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Lucie Arnaz, Robert Klein, Victor Garber, Donna Murphy and more...all under the same roof for one night with Marvin Hamlisch...a theatregoers dream which will come to fruition on October 4th. It's all part of Six Degrees of Marvin Hamlisch - An All Star Celebration, to be presented on Monday, October 4 at 7:30pm at Symphony Space. Murphy Cross and Paul Kreppel will direct the event, which will have musical direction by Ron Abel and serve as a benefit for The Actors Fund.

Sunday, August 1 at 7:30pm will be headlined by The Mark Hodgson & Chris Lee Blues Band and their unique blending sound of blues with side trips into roots-rock and soul. Both Mark and Chris have honed their 'blues bones' and come of age as bluesmen through decades of touring experience in the world of the soul-blues sound. This concert will hit your ears hard with a guitar-driven, harp-crazed style of soulful blues music at its finest...don't miss it!

Sunday, August 1 at 7:30pm will be headlined by The Mark Hodgson & Chris Lee Blues Band and their unique blending sound of blues with side trips into roots-rock and soul. Both Mark and Chris have honed their 'blues bones' and come of age as bluesmen through decades of touring experience in the world of the soul-blues sound. This concert will hit your ears hard with a guitar-driven, harp-crazed style of soulful blues music at its finest...don't miss it!

FEBRUARY AT THE METROPOLITAN ROOM ADDENDUM Additions to the Metropolitan Room calendar for February 2010.

The Metropolitan Room, deemed the best cabaret room in New York by New York Magazine, has announced its upcoming November calendar.

The third annual GAYFEST NYC, the country's premier festival of new gay-themed plays, will be presented June 3-6, 2009 at the Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex, 312 West 36th Street, New York City. The not-for-profit GAYFEST NYC, Inc. develops new LGBT works for world stages and film and television production and provides in-school elective programs and scholarships for students of Harvey Milk High School. Since June 2007, GAYFEST NYC has presented seventeen scholarships to graduating seniors.

Dancers Over 40 members have worked with many choreographers, but almost none as often as the award-winning Director/Choreographer Gower Champion. On Monday, March 31st at 7:30 pm, some of the dancers and the creative talents associated with Mr. Champion, from 1951's 'Make a Wish' to his last Broadway show the smash hit musical '42nd Street' in 1980, will be represented on the stage of the St. Luke's Theater at 308 West 46th Street.

On March 31, the dancers and the creative talents associated with Director/Choreographer Gower Champion will be represented on the stage of the St. Luke's Theater at 308 West 46th Street at 7:30PM - represented from 1951's Make a Wish to his last Broadway show and the smash 42nd Street in 1980.

The beneficiaries of the Estate of Michael Bennett and the artists from the original interviews and workshops of A Chorus Line jointly announced today that they have amended the terms of their agreement signed in 1976. The artists will now have a financial interest in the current Broadway production as well as all future First Class productions. The financial arrangement applies to the original interviewees of the taped sessions that Mr. Bennett held in the spring of 1974 and the actors who participated in the workshops prior to the original Off-Broadway production.

The legendary Chita Rivera performed two sold-out shows Monday, January 14 at the legendary Birdland to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Gretchen Wyler (1932-2007), dancer/singer/actress/activist (Guys and Dolls, Silk Stockings, Damn Yankees, Rumple, Bye Bye Birdie, Sly Fox, Applause) was remembered Tuesday, September 24 in a memorial service at Sardi's in New York City.

Ricky Ritzel and Leslie Anderson will play the Metropolitan Room (34 W. 22nd St.) on Saturday, July 28th at 8 PM.

theAtrainplays, a celebration of New York, created by six teams while traveling the entire route of the A train (from 207th Street & Broadway to Far Rockaway and back) returned to Off-Broadway's New World Stages last night.

theAtrainplays are a celebration of New York, created by six teams while traveling the entire route of the A train, from 207th Street & Broadway to Far Rockaway and back. On Tuesday evening, June 19th, four librettists will hop on the A train at 207th Street and begin writing the books for four 15-minute musicals, all set on the A train.

The 1974 Broadway musical comedy 'Over Here!' is currently scheduled to open at Toronto's Elgin Theatre late this June for a summer-long run before a potential London-transfer where it may open next year. Possibly starring Donna McKechnie and Frances Ruffelle.

The previously announced London premiere of the musical Over Here! has been indefinitely postponed - but not cancelled

Borrowing a line from A Chorus Line, I saw the red shoes' at seven years old and I fell in love with dance.

Tony Award-winner Frances Ruffelle took the stage of the Supper Club on July 10th, and BroadwayWorld was there for the first of two exciting concerts!

Over three decades after opening on Broadway, the nostalgic 40s-set musical Over Here will be jumping across the pond this November to open in a new West End production with Donna McKechnie among its stars