Neil Sedaka News

Theatrical Rights Worldwide (TRW) announced the company's acquisition of professional, stock and amateur rights for the 2005 Tony Award winning Best Musical, Monty Python's Spamalot.

Scores of the brightest lights on stage and screen will turn out in red carpet finery for a celebration of classic Hollywood, Hooray for Hollywood honoring the legendary Oscar winner Patricia Neal, Smith Barney's Shirl Penney and The Count and Countess de Lesseps, Stage 6 at Steiner Film Studios, 15 Washington Avenue at the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard. The gala evening is slated for November 1, with all proceeds going to The Auditory Oral School of New York, a non profit organization which specializes in teaching deaf and hard of hearing children to listen, talk, think and socialize.

ROCKTOBER! a month of celebration and noteworthy moments in Mamma Mia! and ABBA history, returns. Mamma Mia!, which celebrates 6 years on Broadway this month, along with other ABBA-related news and trivia. Throughout October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Mamma Mia! will continue its year-round support of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

New items have been added to the Actors Fund's Annual Auction of 1000 Stars, which launched online June 11

Stars from popular music, Broadway, film and television took the Carnegie Hall stage with The New York Pops in support of the orchestra and its education programs and free Summermusic concerts on Monday, April 30, and BroadwayWorld was there!

Stars from popular music, Broadway, film and television will take the Carnegie Hall stage with The New York Pops in support of the orchestra and its education programs and free Summermusic concerts on Monday, April 30, 2007 at 7:00PM

The Zipper Theatre, Ryan Hill and John Johnson are pleased to announce a one-night only, newly adapted concert version of WORKING, the 1978 musical adapted from the acclaimed non-fiction book by Studs Terkel. This one-night only premiere concert event to benefit the Actor's Fund of America will take place on Monday, February 19, 2007 at The Zipper Theatre (336 West 37th Street, between 8 th and 9th Avenues).

Legendary 'Jersey Boy' Frankie Valli will receive the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) Lifetime Achievement Award at the Foundation's 31st Anniversary Awards Gala on Saturday, October 21 at the Hilton Washington & Towers, Washington, D.C

Awkwardly teetering between unfunny romantic comedy and unfunny sex farce, WASPs In Bed isn't exactly romantic or sexy either.

JERSEY BOYS, the new Broadway musical based on the life story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons opened on Sunday night and BroadwayWorld was there to cover the red carpet!

THE NEW YORK MUSICAL THEATRE FESTIVAL presents a reading of BUMP IN THE ROAD, a new musical with book, music and lyrics by CAROLE LONNER, on Thursday, September 29th at 3 and 7 PM at Makor, 35 West 67th Street, between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival and Reno Productions proudly present FEELING ELECTRIC as one of the featured productions of the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF). Directed by Peter Askin (The Good Body, Trumbo), performances begin on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 at Off-Broadway's Barrow Group Theatre (312 West 36th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues).

Broadway In Chicago announces today that Billy Crystal will bring 700 SUNDAYS, his 2005 Tony Award-winning Broadway blockbuster to Chicago for a limited engagement at the Cadillac Palace Theatre (151 W. Randolph St.) from November 8-20, 2005.

The annual gala honored Billy Crystal, Roger Berlind, Phyllis Newman, Neil Sedaka and more...