Ira Gershwin News

BroadwayWorld.com and Ghostlight Records are giving away 5 copies of Patti LuPone's latest cd, 'The Lady With The Torch'.

F. Murray Abraham, Penny Arcade, Joe Franklin and others will take part in the 11th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts from May 26th through 28th

Tony and Olivier Award winning actress-singer Patti LuPone, currently starring to critical acclaim in the hit Broadway production of Sweeney Todd, will return to the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 W 65 Street), to perform a special one-night only concert of her critically acclaimed one-woman show The Lady With The Torch on Monday, May 22 at 8 PM to benefit Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS.

Reprise! Broadway's Best will treat audiences to staged concerts of My One and Only, Sunday in the Park with George and No Strings during its 10th anniversary season of staged readings at UCLA's Freud Playhouse

This summer, Melissa Errico will star in the Hollywood Bowl's concert production of The Sound of Music this July before performing in a concert called The Gershwins in Hollywood this August

Two new principal cast members are about to join the Broadway company of the smash-hit musical WICKED at the Gershwin Theatre (222 W. 51st St.).

On February 20th, Kate Baldwin and Graham Rowat will be among the performs in the New-Historical Society's concert tribute to Burton Lane

BroadwayWorld.com and Barricade Books are pleased to announce the winners of the book 'Ethel Merman: The Biggest Star on Broadway' written by Geoffrey Mark.

Patti LuPone's latest solo CD, The Lady with the Torch, will be released by Ghostlight Records in April

The New York Times reports that Ana Gasteyer has joined the cast of Roundabout's 'Threepenny Opera' for which previews will beging on March 24th.

The New York Times reports that Dale will return to Broadway after an absence of nine years to star as Mr. Peachum in the Roundabout production.

Joseph Brooks' new musical is anything but easy listening

Victor Garber will play John P. Wintergreen in the Encores! production of the Gershwins' Of Thee I Sing, which will run from May 11th through 14th, 2006

New York City Center will present the 13th season of New York City Center Encores! Great American Musicals In Concert®, opening February 9 with Kismet starring Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie, followed by the Kander and Ebb musical 70, Girls, 70. George and Ira Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing will end the season, playing May 11 - 14.

The Gershwins' satiric musical Of Thee I Sing will be the third entry in City Center's Encores!' 2006 season

Brian Stokes Mitchell will sing with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center on September 15th, 16th and 17th

Elaine Stritch will sing songs by Porter, Coward, Sondheim and others in At Home at the Carlyle, which opens tonight, September 13th

Broadway leading lady Christiane Noll will take the role of Valencinne in Act III of The Merry Widow opposite Placido Domingo in Trilogy, which will be presented at the Washington National Opera beginning on September 24th