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Beaches 2 is a sketch comedy group, and they have a monthly comedy show!

By popular demand, the Hollywood Bowl is once again transformed into the world's largest movie theater for the Grease Sing-A-Long Friday, June 24, 2011. The show, hosted by Didi Conn ('Frenchy'), will feature the Paramount Pictures film in glorious full-screen Technicolor and spectacular six-track digital sound, complete with subtitles so the whole audience can sing along.

Join The New Jersey Hall of Fame 2011 Red Carpet Induction Ceremony on Sunday, June 5th at NJPAC in Newark. The New Jersey Hall of Fame celebrates 13 great New Jerseyans including bestselling suspense and mystery writer Mary Higgins Clark, World War II hero John Basilone, superstar Queen Latifah, jazz greats Tony Bennett and Bucky Pizzarelli, business legends Leon Hess and Martha Stewart, football stars Joe Theismann and Franco Harris, World War II commander Admiral William 'Bull' Halsey, former Governor Brendan Byrne, and two award winning actors, John Travolta and Bruce Willis.

Beaches 2 is a sketch comedy group, and they have a monthly comedy show!

Broadway veteran Jeff Conaway slipped into a drug-induced coma on May 11th and passed away Friday morning after his family decided to take him off of life-support. He was 60 years old.

On Twitter Watch, Kirstie Alley wrote '@wonton12 not gonna SEE. I'M gonna BE on Broadway.....' Tony?? Oh Tony, is that you Tony????'.. A girl can dream, right? Great meeting!!... BroadwAy here I come!!!!.....'

As previously reported by BroadwayWorld, Broadway veteran Jeff Conaway slipped into a drug-induced coma on May 11th. According to USA Today, the actor passed away this morning after his family decided to take him off of life-support. He was 60 years old.

Jeff Conaway made his Broadway debut in 1960 in ALL THE WAY HOME. He also appeared in GREASE on Broadway as Danny Zuko, the role that would later be made famous by John Travolta on the big screen. Conaway made his final appearance on Broadway in 1985's THE NEWS. He's arguably best known, however, for his roles on film: Kenickie in the film version of GREASE and Bobby Wheeler in the television series Taxi.

Kristin Chenoweth is one of Broadway's biggest standout exports since Barbra Streisand. It used to be that Broadway actors would go to LA for pilot season and very often come home empty handed. Ever since her first appearance on Broadway in STEEL PIER, the Kander & Ebb musical, directed by Scott Ellis with choreography by Susan Stroman, the girl hasn't stopped. It was WICKED that threw her fully into the mainstream and she didn't even win the Tony that year.

Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) will present Urban Cowboy: The Musical from July 14 - 19, 2011.

Culled from as A-list a list as you are ever likely to acquire - Steven Spielberg, Robert Greenblatt, Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Michael Mayer, Theresa Rebeck and Marc Shaiman/Scott Wittman onwards - SMASH is the adult answer to riveting dramatic musical entertainment coming with heart, laughs, unforgettable characters and some of the biggest twists this side of the starry stages on the Great White Way. Oh, yeah, and those hallowed Broadway halls, too. Plus, SMASH provides a great new opportunity to showcase the unbelievable talent on display on the stages of Broadway and Off-Broadway and beyond, particularly given the fact that it is shot in New York and it is being cast by the biggest casting director on Broadway, Bernie Telsey. Consider the theatre-centric casting LAW & ORDER times seventy six (trombones). All of New York is the talent pool from which the stage of SMASH shall be set. And, what exactly is SMASH about, anyway? Well, SMASH is all about Broadway and what makes a musical tick - from the very inception of the show's idea by the songwriters, through writing, rehearsals and the road; all the way to the big Broadway opening where dreams are made - and nightmares born - on one magnificent, momentous night. As viewers, we are taken inside the ticking clock of the show and we experience each and every one of the multitude of machinations enacted by everyone from the stars - Marilyn Monroe, and the actress playing her, Ivy; and, more importantly, her alternative, Karen - to the overworked director (Derek), harried songwriters Tom and Julia, and the speculative and cutthroat producer behind it all, Eileen.

