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On this morning's edition of ABC's GOOD MORNING AMERICA, basketball player and soon to be ex-husband of Kim Kardashian, Kris Humphries spoke out for the first time about his short lived marriage.

According to E!online, comedian and talk show host Jimmy Fallon is currently working on a new comedy album which will be released in the summer of 2012.

As the first publisher in the world Puresheetmusic.com has just released several hundred pieces of classical and christmas sheet music on iTunes - ready to download for the bargain price of $1,99 per piece.

New Orleans' rock innovators MUTEMATH have released their third album for Teleprompt/Warner Bros.

The 2011 edition of the annual Carols for a Cure album is now in the works. Produced by Rock-it Science Records and currently in it's thirteenth year, purchase of the album benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. This highly anticipated annual holiday release features casts from the current line-up of prestigious shows performing new and traditional holiday music. Broadway's Carols for a Cure offers a 'snapshot' of each season, as the casts and orchestras from each show on Broadway perform their own holiday track. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you coverage of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA in the studio!

Get in on the ground floor of a thrilling new happening for Long Beach Arts Month in October, and be a part of 11 World-Premiere Plays from some of the best local talent around!

Get in on the ground floor of a thrilling new happening for Long Beach Arts Month in October, and be a part of 11 World-Premiere Plays from some of the best local talent around!

The Old Opera House Theatre Company will present City of Angels- A musical-comedy by Larry Gelbart, Cy Coleman and David Zippel

Get in on the ground floor of a thrilling new happening for Long Beach Arts Month in October, and be a part of 11 World-Premiere Plays from some of the best local talent around!

New Orleans' rock innovators MUTEMATH have announced that they will release their third album for Teleprompt/Warner Bros.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company is now accepting applications for its three immersive Summer Play Camps, to be held on the grounds of Germantown High School this June and July.

One new component of the festival we're trying out this year is to offer writing workshops taught by Double (XX) Fest participants.

Tennessee Shakespeare Company is now accepting applications for its three immersive Summer Play Camps, to be held on the grounds of Germantown High School this June and July.

One new component of the festival we're trying out this year is to offer writing workshops taught by Double (XX) Fest participants.

Although performances of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark will be suspended from April 19th through May 11th while the cast and new creative team work on implementing major revisions to the show, ticket-holders will still have an opportunity to see the webbed superhero in a musical, as the Foxwoods Theatre will be housing a limited run of The Spidey Project: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility.

In the roughly five years between November of 1935 and December of 1940, the team of Rodgers and Hart opened nine new musicals on Broadway.  These included revolutionary shows like On Your Toes, which changed the use of dance in musical theatre, and the underappreciated Pal Joey, which brought new sophistication to the characters and themes that could be featured in a musical.  There were also popular hits like Babes In Arms, The Boys From Syracuse, Jumbo and Too Many Girls that introduced classic American songbook entries like 'My Funny Valentine,' 'The Lady Is A Tramp,' 'Falling In Love With Love,' 'My Romance' and 'I Didn't Know What Time It Was.'

Food Network Premieres Two New Shows 'Ice Brigade': Premieres March 3rd at 10pm

Food Network Premieres Two New Shows 'Ice Brigade': Premieres March 3rd at 10pm

The new interactive musical comedy, 'The Ultimate Drag Off' will officially open Off-Broadway at the Times Square Arts Center January 15th, 2011.

Over the course of our ninety minute conversation earlier this week, Tony-winning Broadway star Alice Ripley was kind enough to open up about her role in the phenomenon of the Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical NEXT TO NORMAL, which is now kicking off a US Tour beginning in Los Angeles, as well as offer thoughts on many of her significant stage roles that she has taken on over the course of her impressive and varied career. Pete Townshend and THE WHO'S TOMMY to Andrew Lloyd Webber and SUNSET BOULEVARD and TELL ME ON A SUNDAY, to Sondheim with COMPANY (as the greatest Amy of all time), and even a turn in ROCKY HORROR; Alice Ripley has seemingly done it all, and her passion, dedication and insight into her craft are amply evident in both her studied performances on stage as well as in discussing the art of acting in musical theatre in conversation and what she has taken as her inspirations to play Diana Goodman, ranging from Albee to O'Neill to actors like Cynthia Nixon, Toni Collette and more. In this portion of her most comprehensive interview to date, BroadwayWorld is proud to present Part I of InDepth InterView: Alice Ripley.