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Propelled by the success of his recent music video, Pop With Soul Sensation Jaysin Voxx is up for another film festival award and is recording with a new music team.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? This weekend's big news: The NY Pops launches its 2015-16 season with two stage greats, COMEDY OF ERRORS goes on tour and KING CHARLES III arrives in New York!

With his well-received 2013 debut 'Completely,' keyboardist/composer Michael Gallant emerged as a stylistically omnivorous musical force, 'an artist unafraid and bending the tradition,' in the words of one critic. Gallant continues to explore his disruptive musical proclivities on his sophomore release, 'Live Plus One,' due out today, October 9, from his Gallant Music label.

Rydell High just gained another student! Deadline writes that Elle McLemore, star of off-Broadway's HEATHERS THE MUSICAL and Broadway's BRING IT ON, has just been tapped to play 'Patty Simcox' in Fox's GREASE: LIVE. 

Songwriting team Matte O'Brien and Matt Vinson made their 54 Below debut on September 27th with 'There's Something There: The Music of Matt and Matte'. Top Broadway vocalists accompanied by a power ensemble and live folk-rock band made this a sonic experience not to be missed. Click below to watch several performances from the show, featuring songs from CAKE, ANNE OF GREEN GABLES and PETER & I!

International distributor eOne has released the international trailer for TRUMBO, an upcoming biopic starring 'Breaking Bad's' Bryan Cranston

Carole Shorenstein Hays announced today that author and publishing world legend Kevin Sessums has been named Editor-at-Large of the Curran theatre.  His responsibilities will include managing and overseeing all editorial content for the "Curran: Under Construction" programs, as well as curating and hosting an occasional on-stage series of conversation and performance featuring today's most compelling thought leaders and artists, called Groundbreakers with Kevin Sessums.  

Carole Shorenstein Hays announced today that for the inaugural installment of Groundbreakers, the Curran's Editor-at-Large Kevin Sessums will sit down with Broadway's most notorious commentator, the New York Post's Michael Riedel, to discuss the state of the theater and his new book, Razzle Dazzle: The Battle For Broadway.  This event, taking place on stage at the Curran (445 Geary Street) at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, October 19, is free.

A few years ago, her Elle in the national tour of Legally Blonde earned her a Helen Hayes nomination. Now, Becky Gulsvig is back in DC singing some more familiar tunes in BEAUTIFUL: The Carole King Musical.

VH1 will bring its entire 2015 You Oughta Know class of artists together on one stage for an unforgettable night of music with 'VH1 Best Music of 2015: You Oughta Know' event live from The Armory Foundation in New York

Due to tropical storm Joachim, En Garde Arts has postponed BOSSS, its new site-specific outdoor performance festival featuring new works by some of the New York City's most promising emerging theatre artists, to October 23-25 throughout Hudson River Park. The opening night party at The Frying Pan will now take place on October 23 at 7pm.

EUNOIA, Denise Fujiwara's inventive adaptation of Christian Bök's award-winning poem of the same name, returns to Toronto for five performances as part of a national tour across Canada. Praised by audiences and critics, EUNOIA is a multimedia experience that weaves together poetry, dance, video, music and costume in a groundbreaking performance.

Sami Staitman is pretty much your typical 15-year-old teenaged girl. On Sunday afternoon, we journeyed into the Valley to see the Ventura County resident play the part of Molly, pretty much your typical 14-year-old teenaged girl, in a one-girl musical called Welcome to My World, which played at the Grove Theater Center in Burbank.

Broadwayworld.com interviewed playwright, essayist and storyteller, Lisa Lewis about her career and her upcoming show, SCHOOLED.

(West Palm Beach, FL – September 28, 2015)  The Friends of Mounts Botanical Garden today announced that Palm Beach County's oldest and largest botanical garden is launching a special Connecting with Nature Contest for Kids to promote the biggest exhibition in its 30-year history:

NEW YORK, NY(Marketwired - September 25, 2015) - Magzter takes pride in being the world's largest digital magazine newsstand that urges millions of magazine readers to 'Go Green' and save our planet's resources. Magzter's 26+ million subscribers have been instrumental in saving almost 70,000 trees in a short span of 4 years.

In a way, theatre is a bit like pizza: a good slice is heavenly; but often, even a bad pizza is better than no pizza at all. On the other hand, sometimes the best pizza can turn into mediocre leftovers when you microwave it after it's sat around. On stage, sometimes the same can be a true…even the best Broadway shows don't always 'reheat' well on the road.

DRESS CIRCLE PUBLISHING will release SETH'S BROADWAY DIARY, VOLUME 2: The Inside Scoop on (almost) Every Broadway Show & Star, the second in a series by Sirius XM radio host SETH RUDETSKY on Tuesday, October 27. To pre-order the book, please visit www.dresscirclepublishing.com.

Meet the leads of Annie Russell Theatre's REEFER MADNESS, opening tomorrow, September 25th. Seniors MiKayla Phillips and Taylor Wright know what it's like to balance rehearsals, homework, and preparing for what is next. They are definitely not as naive as their characters Mary and Jimmy who find themselves lured by a gnarly crew of marijuana pushers in the musical satire. Check out the interview to find out more! 

BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the crew in rehearsal below!