Joanna Pacitti

Tonight, NBC will air its sixth live musical production. Following in the footsteps of The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, The Wiz, Hairspray, and Jesus Christ Superstar, the peacock network will be presenting Annie. Based on Harold Gray's comic strip titled Little Orphan Annie, this musical tells the story of a little orphan with equal measures of pluck and positivity who charms everyone's hearts, despite a next-to-nothing start in New York City in the year 1933.

Next week, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.54Below.com/Feinsteins or call (646) 476-3551.

East Lansing, Mich. -- Dancing Pros: Live! will dance into town and thrill audiences at Wharton Center tonight, November 15 at 8:00 p.m. as part of the Doctors Company Variety at Wharton Center Series. , star of the hit TV show “Growing Pains,” and featuring and from “Dancing with the Stars,” and Ryan Di Lello, from “So You Think You Can Dance,” the best dancers from around the world will thrill and dazzle audiences coast to coast!

Dancing Pros: Live!is thrilled to announce its 2014-2015 national tour. Hosted by Alan Thicke, star of the hit TV show 'Growing Pains,' and featuring Karina Smirnoff, Edyta Sliwinska and Chelsie Hightower from 'Dancing with the Stars,'and Benji Schwimmer and Ryan Di Lello, from 'So You Think You Can Dance,' the best dancers from around the world will thrill and dazzle audiences coast to coast!

Broadway In Chicago has announced WGN-TV anchor, Dina Bair, as a celebrity guest judge for Dancing Pros: Live! which will have its tour launch at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 West Randolph) on Saturday, November 1 and Sunday, November 2, 2014. Hosted by Alan Thicke, star of the hit TV show "Growing Pains," and featuring Edyta Sliwinska and Chelsie Hightower from "Dancing with the Stars," and Ryan Di Lello, from "So You Think You Can Dance," the best dancers from around the world will thrill and dazzle audiences.

Dancing Pros: Live! will dance into Jacksonville's Times-Union Center's Moran Theater on Sunday, February 22, 2015 at 7:00PM! Starring Karina Smirnoff as the Head Judge, and featuring Edyta Sliwinska and Chelsie Hightower from 'Dancing with the Stars,' the best dancers from around the world will thrill and dazzle audiences coast to coast! Dancing Pros Live! is hosted by Alan Thicke, star of the hit TV show 'Growing Pains.'

East Lansing, Mich. -- Dancing Pros: Live! will dance into town and thrill audiences at Wharton Center on Saturday, November 15 at 8:00 p.m. as part of the Doctors Company Variety at Wharton Center Series. , star of the hit TV show “Growing Pains,” and featuring and from “Dancing with the Stars,” and Ryan Di Lello, from “So You Think You Can Dance,” the best dancers from around the world will thrill and dazzle audiences coast to coast!

Dancing Pros: Live!is thrilled to announce its 2014-2015 national tour. Hosted by Alan Thicke, star of the hit TV show 'Growing Pains,' and featuring Karina Smirnoff, Edyta Sliwinska and Chelsie Hightower from 'Dancing with the Stars,'and Benji Schwimmer and Ryan Di Lello, from 'So You Think You Can Dance,' the best dancers from around the world will thrill and dazzle audiences coast to coast!

Dancing Pros: Live!is thrilled to announce its 2014-2015 national tour. Hosted by Alan Thicke, star of the hit TV show 'Growing Pains,' and featuring Karina Smirnoff, Edyta Sliwinska and Chelsie Hightower from 'Dancing with the Stars,'and Benji Schwimmer and Ryan Di Lello, from 'So You Think You Can Dance,' the best dancers from around the world will thrill and dazzle audiences coast to coast!

Morris Park Players Community Theatre proudly opens its 10-11 season with the Broadway musical monster-hit Annie, November 5, 6, 12, 19, 20 at 7:30 pm and November 13 and 14 at 2:00 pm at their new home of Thomas Edison High School Auditorium.

Morris Park Players Community Theatre proudly opens its 10-11 season with the Broadway musical monster-hit Annie, November 5, 6, 12, 19, 20 at 7:30 pm and November 13 and 14 at 2:00 pm at their new home of Thomas Edison High School Auditorium.

American Idol host Ryan Seacrest has confirmed reports that contestant Joanna Pacitti was dropped from the competition because she had business relationships with two executives of the show's production company, 19 Entertainment.

She was almost an 'ANNIE' and was hoping to be an 'IDOL', but that all changed with word that Joanna Pacitti let go from the competition. Now the New York Post has discovered a series of sexy bikini shots of the young singer that were taken for a Brazilian bikini line last October.

Fox has not released any more information on why she was deemed ineligible, mearly hours after the reverse was determined on the show. Rumors have swirled for weeks about Pacitti being close friends with some 19 Entertainment (the production company behind Idol) and now TMZ has learned that was the factor of her shocking dismissal for the mega hit show. She was said to have been forced to exit and at first rejected the very notion of quitting sources told TMZ.

However, that's all changed this morning with word that Joanna Pacitti is now OUT of the competition. Pacitti was 'determined to be ineligible to continue in the competition' a statement from the Fox Network said in the early morning hours Thursday. She'll be replaced by Felicia Barton, 26, of Virginia Beach.

She was an 'ANNIE' and he was 'WICKED', but now former theater performers Joanna Pacitti and Adam Lambert are hoping to be 'IDOLS' as they both are among the Top 36 Finalists on Fox's mega hit AMERICAN IDOL. Pacitti, who was hired and then fired from the 20th anniversary production of Annie advanced to the top finalist group on tonight's American Idol, joining her was former Wicked cast member Lambert. Each has been rumored to be 'ones to watch' in this year's Idol challenge.

Joanna Pacitti, who was hired and then fired from the 20th anniversary production of Annie advanced on tonight's American Idol to Hollywood Week after singing the Pat Benatar classic 'We Belong'.

The wait is almost over for the return of television's No. 1 show! Last season's finale boasted a record-breaking nearly 100 million votes cast in the crowning of David Cook as the winner, and now, AMERICAN IDOL is set to return with a two-night, four-hour premiere event featuring extraordinary talent and outrageous new auditions Tuesday, Jan. 13 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) and Wednesday, Jan. 14 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Former 'Almost Annie' singer and actress Joanna Pacitti is rumored to make a showing on the upcoming season.

The New York Post is reporting that 'almost Annie' Joanna Pacitti is getting another shot at fame by joining the upcoming members of American Idol's Hollywood audition ticket holders.

Annie creators Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, as well as former stage orphan Sarah Jessica Parker, are among those appearing in Julie Stevens' new documentary film Life After Tomorrow, which will air on Showtime in December