Busby Berkeley News

A tour of the Broadway hit 42nd Street will shuffle into China for engagements in seven Chinese cities.

Rosie O'Donnell will play Pauline, 'the tart-tongued, wisecracking maid' in Encores!' upcoming production of the classic 1925 musical No, No Nanette, while Tony Award-winner Christine Ebersole will take on the role of stage diva Margo Channing in Applause, the 1970 Charles Strouse-Lee Adams musical based on All About Eve.

Laura Ainsworth shines with perceptive lyrics and wonderful stage presence in her solo show, My Ship Has Sailed.

The American Music Theatre Project (AMTP) at Northwestern University, in association with the Johnny Mercer Foundation, has announced that Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated lyricist David Zippel will serve as one of the 'master teachers' for 'The Power of the American Popular Song' festival that will be held on the Evanston campus Aug. 7 through 12

A new production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, updated to the 1930s, will be seen at the English National Opera for 12 performances from February 3rd through March 3rd

Mary Cleere Haran will perform Lullaby of Broadway: The Harry Warren Songbook at Feinstein's at the Regency from October 25th through November 5th

Michael Feinstein and George Shearing have teamed up for Hopeless Romantics, a new CD celebrating the songs of Harry Warren that will be released on September 27th

LESTAT stars Hugh Panaro in the title role, Carolee Carmello as Gabrielle, Jack Noseworthy as Armand, Jim Stanek as Louis, Roderick Hill as Nicolas, Michael Genet as Marius and Allison Fischer as Claudia.

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

Rebecca Luker will star in No, No, Nanette! at Massachusetts' Cape Playhouse Theatre from July 18th-30th

Rhode Island's Trinity Rep launches world premiere of Charles Strouse's bubbly new concoction in grand style.

Starless PRODUCERS Still Twinkles and Shines

Maude Maggart will launch a weekly series, 'Mondays with Maude,' in the Algonquin's Oak Room March 7th, beginning with a reprise of her critically acclaimed cabaret show, 'The Talk of the Town: The Music of 1933.'

Perhaps it's the weather, or that we're so close to Disney, where Matthew Bourne is adapting 'The Little Mermaid' for the Broadway stage, but once again California is going to be home to the US Premiere of the latest Matthew Bourne production!