Betty Comden News

You never know who will show up at Jim Caruso's Cast Party! Last week, Amanda McBroom, Jamie DeRoy, Michael Feinstein, Erich Bergen, Devon May, and others were there.

Kathleen Turner ('The Graduate,' '...Virginia Woolf') and Robert Cuccioli ('Jekyll & Hyde') have just been added to the roster of stars appearing in ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, presented by The Actors' Fund of America as its Fifth Annual Broadway Benefit Concert.

The Actors' Fund of America presents ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, The Fifth Annual Benefit Concert on Monday, September 26 at 7:30pm at The New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City

A pre-sale will be held from August 29th through September 10th for tickets for Peter Pan at Madison Square Garden; starring Cathy Rigby, the show will run through the holiday season

Harriet Harris, Kate Levering and David Elder have been cast in the Reprise! concert production of On the Town, which will run from September 20th through October 1st

The sassy new musical Fleet Week, premiering at the Fringe, takes the basic premise of the Comden and Green classic and kicks it into the 21st century.

An 'open rehearsal' for the upcoming Actors' Fund benefit concert of On the Twentieth Century will be featured in the next Broadway in Bryant Park concert on August 18th, as will performances from Lennon, The Lion King and All Shook Up

What a Glorious Feeling, a new play-with-music about the strained relationship between Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen during the making of Singin' in the Rain, will run at Michigan's Mason Street Warehouse from August 24th through September 11th with Contact stars in the cast

Marin Mazzie and Douglas Sills have been cast as the bickering leads of On the Twentieth Century in an Actors' Fund of America benefit concert that will be held at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Sept. 26

The Actors' Fund's Auction of 1000 Stars 2005 will end on August 1st, but tickets for a number of benefit performances can still be ordered after

The Actors' Fund's Auction of 1000 Stars 2005 has started, and a number of benefit performances are still lined up for the rest of the summer, as well

Jim Caruso's Cast Party, with Caruso, Karen Mason, Johnny Rodgers and more in tow, will go on the road to play the Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY on July 23rd

The Actors' Fund will present a number of benefit performances in addition to its Auction of 1000 Stars from July to September

The show will be presented on September 26th at 7:30 pm.

Last week Larry O'Keefe, Julie Garnye, David Zippel, Nell Benjamin and the cast of ALTAR BOYZ were in attendace.

The cast of Altar Boyz will treat revelers at Jim Caruso's Cast Party to performances on June 20th

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee's Jesse Tyler Ferguson discusses William Finn and Michael John LaChiusa, both of whom will be celebrated in his upcoming show Adios Pantalones!

The English National Opera's production of On the Town has become the highest-grossing production in the company's history

On Monday, June 6, 2005, The York Theatre Company will present the international stage and film designer Tony Walton with the fifteenth Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre at its annual spring benefit at Broadway's Hudson Theatre, 145 West 44th Street.

Over 100 hours of interviews with Broadway legends have been donated to the New York Library of Performing Arts' TOFT Collection