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The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance Department of Musical Theatre presents a special 25 th Anniversary Concert on Saturday, March 21 at 8 PM in Hill Auditorium. Featuring current students of the department and alumni in collaboration with members of the UM Symphony Band, the 25 th Anniversary Concert celebrates the silver anniversary of this program with a wide variety of musical numbers, dances and musical theatre overtures. Faculty members Brent Wagner, Linda Goodrich, Mark Madama direct and choreograph, with Cynthia Kortman Westphal conducting members of the University Symphony Band.

The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance Department of Musical Theatre presents a special 25 th Anniversary Concert on Saturday, March 21 at 8 PM in Hill Auditorium. Featuring current students of the department and alumni in collaboration with members of the UM Symphony Band, the 25 th Anniversary Concert celebrates the silver anniversary of this program with a wide variety of musical numbers, dances and musical theatre overtures. Faculty members Brent Wagner, Linda Goodrich, Mark Madama direct and choreograph, with Cynthia Kortman Westphal conducting members of the University Symphony Band.

The concert, dubbed 'A Night with The Ladies', will feature the work of five incredible women: Deborah Abramson & Amanda Yesnowitz, Katie Thompson, and Lindsay Baker & Amanda Jacobs. Deborah Abramson & Amanda Yesnowitz will present songs from their piece, The History of War, for which Chip Zien provided the book. Katie Thompson's work as a songwriter has been featured in Monday Night's New Voices, and can be heard on either of her two albums, What I've Done Right and KT Live. Lindsay Baker & Amanda Jacobs are the writing team behind the Broadway bound musical, Pride & Prejudice.

The concert, dubbed 'A Night with The Ladies', will feature the work of five incredible women: Deborah Abramson & Amanda Yesnowitz, Katie Thompson, and Lindsay Baker & Amanda Jacobs. Deborah Abramson & Amanda Yesnowitz will present songs from their piece, The History of War, for which Chip Zien provided the book. Katie Thompson's work as a songwriter has been featured in Monday Night's New Voices, and can be heard on either of her two albums, What I've Done Right and KT Live. Lindsay Baker & Amanda Jacobs are the writing team behind the Broadway bound musical, Pride & Prejudice.

It has been announced that Tom Lucca will be replacing actor Jerry Dickstein in Romantic Poetry on November 18th, 2008 as 'Frankie'

The limited engagement of ROMANTIC POETRY celebrated opening night on Tuesday, October 28. Performances began September 30th 2008 at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street).

Manhattan Theatre Club will present the upcoming world premiere of ROMANTIC POETRY, a new musical by John Patrick Shanley and Henry Krieger.

Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of ROMANTIC POETRY, a new musical by John Patrick Shanley and Henry Krieger, is currently in previews at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street) in preparation for a Tuesday, October 28 opening.

'What happens when several composers each try their hand at the same song? What do you get when you combine an amazing theatre composer with a great twentieth-century poet? What happens if you ask a pop composer to write for a string quartet?' Find out the answers on Sunday, 12 October, 2008 at 7:30 p.m., when Artistic Director Joel Fram brings his acclaimed New York New Voices series to London's Purcell Room at the Southbank Centre. An astonishing line-up of cutting-edge musical theatre composers include Jason Robert Brown, Sam Davis, Joel Fram, Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich, Andrew Lippa, Paul Loesel, Steve Marzullo, Marc Smollin, Georgia Stitt, and Joseph Thalken.

Manhattan Theatre Club will present the upcoming world premiere of ROMANTIC POETRY, a new musical by John Patrick Shanley and Henry Krieger.

On Sunday, September 28th at 7:00pm, Dreamlight Theatre Company will present the next installment of 'Bright Lights', a concert series dedicated to showcasing the work of emerging composers and lyricists in musical theatre.

Manhattan Theatre Club will present the upcoming world premiere of ROMANTIC POETRY, a new musical by John Patrick Shanley and Henry Krieger.

On Sunday, September 28th at 7:00pm, Dreamlight Theatre Company will present the next installment of 'Bright Lights', a concert series dedicated to showcasing the work of emerging composers and lyricists in musical theatre.

Composer and Lyricist Scott Alan is currently back in the recording studio recording his follow up CD to his successful debut, 'Dreaming Wide Awake.'

On Sunday, September 28th at 7:00pm, Dreamlight Theatre Company will present the next installment of 'Bright Lights', a concert series dedicated to showcasing the work of emerging composers and lyricists in musical theatre.

On Sunday, September 28th at 7:00pm, Dreamlight Theatre Company will present the next installment of 'Bright Lights', a concert series dedicated to showcasing the work of emerging composers and lyricists in musical theatre.

Single tickets for Manhattan Theatre Club's productions at New York City Center, including the announced productions of ROMANTIC POETRY, RUINED, and BACK BACK BACK, are on sale now.

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) is pleased to announce full casting for the upcoming world premiere of ROMANTIC POETRY, a new musical by John Patrick Shanley and Henry Krieger.

The American Musicals Project (AMP), a creative educational curriculum that promotes the study of history and English through musical theater to seventh and eighth grade students, presents a month-full of marvelous show tune and concerts, featuring the best of Broadway actors and veterans. Tributes to John Kander and Fred Ebb, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman and Noel Coward.

The Dramatists Guild Fund and Dramatists Guild of America presented their annual gala dinner and Guild awards ceremony to benefit the Fund on Monday, April 23, and BroadwayWorld was there!