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Newsies, the Tony Award winning new American musical, welcomed Corey Cott to the role of the show's leading man Jack Kelly, full-time, beginning at today's 2pm performance. Cott became the Jack Kelly alternate in mid-August and has performed the role intermittently since. BroadwayWorld brings you photos of Cott's first curtain call as 'Jack Kelly' below!

Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie (Kiss Me Kate, Ragtime, Passion, Carrie), platinum Award winner and Tony Award nominee Ann Hampton Calloway (Swing), legendary jazz vocalist, pianist and composer Barbara Carroll, andcelebrated piano-vocalist Tony DeSare (Our Sinatra, Talk Show Confidential) gave a special press preview from some of the upcoming engagements at 54 Below earlier today. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the special event below!

A Christmas Story, The Musical! will arrive on Broadway at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre just in time for the 2012 holiday season. The producers have announced that the new musical, based on the 1983 movie perennial, will play a November 5 - December 30 holiday engagement. Opening night is Monday, November 19. The marquee just went up at the Lunt-Fontanne, and you can check out photos below!

ANNIE, the new production of the Tony Award-winning musical, went into rehearsal today in New York City with its full company. The production begins previews October 3, 2012 and opens November 8, 2012 at the Palace Theatre (Broadway at 47th Street). The marquee for the show is on its way up at the Palace and you can check out photos of the beginnings of the marquee below!

In honor of its 50th anniversary return to Broadway this fall there was be a special Box Office Opening Celebration at the Booth Theatre. Tickets for all preview performances were available for a special price of $50. The first 25 participants in line when the box office opens received a signed copy of the script by three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee. BroadwayWorld was there for the event this morning, and we bring you photos below!

Celebrated actress, advocate and playwright Michelle Clunie, will premiere her new play US, beginning September 5 at Theatre Row's Lion Theatre (410 West 42 Street). This production will be directed by Jennifer Gelfer and will run through September 29, 2012. Tickets will be $40 and can be purchased by visiting Telecharge.com or by calling (212) 239-6200.

Signature Theatre presents the world premiere of HEARTLESS by Sam Shepard and directed by Daniel Aukin, through September 16, 2012 with an opening last night, August 27, at The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues). BroadwayWorld was there for the big opening and you can check out full coverage below!

United Airlines' Taste of Broadway concert took place in lower Manhattan on this afternoon, August 23rd at at the World Financial Center Plaza (220 Vesey Street between North End Ave. and West St.) The free outdoor concert was hosted by 2012 Tony Award® winners Judy Kaye and Michael McGrath, who are currently performing in Nice Work If You Can Get It, and featured performances from the casts of: CHICAGO, MAMMA MIA!, NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, ROCK OF AGES, and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. BroadwayWorld was there for today's festivities, and we bring you full coverage below!

Award-winning producers Randy Taradash, Paul Boskind and Martian Entertainment, and Gregory Rae announced complete casting today for the original musical BARE. The company will feature Taylor Trensch (Peter), Jason Hite (Jason) and Elizabeth Judd (Ivy), with Gerard Canonico (Matt), Jerold E. Solomon (Father Mike), Barrett Wilbert Weed (Nadia) and Missi Pyle (Sister Joan). They will be joined by Casey Garvin (Zack), Ariana Groover (Vanessa), Sara Kapner (Madison), Nick Laughlin (Swing), Alice Lee (Diane), Megan Lewis (Swing), Justin Gregory Lopez (Beto), Michael Tacconi (Nick) and Alex Wyse (Alan).

Tony Award-winner Faith Prince (Guys & Dolls, A Catered Affair) and Jason Graae (Falsettos, Ragtime, Forever Plaid), Tony Award-winner Tonya Pinkins (Caroline or Change, Jelly's Last Jam, The Wild Party), Tituss Burgess (Disney's The Little Mermaid, Guys & Dolls), and Eden Espinoza Wicked, Rent, Brooklyn) gave a special press preview from some of the upcoming engagements at 54 Below earlier today. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the special event below!

