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Chanhassen Dinner Theatres brings its audiences another new Main Stage show with contagiously delightful Broadway musical, HAIRSPRAY! Winner of eight Tony Awards (out of thirteen nominations) including Best Musical, HAIRSPRAY offers two weeks of preview performances from August 5 - 18, with the official Press Opening Night on Friday, August 19.

Chanhassen Dinner Theatres brings its audiences another new Main Stage show with contagiously delightful Broadway musical, HAIRSPRAY! Winner of eight Tony Awards (out of thirteen nominations) including Best Musical, HAIRSPRAY offers two weeks of preview performances from August 5 - 18, with the official Press Opening Night on Friday, August 19.

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Nikki Blonsky, the actress best known for her role in the musical movie version of Hairspray, will join the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles for a screening of the film. LAist reports that the event will take place on July 31 during the 8:30 screening at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

The producers of the Off-Broadway smash hit ‘My Big Gay Italian Wedding' are excited to welcome legend of stage and screen Lainie Kazan for the show's Atlantic City premiere Friday, August 26th and Saturday, August 27th at the Hilton Hotel & Casino.

Nikki Blonsky, the actress best known for her role in the musical movie version of Hairspray, will join the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles for a screening of the film. LAist reports that the event will take place on July 31 during the 8:30 screening at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Singer/actress Nikki Blonsky truly embodies that notion of overnight success. Plucked from obscurity at age 17, then-newcomer Blonsky beat out hundreds of young girls from a nationwide open casting call to land the coveted lead role in the big-screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical HAIRSPRAY. On July 15-16, she will be slipping back into familiar territory as she joins MEN ALIVE: The Orange County Gay Men's Chorus for their 10th Anniversary Concert 'GREASY HAIRSPRAY' at the Irvine Barclay Theatre.

Chanhassen Dinner Theatres brings its audiences another new Main Stage show with contagiously delightful Broadway musical, HAIRSPRAY! Winner of eight Tony Awards (out of thirteen nominations) including Best Musical, HAIRSPRAY offers two weeks of preview performances from August 5 - 18, with the official Press Opening Night on Friday, August 19.

Kobe Howard a 13-year-old from Oklahoma has won a nine-week stay (with room and board included) to Camp Shane, the longest-running weight-loss camp for children and teens in the country, for the 2011 summer session.

HIGH opened tonight, Tuesday, April 19th 2011 at the Booth Theatre on Broadway and we were there to capture the star-studded opening night red carpet arrivals! HIGH stars Kathleen Turner, two-time Golden Globe winner, Academy Award & Tony Award nominee as 'Sister Jamison Connelly'. HIGH is a new play by Matthew Lombardo and directed by Rob Ruggiero.

Producer Daryl Roth announced today that 30 Rock star Katrina Bowden, theater favorite Maddie Corman (Next Fall), Tony Award-winner Donna McKechnie (A Chorus Line), lifestyle superstar and restaurateur B. Smith and Daytime Emmy Award-winner Kim Zimmer (Guiding Light/One Life To Live) will join upcoming casts of the hit Off Broadway show Love, Loss, and What I Wore, now in its second smash year at the Westside Theatre (407 West 43 Street).

Waiting for Forever Opens February 4, 2011 New York & Los Angeles Starring Rachel Bilson, Tom Sturridge, Blythe Danner and Richard Jenkins Directed by James Keach Written by Steve Adams Distributed by Freestyle Releasing PG - 13

Producer Daryl Roth announced today that '30 Rock' star Katrina Bowden, theater favorite Maddie Corman (Next Fall), Tony Award-winner Donna McKechnie (A Chorus Line), lifestyle superstar and restaurateur B. Smith and Daytime Emmy Award-winner Kim Zimmer ('Guiding Light'/'One Life To Live') will join upcoming casts of the hit Off Broadway show Love, Loss, and What I Wore, now in its second smash year at the Westside Theatre (407 West 43 Street).

Don't miss Broadway's musical-comedy phenomenon that inspired a major motion picture and won eight 2003 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. As The New York Times says, 'If life were everything it should be, it would be more like HAIRSPRAY. It's irresistible!'

Don't miss Broadway's musical-comedy phenomenon that inspired a major motion picture and won eight 2003 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. As The New York Times says, 'If life were everything it should be, it would be more like HAIRSPRAY. It's irresistible!'

Waiting for Forever Opens February 4, 2011 New York & Los Angeles Starring Rachel Bilson, Tom Sturridge, Blythe Danner and Richard Jenkins Directed by James Keach Written by Steve Adams Distributed by Freestyle Releasing PG - 13

On Wednesday, January 12th, Alexis Bledel ('Gilmore Girls'), Pauletta Washington ('The Parkers'), Nikki Blonsky ('Hairspray' the film), Anita Gillette ('30 Rock'), and Judy Gold (25 Questions for a Jewish Mother) became the newest cast of Love, Loss, and What I Wore at the Westside Theatre.

Producer Daryl Roth announced today that Nikki Blonsky, the Golden Globe nominated star of Hairspray, will complete the January cast of the hit Off Broadway show Love, Loss, and What I Wore, now in its second smash year at NYC's Westside Theatre (407 West 43 St.).

'You can't stop the beat', the laughs, nor the energy of Theatre Under the Stars' (TUTS) production of Hairspray now playing at the Houston Hobby Center. With one punch line after another, Hairspray is a show about big dreams, big hair and not being afraid to be yourself.

Audiences will be whisked away to 1960s Baltimore when Pittsburgh CLO presents Hairspray July 20 - August 1 at the Benedum Center. Adapted for the stage from John Water's 1988 film, Hairspray ran on Broadway for over six years and has since become a toe-tapping hit all over the world.