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With 'THE BROADWAY LOCAL', World MasterCard celebrates the creative theatre professionals who bring their talents to the city's Broadway stages and call the Big Apple home.

LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL, presented by BMI, premieres at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Andrew Jackson Hall, June 23-28, 2009, as part of HCA/TriStar Broadway at TPAC.

Century 21 Real Estate LLC, the franchisor of the world's largest residential real estate sales organization, today announced its ?Path to Your Dreams Sweepstakes' winner, Kimberly Green of Dalton, Ga.

Today marks the official launch of BroadwayBares.com, the official website of BROADWAY BARES. The site will launch after the midnight performance of BROADWDAY BARES 19.0: 'CLICK IT!'

Spice Girl Mel B ends her four-month run as the Peep Diva in Las Vegas's PEEPSHOW today June 21, the same day her counterpart Kelly Monaco, 33, is ending her four-month run. Holly Madison, 30, is set to replace Monaco. Broadway and r&b songbird Shoshana Bean is set to replace Mel B. Mel B let loose and celebrated her time in the show last night at the TABU Nightclub in the MGM Grand Resort in Las Vegas and BWW's cameras were there!

Midtown hotspot Latitude will host an 'unoffical' Broadway Bares After Party for post performance fun this evening, Sunday June 21ts. Doors will open at 10 PM, so friends and fans who came to the 9:30 performance can go chill, drink and have fun until the curtain falls on the Midnight performance when the party really begins! Latitude will offer Discounted Drinks ALL NIGHT! It is a 21 and up only event.

Goodspeed Musicals' production of 'Big River' and its director Rob Ruggiero are big winners of the 19th annual Connecticut Critics Circle awards, announced June 15. The show received nods for best musical, for Russell Joel Brown who played Big Jim as best actor in a musical, for Michael Schweikardt's sets, and for Ruggiero's direction.

Theatre impresario and Broadway producer Shelly Gross passed away on June 19, 2009, in West Palm Beach, Florida, after a long illness. With a career that spanned over fifty years, he created an unprecedented number of theatre operations around the country, produced shows for Broadway & National Tours and presented a who's who of legendary performers including everyone from Judy Garland to Bruce Springsteen. He was 88 years old.

Various media outlets reported yesterday that an album featuring Adam Lambert's 'early work' is set for a 2009 Summer release. Songs from the American Idol runner-up will be released by Hi Fi Recordings and Wilshire Records beginning with the single 'Want'. It appears the CD is not without controversy.

'American Idol' and 'Britain's Got Talent' honcho Simon Cowell has written a candid and revealing essay to the UK Daily Mail detailing his work on the hit show 'Talent.'

Renowned actress and entertainer Cloris Leachman speaks to New York magazine's 'Vulture' column about her days on ABC's Dancing With The Star, Mel Brooks, her comic 'sex pact' with Ed Asner and more in wide ranging and witty interview.

Recent 2009 Tony Award Honor for Excellence in the Theatre recipient Shirley Herz is featured in a fanatstic article in The New York Times on the bygone days of the theatrical press agent.

The Tony Award®-winning Old Globe its 2009 Summer Shakespeare Festival with Shakespeare's Coriolanus. The production debuts tonight in the Globe's outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre.

Broadway Beat, the popular weekly television program for and about the Theatre World, right here on the web site. Broadway Beat is the premier, award-winning half hour television program covering theatre, music and performers.

USA Today reports that an album featuring Adam Lambert's early work is coming out sooner than expected. Songs from the American Idol runner-up will be released this summer, beginning with the single Want.

Playhouse South will present The Lion in Winter, a comedic drama by James Goldman. Performances will be June 19-21 and June 26-28, 2009 in the Clark Haines Theater, 3700 Far Hills Avenue in Kettering. Friday and Saturday performances are at 8:00 pm and Sunday at 2:00 pm.

Jaradoa Theater is currently presenting SHAFRIKA, THE WHITE GIRL, a new musical, through June 28 at the Dimson Theatre at The Vineyard , 108 East 15th Street (between Union Square East & Irving Place). Opening Night is this Sunday, June 21 at 7 p.m. Written by Anika Larsen, SHAFRIKA, THE WHITE GIRL is co-conceived and directed by April Nickell.

Ground Up & Rising announced their upcoming production of On an Average Day at the renowned Byron Carlyle Theater in Miami Beach. On an Average Day is written by Olivier Award-nominated playwright John Kolvenbach and directed by Arturo Fernandez, Producing Artistic Director for Ground Up & Rising.

The Strand Theater invites you to its first annual Friends and Neighbors Festival with Deborah Blank's new play, The Manipulator. Directed by professional Baltimore director and actor Jerry Gietka, The Manipulator demonstrates the Strand's determination to provide exciting, affordable, and quality theater to the Baltimore community.

Ruskin Group Theatre announces the WORLD PREMIERE production of 'MUTINY AT PORT CHICAGO' Written by Paul Leaf Opening Friday, July 10, 2009 with reception to follow. Running Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm