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Encores! Artistic Director Jack Viertel today announced casting for the Encores! production of Grand Hotel, The Musical, directed and choreographed by Josh Rhodes.

The Green Room 42 presents BROADWAY'S GUILTY PLEASURES 2: DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH , February 25th at 9:30PM ; a celebration of the irresistible musicals that we secretly adore.

ContemporaryMusicalTheatre.com is proud to celebrate their Fifth Anniversary at The Green Room 42 with a star-studded concert packed with great contemporary musical theatre songs on Monday, March 5 at 9:30 PM. Curated by Laura Josepher & David Sisco, Contemporary Writers' Circle: Fifth Anniversary Concert represents the best of today's wide range of contemporary musical theatre styles.

This week, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond.

Olivia Puckett (Dear Evan Hansen, American Idiot), Gerard Canonico (Groundhog Day, Be More Chill), Taylor Iman Jones (Groundhog Day, Head Over Heels), George Psomas (Fiddler on the Roof, South Pacific), Jason Veasey (The Lion King, Broadway Bounty Hunter), Anthony Crouchelli (Tarzan, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), Shelby Finnie (The Prom), Shea Madison (Mr. Chekov and Mr. Porter), Charlotte Maltby (The Sound of Music), Taylor McMahon (AcousticaElectronica), Matt Rodin (BROadway, Red Carpet Challenge), Kristen Sandler (Joseph...Dreamcoat, Elf), Stephen Wagner (Kid Frankenstein), Kalyn West (Prince of Egypt), and Adam Wedesky (The Green Bird) have joined the line-up for THE CAPULET PARTY at The Green Room 42 on Monday, March 19th at 9:30pm.

This February, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond.

Good morning BroadwayWorld! Today's top stories: Kirstin Maldonado makes her Broadway debut in KINKY BOOTS, the cast of GROUNDHOG DAY will have a reunion concert at Feinstein's/54 Below, and more!

Sarah Litzsinger and Kate Reinders team up for their Green Room 42 debut in TASTiSKANK: Smoke 'n Mirrors. Known for their roles in Something Rotten!, Wicked, Amour, and Beauty & the Beast, Kate and Sarah are two Broadway gals and real-life best friends who teamed up in 2006 to create TASTiSKANK, their singing-songwriting comedy duo. They were voted the 25 Sexiest New Yorker's by the NY Post and have over 1.2 million views of their tune, The Sex Song on YouTube. They have performed at Ars Nova, the UCB, Joe's Pub, Caroline's, Comix, the TBS Comedy Festival in Las Vegas, and won the 2007 Breakout Award at the HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen.

Tickets for the 11th annual Michael Childers' production of One Night Only: Rodgers, Hammerstein & Hart, are now on sale. This star-studded musical production will be presented on Wednesday, April 25, 2018 @ 6:30pm, at the McCallum Theatre for the Performing Arts and benefits Jewish Family Service of the Desert (JFS). Since 2008, One Night Only has sold out has sold out quickly every year.

BroadwayCon has announced initial programming for BroadwayCon Industry Day.

BroadwayCon has announced that tickets for BroadwayCon Industry Day are now on sale.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party returned to the West Coast for the twelfth time on Wednesday, January 17. The extreme open mic took place Upstairs at Vitello's, located in Studio City.

THE GREEN ROOM, Broadway's newest, most spacious, and funkiest cabaret club, presents The Capulet Party on Monday, March 19th.

Following their sold-out debut performance at the Duplex, the Ethnic Chameleons are thrilled to bring their show, Re:Mix, to The Green Room 42 today, January 19th at 7:00 P.M., located at 520 Tenth Avenue, inside Yotel (4th Floor).

After years of putting out songs featuring some of the industry's greatest singers, I am very excited (and scared) to be taking a huge leap of faith in releasing a video to a song where it is my voice alone.

BariToned is BACK by popular demand returning to The Green Room 42 on Sunday January 21, 2018 at 7pm with their hit show 'I HATE MEN'. This farcical concert trio, starring Joe Hager, Edward Miskie, and Caleb Albert, with music direction and arrangement by Dan Pardo (Amazing Grace, Come From Away), will take you on a hunky-hilarious tour through the tough broads and loose women of musical theatre; twirling, and kick-line'ing through favorites such as Everybody's Girl, I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair, Bring On The Men, That'll Show Him, Big Spender, Gorgeous, and many more.

Following their sold-out debut performance at the Duplex, the Ethnic Chameleons are thrilled to bring their show, Re:Mix, to The Green Room 42 on Friday, January 19th at 7:00 P.M., located at 520 Tenth Avenue, inside Yotel (4th Floor).

The full lineup of the Come From Away Show Spotlight at BroadwayCon has been announced. Moderated by Mo Rocca, this Come From Away panel will feature Irene Sankoff (Book, Music, Lyrics), David Hein (Book, Music, Lyrics), Kelly Devine (Musical Staging), Christopher Ashley (Director), Ian Eisendrath (Music Coordinator & Arranger), Petrina Bromley (Bonnie & others), Geno Carr (Oz & others), Jenn Colella (Beverley & others), Alex Finke (Janice & others), De'Lon Grant (Bob & others), Joel Hatch (Claude & others), Chad Kimball (Kevin T & others), Caesar Samayoa (Kevin J & others), Q. Smith (Hannah & others), Astrid Van Wieren (Beulah & others), Sharon Wheatley (Diane & others) in conversation on the journey from Gander to Broadway.

The 2017 awards honor productions which opened between October 1, 2016 and September 30, 2017. Nominations were completely reader-submitted and after the nomination period ended October 31, BroadwayWorld's local editors proofed the list for eligibility and errors.

BroadwayCon has announced the BroadwayCon Industry Day schedule. BroadwayCon Industry Day is a one-day conference for theatre professionals, featuring panels and discussions exploring new and innovative ways to engage with Broadway's biggest fans. Curated by Situation, BroadwayCon Industry Day will take place on Thursday, January 25, 2018 at the Crowne Plaza Times Square Manhattan. For more information, please visit www.BroadwayCon.com/IndustryDay.