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Tony Award winner John Lloyd Young will guest star as a 'former wood shop instructor with a voice of gold' on the upcoming FOX series GLEE. Lloyd Young described the role 'as great fun, the whole cast is top notch and full of talented film and theatre actors.' His guest starring episode will air Wednesday, Sept. 16th.

MTV is promoting the upcoming Video Music Awards with a series of West Side Story-themed ads. In the ads, the hottest young singers share their own special version of the song 'Tonight' from the award-winning musical.

Variety reports that Neil LaBute will write and direct an adaptation of 'The Burnt Orange Heresy,' Charles Willeford's crime novel set in the world of modern art, with William Horberg ('The Kite Runner') producing.

Variety reports that producer Manny Fox is setting up plans for a new musical, 'Family Fortune,' to make its way to Broadway via New Orleans. The production has music by Puerto Rican musician Alberto Carrion, with pop musician-producer Nile Rodgers ('We Are Family,' 'Like a Virgin') onboard as co-composer and producer of the score.

Jaimie Mayer and Don't Eat the Pictures Productions proudly present an industry reading of the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) hit The Boy in the Bathroom, September 17 at 3:00 & 7:00 PM. Featuring book & lyrics by Michael Lluberes with music and additional lyrics by Joe Maloney, this presentation will be directed by show creator, Michael Lluberes and will play at Stage Five at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street b/w 8th & 9th Avenues).

Shakespeare & Company Artistic Director Tony Simotes today announced the titles for the popular, 15th annual Studio Festival of Plays. The annual Festival is a mini-marathon of plays new to the Company running ONE DAY ONLY in Founders' Theatre on Monday, September 7 beginning at 11:30 am and running through 11pm. Seven productions featuring Company actors and special guest actors will be presented throughout the day as works-in-progress and staged readings. A special Benefit reading of William Bigelow's new play, Leap Year, featuring Olympia Dukakis and directed by Simotes, will kick off the Festival series a week early on Monday, August 31st at 7:00pm .

Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' upcoming Carnegie Hall concert presentation of the new musical KRISTINA has announced full casting.

BroadwayWorld.com presents it's newest column, Twitter Watch, which will bring you only the best and most interesting reports straight from the mouths of Broadway stars, shows and more on the hot social networking service - Twitter!

The man critics have called a 'Demented Rat Packer for the Millennium!' returns to the Laurie Beechman Theatre with his all-singing, all-dancing show, Ryan Raftery & Friends: A SOLO ACT on Wednesday September 9th at 9:30pm.

9 To 5 The Musical's Tony nominated composer, country music legend Dolly Parton will be celebrated with a special box set release by RCA/Legacy Records.

The final 16 Broadway performances of Disney's THE LITTLE MERMAID are sold out, with cancellations and day-of standing room tickets the only means of seeing the show.

A Sunday evening concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 4th October 2009 will celebrate the career of award-winning arranger and orchestrator, William David Brohn.

MTV is promoting the upcoming Video Music Awards with a series of West Side Story-themed ads. In the ads, the hottest young singers share their own special version of the song 'Tonight' from the award-winning musical.

Michael Croiter, musician and owner of the recording production facility Yellow Sound Lab, and Tony Award®-winning Orchestrator Bill Sherman (In the Heights) have partnered to launch YELLOW SOUND LABEL, a brand new record label that will produce an eclectic array of albums from some of today's biggest talents from Broadway and beyond. Yellow Sound Label recently signed a distribution deal with Alternative Distribution Alliance (A.D.A. Distribution), part of Warner Bros. Music, and is set to premiere on September 22 with the release of Tony Award® winner Alan Cumming's new album, I Bought a Blue Car Today.

WICKED on Broadway's original Nessarose, Michelle Federer, will return to the musical mega hit, beginning performances August 18. Erin Mackey recently joined the production on August 11 in the role of Glinda.

Talk show legend Jerry Springer joins Broadway's mega-hit CHICAGO in the role of Billy Flynn beginning Aug. 18th.

Variety reports that THE BACCHAE Anthony Mackie, has been cast in Universal's 'The Adjustment Bureau,' with Matt Damon and Emily Blunt co-starring, and George Nolfi directing from his own script.

GLEE is an uplifting series with biting humor that features a soundtrack of hit music from past to present. The show follows an optimistic high school teacher, WILL SCHUESTER (Matthew Morrison), as he tries to refuel his own passion while reinventing the high school's glee club and challenging a group of outcasts to realize their star potential.

Barrel of Monkeys (BOM) announces their new Executive Director, Amanda Farrar, as of August 17, 2009. An arts administrator for almost a decade, Farrar received her Master of Arts Management from Columbia College Chicago.

The Pantages Theater went to the dogs on Friday, as the canine stars of LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL walked the red carpet on opening night at Los Angeles' Pantages Theater.