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Veteran Broadway star Christine Andreas will sing the role of Lilli Vanessi accompanied by the Silicon Valley Symphony for three concerts of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, from October 16-18 at the California Theatre in San Jose. Richard White will sing opposite Andreas, in the role of Fred/Petruchio.

Veteran Broadway star Christine Andreas will sing the role of Lilli Vanessi accompanied by the Silicon Valley Symphony for three concerts of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, from October 16-18 at the California Theatre in San Jose. Richard White will sing opposite Andreas, in the role of Fred/Petruchio.

Additional names have been announced for Chance and Chemistry: A Centennial Celebration of Frank Loesser, a concert to benefit The Actors Fund taking place at the Minskoff Theatre on Monday, October 26, 2009 at 7:30PM.

California Shakespeare Theater, the Bay Area's premier professional theater dedicated to reimagining classic works of world theater, today announced Building for the Future: The Cal Shakes Campaign, a visionary plan to renovate the Bruns Amphitheater and its surrounding campus in the first major upgrade since the company moved to Orinda's Siesta Valley from Berkeley nearly twenty years ago.

Christine Andreas, whose career spans 30 years of Broadway brilliance from Oklahoma, On Your Toes and My Fair Lady to The Scarlet Pimpernel, makes a return visit to the Orange County Performing Arts Center November 12 ? 15 in Samueli Theater. Andreas, accompanied by her husband, composer and pianist Martin Silvestri, will perform her new show Two for the Road, which includes beautiful and distinctive renditions from the American Songbook, Broadway gems and original compositions.

BroadwayWorld.com has received word yesterday evening that 'Frank Wildhorn & Friends' which was scheduled to play a very special series of performances at Las Vegas' Judy Bayley Theater to benefit The Nevada Conservatory Theatre at UNLV had been cancelled.

BroadwayWorld.com has received word that 'Frank Wildhorn & Friends' which was scheduled to play a very special series of performances at Las Vegas' Judy Bayley Theater to benefit The Nevada Conservatory Theatre at UNLV has been cancelled. Performer Linda Eder posted the following update on her official web site, while the other stars have relayed the same news both online and off.

'Frank Wildhorn & Friends' will play a very special series of performances at Las Vegas' Judy Bayley Theater to benefit The Nevada Conservatory Theatre at UNLV. The benefit performances will take place on Friday, September 4th at 8pm, Saturday, September 5th at 8pm and Sunday, September 6th at 7pm.

The first annual Born for Broadway was held Monday, June 22nd at 8:00 p.m. at New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street, New York. Directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, director of the recent 'Ragtime' at the Kennedy Center with musical direction by Larry Yurman ('Grey Gardens'), Born for Broadway was a one-night celebrity cabaret, featuring both established Broadway performers as well as undiscovered talent. Proceeds benefit the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.

The first annual Born for Broadway will be held Monday, June 22nd at 8:00 p.m. at New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street, New York. Directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, currently directing 'Ragtime' at the Kennedy Center with musical direction by Larry Yurman ('Grey Gardens'), Born for Broadway is a one-night celebrity cabaret, featuring both established Tony Award Winning Broadway performers as well as undiscovered talent.

The Actors Fund is pleased to announce that 9 to 5 star Stephanie J. Block will complete the line-up for the all new 'Nothing Like a Dame' benefit concert on Monday, June 15, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues).

The Actors Fund is pleased to announce that Tony Award winner Betty Buckley and Tony Award nominee Andrea McArdle have joined the line-up for the all new 'Nothing Like a Dame' benefit concert on Monday, June 15, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues).

The Actors Fund is pleased to announce that three-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara (South Pacific, The Pajama Game, The Light in the Piazza) has joined the line-up for the all new 'Nothing Like a Dame' benefit concert on Monday, June 15, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues).

The Actors Fund has anounced that Tony Award winners Kristin Chenoweth, Audra McDonald and Bebe Neuwirth will headline the all-new 'Nothing Like a Dame' benefit concert on Monday, June 15, 2009 at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues).

The first annual Born for Broadway will be held Monday, June 22nd at 8:00 p.m. at New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street, New York. Directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, currently directing 'Ragtime' at the Kennedy Center with musical direction by Larry Yurman ('Grey Gardens'), Born for Broadway is a one-night celebrity cabaret, featuring both established Tony Award Winning Broadway performers as well as undiscovered talent.

The Actors Fund is pleased to announce that 9 to 5 star Stephanie J. Block will complete the line-up for the all new 'Nothing Like a Dame' benefit concert on Monday, June 15, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues).

The Actors Fund is pleased to announce that Tony Award winner Betty Buckley and Tony Award nominee Andrea McArdle have joined the line-up for the all new 'Nothing Like a Dame' benefit concert on Monday, June 15, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues).

Chance and Chemistry: A Centennial Celebration of Frank Loesser, a concert to benefit The Actors Fund will take place at a Broadway theatre to be announced on Monday, October 26, 2009. The event will be co-chaired by Jo Sullivan Loesser and Sir Paul McCartney.

Reprise Theatre Company presents Brian Stokes Mitchell Sings Broadway, a program especially created for Reprise. It will have one performance only on Monday, May 11 at 8 pm, at UCLA's Freud Playhouse.

Eric McCormack, Emmy Award winner for 'Will & Grace,' will play El Gallo, Lucas Grabeel from 'High School Musical' will play Matt, and Broadway star and Tony nominee Harry Groener will play Bellomy in 'The Fantasticks,' which concludes the 2008-2009 Reprise Theatre Company at the Freud Playhouse May 5-May 17 (press opening May 6).