Amanda McBroom News

Applications are being accepted for the 3rd Annual Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project.

LML Music will release 'Hallways, The Songs of Carol Hall' on Tuesday, March 11, 2008. The new CD will be available nationally in stores and online at iTunes and Amazon.com.

The West Bank Café announces our February, 2008 line-up of live entertainment, to be presented in The Laurie Beechman Theatre.

'Perfect Pairings,' the Bay Area Cabaret 2007-2008 Concert Season, features duo performances by top performers and vocalists in a varied season of theatre, jazz, pop and Broadway artists at some of San Francisco's most elegant venues. The season begins on Sunday, November 11 at 7PM, with the Bay Area premiere of Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker's 'Life is a Duet' at the Florence Gould Theatre of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park.

Sibling Entertainment Group Holdings, Inc. announced the critically acclaimed musical Hats! opens at Harrah's Las Vegas on January 12, 2008.

The West Bank Café announces our October, 2007 line-up of live entertainment, to be presented in The Laurie Beechman Theatre.

The West Bank Café announces the September 2007 line-up of live entertainment, to be presented in The Laurie Beechman Theatre.

The American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) at Northwestern University, in association with the Johnny Mercer Foundation, has announced the participants selected to take part in the second Johnny Mercer/Power of the American Popular Song, running from Aug. 12 to 18, on Northwestern's Evanston Campus

The Metropolitan Room, the popular cabaret located at 34 W. 22nd St., has announced a partial July line-up of performers

Continuing its long standing partnership with ASCAP, MAC has announced the next MAC/ASCAP Songwriter's Showcase, Wednesday, June 6th at 6pm at the Laurie Beechman Theater, hosted by Jamie deRoy and featuring special guest, composer and lyricist Carol Hall with singer Laurel Masse and musical director Tex Arnold

Rubicon Theatre Company Founders Karyl Lynn Burns and James O'Neil have just announced plans for the company's 10th Anniversary Season, at a press conference at Rubicon's home in Ventura.

Hats!, a new musical previously seen in Denver and New Orleans, opened at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago on April 29th for a run through June 10th.

Billy Stritch, Kristine Zbornik and Lina Koutrakos are among the winners of the 21st Annual MAC Awards.

The American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) of Northwestern University is searching for talented young song writers and song writing teams (aged 18 to 30) to participate in the free workshops and master classes that are part of the Aug. 12 to 18 program titled 'Power of the American Popular Song.'

Maude Maggart, Billy Stritch, Steven Brinberg and Kristine Zbornik are among the nominees of the 21st Annual MAC Awards.

Rubicon Theatre Company's 10th Anniversary Season has been cloaked in secrecy, with the company planning a private preview event in May to announce next year's offerings. However, earlier this week company officials named two of the productions, which will be a part of the just-announced Southern California Festival of New American Musicals.

Some of musical theatre's most acclaimed voices will take part in the inaugural Festival of New American Musicals, which will take place in Los Angeles in May and June 2008.

Melissa Manchester, one of the composers involved in Hats!, will be featured as a star of the new musical's Chicago premiere.

From January 18 to 21, Broadway star Ken Page is presenting his critically acclaimed 'Page by Page' at the Metropolitan Room

The world premiere production of Hats!, currently a hit in its world premiere at the New Denver Civic Center, will go on hiatus for a few months. During that time, a production of the musical will be staged in New Orleans