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'Something that has not been said about the moon?' replied Spanish writer Ramon Gomez de la Serna. 'That it gives manicures to women sleepwalkers.'

'Something that has not been said about the moon?' replied Spanish writer Ramon Gomez de la Serna. 'That it gives manicures to women sleepwalkers.'

'In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams,' a documentary film telling Behind-The-Scenes Story of the 2008 Tony Award-Winning Musical, premieres on THIRTEEN's Great Performances, May 27 on PBS

On Wednesday, May 27th at 8pm (check local listings for details), Great Performances on PBS presents a dazzling documentary 'In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams'. This special will go down as the greatest commercial of all time for a Broadway musical, that took an enormous risk, moving from Off-Broadway to Broadway and running off with the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical.

Idina Menzel's official website is announcing that the upcoming Chess in Concert cd is now available in a limited edition for pre-order on-line.

In The Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams, a documentary film telling Behind-The-Scenes Story of the 2008 Tony Award-Winning Musical, premieres on THIRTEEN's Great Performances, May 27 on PBS.

Great Performances: In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams chronicles the personal stories of composer/lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of In the Heights in the months leading up to opening night. The program's broadcast premiere is Wednesday, May 27 at 8 p.m. (ET) on THIRTEEN's Great Performances on PBS HD (check local listings). Great Performances is a production of THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG - one of America's most prolific and respected public media providers.

Great Performances: In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams chronicles the personal stories of composer/lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of In the Heights in the months leading up to opening night. The program's broadcast premiere is Wednesday, May 27 at 8 p.m. (ET) on THIRTEEN's Great Performances on PBS HD (check local listings). Great Performances is a production of THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG - one of America's most prolific and respected public media providers.

Royal Albert Hall's CHESS IN CONCERT, originally presented May 12-13 2008 is set to air on PBS stations this June.

'In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams,' a documentary film telling Behind-The-Scenes Story of the 2008 Tony Award-Winning Musical, premieres on THIRTEEN's Great Performances, May 27 on PBS

WNET.ORG, New York's public media provider, teams up with leading American composer John Williams to score new theme music for THIRTEEN's award-winning performing arts series Great Performances.

Air dates have not yet been set, but Wicked's Idina Menzel and Rent's Adam Pascal will join Great Performances favorite Josh Groban in a spectacular London concert revival of Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus' 1986 cult musical Chess, this summer on Great Performances (check local listings). Presented by THIRTEEN in 5.1 digital surround sound on PBS HD, and featuring diamond-sharp lyrics by Tim Rice (Evita, The Lion King), the hit-filled production ('One Night in Bangkok,' 'I Know Him So Well,' 'The Anthem') was recorded in performance at Royal Albert Hall. 'A fantastic night' proclaimed musiccomh.com, while thestage.co asked 'Is there an original pop musical stuffed with better melodies?' neatly echoing Time's initial 1988 assessment: 'One of the best rock scores ever produced.' Adding to the excitement is the 50-piece City of London Philharmonic, led by David Firman, and the 100-voice West End Chorus.

Yahoo News reports that stage and screen star Ian McKellen is fine that his full-frontal nude scene as King Lear is missing from an upcoming public TV version. On stage the actor let it all hang out and them some in his portrayal of Shakespeare's mad king.

Yale Repertory Theater (James Bundy, Artistic Director; Victoria Nolan, Managing Director) will present a reading of the 2008 winner of the Yale Drama Series, 'Grenadine' by Neil Wechsler, directed by Yale Rep Resident Director Evan Yionoulis, on Monday, September 15 at 7:30PM at the New Theater, located at 1156 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut. The cast features Brennan Brown, MacIntyre Dixon, Adam LeFevre, David Matranga, Anne O'Sullivan, Michael Rudko, William Youmans, and Marnye Young.

Yale Repertory Theatre will present a staged reading of John Austin Connolly's The Boys from Siam, directed by Liz Diamond, on Monday, October 1 at 7:30 PM. The reading will take place in the New Theater, located at 1156 Chapel Street in New Haven. Admission is free.

PBS announced today the start of production on MAKE 'EM LAUGH: THE FUNNY BUSINESS OF AMERICA, a new historical documentary series chronicling more than a century of American comedy, produced by Thirteen/WNET New York and Ghost Light Films.