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According to The Sun today, Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber is ready to participate in another TV audition to find the West End's newest star.

Gavin Creel, William Swenson, Phillip Chaffin and Aaron Lazar will lend their voices to the new Sam Davis CD, 'Love on a Summer Afternoon.' The album is due to be released on November 2.

Head of the Ambassador Theatre Group, Harold Panter told reporters at the Guardian today that he plans to bring the wildly successful Lincoln Centre production of Roger & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC to the West End.

Donald Margulies's Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner With Friends at Olney Theatre Center has been extended to Sunday, October 3. The Washington Post calls the Olney production an 'exacting, unsettling drama.' The Frederick News-Post declares, 'Dinner With Friends shines on Olney Theatre Center's black box stage.'

On October 15, 2010 at 8:00 PM, The New York Pops will launch its 28th season; a Carnegie Hall series celebrating the stylistic diversity of some of popular music's greatest icons. In this opening night program, Music Director and Conductor Steven Reineke leads the orchestra in 'The Music of ABBA', an electrifying concert featuring the acclaimed Finnish vocal ensemble Rajaton in performances of 'Dancing Queen,' 'Mamma Mia,' 'Take a Chance on Me', and other hits by the Swedish supergroup ABBA. A bona fide pop phenomenon in their native Finland, Rajaton's singing style and presentation has proven them a prodigious talent on the world stage.

The perennially popular 'Sing-A-Long Sound of Music' returns to the Hollywood Bowl for the ninth time on Saturday, September 25, 2010, at 7:30 pm. The evening, which traditionally sells-out year after year, also features the signature costume parade hosted by actress-comedienne Melissa Peterman at 6:00 pm.

This week, the NJMH presents another exemplary schedule of events, ranging from evenings with two living legends, alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson and pianist/composer Randy Weston to celebrations of poet Langston Hughes, tenor sax giants Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins, and concluding with live music supporting a retrospective on the art work of early giant giants George Wettling and Pee Wee Russell.

This weekend at Cornelia Street Café will feature The Claudia Quintet and Sleepthief. See below for details.

The Turning Point in Piermont, N.Y. presents a selection of Jazz concerts this fall, including a performance by the Dave Liebman Group on September 19. See below for a complete list of dates.

Peck School of the Arts will present an advanced screening of 'Howl' on September 15 at 7 p.m. Here is a list of upcoming performances leading up to that event.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, stage veterans Melora Hardin, Amy Ryan and Kathy Bates will return to 'The Office' in its seventh season to reprise their roles on the hit show. Hardin will return as Dunder Mifflin executive and Michael's flame, Jan Levinson. Ryan will return as Holly from HR, and Bates will appear as Sabre CEO, Jo Bennett.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Nathan Lane, Kyra Sedgwick, Marcia Cross and Mark Harmon are scheduled to appear with an already star-studded cast on the 'Stand Up to Cancer' Telethon airing tonight at 8 p.m.

According to Amazon.com, the 1983 film version of the 'Pirates of Penzance' will be available on DVD September 14.

As previously reported, Elaine Paige 'The First Lady of West End Musical Theatre' is in the U.S. working on a highly anticipated new album, tentatively titled 'Elaine and Friends.'

Diana Ross will perform at the King Center on Friday, November 19 at 8 p.m. Individual tickets will go on sale Friday, September 24 at noon. Tickets start at $49 (plus applicable handling fees). The concert is an AEG Live Production.

Aicon Gallery in London will present Rasheed Araeen's solo exhibition 'Before and After Minimalism, 1959 - 1974'. The exhibition ranges from works he made in Pakistan such as 'My First Sculpture' to key minimalist works such as 'Sculpture No.1', 'First Structure' and 'Second Structure'. The exhibition then traces Araeen's introduction of the kinetic into minimalism, through works such as 'Char Yar' and 'Lovers' and finally, works that started to leave the confines of the studio entirely.

Emerald Theatre Company will present PORN YESTERDAY by Andrew Black, September 10 - 19. The production will be directed by Den-Nikolas Smith.

Circuit Playhouse will presents SUPERIOR DONUTS by Tracy Letts through September 19.

Agricenter International presents the Delta Fair and Music Festival through September 12.

The best shot around, Annie Oakley supports her siblings by selling the game she hunts. She's discovered by Col. Buffalo Bill who persuades this novel sharpshooter to join his Wild West Show. In just a glance she falls head over heels for dashing shooting ace Frank Butler who headlines the show. She soon eclipses Butler as the main attraction, which while good for business is bad for romance. Considered one of the best musical scores of all time, it includes, 'They Say It's Wonderful,' I Got Lost in His Arms' and 'There's No Business Like Show Business'. The rousing finale hits the mark every time.