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Wanted to alert you to a change in schedule for The Marvelous Wonderettes at the Westside Theatre. The performance schedule as of October 20, 2008 will be as follows.

Nick Adams will be playing the role of 'Rocky' at the Lyric Theatre in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The show runs from October 9th through November 1st, 2008.

Thanks to the generosity of one of its board members, the Metropolitan Opera announced today that a number of prime orchestra seats, usually $175 - $220, will be available for $30 for all nine performances of John Adams's Doctor Atomic. Agnes Varis, a managing director of the Met board, and her husband Karl Leichtman, have purchased $500,000 worth of some of the best orchestra seats for Doctor Atomic, so that they can be redistributed at this lower price.

Tom Fontana and The Health, Housing & Human Services Community are inviting guests to celebrate and support the candidacy of Barack Obama and Joe Biden on Tuesday, October 7, 2008 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM at the home of Tom Fontana. Suggested Minimum Contribution: $250, Host Committee Member: Raise or Contribute $2,000.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater's (CST) international programming initiative, the World's Stage Series, brings Tim Supple's bold, breakthrough adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream to Chicago following critically acclaimed, sold-out performances across India, the UK, Australia and North America. The show's diverse cast, composed of artists from across India and Sri Lanka, will perform in Chicago Shakespeare's Courtyard Theater for 16 performances only, November 25 through December 7, 2008. For more information, to purchase tickets and to watch the video trailer, visit www.chicagoshakes.com/dream.

Village Theatre Pied Piper Presents a colorful proudction of The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Other Eric Carle Favorites by Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia. Production design & direction is by Jim Morrow, music by Steven Naylor, narration by Gordon Pinsent. Recommended for grades PreK -3 and their families

After a successful inaugural year of the Playwrights of New York (PONY) Fellowship, the Lark Play Development Center is proud to welcome playwright Samuel D. Hunter as the 2008-09 PONY Fellow. On Thursday, October 2nd, Sam was officially welcomed at the PONY apartment during a housewarming event which included playwright Arthur Kopit, Lark staff and board, as well as donors and friends.

The Third Eye Theatre Company's production of ''Notes on New York: The Musicalized Observations of Tim Di Pasqua'' will open Monday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. at the Metropolitan Room, 34 W. 22nd St., New York City. Directed by Andrew Glant-Linden, it will play Mondays throughout October.

In honor of WorkShop Theater Company's 15th Anniversary Season, Tony Award winner Bill Irwin, members of both the Original and Broadway-Bound casts of HAIR - including two-time Tony Award nominee André De Shields, Heather MacRae, - along with New York's finest new vaudeville and burlesque acts and WorkShop Company artists, will perform live to benefit WorkShop Theater on Monday, October 27, 7:00 PM at the Zipper Factory.

Carmen had its world premiere October 2, 2008 in Prague, Czech Republic. The book is by Norman Allen, the lyrics by Jack Murphy and it is directed Gabriel Barre who also did the NY workshop.

Paulette Randall will direct the British premiere of August Wilson's Radio Golf running at the Tricycle from 2 October - 1 November, with press night on 6 October at 7pm. Radio Golf is designed by Libby Watson with lighting by Matthew Eagland and sound design by Al Ashford.

On October 4th, 2008 at 8PM The 2008 Mason Street Warehouse season will present Broadway performer Klea Blackhurst as she brings her one-woman show, 'Everthing The Traffic Will Allow, the Songs and Sass of Ethel Merman' to Saugatuck for one night only.

Today, IDEAL ENTERTAINMENT, INC. will present two staged presentation of WRAPPED as part of New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYFM) Reading Series.

Tuna Does Vegas, the hilarious new installment from the legendary 'Greater Tuna' creative team, rolls into the Bass Performance Hall for a one week only engagement October 21 - 26, 2008.

The 92nd Street Y officially opens its new downtown arts and entertainment center, 92YTribeca, on October 18 with nightlife, daytime programming and an eco-healthy café. The venue is located at 200 Hudson, at the corner of Canal.

At a rally on the steps of City Hall this morning, The Center for Arts Education sounded a call for the preservation of disappearing arts spaces in New York City's public schools.

Polydor Records celebrates the 60th birthday of Andrew Lloyd Webber, indisputably the most successful composer of our time, with the release of '60'. This amazing 3 CD, 60 track set spans the whole of Andrew's illustrious career and includes hits from all of his most famous musicals - Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Starlight Express, Evita, Sunset Boulevard and of course The Phantom Of The Opera.

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) presents the American premiere of HAPPY NOW? by Lucinda Coxon, directed by Liz Diamond, at Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street), October 24-November 15. Opening Night is October 30.

OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN, the four-time Grammy Award winner and iconic star of the film GREASE, has partnered with CURVES, the world's largest fitness franchise for women, to launch an international campaign to distribute 1 million units of the LIV AID, a breast self-exam aid that assists women to exercise breast exams correctly, during 'Breast Cancer Awareness Month.' Newton-John will join the Broadway cast of GREASE on stage at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre immediately following the Tuesday, October 7 performance and present a LIV AID kit to every female audience member.

Merkin Hall celebrates American musical theater old and new with the Broadway Close Up series, which offers backstage insights from the theater's top professionals and inside look at the world of musical theater. The next Broadway Close Up features Jones & Schmidt on Monday, October 06, 2008 at 8:00 pm.