Timothy W. Bish News

BROADWAY BACKWARDS 5, the one night only event held Monday at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, raised a record-breaking $186,780 to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (The Center).

Tony Award-winner Victoria Clark will be joined by Conrad John Schuck, Dermot Crowley, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Michael Arden in Marc Blitzstein and Joseph Stein's Juno, the second Encores! production of New York City Center's 2008 season, performances are March 27-30.

Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's THE PIRATE QUEEN will play its final performance on Broadway at the Hilton Theatre (213 West 42nd Street, NYC; A Live Nation venue) on June 17, 2007 following 85 performances and 32 previews.

The new Boublil and Schonberg musical The Pirate Queen, starring Stephanie J. Block as the swashbuckling title character, began previews at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre on October 3rd and opened on October 29th

Tickets for Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's The Pirate Queen, the spectacular new musical from the authors of Les Misérables and Miss Saigon, will be available exclusively to American Express Card members beginning Wednesday, September 20th through Ticketmaster

The Pirate Queen castcom will go live from the Chicago Cadillac Palace Theatre today, Tuesday, September 12th at 4:00 PM

The Pirate Queen castcom® will go live from the Chicago Cadillac Palace Theatre on Tuesday, September 12th at 4:00 PM

A castcom for The Pirate Queen, the new musical by Boublil and Schonberg that opens on Broadway in the spring, will go live from Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre on Tuesday, September 12th

The new Boublil and Schonberg musical The Pirate Queen, starring Stephanie J. Block as the swashbuckling title character, will drop anchor at the Hilton Theatre for preview performances beginning February 23rd, 2007 and an opening night on March 22nd

A special one-night-only performance of the new dance musical All is Full of Love, conceived, choreographed and directed by Josh Walden and set to the music of Björk, will be presented on Sunday, February 12

Twyla Tharp's and Billy Joel's dance musical Movin' Out will surpass both Contact and Fosse by reaching 1094 performances on June 11th

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) has announced the casting for its 16th Annual Festival of New Musicals, which will be held at the new DODGER STAGES on Sunday, October 3 and Monday, October 4, 2004.