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Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton clash egos and steal kisses on the set of an epic flop

Doctor Dolittle will arrive in Chicago with a full menagerie of animal puppets on October 4th; it will run through October 16th

Kristine Nielsen has landed the plum title role (of sorts) in Christopher Durang's new play, Miss Witherspoon, which will play the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NH before beginning its Playwright Horizon run on December 1st

A new tour of My Fair Lady starring Marla Schaffel and John Vickery will get its start in Atlanta, GA before moving on to 8 other cities around the country

Tom Hewitt and Nancy Anderson are some of the performers who will star in the Pittsburgh CLO's touring production of Dr. Doolittle, which is now fully cast

The Last Days of Cleopatra, Charlie Barnett's world premiere musical about the scandalous affair between Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, will run at the New York Fringe Festival from August 23rd to 28th

Trevor Nunn's Olivier Award-winning production of My Fair Lady will come to Broadway in 2006 for its 50th anniversary after touring in the UK

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts today announced details of the 2005-06 Kimmel Center Presents Broadway at the Academy series. Four spectacular family musicals, including two of Broadway's biggest smash hits, will highlight the 2005-2006 season. The new 2005-06 Broadway at the Academy season will include: DOCTOR DOLITTLE (Sept. 21 - 25, 2005); ANNIE (November 22 - 27, 2005); WICKED (limited engagement begins March 22, 2006; subscribers' week March 22 - 26) and THE LION KING (limited engagement begins June 8, 2006; subscribers' week June 13 - 18).

Broadway greats Cris Groenendaal (Phantom of the Opera, Sweeney Todd, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum), Marni Nixon (Nine, Follies, The Dead, Cabaret, The Voice of Hollywood), and Sarah Rice (Sweeney Todd, The Fantasticks, The Music Man) share the spotlight in MÉNAGE, an evening of songs celebrating life, love, and the slings and arrows of the outrageousness of relationships.

On Sunday, March 14th, Charles Busch took to the Lucille Lortel Theatre stage as Gillian in a staged reading of John Van Druten's 'Bell, Book & Candle' and BroadwayWorld.com was there.

We are treated to Broadway's Tony-award winning starlet, Sutton Foster, joined by veteran performers William Michals, Dee Hoty, Matt Bogart and Donna McKechnie.