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Oak Park Festival Theatre will honor Oak Park & River Forest High School rising senior Alexandria Frisch for her outstanding achievement as a finalist in the English-Speaking Union's prestigious National Shakespeare Competition.
Are You Lonesome Tonight? Well, you won't be if you Make the World Go Away with Tom Tayback and the Daddy O's at Canyon Moon Theatre! The rafters will Shake, Rattle and Roll as the audience goes Crazy listening to the Golden Oldies of the 50's and 60's come alive!
As the world commemorates the tenth year anniversary of 9/11, Baruch Performing Arts Center announces the world premiere of the theatrical production 'A Blue Sky Like No Other', one man's personal first-hand experience of the events that took place at the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, opening on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 7pm, followed by a reception for the audience, running through Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 3pm & 7pm.
The Pasadena Playhouse (Sheldon Epps, Artistic Director and Stephen Eich, Executive Director) announced that full casting is complete for the premiere production of the new musical SOUTH STREET by Richard Addrisi (music and lyrics; co-writer of 'Never My Love' BMI #2-ranked Song of the Century) and Craig Carlisle (book; Bob Funk, Best New Play Ovation Award-nominee).
The hills will be alive in Thousand Oaks as Cabrillo Music Theatre proudly announces its brand-new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's THE SOUND OF MUSIC. THE SOUND OF MUSIC clsoes Sunday, July 31st, at the 1,800-seat Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, located at 2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks.
Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash is set to open August 10th at the Ivoryton Playhouse.
The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to Broadway. A summer theater tour of Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and northern Indiana, plus the Muny in St. Louis and some thoughts upon returning from Toronto.
The Knitting Factory announces the following as its weekly music events for the week of August 4-11:
What happens when you give the gritty and rustic lyrics of Johnny Cash to highly trained, technically proficient, powerful Broadway vocalists? The result is a stunning, moving, uplifting musical that has played to sold-out houses across the country and is opening at the Ivoryton Playhouse on August 10th.
The hills will be alive in Thousand Oaks as Cabrillo Music Theatre proudly announces its brand-new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
Aurora Theatre opens their 16th Sensational Season with A Chorus Line, winner of 9 Tony Awards, including 'Best Musical', the Pulitzer Prize for drama, and the longest-running American Broadway musical ever.
Lyric Theatre is staging Ragtime, the powerful American journey on the Civic Center stage on July 19 through 23. Lyric's new production of Ragtime brings a powerful 35-person cast and 21-person orchestra onto the Civic Center stage!
Advance tickets for the family musical The Giant's Garden at the Toronto Fringe Festivalsold out yesterday after buzz from the opening week began to spread. And now the show will be getting an extra performance on Sunday night as Patron's Pick which honours the most popular shows in the Fringe.
The New Musical Foundation and Off The Leash Productions are proud to announce that David Eric Davis' and Sam Forman's critically-acclaimed F#@KING UP EVERYTHING will premiere as part of the 2011 Capital Fringe Festival.
Here is Rydell High's senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding 'Burger Palace Boys' and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking 'Pink Ladies' in bobby sox and pedal pushers, evoking the look and sound of the 1950s in this rollicking musical.
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LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & UPRIGHT CABARET are thrilled to announce the performers for its fifth and final show of their second season, CALIFORNIA DREAMIN', starring vocal powerhouse JAKE SIMPSON (2x 'Star Search' Grand Champion, Oprah Winfrey Favorite), Broadway sensation JENNIFER LEIGH WARREN (Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Marie Christine, Big River, Regional: Having It All, The Buddy Holly Story, Diamonds Are Forvever, Cinderella - a Modern Musical Extravaganza), JULIE GARNYE, NATHAN SHRAKE and BROOKE TANSLEY, performing the music of The Mamas and The Papas, Linda Ronstadt and The Eagles.
Respect La Diva, conceived and directed by Adrian Grant, the creator of hit international show Thriller Live, will arrive at the Garrick Theatre for a strictly limited run from 7 September until 24 September, with press night on 8 September.
LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & UPRIGHT CABARET are thrilled to announce the performers for its fifth and final show of their second season, CALIFORNIA DREAMIN', starring vocal powerhouse JAKE SIMPSON (2x 'Star Search' Grand Champion, Oprah Winfrey Favorite), Broadway sensation JENNIFER LEIGH WARREN (Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Marie Christine, Big River, Regional: Having It All, The Buddy Holly Story, Diamonds Are Forvever, Cinderella - a Modern Musical Extravaganza), JULIE GARNYE, NATHAN SHRAKE and BROOKE TANSLEY, performing the music of The Mamas and The Papas, Linda Ronstadt and The Eagles.
With a cast of 13 led by some of the biggest names in the Toronto musical theatre scene, The Giant's Garden is sure to have a big impact on this year's Toronto Fringe Festival. The show features music by Dora and Canadian Comedy Award nominee Scott White (Top Gun! The Musical, Sleepless) who also scored the Broadway World Toronto Award winning show Bosco & Jones, and a stellar cast led by Dora Award winning performer Paula Wolfson (Mrs. Potts in Beauty & The Beast, Les Mis, Shaking The Foundations), stage veteran Mark Terene (Pumbaa in the Canadian cast of The Lion King and Cogsworth in Beauty & The Beast) and Michael MacLennan as the Giant (Nine, Oklahoma, Man Of La Mancha).
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