Barry Manilow News

On Twitter Watch, Matt_Morrison wrote 'Matt_Morrison rehearsing with @kchenoweth for the performance tonight http://twitpic.com/3yrop8 3 minutes ago Matt_Morrison Honored to be performing tonight at the MusiCares Person of the Year tribute to Barbra Streisand 5 hours ago '

Tonight at MusiCares, BroadwayWorld.com learned the set list for tonight's event. We've learned that tonight's MusiCares event is breaking all records with tonight's tribute to the 2011 Person of the Year - Barbra Streisand. All this week, some of the most talented and awesome musicians, actors and singers have been coming and going to the convention center in downtown Los Angeles, right next door to the Staples Center where the Grammys will be on Sunday evening.

Clive Davis and The Recording Academy will continue the tradition of the annual Pre-GRAMMYGala, and this year's event will take place on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., the evening before the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards.

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The legendary Barbra Streisand will be honored by the Recording Academy as the MusiCares Person of the Year. She will be acknowledged for her achievements at a February 11 dinner and concert, which is to feature performances by Kristin Chenoweth, Tony Bennett, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Barry Manilow, Diana Krall, and more. Also set for appearances are GLEE cast members Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison and Darren Criss.

Join celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy as she marks the culmination of the 20th Anniversary Season of her Multi MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie deRoy & friends, with a very special evening on Sunday, April 17th (8:30PM) at the legendary cabaret hot-spot Feinstein's at Loews Regency (540 Park Avenue @ 61st Street).

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!! Catalina Bar & Grill will present a performance of the critically acclaimed CD of romantic ballads, "CORKY HALE…AND FRIENDS - I'M GLAD THERE IS YOU," featuring Corky Hale, Jazz pianist, harpist and singer with her friends, singers Sally Kellerman, Ariana Savalas, Tricia Tahara and Brenna Whitaker for One Night Only!!!

Entertainment Tonight is reporting that Barbra Streisand will perform at this year's Grammy Awards, alongside other big acts including Mick Jagger and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Grammys will air on Sunday, February 13th on CBS.

Combined Artform has announced the world premiere of Blink & You Might Miss Me, written and performed by Larry Blum and directed by Stan Zimmerman, at the Asylum Lab in Hollywood. There will be two preview performances on January 6 and 7, with opening night set for Saturday, January 8 at 8:00. The limited engagement will run through February 6 only.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director), in association with Tracy Aron, announces additional casting for the new Broadway musical THE PEOPLE IN THE PICUTRE, starring two time Tony® Award-winner Donna Murphy, directed by Leonard Foglia. THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURE features book & lyrics by Iris Rainer Dart and music by Mike Stoller and Artie Butler.

Reprise Theatre Company presents Barbara Cook in Concert. It will have one performance only on Monday, May 16 at 8:00 pm, at UCLA's Freud Playhouse. Barbara Cook in Concert is the latest in Reprise Theatre Company's tradition of presenting Broadway stars and legendary entertainers in concert, which have included Patti LuPone, Carol Burnett, Sutton Foster, Ben Vereen, Kristin Chenoweth, and Brian Stokes Mitchell.

In this week's PEOPLE Magazine, February 7, 2011 issue, Lea Michele writes 'Why I Love Barbra' and says that, 'I grew up in this typical New Jersey town where everyone looked the same. If you didn't have a nose job, you were about to. Agents and casting directors told me to get one, but my mother said, ‘Barbra Streisand never did- and neither are you.'

It's Monday Night Mayhem…..it's NOT that 'IDOLS' show! COMING TO ON BROADWAY, MONDAY NIGHTS, FEBRUARY 2011

Virginia's Tony Award®-winning Signature Theatre has announced the artistic team behind the upcoming world premiere of the musical comedy And the Curtain Rises (formerly known as Wheatley's Folly), which begins performances on Thursday, March 17, 2011. And the Curtain Rises marks the third production presented as part of Signature's groundbreaking American Musical Voices Project, the largest commissioning program for new musicals in the country, following Michael John LaChiusa's Giant in 2009 and Ricky Ian Gordon's Sycamore Trees last year.

Reprise Theatre Company presents Barry Manilow in Concert for one performance only on Tuesday, March 22 at 8:00 pm, at UCLA's Royce Hall. This special event is presented by Reprise Theatre Company as its Annual Gala Performance. Ticket sales from Barry Manilow in Concert support Reprise's mission to produce musical theatre of the highest artistic quality and to make this art form accessible to new audiences through education and outreach programs.

The votes have all been counted and audited and we're VERY excited to announce the results of the first ever BroadwayWorld.com Las Vegas Awards! Tens of thousands of votes were cast during six weeks of intensive voting on nearly 250 nominees in 25 categories. Thank you to all who voted and congratulations to all the winners!

Jarrod Spector, who currently stars as Frankie Valli in the Tony, Olivier & Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, JERSEY BOYS, will take his own concert entitled MINOR FALL, MAJOR LIFT to Feinstein's at Loews Regency (540 Park Avenue at 61st Street) on Monday, January 10, Monday, January 31 & Monday, February 7 with all performances at 8:30 p.m.

According to Barbra Streisand's official website, fans have a chance to win two tickets to MusiCares Evening/Concert where Barbra will be honored as Person of the Year. The event will be held on February 11 in Los Angeles.

Clive Davis and The Recording Academy will continue the tradition of the annual Pre-GRAMMYGala, and this year's event will take place on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., the evening before the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards.

It's Monday Night Mayhem…..it's NOT that 'IDOLS' show! COMING TO ON BROADWAY, MONDAY NIGHTS, FEBRUARY 2011