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New Hampshire Theatre Project will hold open auditions for their 2009-2010 professional productions of Edward Albee's Seascape, directed by Blair Hundertmark, and Aristophanes' Lysistrata, adapted and directed by Genevieve Aichele & Meghann Beauchamp.

While the title of Town Hall's third annual production of Broadway's Rising Stars suggests a look into the future, I prefer to linger a bit in the present. With a cast consisting of 22 recent grads from such musical theatre savvy institutions as NYU, Carnegie Mellon, AMDA and The Cincinnati Conservatory, all hand picked by creator/writer/host Scott Siegel, his partner in both life and reviewing, Barbara, plus directors Emily Skinner and Scott Coulter, this was a night to treasure the youthful love of the type of songs and the styles of singing that have helped make musical theatre this city's major export to the world.

The Town Hall continues to present acclaimed Broadway concerts this July with its 3rd Annual Summer Broadway Festival. Presented on three consecutive Monday nights at 8PM, The Town Hall's 3rd Annual Summer Broadway Festival continued with Broadway's Rising Stars on Monday, July 20th at 8PM.

MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION by George Bernard Shaw was performed Monday, July 20 at 7pm at The Players, 16 Gramercy Park South (20th St. east of Park Av), continuing the Project Shaw series. Mrs. Warren's Profession starred Michael Cristofer, Tyne Daly, Sean Dugan, Xanthe Elbrick, George S. Irving, Brian Murray, and narrator Howard Kissel, with guest host from NEWSWEEK: JEREMY McCARTER. Produced and directed by David Staller. BroadwayWorld.com was there to spent the evening with the talented cast!

On Monday, Broadway's best singers gathered on the Town Hall stage to perform some of the funniest, most dramatic, most rousing and most poignant showstoppers from musicals. Ably directed by Scott Thompdon and musically guided by musical director Fred Barton (who must surely have an aging portrait locked in at attic somewhere, and who performed mere days after sustaining injuries in a car accident), the evening represented songs ranging from jazz standards by Eubie Blake to this year's Tony winner for best score, Next to Normal.

The Town Hall continues to present acclaimed Broadway concerts this July with its 3rd Annual Summer Broadway Festival. Presented on three consecutive Monday nights at 8PM, The Town Hall's 3rd Annual Summer Broadway Festival began with Broadway Winners: The Award-Winning Music of Broadway! on Monday, July 13th at 8PM.

The Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival kicks off its 11th season August 2 with jazz vocalist Hilary Kole and her trio. Hilary Kole co-created and originated the lead female roles in the award-winning Off-Broadway musicals, 'Our Sinatra.' and 'Singing Astaire.'

'Slampooned!', Single Carrot Theatre's latest comic triumph, is the most fun you'll have at a poetry slam.

New Hampshire Theatre Project is proud to present its first ever New Works Festival directed by NHTP artistic director Genevieve Aichele on July 11 & 12. Adult students in NHTP's Intensive Performance Workshop will perform scenes and monologues from new works by local playwrights.

New Hampshire Theatre Project will hold open auditions for their 2009-2010 professional productions of Edward Albee's Seascape, directed by Blair Hundertmark, and Aristophanes' Lysistrata, adapted and directed by Genevieve Aichele & Meghann Beauchamp.

Infamous Commonwealth Theatre (ICT) is proud to announce the topic for their eighth season: REDEMPTION. ICT is taking a break from producing for the remainder of 2009 in order to focus on internal administrative changes. However, ICT plans to explore the many facets of our new season topic with three upcoming productions in 2010.

KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY is a witty yet caustic musical comedy about a man who 'cannot take orders from anybody.' The limited run of the York production opened on Friday, June 26th and BroadwayWorld's cameras were there.

Today's Broadway Blogs on BroadwayWorld.com from Thursday, June 25, 2009.

While collectors of musical theatre trivia may be quick to mention that Anika Larsen - the cherubic-looking blonde with the belty R&B voice - was the only performer to be in both the original Broadway cast of Xanadu and the original Off-Broadway cast of Zanna, Don't!, it's her unusual upbringing that supplies the real fun facts in her very enjoyable and even thought-provoking bio-musical, Shafrika, The White Girl.

Single Carrot Theatre closes its second complete season in Baltimore with a comedy, Slampooned!, opening Friday, July 10th.

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.

Ten world-class Flamenco artists will heat up the stage in an evening of intense Gypsy passion under the stars when The Fountain Theatre presents Forever Flamenco: LA OLE! at the Ford Amphitheatre on August 1 at 8:30 pm.

Euan Morton is homesick-but he sure picked a good year if he needed help getting over it! 2009 marks the 250th anniversary since the birth of Scotland's most famous songwriter and poet, Robert Burns. Burns (world famous for penning Auld Lang Sine) wrote hundreds of beautiful songs and poems. To celebrate, Scotland is calling '09 the Year of the Homecoming. With musical and theatrical events taking place all around the globe it's a fine time to be Celtic!

As she engineers one of the most exciting late-career surges ever seen, the unstoppable Marilyn Maye pays tribute to the great wordsmith Johnny Mercer in a brand new show that opened at the Metropolitan Room on Friday June 12th. Maye, in her sixth Metropolitan Room show (and eighth engagement) since she her triumphant return to New York in late 2006 (after a 16-year Gotham hiatus), premiered 'Mercer the Maye Way,' which plays a total of 9 times through June 21.

Today's Broadway Blogs on BroadwayWorld.com from Wednesday, June 17, 2009.