Dorothy Loudon News

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WHO: The National Touring Company WHAT: Annie WHEN: Through March 25; Weds - Sat at 8PM, Sat at 2PM, Sun at 1PM and 6:30PM WHERE: Hippodrome Theatre, Baltimore HOW MUCH: $25.00 - $65.00 + fees

Win one of five pairs of tickets to Annie's opening night at the Hippodrome, Tuesday, March 20th!

Masterworks Broadway, a label born out of the SONY/BMG merger, has gathered together collection of these 'sleeper' hits sung by some of the theater's most talented performers in its new release, 'Broadway Scene Stealers,' featuring songs sung by supporting characters in musicals.

Andrea McArdle, Bill Berloni, and Shelley Bruce - who were among the original cast members of Annie - are hoping to contact alumni from the original Broadway run of the classic 1977 musical to stage an Annie reunion.

Complete scheduling information has been announced for the New York Musical Theatre Festival

Some of the most acclaimed talents in the cabaret and musical theatre worlds--including Andrea Marcovicci, Karen Mason, Ann Hampton Callaway and Julie Wilson--will gather for 17th Annual New York Cabaret Convention, which will take place at the Frederick P. Rose Hall's Rose Theater of Lincoln Center from October 16th through 20th

Chita Rivera, Zoe Caldwell and Susan Stroman will be among the presenters of the Theater Hall of Fame induction ceremony on January 30th

John Lithgow, Sir Peter Hall, Sada Thompson, William Ivey Long, Graciela Daniele, William Gibson and the late Dorothy Loudon and Ben Edwards are the 2005 inductees of the Theater Hall of Fame

Alene Robertson, Mackenzie Phillips and erstwhile Daddy Warbucks Conrad John Schuck have been cast in the new tour of Annie, which will kick off in Seattle on August 21st