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Broadway In Chicago will host the world premiere of THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a new musical based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams, beginning performances Friday, November 13, 2009 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre (24 W. Randolph St., Chicago).

Beginning this month, the cast of STOMP will star in a PSA being shown on video screens currently installed most of the city's medallion taxicabs promoting the 'STOMP OUT LITTER' campaign.

The marquee has just gone up and the set is being loaded into the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street) for the upcoming Broadway production of A Catered Affair, the new musical with book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, score by John Bucchino and directed by Tony Award-winner John Doyle.

Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, writers of the 2006 Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys, are the librettists for THE ADDAMS FAMILY, Drama Desk Award-winning composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party) is writing the score, and Improbable Theater founders Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch (Shockheaded Peter) will direct and design. EET plans to premiere THE ADDAMS FAMILY in the 2009-2010 Broadway season, preceded by an out-of-town tryout.

The producers of JERSEY BOYS, winner of this year's Tony® Award for Best Musical, have announced the cast that will launch the National Tour in San Francisco.

Ventriloquist Jay Johnson and Bob, stars of the new Broadway show, Jay Johnson: The Two and Only!, have been selected by The League of Women Voters of the City of New York to deliver a major city-wide Register to Vote and Get Out The Vote public service campaign. 'Bob and I are honored to have been chosen by such a fine organization to use our collective voices in getting the word out,' says Mr. Johnson.

'Theatrical Marketing and Advertising' will be the focus of the April 25 panel of The American Theatre Wing's Theatre Intern Group

The hit Broadway musical, JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, which has taken Broadway by storm, will launch a National Tour in San Francisco beginning in December, 2006. JERSEY BOYS, which opened to rave reviews on November 6, 2005, continues to set new weekly box office records at the August Wilson Theatre and has been among the top grossing shows on Broadway ever since.

Carla Collins, a model and actress from Botswana, is sueing the producer of Spamalot for putting a sexy photo of her on one of the Shubert Theatre's billboards without her authorization

Rick Elice, Bob Fennell, Stewart Lane and other producers, marketing experts and theater writers took part in the Drama Desk's first panel discussion of the 2005/2006 season on November 21st

Kitchen Sink Volume 3, produced by Geoffrey Soffer, took place at the Makor on Monday, September 12th and featured the talents of Celia Keenan-Bolger, Shoshana Bean, Manley Pope, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and more!

The Winter 2005 SEASON OF SAVINGS campaign officially launches on Sunday, January 2, 2005. Theatergoers can access easy-to-use discount coupons online at www.SeasonOfSavings.com.