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Famed singer, actress and Broadway star Eydie Gorme died this weekend at age 84. BroadwayWorld remembers the late legend below.

Famed singer, actress and Broadway star Eydie Gormé has died at age 84. Spokesperson Howard Bragman said 'Legendary singer and performer Eydie Gorme passed away peacefully today at Sunrise Hospital following a brief illness. She was surrounded by her husband, son and other loved ones at the time of her death.' In his own statement, Steve Lawrence said: 'Eydie has been my partner on stage and in life for more than 55 years. I fell in love with her the moment I saw her and even more the first time I heard her sing. While my personal loss is unimaginable, the world has lost one of the greatest pop vocalists of all time.'

After a nationwide search, the Hangar Theatre announces the appointment of Jen Waldman as Artistic Director. Her tenure will begin in mid-August when the theatre concludes its summer season. Waldman brings extensive Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theatre experience to her new role, having worked as a director, choreographer, actor, teacher, and movement coach based in New York City.

If you have an expectation, Moroccan multi-instrumentalist Aziz Sahmaoui is going to defy if. Schooled in the music of his native Maghreb, he's a man who's never believed in limits. With his band, the University of Gnawa, he blends gnawa, the healing trance music from Morocco, with West African music, jazz, rock into a heady, beautiful groove - and now he's bringing the sound to North America for a series of dates in the US and Canada, giving people the chance to experience what Britain's Independent called 'the best gnawa you will hear.'

Stage superstar and small screen standout Raul Esparza opens up about his favorite novels and literary side in general as part of a new interview in promotion of a discussion of THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO by Alexandre Dumas led by the triple-threat performer earlier this week in NYC.

Megan Hilty and Aaron Lazar star in a staged reading of Jonathan Burrows' Broadway-bound revival of the Cole Porter musical Can-Can, beginning today in New York City. The by-invitation-only presentation, featuring Hilty as Pistache and Lazar as Aristide, is also set for tomorrow, July 16, and Wednesday, July 17.

The Devil has undergone many facelifts in pop culture. He's been a slick salesman (Mr. Applegate in DAMN YANKEES), a sleazy lawyer (John Milton in THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE) and even a sexy female (BEDAZZLED).

Agachiko has been turning heads since 2008, when the septet led by Kenyan-born, Boston-based vocalist Gabrielle Agachiko was formed. On her debut album 'Yes!,' released today, July 9 by Accurate Records, she brings an international sensibility to the incantatory spirit of Nina Simone and Abbey Lincoln.

Written and directed by Steve Altman, JUST IMAGINE intertwines John Lennon's songs with the stories behind them to create a unique and electrifying multimedia concert experience. The multimedia show takes you through a final Lennon performance, revealing his outlook on his life, his music career, as well as his inspiration for songs and his relationships with loved ones.

The accomplished R&B and jazz vocalist breaks new ground of her own with her first Spanish-language album, “Natalie Cole En Español,” released June 25 on Verve/Universal.

He may be Canadian - but he's an adopted Londoner currently playing an Italian in Top Hat, so we thought it was about time we caught up with him to find out what this is all about...

If you have an expectation, Moroccan multi-instrumentalist Aziz Sahmaoui is going to defy if. Schooled in the music of his native Maghreb, he's a man who's never believed in limits. With his band, the University of Gnawa, he blends gnawa, the healing trance music from Morocco, with West African music, jazz, rock into a heady, beautiful groove - and now he's bringing the sound to North America for a series of dates in the US and Canada, giving people the chance to experience what Britain's Independent called 'the best gnawa you will hear.'

Teen pop impresario and songwriter Brian Lukow has nabbed director Martin Guigui to helm the feature film Crazy For The Boys, a musical dramedy aimed at the lucrative tween and teen audience.

Agachiko has been turning heads since 2008, when the septet led by Kenyan-born, Boston-based vocalist Gabrielle Agachiko was formed. On her debut album 'Yes!,' to be released July 9 by Accurate Records, she brings an international sensibility to the incantatory spirit of Nina Simone and Abbey Lincoln.

Teen pop impresario and songwriter Brian Lukow has concluded an agreement for independent film director Martin Guigui to helm the feature film Crazy For The Boys, a musical dramedy which was written by Lukow, and is aimed at the burgeoning, lucrative tween and teen audience. Based on the fictional back story of the five-member girl group Drama Drama, the film will be produced by Michael Z. Gordon, a BMI Award-winning songwriter who founded surf-sound pop groups The Marketts and The Routers, and whose film and television composing credits include Pulp Fiction, Everybody Loves Raymond and Ally McBeal.

Lucky Monkey Pictures and Sh-K-Boom Records announced today Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan (“Smash,”Joyful Noise) will star in the film adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's acclaimed musical The Last 5 Years.

BETHLEHEM, Conn., June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ March Farm in northwest Connecticut is a 150-acre four-generation family farm that has weathered nearly 100 years of the vagaries of a life working the land. March Farm, the book, follows this local landmark through an annual cycle of preparation and harvest, highlighting the individual members of the March family and their dedication to the farm. Through photographs and essays, the farm is fo

The Ultimate Doo Wop Show returns to The Beacon Theatre tonight, June 15, 2013 presented by Canterbury Productions & Star Productions.

Truer to the elves described in Nordic myths, the depiction of elves in Anglia Spring's new novel Red Heather: The Elves of an Ancient Future is more like reading a sinister account of the terrible deeds done by wizards or vampires than the elves most relate to from the likes of J.R.R. Tolkien or Terry Brooks. http://angliaspring.com/

Returning to the stage after more than a decade, Dorothee Berryman makes her Centaur debut in Steve Galluccio's The St. Leonard Chronicles, October 1- 27, 2013.