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Continuing their tradition of quality entertainment, Stages St. Louis's production of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is a blast - a campy and tune filled flashback to the early 60's

Stages St. Louis will open its 2009 season with Little Shop of Horrors at The Robert G. Reim Theater in Kirkwood from May 29 - June 30.

The National Foundation for Facial Reconstruction (NFFR) presented Broadway for Medicine II featuring funny-lady Julie Halston (Hairspray, Sex and the City) and 'Professor of all things Broadway,' Sirius/XM Satellite Radio host Seth Rudetsky along with some very exciting special guests. The event took place on Monday, March 9, 2009 at Cipriani 42nd Street.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) proudly announces the winners of its NYMF Awards for Excellence, selected by an independent jury from the 34 new musicals presented at the 2007 Festival.

Capsule reviews of Unlock'd, The Brain From Planet X and Gemini, the Musical

NYMF presents a new musical comedy, Unlock'd, based on the 18th century mock epic poem 'The Rape of The Lock by Alexander Pope.' With a book and lyrics by Sam Carner, music by Derek Gregor, and is directed by Igor Goldin; plus has music direction by David Andrews Rogers and orchestrations by Tony Award winner Bruce Coughlin.

Unlock'd, a new musical comedy presented at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, has just added two performances to its schedule, and will now play a total of eight performances as part of the fourth annual New York Musical Theatre Festival. Performances begin tonight, Monday, September 17 at TBG Theatre. Added performances are Friday, September 21 at 4:30PM and Saturday, September 22 at 1PM.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival and La Vie Productions proudly present Unlock'd, a new musical comedy based on the 18th century mock epic poem 'The Rape of The Lock' by Alexander Pope, with book and lyrics by Sam Carner and music by Derek Gregor. Unlock'd will play a strictly-limited, six-performance engagement as at TBG Theatre beginning September 17.

The enigmatic Howard Hughes is the subject of a new musical that will receive a star-studded private reading on March 19th and March 20th.

Gihieh Lee and Tim Nevits' musical fantasy of a 12-year-old girl trying to save her mother from dying of a terminal illness mixes a life-affirming message with a tender understanding of the cold hard facts of death

Tony-nominated stage and screen actress Sandy Duncan (Chicago, Peter Pan) is 'coaxing the blues right out of the horn,' as she makes her Barrington Stage debut as the glamorous title character of Jerry Herman's Mame, which is being presented in a semi-staged concert version through October 15th

Stage and screen actress Sandy Duncan will 'coax the blues right out of the horn,' as she makes her Barrington Stage debut as the glamorous Mame Dennis in a semi-staged concert version of Jerry Herman's legendary musical 'Mame,' directed by Julianne Boyd. BSC's first fall production in its new home in Pittsfield, at 30 Union Street, will run for two weeks from October 4 through 15.

Because there just aren't enough retro-pastiche Cold War musical comedies out there.

Midtown Festival presents a sketch show worth saving room for.