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BROADWAY THEATRE PROJECT ANNOUNCES REVISED COMPREHENSIVE SUMMER MUSICAL THEATRE ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAM--Creates New Festival to Include Students Parents; Underscores Commitment to the Tampa Theatre Arts Community--Debra McWaters' New Book - Musical Theatre Training: The Broadway Theatre Project Handbook - Available from Major Booksellers Worldwide--

Broadway Theatre Project announces comprehensive summer musical theatre arts education program. Creates New Festival to Include Students Parents; Underscores Commitment to the Theatre Arts Community

Angelo Del Rossi, who helmed the famed Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn , New Jersey for forty years and launched the careers of many performers such as Kristin Chenoweth, Anne Hathaway and Laura Benanti, will be honored at Sardi's Thursday, July 16.

The festival will include performances by the faculty and students, as well as seminars by faculty members including Jed Bernstein and Dave Clemmons. Workshops taking place during the project will also be featured including directors such as Frank Wildhorn, David Loud and Christopher D'Amboise.

BROADWAY THEATRE PROJECT ANNOUNCES REVISED COMPREHENSIVE SUMMER MUSICAL THEATRE ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAM--Creates New Festival to Include Students Parents; Underscores Commitment to the Tampa Theatre Arts Community--Debra McWaters' New Book - Musical Theatre Training: The Broadway Theatre Project Handbook - Available from Major Booksellers Worldwide--

'HAIR Week' On Broadway's exclusive look into the revival of HAIR, in celebration of the release of Ghostlight Records' New Broadway Cast Recording (in stores June 23), will also include special guest DJ sessions with members of the 'tribe.' Beginning Monday, June 22 through Friday, June 26 at 9:00 am and 9:00 pm ET, the 'tribe' members will play music from the new cast album and share stories about what goes on behind the scenes at the Hirschfeld Theatre.

HAIR's Michael James Scott love for fashion has been in his life for a very long time. 'Style' and 'Fashion' isn't the first thing that might come to peoples minds when they think about theatre, but the talented actor is on a mission to change that and bring it to the forefront.

Tony Award nominee Gavin Creel (Thoroughly Modern Millie, La Cage aux Folles) with cast members Sasha Allen, Ato Blankson-Wood, Allison Case, Kaitlin Kiyan, Caissie Levy, Nicole Lewis, and Megan Reinking.

Jamie McGonnigal and Joe's Pub present Come To My Garden: The Music of Lucy Simon. The concert will feature the music of the incredible Broadway composer, Lucy Simon. Lucy, who is taking part in the event, is a two-time Grammy Award Winner who brought us one of the best-loved musicals of all time, The Secret Garden.

Tony Award winner Lea Salonga (Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, Flower Drum Song) and Anika Larsen (Xanadu, All Shook Up, Avenue Q)

Lynda Carter, best known for her starring role as TV's 'Wonder Woman' celebrated the release of her new CD, 'At Last' at the Lincoln Triangle Barnes & Noble store on Tuesday June 9th.

HAIR's Michael James Scott's love for fashion has been in his life for a very long time. 'Style' and 'Fashion' isn't the first thing that might come to peoples minds when they think about theatre, but the talented actor is on a mission to change that and bring it to the forefront.

SIRIUS XM Radio's On Broadway channel will feature extensive Tony Awards programming now through the 63rd annual ceremony on Sunday, June 7. Listeners will hear a special live Tony Awards broadcast hosted by SIRIUS XM hosts Seth Rudetsky and Julie James. In addition to play-by-play commentary and music from the award-winning shows, the special will include exclusive comments from Sir Elton John, composer of the music of Billy Elliot The Musical, which received fifteen nominations, in addition to the premiere of a performance of ?Electricity? by Sir Elton John himself.

The smash hit Off-Broadway musical,' Dames at Sea opens the Saint Michael's Playhouse summer 2009 season Tuesday, June 16, and runs through June 27, starring Broadway musical talent top to bottom. Tickets for the show are discounted 20% through the run of the show if bought as part of a four-play season subscription. Performances of 'Dames' are Tuesday, June 16 through Saturday, June 20, at 8 p.m. each evening and Saturday, June 20, and Saturday, June 27, at 2 p.m., on the stage of the McCarthy Arts Center on the campus of Saint Michael's College.

On Monday, July 27th at 9:00pm Sundance Channel presents Hair: Let the Sunshine In (U.S. Television Premiere) - Directed by Pola Rapaport. This richly illustrated history of 'Hair' examines the origins, impact and enduring power of the 'tribal love-rock musical' that opened off-Broadway in 1967 and moved to Broadway in 1968.

Tony Award winner Lea Salonga (Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, Flower Drum Song) and Anika Larsen (Xanadu, All Shook Up, Avenue Q)

HAIR's Michael James Scott love for fashion has been in his life for a very long time. 'Style' and 'Fashion' isn't the first thing that might come to peoples minds when they think about theatre, but the talented actor is on a mission to change that and bring it to the forefront.

Broadway veteran Robin Lewis will join recently announced faculty hires Kailtin Hopkins and Jim Price in the Musical Theatre Program at Texas State University.

Hunter Foster and Titus Burgess will join SIRIUS XM Radio host Seth Rudetsky for SIRIUS XM Live on Broadway, an exclusive SIRIUS XM musical series that invites Broadway artists to perform live and speak candidly with fans.

Karen Mason, Broadway star of Sunset Boulevard, Mama Mia, and recently Hairspray, will be heading to Queens this summer to teach students in a new Cabaret Workshop for teens produced by the Theatre Arts Center in Bayside. Ms. Mason will join other professionals such as, Angelo Fraboni from Jerome Robbins Broadway, Robbie Roby from Hairspray, Jim Osorno from Rocky Horror, Penny Aynn Maas from Cabaret, Carlos L. Encinias from Altar Boyz, and Connor Gallagher from Beauty & the Beast who teach and choreograph for the Theatre Arts Center's Summer Workshops & Camp.