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The First Night Honors' Class of 2015 will be revealed next Monday night, July 27, as Nashville Theater's Big Reveal: The First Night Preview Party gets under way at Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre at 6 p.m., featuring entertainment by the casts of some of the summer's biggest musicals throughout Tennessee.

Currently on stage in the Sarratt Cinema at Vanderbilt University is the Circle Players' production of Bare: A Pop Opera. With a book, music, and lyrics by Jon Hartmere Jr and Damon Intrabartolo, Bare: A Pop Opera touches on so many things that young people are facing in today's world. The Circle Players' production, under the direction of Heather Alexander and with musical direction by Eddie Charlton, is the kind of show that I had so many mixed feelings about at first. The initial setting of the story is that which anyone who doesn't come from wealth can be annoyed by. Set in a Catholic boarding school, every child seems to have a life that most of us have never experienced. What starts to pull you in immediately is the thing that seemingly can't be avoided....the connections between these young people and our own lives. Each has something they are dealing with that seems so much bigger than with what they should have to deal.

Circle Players ends its 64th Season of shows with the edgy and socially relevant rock musical bare, A Pop Opera. The show deals with the gamut of issues faced by teens today-- sexuality, drug abuse, bullying, pregnancy and suicide-set in a religious school. For this production, Circle Players partners with Just Us @ Oasis Center, which provides support for high school students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ). Performances will be today, May 23-June 1, 2014, at Sarratt Cinema on the Vanderbilt University campus.

Circle Players ends its 64th Season of shows with the edgy and socially relevant rock musical bare, A Pop Opera. The show deals with the gamut of issues faced by teens today-- sexuality, drug abuse, bullying, pregnancy and suicide-set in a religious school. For this production, Circle Players partners with Just Us @ Oasis Center, which provides support for high school students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ). Performances will be May 23-June 1, 2014, at Sarratt Cinema on the Vanderbilt University campus.

BroadwayWorld collected as many of yesterday's evening Saturday Intermission Pics as we could to bring you Part 2 of our April 20th SIP round-up. Yesterday evening's photos featured more love to Boston from NEWSIES and ONCE, plus pics from MATILDA, PIPPIN, F#%KING UP EVERYTHING, SILENCE! THE MUSICAL, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, PETER PAN, Paper Mill's THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, La Mirada's SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS and more!

BroadwayWorld collected as many of yesterday's evening Saturday Intermission Pics as we could to bring you Part 2 of our April 6th SIP round-up. Yesterday evening's photos featured Tom Hanks' first two SIPs for LUCKY GUY, a bunch of fun pics from MATILDA, more from THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, FLASHDANCE celebrating 100 performances, plus images from CINDERELLA, KINKY BOOTS, PIPPIN, JERSEY BOYS, WICKED and lots of regional shows.

Jubilee Theatre ends its 2008-2009 Season, the company?s 28th, with Sam Shade: A Detective Musical, an original musical with music and lyrics by Joe Rogers. Directed by Tyrone King, this farce is based on the classic novels The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells and The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.

Jubilee Theatre ends its 2008-2009 Season, the company?s 28th, with Sam Shade: A Detective Musical, an original musical with music and lyrics by Joe Rogers. Directed by Tyrone King, this farce is based on the classic novels The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells and The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.

Jubilee Theatre ends its 2008-2009 Season, the company?s 28th, with Sam Shade: A Detective Musical, an original musical with music and lyrics by Joe Rogers. Directed by Tyrone King, this farce is based on the classic novels The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells and The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.