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The Seattle Repertory Theatre has announced casting for the upcoming 2010-2011 season. Of the 23 roles cast so far, 21 have been filled by Seattle performers, ranging from up-and-comers like Troy Fischnaller and Alexandra Tavares to long-time staples like Charles Leggett, Sea?n G. Griffin, Todd Jefferson Moore and Suzanne Bouchard. Additionally, five of the eight directors are local, as are many of the designers.

Broadway In Chicago has announced that individual tickets for AN EVENING WITH SUTTON FOSTER will go on sale to the general public on Friday, August 13 at 10:00 a.m. The Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning actress will perform an exclusive, four-night engagement to inaugurate the new Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (175 E. Chestnut) September 23 - 26, 2010.

West End stars Dianne Pilkington (Glinda in 'Wicked', 'The 39 Steps'), Oliver Tompsett (Fiyero in 'Wicked'), Daniel Boys (Princeton in 'Avenue Q'), Michael Arden ('Aspect of Love') and Broadway's Gavin Creel ('Hair', 'Mary Poppins') are to guest star with Broadway star Shoshana Bean live at the Ambassador's Theatre on Tuesday August 17.

Last night, August 8, 2010, the 2010 Teen Choice Awards were held at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. BroadwayWorld brings you full coverage of the arrivals below.

Legendary actress Patricia Neil passed away yesterday, August 8, at her home in Martha's Vineyard at the age of 84. Neal had been fighting lung cancer for several years.

Last night, August 5, Family Guy mastermind Seth MacFarlane serenaded Jay Leno and the audience on the Tonight Show audience with music that appears on his new album. As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Universal Republic Records has signed Television Executive Producer/Actor Seth MacFarlane for a fully orchestrated album of 1940s and 50's classic show tunes, scheduled to hit stores and online platforms later this year. Click below for a preview of what's to come!

While most celebs travel incognito, Tony nominee Constantine Maroulis basked in the spotlight last night. After his performance of ROCK OF AGES, the Tony Award nominee graciously signed autographs for fans who lined up outside the stage door, before crossing the street to his own private CitySights tour bus. The former 'Idol' star and his entourage headed over to the show's after party at B.B. Kings on top of the iconic double-decker blue bus for all passersby to see. BroadwayWorld brings you Maroulis-siting coverage below!

Multiple Emmy award-winning television host, celebrated performer, renowned philanthropist, and all-around talent, Rosie O'Donnell will make her return to daytime television exclusively on OWN: THE OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK. From 1996 to 2002, Ms. O'Donnell delighted audiences as the host of the highly successful daytime talk show 'The Rosie O'Donnell Show.' For OWN, she will bring her trademark humor and down-to-earth approach to a new daily talk show scheduled to premiere in 2011. The announcement was made today by Chief Executive Officer, Christina Norman.

As BroadwayWorld reported earlier, the complete Broadway casting has been announced for THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS, the new Kander & Ebb musical. Following a sold out, critically acclaimed and award-winning run Off-Broadway, THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS will open on Broadway on Sunday, October 31 at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street). Previews will begin on Thursday, October 7. Prior to Broadway, THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS is playing a limited engagement at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, MN. The production opened on July 31 and runs through September 25 on the McGuire Proscenium Stage. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you a look at the show's opening number!

Producers Tony Ponturo and Fran Kirmser will present LOMBARDI at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre this fall starring Dan Lauria as Vince Lombardi and Judith Light as Marie Lombardi, written by Academy Award winning playwright Eric Simonson and directed by Tony Award nominee Thomas Kail. Joining Ponturo and Kirmser as special producing partner is the National Football League, marking the organization's first foray on Broadway. LOMBARDI, a new American play, is based on the best-selling biography When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi, by Pulitzer Prize winning author David Maraniss. BroadwayWorld brings you the first production shots, taken during the show's out of town engagement in Great Barrington Mass., just released, below!

