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The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music has received the gift of an endowment to support the first faculty chair position in its ballet department, Dean Gwyn Richards announced today (Oct. 8).

Jim Burge and the Jazz Directions will play some of the greatest tunes of Harold Arlen: Music from The Wizard of Oz, Stormy Weather, It's Only a Paper Moon, That Old Black Magic, Ill Wind, Blues in the Night, and more.

An audition notice has went out for the upcoming Broadway production of GODSPELL, noting that performances will begin in the Spring/Summer of 2011. Specific dates and a theatre are as of yet unnamed.

MY FAIR LADY runs from Wednesday, June 30 through Saturday, July 17. Tickets are available online at www.msmt.org, by phone at (207) 725-8769, or at the box office at Pickard Theatre on the Bowdoin College campus.

Famed director/designer Isaac Mizrahi will direct the upcoming production of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at the Opera Theatre in St. Louis. The production will run June 6th through 19th at the Opera Theatre and will feature conductor Stephen Lord. NIGHT MUSIC was written by Hugh Wheeler and features a score by Stephen Sondheim.

Famed director/designer Isaac Mizrahi will direct the upcoming production of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at the Opera Theatre in St. Louis. The production will run June 6th through 19th at the Opera Theatre and will feature conductor Stephen Lord. NIGHT MUSIC was written by Hugh Wheeler and features a score by Stephen Sondheim.

During a recent promotional stop for new film ROBIN HOOD, star Russell Crowe addressed the rumor that he would star in a remake of A STAR IS BORN opposite Beyonce.

On Thursday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m., the Yale School of Music continues its third annual Yale in New York series with Voices of American Music. The works of some of America's most important composers will be heard in a rare program that joins music with audio and video interviews from the archives of the Oral History of American Music (OHAM) project at Yale. Founded by Vivian Perlis, one of the foremost historians of American music, OHAM is dedicated to collecting and preserving audio and video memoirs of notable figures in American music.

The Barns at Wolf Trap Welcomes Chilean Music Ambassadors, Inti-Illimani, A Resurgent Blues Trio, and a Pair of Sharp-Witted and Playful Folk Artists March 30- April 3

The Barns at Wolf Trap Welcomes Chilean Music Ambassadors, Inti-Illimani, A Resurgent Blues Trio, and a Pair of Sharp-Witted and Playful Folk Artists March 30- April 3

In an article published on March 5, The New York Times features dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp and speaks to her about hew new show 'Come Fly Away' which is currently in previews and is set to open March 25 at the Marquis Theatre.

On Thursday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m., the Yale School of Music continues its third annual Yale in New York series with Voices of American Music. The works of some of America's most important composers will be heard in a rare program that joins music with audio and video interviews from the archives of the Oral History of American Music (OHAM) project at Yale. Founded by Vivian Perlis, one of the foremost historians of American music, OHAM is dedicated to collecting and preserving audio and video memoirs of notable figures in American music.

NewMusicalTheatre.com, the first website ever exclusively devoted to selling sheet music by musical theater writers, launches Tony-nominee Paul Gordon's sheet music catalogue today. The e-commerce site already sells sheet music written by Nick Blaemire (Glory Days), Adam Gwon (Ordinary Days), Joe Iconis (The Black Suits, The Plant that Ate the Dirty Socks, Things to Ruin), Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk (Henry & Mudge, Tales from the Bad Years, The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown), Ryan Scott Oliver (Darling, Mrs. Sharp, Rated RSO), Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Dogfight, Edges), and most recently Jeremy Schonfeld (Drift).

As previously reported, a remake of the classic 'A Star is Born,' is moving along in the development process at Warner Bros. Pictures after years of treading water. The most recent rendition, released in 1976 stared Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson and Gary Busey. Previous incarnations have starred Janet Gaynor and Fredric March (1937), and Judy Garland and James Mason (1954).

Famed director/designer Isaac Mizrahi will direct the upcoming production of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at the Opera Theatre in St. Louis. The production will run June 6th through 19th at the Opera Theatre and will feature conductor Stephen Lord. NIGHT MUSIC was written by Hugh Wheeler and features a score by Stephen Sondheim.

Producer Ken Davenport tells Variety today that he's secured the rights and is aiming to bring Godspell back to Broadway during the 2010-2011 season. The last attempt to bring back to the show, in fall of 2008 with different producers failed to secure needed funding and fell through.

The Carrollwood Cultural Center Presents JAZZ WITH JIM: THE MUSIC OF RICHARD RODGERS on Friday, December 11 at 7:30 pm.

Northrop Dance at the University of Minnesota brings the 50th anniversary production of Clytemnestra from the Martha Graham Dance Company. Demonstrating Graham's pioneering approach to time and space on stage, the psychodrama is deemed a masterpiece of 20th Century American modernism.

Northrop Dance at the University of Minnesota brings the 50th anniversary production of Clytemnestra from the Martha Graham Dance Company. Demonstrating Graham's pioneering approach to time and space on stage, the psychodrama is deemed a masterpiece of 20th Century American modernism.

Producers, Jeffrey Seller and Kevin McCollum, will resurrect the infamous flop musical CARRIE for a 29-hour Equity of the musical that had a notoriously short 3 night, 5 performance run on Broadway in 1988. The CARRIE reading will take place today, Friday, November 20th. The hope is to bring 'Carrie' and her supernatural powers back to the Broadway stage.

Stephen Sondheim chatted with Mark Stryker of the Detroit Free Press about a wide variety of topics including his musical language, his favorite classical composers and how he feels about opera companies performing his work. Click here for the full interview.

Steppenwolf Theatre Co. regrets to announce that due to illness, Joe Frank's one-night performance of Is There Something Wrong?: An Evening of Spoken Word and Music has been cancelled for Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.

NPR radio personality, author and performance artist Joe Frank appears at Steppenwolf for a one night only performance of Is There Something Wrong?: An Evening of Spoken Word and Music on Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. in the Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St. Tickets go on sale Friday, October 2 at 11:00 a.m.

The Carrollwood Cultural Center Presents JAZZ WITH JIM: THE MUSIC OF RICHARD RODGERS on Friday, December 11 at 7:30 pm.

Steppenwolf Theatre Co. regrets to announce that due to illness, Joe Frank's one-night performance of Is There Something Wrong?: An Evening of Spoken Word and Music has been cancelled for Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.