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The eleven-time Tony Award-nominated pop opera, Miss Saigon lands on the Casa Mañana stage August 10-18, 2013. Tickets are on sale now. Check out a first look at the production below!

The eleven-time Tony Award-nominated pop opera, Miss Saigon lands on the Casa Mañana stage August 10-18, 2013. Tickets are on sale now.

Filipino musical creators Romeo Candido and Carmen de Jesus' PRISON DANCER, a new musical loosely based on the five-year-old viral video featuring the dancing inmates of Cebu, Philippines' Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, won Excellence in Choreography for its director and choreographer, Jenn Rapp; Outstanding Ensemble Performance for its all-Filipino cast led by Broadway actors Jose Llana, Catherine Ricafort, and Albert Guerzon; and Outstanding Individual Performance for Filipino Canadian actor Jeigh Madjus, who plays Lola, a cross-dresser who teaches his fellow convicts how to dance, at the 2012 New York Musical Theatre Festival's Awards for Excellence ceremony held last night at Hudson Terrace.

One of New York Musical Theatre Festival's fastest-selling shows, PRISON DANCER, an original screenplay turned into a web series turned into a stage musical by Romeo Candido (music, lyrics, and book) and Carmen de Jesus (book), veers away from the hugeness of its viral hit inspiration - a video uploaded to YouTube in 2007 that boasts around 1,500 male inmates of Cebu, Philippines' Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center dancing in sync with Michael Jackson's "Thriller" - by using its two-hour storytelling to explore more about the personal lives of a handful, fictitious prisoners instead, interspersed with a lively dose of Filipino cultural and religious quirks, and with a heavy R&B/club-ish score not often used for a musical.

THE NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL (NYMF) and PRISON DANCER LIVE, LLC. presents Romeo Candido and Carmen De Jesus' PRISON DANCER, music supervised by Alexander Rovang, and directed by Jenn Rapp. PRISON DANCER plays a limited engagement at Off-Broadway's Theatre at St. Clement's (423 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036). Performances begin tonight, Jul 20th, 2012 at 8:00 pm and continue through Saturday, Jul 28th, 2012 at 9:00 pm. Press are invited Sunday, Jul 22nd, 2012 at 3:00 pm and any subsequent performance.

THE NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL (NYMF) and PRISON DANCER LIVE, LLC. is pleased to announce Romeo Candido and Carmen De Jesus' PRISON DANCER, music supervised by Alexander Rovang, and directed by Jenn Rapp. PRISON DANCER will play a limited engagement at Off-Broadway's Theatre at St. Clement's (423 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036). Performances begin Friday, Jul 20th, 2012 at 8:00 pm and continue through Saturday, Jul 28th, 2012 at 9:00 pm. Press are invited Sunday, Jul 22nd, 2012 at 3:00 pm and any subsequent performance.

Broadway Barkada presents 'Balikbayan', a special benefit concert for the victims of Typhoons 'Ondoy and Pepeng' at The Philippine Center's Kalayaan Hall on Thursday, December 3rd @ 7:00PM. The Philippine Center is located at 556 Fifth Avenue (between 45th and 46th Street) New York.

Broadway Barkada presents 'Balikbayan', a special benefit concert for the victims of Typhoons 'Ondoy and Pepeng' at The Philippine Center's Kalayaan Hall on Thursday, December 3rd @ 7:00PM. The Philippine Center is located at 556 Fifth Avenue (between 45th and 46th Street) New York.

Broadway Barkada presents 'Balikbayan', a special benefit concert for the victims of Typhoons 'Ondoy and Pepeng' at The Philippine Center's Kalayaan Hall on Thursday, December 3rd @ 7:00PM. The Philippine Center is located at 556 Fifth Avenue (between 45th and 46th Street) New York.

Broadway veterans Mimi Hines, Keith Byron Kirk, Kim Huber and Jane Lanier have been lined up for the 5th Avenue Theatre's upcoming production of the Stephen Schwartz musical Pippin, which will be presented at the Seattle Theatre from May 2nd through May 21st

Sarah Rudinoff and Billie Wildrick will star as the two New York-bound sisters of Wonderful Town from March 21st through April 9th