Grace, the acclaimed American play written by Award-winning writer Craig Wright (Mistakes Were Made, "Six Feet Under") and directed by Dexter Bullard (Tracy Letts' BUG), stars Paul Rudd and Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon, with Kate Arrington and seven-time Emmy Award-winner Ed Asner. The show begins previews at the Cort Theatre (138 West 48th Street) on Thursday, September 13th, with an official opening night set for Thursday, October 4, 2012. The marquee for the show just went up at the Cort Theatre, and you can check out photos below!

The highly acclaimed Broadway production of End of the Rainbow, written by Peter Quilter and directed by Tony® Award winner Terry Johnson, played its final performance on Sunday, August 19, and BWW was there to capture the show's farewell curtain call.

As original cast members of Broadway's Jersey Boys, they took the world by storm in one of the biggest hits of all-time. Now they are together again becoming rock stars in their own right as THE MIDTOWN MEN. Tony Award winner Christian Hoff, Michael Longoria, Daniel Reichard and Tony Award nominee J. Robert Spencer are taking their sensational sound on the road once more, bringing to life their favorite 'Sixties Hits' from The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Motown, The Four Seasons and more. THE MIDTOWN MEN are in New York for television appearances on Good Morning America, Good Day New York and New York Live before kicking off their 2012/2013 US tour in Asbury Park, NJ on August 18 at the Paramount Theater. The group met the press yesterday at the Empire State Building and you can check out full photo coverage below!

Last night, August 14, the Tony Award-winning revival of the musical CHICAGO celebrated a razzle-dazzle decade with its longtime leading lady Bianca Marroquin. Her current engagement with the show continues through Sunday, September 2. BroadwayWorld was there to celebrate her 10 years with Marroquin and her costars at The Ember Room, and we bring you full photo coverage below!

Manhattan Theatre Club will present the American premiere of Rebecca Lenkiewicz's new version of AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes (Doubt, The Royal Family, The Whipping Man, Defiance) on Broadway this fall. Starring four-time Tony Award winner Boyd Gaines and Emmy Award winner Richard Thomas, AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE will play the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, with previews beginning Tuesday, September 4, 2012 and opening on Thursday, September 27, 2012. The cast and creative team met the press today, and BroadwayWorld brings you full coverage from the event below!

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) today began rehearsals for NYTW's production of Red Dog Howls, written by Alexander Dinelaris and led by Kathleen Chalfant. Ken Rus Schmoll will direct the production, which opens the 2012-13 season, beginning performances September 4, 2012. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the first rehearsal below!

Patrick Page played his final performance as 'The Green Goblin' in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark yesterday, August 5. Broadway star Robert Cuccioli, best known for his Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle winning and Tony-nominated performance as the star of Jekyll and Hyde, will take on the role in his long-anticipated return to Broadway. Cuccioli will play his first performance on Tuesday, August 7, 2012 at the Foxwoods Theatre (213 West 42nd Street). BroadwayWorld was there for Page's final curtain call and we bring you photos from the festivities below!

The raucous, irreverent, and unfiltered new Off-Broadway musical comedy The Last Smoker in America, with book and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Bill Russell (Side Show) and music by Drama Desk Nominee Peter Melnick (Adrift in Macao), with direction by Tony Award winning producer and director Andy Sandberg (Hair; Gore Vidal's The Best Man), choreography by Tony Award nominee AC Ciulla (Footloose) and music supervision, arrangements and orchestrations by Fred Lassen (The Gershwin's Porgy & Bess), just opened last night at The Westside Theatre (407 West 43rd Street). Opening Night is Thursday, August 2, 2012. BoadwayWorld was there for the big opening, and we bring you photos from the starry arrivals and first official curtain call below!

Cast members of Peter and the Starcatcher, including Celia Keenan-Bolger, Matthew Saldivar, Adam Chanler-Berat, Carson Elrod, Matt D'Amico, John Sanders, Betsy Hogg and Orville Mendoza today headed Off-Broadway to see SkippyJon Jones, the new children's musical written by their co-star, Kevin Del Aguila (Smee). Before the show, the stars read a segment of the children's book SkippyJon Jones to the audience. BroadwayWorld was there for the celebration and you can check out full photo coverage below!

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) held its closing night party for NYMF yesterday, July 29 at Hudson Terrace. BroadwayWorld was there for the festivities and we bring you full photo coverage below!