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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.

Directed by Lars Rudolfsson and featuring the 50 piece American Theatre Orchestra conducted by Tony Award® winner Paul Gemignani, KRISTINA will be performed in concert for two performances only at Carnegie Hall on September 23 and 24, 2009. This will mark the first presentation in English with lyrics by Björn Ulvaeus and Herbert Kretzmer.

VENUE Q, the Tony Award-winning musical that has delighted and surprised theatergoers since it first arrived on Broadway in 2003, had another surprise in store when the musical's producers announced from the stage at the conclusion of the show's final Broadway performance at theJohn Golden Theatre (252 W. 45 St.) on September 13, 2009 that AVENUE Q will, in fact, move to a new address in the Times Square neighborhood and begin performances on October 9 at New World Stages (340 W. 50 St.). BroadwayWorld.com was there as the stunning news broke and our cameras caught the exciting moment. We are happy to bring you this small preview of the event, stay tuned for much more coverage on AVENUE Q's final Broadway performance!

AVENUE Q, the Tony Award-winning musical that has delighted and surprised theatergoers since it first arrived on Broadway in 2003, had another surprise in store when the musical's producers announced from the stage at the conclusion of the show's final Broadway performance at the John Golden Theatre (252 W. 45 St.) on September 13, 2009 that AVENUE Q will, in fact, move to a new address in the Times Square neighborhood and begin performances on October 9 at New World Stages (340 W. 50 St.). BroadwayWorld.com was there as the stunning news broke and our cameras caught the exciting moment.

On Monday, September 14th, The Marvelous Wonderettes celebrated its one-year anniversary in New York where it continues to run at Off-Broadway's Westside Theatre, upstairs (407 West 43rd Street). Written and directed by Roger Bean, The Marvelous Wonderettes features Kirsten Bracken, Misty Cotton, Christina DeCicco and Lindsay Mendez.

Broadway's brightest stars came out on Sunday afternoon, September 13th to Times Square to celebrate the annual Broadway on Broadway concert! BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there to capture every theatrical moment!

Currently in previews, Bye Bye Birdie stars John Stamos, Gina Gershon, Bill Irwin and Nolan Gerard Funk with Jayne Houdyshell, Dee Hoty, Matt Doyle, Jake Evan Schwencke and Alllie Trimm.

Mayor of London, Boris Johnson visited the stars of the Broadway BILLY ELLIOT on September 13, 2009 in New York City. Mayor Johnson greeted the cast members as part of his whirlwind tour of Manhattan, BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there to capture the happy moment!

BroadwayWorld.com was there as the stunning news broke and our cameras caught the exciting moment. We are happy to bring you this small preview of the event, stay tuned for much more coverage on AVENUE Q's final Broadway performance!

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) presents the first production of its 2009-2010 season. The world premiere of Bekah Brunstetter's play OOHRAH!, directed by Evan Cabnet, features Cassie Beck, Sami Gayle, Darren Goldstein, J.R. Horne, Jennifer Mudge, Lucas Near-Verbrugghe and Maximilian Osinski.

The casts of Roundabout Theatre Company's productions of THE UNDERSTUDY and ORDINARY DAYS met the press in their New York City rehearsal halls on Friday, September 11th and BroadwayWorld.com's camera were there!