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It's been nearly a year since they last put on some jolly Music Hall and now they have 3 special Saturday nights of just that coming your way.

The Raleigh engagement of Jersey Boys opened to rave reviews on Friday night, June 26 at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium, where it will play through July 18, 2009. From there, the national tour will play Boston, MA July 23 through September 26, 2009.

Old Times, Harold Pinter's haunting masterpiece is set to run July 18 ? August 15, 2009 (Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 7:30pm) at the Paragon Theatre.

The following lists IndyArts' July 4th celebrations around the city.

Conrad Birdie, the hip-swiveling, gold lamé-clad rock star in the 1960 Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, ?Bye Bye Birdie,? will be appearing at Northwestern University?s Evanston campus this summer. ?Bye Bye Birdie? will run for 11 matinee and evening shows at the Ethel M. Barber Theater, 30 Arts Circle Drive, during the Theatre and Interpretation Center of Northwestern University?s 2009 Summer Music Theatre Festival.

?She's got a voice that I would kill to have,? says Dame Julie Andrews of her Victor/Victoria co-star. Broadway star and television's Lucy delights with an evening of stories and song including favorites from the stage, screen, and American Songbook. Critically acclaimed for Broadway's City of Angels, Les Misérables, Victor/Victoria, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Kiss Me, Kate, Sly Fox and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. The event is set to take place Sunday, July 26th, 2009 & Monday, July 27th, 2009 - Doors 7pm - Show 8pm at The Inner Circle at the Magic Castle, 7001 Franklin Ave., Hollywood, CA 90028.

Experience a timeless story of revolution and love when Pittsburgh CLO presents the smash-hit musical Les Misérables for the first time, July 7 through July 19 at the Benedum Center in the heart of Pittsburgh's Cultural District. Currently the longest-running musical in history, Les Misérables has been seen by more than 54 million people around the world.

From April 18 through June 28, Tony Kushner reigned in Minneapolis and today the Guthrie Theater released information on the stunning success of the Kushner Celebration. In the mainstream media, blogs and social networking sites like Twitter; in coffee shops, restaurants and gatherings throughout the Twin Cities; and in the Guthrie?s lobbies, bars and box office lines, everyone was talking Kushner!

Centre Stage cordially is set to host A Midsummer Night's Steam, a sizzling fundraiser at Saffron?s Sidewalk Café featuring live music by Puzzle, dancing, open bar (beer, wine and margaritas) and Saffron?s delectable hors d?oeuvres! Free valet parking provided. Silent and live auctions.

The Courthouse Center for the Arts is set to present West Side Story, July 9-26, 2009.

Ambassador Groups were named Runners-Up in the Best Ticketing Agency category at this year's Group Travel Awards.

Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp, stars of the original Broadway production and film adaptation of RENT, reprise the roles they made famous in this exciting new tour! Over the course of its groundbreaking 12-year New York run, RENT transformed the definition of musical theater -- and changed Broadway forever. Set in NYC's East Village, RENT is a modern take on the classic Puccini opera, La Boheme. It tells the unforgettable story of a group of young artists learning to survive, falling in love, finding their voices and living for today.

Songwriting team Don Seaver and Sean Owens are back at the EXIT Theatre?s Café, once again joining forces with powerhouse performer Shannon Day for Lady of the ?Loin, a sizzling tribute to San Francisco's raciest, raunchiest, most unrepentant neighborhood: the Tenderloin. A dozen stories-in-song, about good girls gone wrong, wronged girls getting the goods, and low-lifes living the high life. Four Saturdays only, July 25, August 1, 8, 15. All shows are at9:00 p.m. EXIT Café is located at 156 Eddy St., San Francisco. Tickets cost $15. For more information, call (415) 673-3847, or visit www.theexit.org.

West Virginia Public Theatre?s Founder and Executive Producer Ron Iannone has announced the line-up for the 2009 summer season, which runs June 23 through August 9, 2009. WVPT will be celebrating its 25th Anniversary Season and has, once again, lined up another summer filled with ?Broadway?s best? productions.

West Virginia Public Theatre continues its 25th Anniversary Summer Season by bringing back a cult-classic musical comedy thriller after fourteen years absence from the WVPT stage. Little Shop of Horrors runs from June 30th through July 5th in the Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre of the WVU Creative Arts Center. First appearing at WVPT in 1995, this audience favorite was written by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken?the team behind such Disney favorites as Aladdin and The Little Mermaid?and tells the story of a nerdy florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood. The musical was based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman.

Wolf 359 presents a new, full-length play by NYFA Fellow Michael Yates Crowley, directed by Michael Rau. Evanston: A Rare Comedy will debut in July 2009 as part of the undergroundzero festival at P.S. 122, and then in August will be performed at HERE Arts Center as part of their Summer Sublet Series. From the writer/director team behind The Ted Haggard Monologues, this black comedy begins with the disappearance of a teenage girl in deepest suburbia and ends when a meeting of The Evanston Women?s Book Club goes horribly awry.

No.11 Productions presents two offerings as part of their summer residency @Seaport! The Elephant Man ? The Musical is a comedy in which John Merrick (the Elephant Man) breaks through the social barriers his deformity forces him to deal with and finally gets his dream of singing and dancing on Broadway. This irreverent musical celebrates the idea that if you dream big, big things are going to happen. After all, ?Ever?body wants their life to be a musical.? The cast features Ryan Emmons, Haley Greenstein, Roger Mulligan and Ira Sargent.

The Sixteenth Season of Broadway Onstage Live Theatre, and the Twenty-Ninth Season of Dennis Wickline Productions, opens on Friday, July 24 with a new version of the Renee Taylor/Joseph Bologna comedy Lovers and Other Strangers. Playing Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Select Sundays at 2pm, the hilarious comedy will run through Saturday, August 22.

Cast members from The Strip?s hottest shows, Jersey Boys and Phantom ? The Las Vegas Spectacular, will lend their powerful talents to the worthy 23rd annual ?Ribbon of Life? stage spectacular and fundraiser Sunday, June 28 at the Las Vegas Hilton.

Etta James, who was scheduled to appear on the KCRW World Festival series at the Hollywood Bowl on June 28, 2009, has been forced to cancel due to illness. James is replaced by legendary music icon Chaka Khan. Janelle Monáe opens the show and Adele with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra Strings headlines.