Producers Michael Rubinoff and Daryl Roth are proud to announce that, after weeks of packed houses and heaps of critical and popular praise, the Toronto production of the award-winning New York smash hit Love, Loss, and What I Wore has been extended by popular demand, and will continue at the Panasonic Theatre with a brand new all-star cast, from September 10 - October 2. Tickets for the extension go on sale Saturday, August 7: 416-872-1212 or www.ticketking.com They also announced that CTV 'FashionTelevision' host Jeanne Beker, Barbara Budd (a Stratford actor prior to her long stint as co-host of CBC Radio's 'As It Happens') and Gemini, Genie and Dora Award-winning Sheila McCarthy ('Little Mosque,' 'Emily of New Moon') will star in the September cast of Love, Loss, and What I Wore, along with two other cast members to be announced.

Ghostlight Records has confirmed a September 21st release date for their Original Cast Recording of The Public Theater's Production of BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON. The show will soon move to Broadway (The CD will be released to coincide with previews, which begin September 20 at The Bernard B Jacobs Theatre.)

The Scottsboro Boys began preview performances this past weekend at the Guthrie Theater, kicking off an eight-week engagement through September 25. The critically-acclaimed production, directed by five-time Tony Award-winner Susan Stroman and featuring a book by David Thompson and a score by John Kander and the late Fred Ebb, comes to the Guthrie following a sold-out Off-Broadway run at the Vineyard Theatre earlier this year. Immediately following its Guthrie run, the production will move to Broadway's Lyceum Theatre, where it will begin performances on October 7 in advance of its official October 31, 2010, opening.

Continuing his 'war' on Broadway, funny-man Will Ferrell called out another of Broadway's hottest names of the moment (recall his spoof of Bernadette Peters this week) - La Cage star Kelsey Grammer. While promoting his new film, The Other Guys, on Jimmy Fallon last night, Ferrell not-so- subltly blamed Grammer for getting a much hyped Saturday Night Live skit with Shaquille O'Neal cut once upon a time due to 'jealousy.' Hear what Ferrell had to say about the matter below!

As BroadwayWorld has previously reported, Christina Aguilera will make her big screen debut with Screen Gems' movie musical, 'Burlesque,' due out November 24, 2010. Aguilera leads the film alongside Cher and Stanley Tucci, who are additionally joined by Alan Cumming, Eric Dane, Dianna Agron, and Kristen Bell. Today, the trailer for the film has been released!

Yesterday, August 3, Broadway darling and Emmy-winner Kristin Chenoweth lent their talents to My Life on the D List star Kathy Griffin. In the episode, Griffin is rehearsing a number to perform for her mother, and looks to Chenoweth and Rudetsky for professional coaching. Click below to watch the trio in action!

On Sunday, August 1, Christopher and Vicki Le Vine celebrated The Broadway Dreams Foundation's return engagement to Philadelphia with a star-studded benefit fundraiser, hosted by television and Broadway personalities Nicole Parker ('MadTv,' Wicked) and Paul Canaan (MTV's 'Legally Blonde,' La Cage). The benefit was held at Grace Winery's outdoor amphitheatre nestled on the grounds of Sweetwater Farm Bed and Breakfast in the historic Brandywine Valley. BroadwayWorld brings you photo coverage of the event below.

POWER BALLADZ - the new rock and roll cabaret musical that features some of the most unforgettable rock anthems of the 70's 80's and 90's - will begin its Off-Broadway run at the Midtown Theater (163 W. 46 St. in Times Square) in August with a series of special weekly events that call to mind the fads, fashions and zeitgeist of that era in pop culture. Previews will begin August 5, with an opening night set for August 19. Below, POWER BALLADZ cast member Peter James Zielinski brings you a video introduction to the production.

Douglas Hodge, who won a 2010 Tony Award for his critically acclaimed performance as Albin in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, will extend his run for an additional six months in the smash hit Tony Award-winning revival at the Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street). Hodge and five-time Emmy Award-winner Kelsey Grammer will keep their love alive as Albin and Georges in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES until February 13, 2011, when both actors will depart the production.

Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of Andre Bishop, Artistic Director and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) has announced that Laura Benanti will join de'Adre Aziza, Danny Burstein, Nikka Graff Lanzarone, Patti LuPone, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Mary Beth Peil and Sherie Rene Scott in the cast of its upcoming production of the new musical WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, based on the film by Pedro Almodóvar, with a book by Jeffrey Lane, music and lyrics by David Yazbek and direction by Bartlett Sher. This world premiere production will begin previews on Saturday, October 2 at 8pm and open on Thursday, November 4 at 6:45pm on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre (111 W. 44 Street).