Eric Clapton News

Jason Alexander, new artistic director of Reprise! Broadway's Best, announced that Cleavant Derricks, Meg Gillentine, Amelia McQueen, Ken Page, Ty Taylor, Lillias White and Jackee Harry would head up the cast of Damn Yankees. Damn Yankees will perform Tuesday, November 6 through Sunday, November 25 (opening November 7) at UCLA's Freud Playhouse.

Ty Taylor will replace Eric Kunze as Freddie the American in the LA 'Chess' BC/EFA at The Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles on September 17 at 8PM.

The Off-Broadway interactive event The Fantasy Party is getting a new location, a new time, and some new musical numbers.

The production will star Josh Strickland as Tarzan, Jenn Gambatese as Jane, Merle Dandridge as Kala, Shuler Hensley as Kerchak, Chester Gregory II as Terk, Timothy Jerome as Professor Porter and Donnie Keshawarz as Clayton. Daniel Manche and Alex Rutherford will alternate in the role of Young Tarzan.

Disney has announced that Tarzan will being previews on March 24, to open on May 10, 2006.

Acclaimed Grammy-winning songwriting and performing artists Marcus Miller and Speech venture into theatre, finding No Boundaries.

New York Musical Theatre Festival presents NO BOUNDARIES beginning September 15th at Theatre at St. Clements.

Slated to air in 2006, Eder will interview contemporary singers about the impact of horses on their lives.

Ars Nova continues the third season of its acclaimed Broadway Spotlight series with Joseph Cassidy, who is currently understudying both Norbert Leo Butz and Gregory Jbarra in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.