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Beginning April 11, 2017, Tony Award nominee Norm Lewis, Tony Award nominee Carolee Carmello will join the cast of off-Broadway's immersive production of 'Sweeney Todd'. See a newly tweeted video of the two Broadway favorites gearing up for their turn behind the barber chair below!. 

Big Noise Theatre Company, a division of Winnetka Theatre, announces the Spring show of their 2017 season, Big Fish, the Musical. Based on the celebrated novel by Daniel Wallace and the acclaimed Tim Burton film, Big Fish centers on Edward Bloom, a traveling salesman who lives life to its fullest, and then some! Edward's incredible, larger-than-life stories thrill everyone around him - most of all, his devoted wife Sandra. But their son Will, about to have a child of his own, is determined to find the truth behind his father's epic tales. Overflowing with humor and heart, Big Fish is an extraordinary recent Broadway musical that's richer, funnier, and BIGGER than life itself!

As previously reported, Tim Burton will direct a live-action adaptation of the 1941 animated classic DUMBO for Walt Disney Studios. Colin Farrell, most recently seen in FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM, is currently in talks to join the film.

MegaCon Orlando, the Southeast's largest fan convention with shows in both Orlando and Tampa Bay, has announced new celebrity appearances and programming for this year's show. MegaCon Orlando is set to return May 25 - 28, 2017 to the Orange County Convention Center with a star-studded lineup. Recently added celebrities include:

The Philharmonia Orchestra of New York (PONY) is now the world's first orchestra to host its own film competition in search of talented filmmakers to create original films to accompany its performances. The winners' films, inspired by the music of Richard Wagner, will be screened during PONY's Symphonic Storyboards concerts at Jazz at Lincoln Center March 21-22, under the baton of principal conductor Atsushi Yamada. Hailed as “among the most progressive modern orchestras,” PONY is an ensemble of some of New York's finest musicians, dedicated to reinventing classical music performance with spectacular visuals and lighting.

The Philharmonia Orchestra of New York (PONY) is now the world's first orchestra to host its own film competition in search of talented filmmakers to create original films to accompany its performances.

Attend the tale! A 1982 taped stage performance of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, starring Tony Award winners Angela Lansbury and George Hearn, will air on Turner Classic Movies tomorrow afternoon, March 21 at 1 PM ET (check local listings).

Honorees for the 4th Annual Location Managers Guild International Awards (LMGI) were announced today by LMGI President Eric Klosterman.

Join the circus, catch a giant fish, meet a witch, and fall in love! Adventure awaits as Playful Theatre Productions presents 'Big Fish, The Musical' at Mercer County Community College's (MCCC's) Kelsey Theatre. Dates and show times are: Fridays, March 31 and Apr. 7 at 8 p.m.; Saturdays, April 1 and 8 at 8 p.m.; and Sundays, April 2 and 9 at 2 p.m.

 Vienna is without a doubt the music capital of the world. More famous composers have lived here than in any other city - in Vienna, music is literally in the air. It's no surprise that therefore it's the Austrian born composer Max Steiner ("Gone with the Wind", "Casablanca"), who is one of the fathers of film music as we know it today.

Deadline reports that Danny DeVito, currently making his Broadway debut in THE PRICE, is in talks to join Tim Burton's live-action reboot of DUMBO for Walt Disney Studios.

Porchlight Music Theatre's School at Porchlight launches its inaugural summer camp for children ages 7 - 12 years old.

As previously reported, Tim Burton will direct a live-action adaptation of the 1941 animated classic DUMBO for Walt Disney Studios. According to Deadline, actress Eva Green is currently in talks to take on one of the three main adult roles in the film.

Music, comedy and drama are on the bill at The Marlowe Studio, Canterbury, this March.

In association with Beth Morrison Projects and VisionIntoArt, The Aging Magician now celebrates its off Broadway premiere with The New 42nd Street at the New Victory Theater - a theater dedicated to providing children with quality (and usually fantastic) productions in the very heart of Times Square. The Aging Magician is a sensuous piece that is as much a feast for the mind as it is a tug to the heartstrings. It is enigmatic, almost like being lost in a Tim Burton inspired circus with a need to explain the sadness of nostalgia, mixed in with the wonder of keeping those memories alive; it is a show that is perhaps more magical to adults than to children, adults who can understand the almost ethereal pull of a past one does not wish to be gone.

Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) and the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) today announced plans for the 2017-18 season, comprising more than 200 concerts in eleven months presented at Davies Symphony Hall. The Orchestra's 106th season is highlighted by musical touchstones that are trademarks of MTT's artistic vision for the Orchestra.

Lionsgate today announced that the world premiere of LA LA LAND IN CONCERT: A LIVE-TO-FILM CELEBRATION will take place at Los Angeles' iconic Hollywood Bowl on Memorial Day weekend Friday, May 26 and Saturday, May 27.

'The Thunderbunny Chronicles: Volume 1' is the creation of published author, Gary Stephen Moore, former soloist with the San Francisco Balle, dancer with the Harkness Ballet and Pennsylvania Ballet, and scholarship recipient to the School of American Ballet who holds a degree in Practical Theology from Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas, Texas and a Master of Education from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has received numerous awards, including Disney's American Teacher Award, USA Today's All-USA Team Teacher Award, and Toyota's International Teacher Fellowship. Gary has been featured on 'The Disney Channel Salutes the American Teacher' while he was also a Technical Advisor to the classic Tim Burton film, 'Big Fish.'

Producers of the Tooting Arts Club production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street have announced that New York audiences can now 'attend the tale' through December 31, 2017, with a new block of tickets on sale today.