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Broadway In Chicago is thrilled to announce that COME FLY AWAY is coming to the Bank of America Theatre (18 W. Monroe St., Chicago) for a limited two-week engagement Jan. 10-22, 2012.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts (formerly the Orange County Performing Arts Center) just announced its brand new Broadway Series for the 2011 - 2012 Season, a year which also coincides with the Center's 25th Anniversary. For it's BROADWAY SERIES, the Center will host touring companies of SHREK THE MUSICAL, BLUE MAN GROUP, IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS, MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, LES MISERABLES, and LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, plus 'Curtain Call Series' shows COME FLY AWAY, TRACES and AMERICAN IDIOT.

It's a golden jubilee of crowd-pleasing, hit Broadway shows! In celebration of the Fisher Theatre's 50th anniversary, a solid gold line-up of six sensational shows will headline the 2011-2012 Broadway In Detroit Subscription Season.

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts has announced its complete 2011-2012 season. This includes the Ordway Theater Season and the Target® World Music and Dance Series. Subscriber packages for the whole season are available now.

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts today unveiled its 2011-2012 performance season. The diverse schedule will offer a full menu of entertaining experiences, from dinner with The Addams Family to the amusingly intimate car ride during a blind date, and transport audiences from the streets of Africa to the darkened stage of a Parisian opera house.

The Brick Theater, Inc. and Piper McKenzie present NERDLESQUE

The Brick Theater, Inc. and Piper McKenzie present NERDLESQUE

Bring your favorite Valentine to SING! SING! SING! - We Wish You Love, an evening of wonderful love songs - beautiful, sunny, strange and hilarious - when the popular "American Songbook Sing-In" gathers on Tuesday, February 8 at 7 p.m. at The Triad, 158 West 72nd Street in New York City.*

Piane Productions is proud to announce its 2011-12 theatrical season. The company will present seven regular season productions, as well as two additional off-season productions. Eight of the nine shows will be presented at the Municipal Auditorium Music Hall or the historic Folly Theater.

Bring your favorite Valentine to SING! SING! SING! - We Wish You Love, an evening of wonderful love songs - beautiful, sunny, strange and hilarious - when the popular "American Songbook Sing-In" gathers on Tuesday, February 8 at 7 p.m. at The Triad, 158 West 72nd Street in New York City.*

THE BRICK THEATER, INC. in association with Sneaky Snake Productions and Captain Sharky's Historical Gender Equality Reactualization Burlesque Society present NERDLESQUE- A continuing Nerd Burlesque performing on the Second Saturday of each month!

THE BRICK THEATER, INC. in association with Sneaky Snake Productions and Captain Sharky's Historical Gender Equality Reactualization Burlesque Society present NERDLESQUE- A continuing Nerd Burlesque performing on the Second Saturday of each month!

Jenna gives a rundown of where she's been and what's coming up in the world of cabaret (and sometimes beyond!) This week's column features Cast Party at Birdland, Bernie Bierman's 102nd birthday party, and Alice Ripley's solo show at BACKSTAGE dopo teatro!

PS Classics, the record label dedicated to recording Broadway albums and discs of classic American songs will be releasing three albums this fall featuring some of the industry's finest talent. The albums include a debut recording of the little known 1926 Broadway musical KITTY'S KISSES, which ran from May 6 - October 6; GUTENBERG!: The Musical; and Rebecca Luker's first solo album in five years, GREENWHICH TIME.

Jenna gives a rundown of where she's been and who she's seen in the world of cabaret (and sometimes beyond!) in the past week. The past week's events included Eric Comstock & Barbara Fasano at Feinsteins, as well as a wonderful Cast Party at Birdland!

Chicago Cabaret Professionals (CCP) and Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place, 175 E. Chestnut Street, announce the third of the three new Musical Mondays performances due to the out success of the monthly cabaret concert series launched in 2008.

Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) is proud to produce the classic holiday story and brand NEW holiday musical, WHITE CHRISTMAS, December 4-21, 2008 at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Houston. The all-time number one pop song and most-recorded tune in history inspired first a beloved classic film, and now a brand-new, splashy family musical as rare as Texas snow.

One of the great pleasures of watching Tom Wopat singing showtunes, jazz standards and country hits is that he just seems like a really nice guy.

Backed by a superb combo, Wopat offered a Father's Day concert of show tunes, standards and a little humor.