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HAIR star Ace Young will sit down with Seth Rudetsky on April 22nd to chat with him on his weekly live talk show Seth's Broadway Chatterbox.

This morning, The New Victory Theater learned that the 12-member cast and crew for Elephant, by Dodgy Clutch (UK) and The Market Theatre (South Africa), are able to fly from the UK to New York this Friday, which means that public performances on Saturday, April 24 and Sunday, April 25 are no longer cancelled. Elephant is now scheduled to open on April 24 and run through May 2.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, GLEE's highly anticipated Power of Madonna episode brought in big ratings for Fox with 13.5 million viewers tuning in.

Seth Rudetsky will return with his show Seth Deconstructs: The Good, The Bad and The Headachy on April 26th at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) at 7pm. Tickets are only $75!

Tony Award-nominee and current star of ROCK OF AGES Constantine Maroulis is set to perform a solo concert at the Highline Ballroom this June.

International dance hit BURN THE FLOOR is set to take the West End stage this summer after an extended Broadway run last year. Brian Fortuna and Ali Bastian of the UK's Strictly Come Dancing will be featured in the West End production of the show, which will run from July 21st through September 4th.

Grammy nominated musician Lisa Loeb's musical Camp Kappawanna is set to make it's world premiere this summer at Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami, Florida from June 17th through the 27th. After the musical's engagement in Miami, it will play at the Epstein Center for the Arts at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida from July 1st through the 3rd.

Seems like the cast of GLEE can add one more excited party to the 'Madonna' episode airing tomorrow, April 20 at 9:00pm on FOX, and that is the Queen of Pop herself. Says Madonna of the cast: 'The entire cast was amazing. They're all so talented. I especially loved Sue Sylvester and Kurt Hummel's characters.'

The Boston Globe recently talked to Tony Award-winner Mel Brooks about directing, his legendary career and his unique creatives process. Brooks' musical YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is set to play at the Boston Opera House beginning this Tuesday for a two-week engagement.

For the seventh consecutive season, terraNOVA Collective presents its annual celebration of solo performers with the soloNOVA Arts Festival. The soloNOVA Arts Festival is the longest running festival for solo performers in New York City which celebrates innovative individuals who push the boundaries of what it means to be an artist, aims to redefine the solo form and uniquely invigorates the audience through the time-honored tradition of storytelling. soloNOVA has previously been home to such diverse artists as Taylor Mac (The Be[a]st of Taylor Mac), Kim Wayans (A Handsome Woman Retreats), Roger Bonair-Agard (Masquerade: calypso and home), Madi Disefano (Popsicle's Departure 1989), Julia May Jonas (Take Heart), Kate McGovern (Dreaming of Kitchens) Jeff Grow (Creating Illusion), Red Bastard (Red Bastard is a Star), and Mike Daisey (2009 soloNOVA Artist of the Year). This year, eight performers will round out the mainstage offerings with comedy, dance theatre, storytelling, music, multi-character thrillers, musical comedies, and bilingual cabaret.

Feinstein's at Loews Regency, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, will continue its all-star Spring 2010 season with the debut of Tony Award nominated Broadway star Kerry Butler for one night only on April 19. For her show at Feinstein's she'll be singing selections from 'Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust' her debut CD of Disney classics and rarities, along with songs from shows she's done throughout the years. The show, which is directed by Scott Wittman with Musical Direction by Michael Kosarin, runs at the Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue at 61st Street).

Join the students from Ball State University's Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry as they present a concert reading of their original musical, 'The Circus in Winter', inspired by Cathy Day's novel of the same title. The story follows Wallace Porter, a young and country-raised stable owner as he acquires a disheveled circus and menagerie. Set while the circus is winter-quartered in Lima, Indiana, Porter and company consider notions of risk, redemption and rebirth through relationships as graceful and perilous as an acrobat's high-flying routine.

In a 19th-century London marked by the grime of early industrialization, the workhouse orphans devour their meager dinner of gruel. Then one small boy holds out his empty bowl and requests the unthinkable: 'Please sir, I want some more!' So begins OLIVER!, one of the best loved family musicals of all time.

A concert version of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's Once On This Island will hit the stage on May 16th at 7:30pm at the York Theatre. The concert will be performed in connection with Asian Heritage Month and will be directed by original cast member Gerry McIntyre. Randy Redd will serve as musical director.

The international stage, film and television star Mike Burstyn has just been cast to play the title role in the world premiere of a new musical, 'The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer,' which the Drama Desk Award-winning National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene presents this spring beginning May 25.

Pulitzer Prize-nominee Rajiv Joseph's latest work, The Medusa Body, will be produced by the Alley Thetare as part of its 2010-2011 season.

The cast of THE ADDAMS FAMILY is set to head into the studio on April 19th to record the show's previously announced cast recording produced by Decca Broadway. The cast recording is set to be released this June.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC is set to play the Sioux Empire Community Theatre beginning April 30th. Performances are scheduled for April 30th through May 2nd, May 7-9th and May 14-16th.

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC STAR and Academy Award-winner Catherine Zeta-Jones will appear on the cover of next month's Allure magazine, which hits newsstands April 20th.

Seth Rudetsky is set to welcome Mary Catherine Garrison and Jay Klaitz, current stars of the Broadway revival LEND ME A TENOR, on the April 15th edition of Seth's Broadway Chatterbox.