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While he is not the first actor with a direct connection to the Mormon Church, Chase Ramsey will be the first to take on the Elder Cunningham role in BOOK OF MORMON Musical with firsthand experience as a Mormon missionary.

Peter King's new Monday morning NFL column “Football Morning in America” debuted today exclusively on NBCSports.com, and included a lengthy interview with Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers, who discussed his age, upcoming contract, 'Shark Week' and meeting the Dalai Lama.

NBC Sports Group surrounded the launch of the 2018 NASCAR on NBC season this week with more than 18 hours of trackside coverage from Chicagoland Speedway. Coverage was highlighted by this afternoon's Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race on NBCSN, which sawKyle Busch and the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota narrowly beat Kyle Larson in the final lap to take the checkered flag.

East West Players, in association with the Los Angeles LGBT Center, has another entertaining hit on their hands with the world premiere of playwright Nathan Ramos' AS WE BABBLE ON. Ramos' very clever, contemporary script (lots of screen grabs of texting and emojis) weaves a sometimes funny, sometimes heart-warming, always real tale of Benji, a gay Asian-American comic book artist and his close family of friends.

Midlands based hard rock band, The Bad Flowers and Stockport-based blues rockers Federal Charm will co-headline a Planet Rock Presents tour in the UK starting at the Thekla Bristol on Wednesday 19th September finishing up on Sunday 30th September at London's Borderline. Tickets go on sale at 9am Friday 1st June from planetrocktickets.co.uk, thebadflowers.uk and federalcharm.com.

Good morning BroadwayWorld! Today's top stories: The Actors Fun holds its annual gala tonight, and Steve Martin, Michael Cera, Tony Yazbeck, and more will appear at Broadway Bets!

Living legend Carol Channing is getting a one-of-a-kind tribute made up of over 50,000 fingerprints and videos, spawned after the success of the Harvey Milk project in San Francisco. Artist Khoi Nguyen is doing a series of prolific painting/installations of icons like Harvey Milk and Carol Channing that involves interactive technology and consists of thousands of fingerprints from celebrities to the homeless as participants.

Chris Leask has reprised the role of Everybody Else in The Comedy About a Bank Robbery. We met up at the Criterion Theatre and a hilarious interview ensued.

'This is the story of my career... I have worked my way up. I am not someone who got out of college and got handed the plum Broadway roles. I started as an understudy. I started in the ensemble. I was on a non-Equity tour, then I got to Broadway after a year in Toronto with Hairspray and eighteen months on tour. I'm playing the long game and I think that has made me a better actor and company member.'

The Gamm Theatre closes its fifteen year run in Pawtucket with Shakespeare's AS YOU LIKE IT, so it was with mixed emotions that I turned right onto Exchange St. last Saturday, for the last time to be squeezed into the lyric, little bandbox of a theater. Fear not, theatergoers, they're not going away, just going to Warwick, where I trust they will continue to produce some of the most entertaining, interesting and thought provoking theater you can find. They chose to go out with Shakespeare and once again have found a new way to look at a play and led us to a new way to look at reality. It's what they do there.

A very informative play about the life of one of our greatest sports heroes, Muhammad Ali (formerly known as Cassius Clay).

Justin Timberlake visited The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon for a special episode after the Super Bowl last night. Justin chats with Jimmy about the nervous tic that slipped out during his halftime performance, nerds out over earning a thumbs-up from The Roots' Questlove for his Prince tribute, and drops hints about his Man of the Woods tour. Watch the full appearance below!

Born out of Montreal's vibrant sketch comedy scene, two JUST FOR LAUGHS Award winning idiots; Al Lafrance (I Think I'm Dead) and Shane Adamczak (The Ballad Of Frank Allen, Sound & Fury) join forces to bring you a Big Ol' Pile Of Trash. From dinosaurs at job interviews to pool-based magicians and the joy of Phil Collins, this may be the dumbest sketch show you'll ever see at this year's Fringe.

Welland, Ontario-based reggae-rock band Street Pharmacy, hard at work putting the finishing touches on their follow-up to 2015's Pharmanomics, have announced an upcoming single, Roaming Souls, due out this December 2017.

Let me start off by saying that Heddatron is not a show that most community theaters would choose for a regular season. It is an Absurdist drama that would have a hard time attracting a general audience. Nevertheless, it is a mesmerizing piece of drama with some unique facets that make it an engaging drama for enthusiasts of theatre. First produced in 2005, it's defining characteristic is the use of 'functioning robots' or at least the semblance of such.

Pandora (NYSE: P) announces 'Up Close' with Luke Bryan, an intimate live concert experience on December 6 at the Altman Building in New York City celebrating the release of his sixth studio album, What Makes You Country, due out on December 8

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Today's big news: SUMMER begins at La Jolla Playhouse, BROADWAY SALUTES at Sardi's, and more!

Lin-Manuel Miranda may have received rave reviews across the board from critics for his Tony-winning musical HAMILTON, but over the weekend, he may have received his most important review yet - from his soon-to-be 3-year-old son, Sebastian.

Cabaret 313 is presenting multi-talented artist Kyle Riabko for two one-night only performances of his Burt Bacharach themed show, Close to You: Bacharach Reimagined on Saturday, October 28th at the Black Box Theatre at the Detroit Opera House in Detroit. The main thing is I pack thirty-five songs into about an hour and twenty minutes, and you start to realize just how many hits Burt has written that you know such as 'Close to You,' 'Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head,' 'Say a Little Prayer,' and 'And Something There to Remind Me.' The list just goes on and on and on, said Kyle Riabko. It's really a journey through the music and career of Burt Bacharach, but it will also appeal to the people who grew up, like I did, not listening to him, but to Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page and that kind of stuff because I play it from a guitar player's point of view.

WILD GOOSE DREAMS at the La Jolla Playhouse is a play that juxtaposes the familiar and the unfamiliar, the real and dreamlike. It's a drama that is incredibly funny, it explores family dynamics by separating families, it deals with realities by augmenting it with fantastical elements, it talks about technology as a thing that connects and isolates, and it has a penguin keeps showing up unexpectedly.

August Wilson's Tony award-winning stage play, Jitney, takes center stage at The Blumenthal's Duke Energy Theatre, produced by Brand New Sheriff Productions.

Pennsylvania's theatre gem, The Fulton, is currently presenting the Pennsylvania Premiere of the Tony® Award-winning musical, Disney's NEWSIES, June 6 through July 23, 2017.

It's the biggest event of the summer! Family Channel's 6th annual Big Ticket Concert returns Sunday, August 27 to the Budweiser Stage in Toronto.

Pandora (NYSE: P) announced today that Pandora Premium, its first ever on-demand streaming tier, launches this week. Invites for a free trial of Pandora Premium roll out to select listeners on March 15 and an option to upgrade will be available to all listeners over the coming weeks.

Five-time Obie Award-winning theater company Clubbed Thumb has announced the line-up for SUMMERWORKS, its annual series of new plays.