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Bye Bye Birdie celebrated Opening Night, yesterday evening, Thursday, October 15th at the new Henry Miller's Theatre (124 West 43rd Street). Bye Bye Birdie stars John Stamos, Gina Gershon, Bill Irwin & Nolan Gerard Funk with Jayne Houdyshell, Dee Hoty, Matt Doyle, Jake Evan Schwencke and Alllie Trimm.

Bye Bye Birdie celebrated Opening Night, yesterday evening, Thursday, October 15th at the new Henry Miller's Theatre (124 West 43rd Street). Bye Bye Birdie stars John Stamos, Gina Gershon, Bill Irwin & Nolan Gerard Funk with Jayne Houdyshell, Dee Hoty, Matt Doyle, Jake Evan Schwencke and Alllie Trimm.

A new version of HAIR's iconic dance-party finale, created to motivate New Yorkers to join in the National Equality March, was presented at the matinee performance on Wednesday, October 7th at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre - 302 West 45th Street. The producers of the Tony Award-winning revival of HAIR previously announced that, in an unprecedented move, they are canceling the show's Sunday, October 11th performance so that the entire cast can join the National Equality March in Washington, D.C.

The John F. Kennedy Center's new production ofTerrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's Tony Award® winning musical RAGTIME, based on the E.L. Doctorow novel, features direction and choreography by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, and a majestic 28-piece orchestra led by musical director James Moore. The production held a rehearsal sneak peek of the anticipated Broadway revival and BroadwayWorld's cameras were there.

Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Founder & Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director) continues its 25th anniversary season of new works celebrating the female playwright with the New York premiere of The Night Watcher, written and performed by Charlayne Woodard.

Wishful Drinking at Broadway's Studio 54 (254 West 54th Street) celebrated its official opening last night, Sunday, October 4th, 2009. BroadwayWorld.com's cameras captured the celebrated crowd as they arrived to cheer Carrie Fisher on!

Kiril Kulish, one of the original three Billys who won a Tony award for his performance played his final performance as Billy on Saturday, October 3rd at 8pm. BroadwayWorld.com was there to wish him the best as he took his final curtain call!

The much anticipated world premiere of Two Unrelated Plays By David Mamet: Keep Your Pantheon and School (a double bill of two one acts by Mamet) happened last night at the Atlantic Theater Company. BWW was there to captured the cast as they took their well deserved bows.

Producers Angelo Fraboni and Daryl Roth present the New York premiere of Vigil, written by Morris Panych and directed by Stephen DiMenna, began performances Sunday, September 20, at 3pm at the DR2 Theatre, 103 East 15 Street, east of Union Square. The opening night was celebrated on Tuesday, September 29 at 7pm.

The producers of HAIR recently announced the addition of six new cast members to the Tony Award-winning musical. Krystal Joy Brown, Heath Calvert, Matt DeAngelis, Rachel Bay Jones, Hannah Shankman and Ryan Watkinson have now joined the 'Tribe.' HAIR began preview performances on March 6 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre (302 West 45th Street, NYC) and opened to rave reviews on March 31, 2009.

At the annual BC/EFA Flea Market on Sunday, ROCK OF AGES will be unveiling a hot off the presses, limited edition MEN of ROCK OF AGES Calendar. Designed in the hilarious, raunchy spirit of the show, the calendar exposes all of the men's finest assets from January to December.

Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' global smash hit musical MAMMA MIA! welcomed a host of new Broadway stars to the Winter Garden Theatre stage on Tuesday, September 22, as Tony Award® nominee John Dossett, Tony Award® winner Beth Leavel, Patrick Boll, Alyse Alan Louis, Eric William Morris, Patrick Boll, David Andrew Macdonald, Alison Briner, Michael Mindlin and Halle Morse all joined the Broadway cast for the mega hit!

Cast members of WEST SIDE STORY received Actors' Equity Association's Third Annual Advisory Committee on Chorus Affairs (ACCA) Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus. The award, which honors the distinctive talents and contributions made by the chorus of a Broadway musical, was presented in a special ceremony at the September 22nd ACCA meeting at Actors' Equity Association (Equity) headquarters in New York City.

Playbill celebrated its 125th Anniversary on Monday, September 21st with a special celebration at the Bon Appetit Supper Club with special performances by Golden Globe and two-time Tony Award Winner, Bernadette Peters and Allie Trimm (Kim MacAfee in Bye Bye Birdie).

Friends In Deed tapped the legendary Tommy Tune's brand new road show, Steps in Time, for their one-night-only spectacular Broadway Benefit Gala which took place at The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College (899 Tenth Avenue) on Monday, September 21st at 8:00 p.m. All proceeds benefited Friends In Deed - The Crisis Center for Life-Threatening Illness.

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) began previews Saturday, September 12 for the first production of the 2009-2010 Season, OTHELLO, directed by Peter Sellars.

On Friday, September 18, 2009, Kerry Butler as 'Sherrie' and Tom Lenk as 'Franz' began performances in the five-time Tony nominated hit musical, ROCK OF AGES at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 West 47th Street) for a six month engagement.

The lucky winners were flown to New York to rehearse with Sutton Foster and members of the show's creative team, have a costume fitting, and appear in SHREK THE MUSICAL for one night only. The will be singing 'I Know It's Today' with Sutton Foster. The girls arrived to begin their rehearsal with Sutton Foster and music director, Eric Stern. Yesterday, Thursday, September 17th, BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were invited to come to the theatre to meet Laura and Hannah and capture their first meeting with Sutton Foster!

HGTV designer John Gidding created a special interior design for Carrie Fisher's Broadway dressing room at Studio 54. In celebration of Carrie's arrival on Broadway and John's fantastic design work BroadwayWorld.com was invited along for the ride as the room was transformed!

The longest-running show in Broadway history, Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA reached another new milestone as musical became the first Broadway show ever to reach 9,000 performances. The occasion was marked with a special presentation during the 2PM matinee's curtain call.