Legends in their own time, ascending to the top ranks of the Hollywood and Broadway songwriting landscape, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman have accomplished and climbed to heights most of what many film fans, Broadway babies and general entertainment junkies only dream of witnessing and ascending to. Marc Shaiman's work with Trey Parker and Matt Stone on SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT prompted Stephen Sondheim - as he told me himself - to cite it as one of the best musicals of the era. And, it is - as is their Tony-winning Best Musical HAIRSPRAY, based on the film by Pope of Trash John Waters. Featuring John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac Efron, Queen Latifah and an all-around-amazing cast of triple-threats, the stunning Craig Zadan/Neil Meron-produced film version of HAIRSPRAY may be the greatest cinematic Shaiman and/or Wittman accomplishment so far. Then, there is CATCH ME IF YOU CAN - one of the snappiest new scores on Broadway in a strangely strong season of original scores - boasting boss Sinatra blues and sizzling Shirelles riffs and everything else that's swingin' in between. Up next for the team - onstage and off - is a stage adaptation of Roald Dahl's CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY directed by Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes, in addition to what is perhaps the most exciting prospect on their impossibly cluttered horizon: the new Steven Speilberg/Craig Zadan/Neil Meron musical/comedy/drama series SMASH which has just been picked up for the Fall season on NBC! In this exclusive, extensive and exhaustive conversation we cover it all from HAIRSPRAY to CATCH ME to CHARLIE to all about SMASH and far, far beyond!

Join The New Jersey Hall of Fame 2011 Red Carpet Induction Ceremony on Sunday, June 5th at NJPAC in Newark. The New Jersey Hall of Fame celebrates 13 great New Jerseyans including bestselling suspense and mystery writer Mary Higgins Clark, World War II hero John Basilone, superstar Queen Latifah, jazz greats Tony Bennett and Bucky Pizzarelli, business legends Leon Hess and Martha Stewart, football stars Joe Theismann and Franco Harris, World War II commander Admiral William 'Bull' Halsey, former Governor Brendan Byrne, and two award winning actors, John Travolta and Bruce Willis.

Kick back with a cool one and indulge in a night of laughs as 'COMEDY CENTRAL Park' celebrates its fifth consecutive year of free stand-up comedy Live from SummerStage in New York City's historic Central Park.

Beaches 2 is a sketch comedy group, and they have a monthly comedy show! This month, they are going to talk about the education pillar of out teen and pre-teen years, after-school specials.

Grease is the word! Following its electrifyin' 4 year West End run (the longest in the history of the Piccadilly Theatre), the smash hit musical will begin a new tour from this spring with Danny Bayne as 'Danny' and Carina Gillespie as his sweetheart 'Sandy'.

Beaches 2 is a sketch comedy group, and they have a monthly comedy show! This month, they are going to talk about the education pillar of out teen and pre-teen years, after-school specials.

The Colony Theatre Company is excited to present the fifth and final production of its 36th season, the classy, sassy musical, THE ALL NIGHT STRUT!, conceived by Fran Charnas, directed & choreographed by Murphy Cross and Paul Kreppel (Jay Johnson: The Two and Only!) with musical direction by Dean Mora. THE ALL NIGHT STRUT! will close on Sunday, May 1 at The Colony Theatre, 555 North Third Street (at Cypress) adjacent to the Burbank Town Center.

Grab that poodle skirt, slick back your hair and get ready to rock ‘n' roll -- 50's style -- when the 2010-2011 national tour of the new Broadway production of the hit musical GREASETM makes its way to Boston's Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre and will close on Sunday, May 1. Leading the 50's fun-fest will be Eddie Mekka (Laverne & Shirley's Carmine) as DJ Vince Fontaine.

It's nearly time to break out the popcorn (still FREE!) and soda (still FREE!) for another trip down memory lane with the 2011 Michelob Ultra Cool Films Series at the historic Victoria Theatre.