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Today's Broadway Blogs on BroadwayWorld.com from Thursday, March 25, 2010.

The new Broadway musical, COME FLY AWAY, conceived, choreographed, and directed by Tony Award-winner Twyla Tharp and featuring vocals by Frank Sinatra, is gearing up for its opening tonight at the Marquis Theatre (1535 Broadway). BroadwayWorld brings you a look at production photos from the dance-filled show!

The NOKIA Theatre, located in Times Square, has announced the performers participating in the HSBC Jazz Festival. The Festival will take place on March 25, 27, & 28, 2010.

April concert lineup announced at the Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko.

THE DAVID BERGER JAZZ ORCHESTRA - the acclaimed band featured in the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio and PBS TV - will celebrate the release of their groundbreaking new album Sing Me A Love Song: Harry Warren's Undiscovered Standards, with two sets at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola on March 29, 2010.

In a recent interview with The Star Ledger, legendary director/choreographer Twyla Tharp revealed why she chose Frank Sinatra as the basis for her new musical, COME FLY AWAY, opening Thursday at the Marquis Theatre.

Big band sound transforms the Lincoln Theatre into a Duke Ellington jazz club as Arena Stage presents Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies, choreographed by and starring Maurice Hines (Broadway's Sophisticated Ladies and Uptown... It's Hot!) with direction by Charles Randolph-Wright (Arena's Guys and Dolls and Blue).

Legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp recently sat down with Time Magazine and dished on everything from her childhood to her new Broadway production of COME FLY AWAY based on the music of Frank Sinatra.

Harlem Stage is a performing arts center that celebrates and perpetuates the unique and diverse artistic legacy of Harlem and the indelible impression it has made on American culture.

On Monday, March 15th, The Actors Fund presented the next in their series of Musical Mondays in the lobby of the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.

The new Broadway musical, COME FLY AWAY, conceived, choreographed, and directed by Tony Award-winner Twyla Tharp and featuring vocals by Frank Sinatra, is gearing up for its March 25th opening at the Marquis Theatre (1535 Broadway). BroadwayWorld brings you a look at production photos from the dance-filled show!

Audience members attending Saturday's preview performance of Twyla Tharp's Come Fly Away, witnessed an extra treat when Deepjot Anand proposed to his longtime love, Erica Ravin, on stage following the curtain call. Anand chose to propose to Erica at Come Fly Away specifically, as 4 1/2 years ago they had their first official date at Twyla Tharp's Movin' Out. They are both graduate students at Stony Brook University on Long Island.

The NOKIA Theatre, located in Times Square, has announced the performers participating in the HSBC Jazz Festival. The Festival will take place on March 25, 27, & 28, 2010.

Pat Phillips and Ettore Stratta Are Pleased To Present The Many Sides of Oscar/Grammy Award-Winning Composer/Pianist DAVE GRUSIN.

Three-time Oscar and five-time GRAMMY® Award-winner Michel Legrand will perform a tribute to his 50 years of music and movies at the MGM Grand Garden Arena Saturday, March 27.

Multi-Grammy® Award winning a cappella vocal sextet Take 6 returns to the Blue Note for a week of concerts from March 30 - April 4. The group is continuing to perform tracks from their latest CD, The Standard (Heads Up, 2008), which features standards from the jazz and pop genres. Take 6 is currently working on their next studio album, to be released later this year.

The new Broadway musical, COME FLY AWAY, conceived, choreographed, and directed by Tony Award-winner Twyla Tharp and featuring vocals by Frank Sinatra, is gearing up for it's March 25th opening at the Marquis Theatre (1535 Broadway). BroadwayWorld brings you a look at the theater's marquee.

In an article published on March 5, The New York Times features dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp and speaks to her about hew new show 'Come Fly Away' which is currently in previews and is set to open March 25 at the Marquis Theatre.

Toots Thielemans, the founding father of jazz harmonica, returns to New York for the first time in two years for a rare set of performances at the Blue Note from March 4 - 7.

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