, recently named People magazine's 'Sexiest Man Alive,' will host the Oscars.

SuperheroHype/ComingSoon.net reports that Tony-winning actor Liev Schreiber is currently 'baring his fangs' in the upcoming X-Men spin-off Wolverine, starring Tony Award-winner Hugh Jackman in the title role. Schreiber plays the iconic role of Victor Creed better known to comic fans as 'Sabertooth'.

Due to a bad cold, Tony Award winner Barbara Cook has rescheduled her performance and CD signing at Barnes and Noble to January 6, 2009. At that time Cook will sing selected sings from her new album 'Rainbow Round My Shoulder,' accompanied by her musical director, Lee Musiker.

Hugh Jackman is scheduled to appear on Jimmy Kimmel December 4th and The View December 5th in promotion of his new film 'AUSTRALIA.' The film takes place in northern Australia prior to World War II. An English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier.

Happy Holidays Everyone! Well ... here it is ... our BIGGEST CD coverage EVER and just in time for some last minute 'stocking-stuffer' inspiration ... even though a few of these are better used as coal, if you know what I mean.

An appearance by Tony Award winner Barbara Cook has been cancelled for 11/13. Ms. Cook was originally scheduled to appear at the Lincoln Triangle Barnes and Noble, but the event has been delayed. According to a spokesperson, Ms. Cook is suffering a bad cold and the event will be rescheduled for January.

Tony Award winner Barbara Cook will perform songs from, discuss, and sign her newest CD 'Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder,' Thursday, November 13th at 4pm at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle, 1972 Broadway at 66th Street.

The Rhode Island press is reporting that letters sent out to Stadium Theatre Performing Arts Center subscribers note that Minnelli will premiere her new show at the Stadium before taking it to Broadway's Palace Theatre in December.

Critically acclaimed Broadway performer Neile Adams ('Kismet,' 'The Pajama Game') returns to The Big Apple with her new cabaret show, 'Something Cool,' an autobiographical musical celebration of her life and early days in New York on Broadway, where she met her late first husband, actor Steve McQueen.

Cavern Club Theater will present entertainer Neile Adams in her new 60-minute cabaret show, 'Something Cool,' directed by Ted Sprague, with Andy Howe serving as Musical Director.

It was an an eclectic crowd that gathered on a sound stage of Sunset's CBS Studios to watch a live performance of FOREVER PLAID as it was being taped for pending movie release.

Focus on the 70s: The Fabulous Photography of Kenn Duncan is on display in the Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, located at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, from July 30, 2008 through October 25, 2008.

Focus on the 70s: The Fabulous Photography of Kenn Duncan is on display in the Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, located at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, from July 30, 2008 through October 25, 2008.

On the red carpet of the 2008 Tony Awards, Liza Minnelli told interviewers that she's hoping to return to Broadway soon, starring in the Kay Thompson (Liza's Godmother) tribute show that she's been performing in around the country and world.

The Carlyle Hotel (James McBride, Managing Director) is pleased to announce the debut engagement of Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Christopher Cross in a limited four-week engagement in the newly restored Café Carlyle.

The Carlyle Hotel is pleased to present Barbara Cook in a limited six-week engagement in 'Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You' from March 4 through April 12.

Well, imagine my surprise when I opened my mailbox and not only did I receive a copy of the new Betty Buckley CD, Betty Buckley 1967 (being released on Playbill Records, a joint-venture partnership with SONY BMG Masterworks Broadway), BUT accompanying it, was a 12 inch LP, in all of its HI-FI 'MONO' glory.

We talk to, and hear from, the wonderful Stephanie Block! Most recently seen as Grace O' Malley in The Pirate Queen, you might also remember her as Liza Minnelli from The Boy from Oz, with Hugh Jackman. Add to that a 2006 Helen Hayes award for Outstanding Actress for her performance as Elphaba in the First National Touring Company of Wicked, Stephanie is it -- what we love about our leading ladies: ever graceful, humble, and sharp as a tack. Oh yes, and she can sing pretty well, too We also play songs from two of her shows: 'She Loves to Hear the Music' from The Boy from Oz, and 'Woman' from Pirate Queen

A director has been found for the upcoming X-Men spin-off Wolverine, starring Tony Award-winner Hugh Jackman in the title role.

Once left at Broadway's sacrificial altar, the stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning MGM musical - and number three favorite musical of all time according to a BBC poll - is now living happily ever after in the theater world's less urbane communities