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TICKETS FOR 'SUDS' ON SALE MONDAY, AUGUST 23. The rocking 60s musical soap opera to open at downtown's Cosmopolitan Cabaret September 24

Tickets for California Musical Theatre's production of the musical comedy Suds, will go on sale on Monday, August 23, at 10 a.m. Suds, the rocking '60s musical soap opera, will play at The Cosmopolitan Cabaret at 1000 K Street (between 10th and 11th), September 24 through January 9, with preview performances September 21-23. Tickets are available online through Tickets.com and through the Wells Fargo Pavilion box office at 1419 H Street or by phone at (916) 557-1999.

Casting for the 60th Music Circus season is nearing completion. After auditioning performers in New York, Los Angeles and Sacramento, California Musical Theatre Artistic Director Glenn Casale is finalizing the acting company for the seven-show season at the Wells Fargo Pavilion. The company is expected to include Broadway veterans, including Tony Award nominees, television comedians, up-and-coming young actors and plenty of returning Music Circus favorites. Complete cast lists are available online at www.SacramentoMusicCircus.com and are subject to change.

Theater League presents the world premiere of Love Sweet Love, a new musical featuring 31 songs by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, celebrating the 50th anniversary of their legendary collaboration, and book by C. Ben Wolfe. Sha Newman, who staged the Ovation Award-winning production West Side Story, directs and choreographs a cast of seventeen in this new musical starting Tuesday, December 4...

California Musical Theatre has announced its 2007 Music Circus season with seven large-scale musical productions and seasoned Broadway veterans helming casts! Nancy Opel, Laura Griffith, Adinah Alexander, James Barbour, Walter Charles, Michael Gruber and others star!

Mark Zimmerman has been reelected President and Price Paige reelected First Vice President of Actors' Equity Association (Equity), it was announced today.