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Renowned recording artist Tony Bennett performs for one night only at The Orpheum Theatre on Friday, December 18th at 8:00 PM. Tickets are on sale now and available for purchase online at the official Orpheum Theatre website, www.orpheum-memphis.com, The Orpheum Box Office (901.525.3000), the ticket counter at The Booksellers at Laurelwood, and all Ticketmaster centers (901.743.ARTS).

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? Today's big news: THE COLOR PURPLE begins on Broadway, LORD OF THE DANCE gambols into to the Lyric Theatre and more!

Billboard, the leading global destination for news, charts, trends and innovations in music, today announced plans to create and launch the first ever 'User Generated' chart in China with YinYueTai

Question: Would you buy an orchestra ticket (or any ticket for that matter) to an experimental Broadway musical called The Sweaty Smorgasbord where the 11 o'clock number is "Supper Sings Tonight?" How about checking out a derivative Jason Robert Brown musical titled The Gassy Breakthrough, where the song "Too Soon" is about whether the protagonist should fart on the first date? Here's one that potential musical theater show investors would love: A new Disney style musical called The Sticky Snake. Of course these aren't real or even prospective Broadway musicals. They are ideas that have emerged from the creative minds of some young composers and lyricists who might very well have their musicals gracing Broadway theaters some day. But in the meantime they have been conjuring up these wild concepts in Tune In Time, a musical theater game show staged semi-regularly at The York Theatre Company on East 54th Street (the next installment will be on Monday, November 9 at 7:30 pm) that could have been created by some hybrid of Chuck Barris (of The Gong Show fame) and Mel Brooks. As the show's creators and producers Amy Engelhardt and Heather Shields are fond of promoting about Tune In Time, "Anything goes . . . and usually does."

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents an evening with The Tenors. Thrilling audiences around the world with their powerful voices and memorable songs. Tonight, November 7, 2015 8:00 PM at Prudential Hall.

The Denver return of Disney's THE LION KING opens tonight, Friday, November 6 at 7:30pm at The Buell Theatre for a limited engagement of four weeks through November 29.

With an astonishing recording career that now spans over seven decades, The Capitol Center for the Arts is excited to announce that music legend Kenny Rogers and special guest Linda Davis are bringing their Once Again It's Christmas Tour to Concord on Sunday, December 20th at 7:30pm.

Producer Larry G. Spangler and The Spangler Group announced today that T Bone Burnett has joined the creative team of Happy Trails, the new Broadway-bound musical based on the life and career of American icons Roy Rogers and his wife Dale Evans.  The music world legend will be writing the score (music and lyrics) for the musical, which will feature a book by Academy Award-winner Marshall Brickman (Annie Hall, Manhattan, Jersey Boys, The Addams Family) and direction by two-time Tony Award-winner Des McAnuff (Jersey Boys, Big River, Tommy).  Due to a scheduling conflict, the previously announced songwriting team of Alan Menken (music) and Glenn Slater (lyrics) has departed the production. 

JERSEY BOYS has been one of the hottest tickets on Broadway since it opened and more than 17.5 million people have seen the show worldwide. Now is your chance to see the original stars with The Hit Men featuring former stars of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons as well as Tommy James and the Shondells, on Friday, November 13 at 8 p.m. at The Ridgefield Playhouse.

On Monday, December 14 at 7:00 p.m., Carnegie Hall presents Sting in his highly acclaimed concert Symphonicities in a one-night-only gala benefit concert with Orchestra of St. Luke's conducted by Rob Mathes.

Mott The Hoople legend Ian Hunter describes East Coast guitarist and singer/songwriter Doug Wahlberg's playing as “not of this earth”. The Doug Wahlberg Band has been electrifying audiences for years, performing originals most cannot distinguish from main stream radio play.

MotorCity Casino Hotel is proud to welcome A Solo Acoustic Evening with Brandi Carlile to Sound Board tonight, November 5, 2015 at 8:00 p.m.

Billboard, the leading global destination for charts, news, trends and innovations in music, today announced three-time Grammy winning singer, songwriter, guitarist and entertainer Brad Paisley as the featured keynote for the 2015 Billboard Touring Conference & Awards. Paisley's session will take place at 2:45pm on November 18 at the Roosevelt Hotel with a Q&A led by Ray Waddell, Billboard's executive director of Content & Programming for Touring & Live Entertainment.

The Media Theatre has the Philadelphia region's professional premiere of the 10-time Tony winning Broadway show BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL.

Glamour Editor-in-Chief Cindi Leive and Publisher and Chief Revenue Officer Connie Anne Phillips host the 2015 Glamour Women of the Year Awards, presented by L'Oreal Paris, to honor courageous and inspiring women who are changing the world.

Michael McElroy and the Broadway Inspirational Voices (BIV) Releases holiday single as they launch their second phase of Kickstarter in preparation for their new upcoming album project Great Joy II: Around The World.

Memory Lane has never sounded this good! Imagine a real trip down memory lane straight to the groovy disco era of the 1970s and 1980s. What about the time when Motown reigned supreme? Throw in the 1990s, the noughties, and now - and the Artscape Opera House will be all set for BACK-2-SCHOOL BOOGIE this December.

THE LION KING has surpassed the other feline-centric show to make Broadway history.

Last night, Bette Midler hosted her annual HULAWEEN, an event to benefit her New York Restoration Project. Go inside the star-studded event with BroadwayWorld below!