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'That's So Raven' star Anneliese van der Pol will be Broadway's final Belle in Beauty and the Beast, which is set to close at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on July 29th.

BroadwayWorld presents the fifth in an eight-part preview series leading up to the 10th Annual Broadway Bears auction, presented by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

The cast recording of John Doyle's Broadway revival of Company will be released by Nonesuch and PS Classics on February 13th.

After enchanting audiences for more than 13 years, Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the inaugural Broadway musical from Disney Theatrical Productions, will take its final bow at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street) on Sunday, July 29th. The Broadway production will have played 46 previews and 5,464 regular performances.

With its sharp wit, incisive lyrics and music that's ferociously insistent when not rapturously melodic, Company is such a well-written show that, with the help Raul Esparza's spot on starring performance, it can still pack a wallop despite director John Doyle's interpretation that regularly threatens to suck the life out of it.

Complete casting has been announced for the starry upcoming Los Angeles Opera production of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, starring the previously announced Tony Award-winners Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald

A star-studded after-party celebrated the Broadway revival of Company, which opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on November 29th

The new revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's classic musical Company opened on Broadway on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 W. 47th Street), and BroadwayWorld was there!

Annie Golden and Eartha Kitt lead a solid cast of musical theatre performers in a tepid musical that would aspire to be bland

The Stephen Sondheim / George Furth musical Company will open on Broadway on Wednesday, November 29, 2006, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre

The new A.R. Gurney play Indian Blood, presented by Primary Stages, opened at 59E59 Theaters on August 9th after beginning previews on July 25th

Tony Award-winner John Doyle's acclaimed Cincinnati Playhouse production of Company--which will transfer to Broadway this fall--has been nominated for nine Cincinatti Entertainment Award

The cast & crew of Indian Blood, opening Off-Broadway on August 9th, took part in a meet & greet on June 27th

Opening the 22nd season at Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director) is the world premiere of the new play Indian Blood by A.R. Gurney.

Variety reports that John Doyle's staging of Company, recently a hit at the Cincinnati Playhouse, will play the Barrymore Theatre when it opens this November.

John Doyle is nominated for Best Director of a Musical for his work on Sweeney Todd. He tells BroadwayWorld about that show, Company, and his next dream Sondheim show to work on.

Variety reports that the Routh/Frankel/Viertel/Baruch Group has won what the NY Post first called a 'bidding war' to bring the Cincinatti production of Company to Broadway.

According to The New York Post's Michael Riedel, producers are bidding for the rights to produce John Doyle's critically acclaimed Cincinatti production of Company, starring Raul Esparza, in New York during the 2006-2007 season

One of ABC Daytime's most popular stars, Jacob Young ('JR Chandler' on ABC's 'All My Children') will be making his Broadway debut as Lumiere in Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. He will begin performances on Tuesday, May 9th at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (205 West 46th Street) for a limited 10-week engagement.

Company, directed by John Doyle, premieres at Cincinnati's Playhouse today, with Raul Esparza and Barbara Walsh.