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A day-of-performance lottery for a limited number of orchestra seats will be held daily for WICKED, which will be performing from May 19 to June 13 at Ovens Auditorium. Each day, 2½ hours prior to show time, people who present themselves at the Ovens Auditorium box office will have their names placed in a lottery drum and then, thirty minutes later, names will be drawn for a limited number of orchestra seats at $25 each, cash only.

After breaking box office records and selling out in record time in 2007, the smash-hit musical WICKED will return to the Ohio Theatre for five weeks only July 28-August 29.

This show does things that your traditional musical does not do. That is where I begin to be perplexed. SPRING AWAKENING has what we might term traditional Broadway songs, including ballads and tuneful melodies. This is where Duncan Sheik on music and Steven Sater on lyrics certainly let us down. It also has some of the most exciting, and fetching rock songs or ‘indie rock' ever presented on a Broadway stage. This is where Sheik and Sater make SPRING AWAKENING a rock concert with theatrical surroundings. Or, perhaps they made a theatrical show and infused it with a rock concert sensibility.

A day-of-performance lottery for a limited number of orchestra seats will be held daily for WICKED, which will be performing from May 19 to June 13 at Ovens Auditorium. Each day, 2½ hours prior to show time, people who present themselves at the Ovens Auditorium box office will have their names placed in a lottery drum and then, thirty minutes later, names will be drawn for a limited number of orchestra seats at $25 each, cash only.

Broadway's most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony Award®-winner in years is coming to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. Spring Awakening, the 8-time Tony Award® winning Broadway musical, will open on May 11, 2010 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and play for eight performances through May 16th. Spring Awakening is presented by the Adrienne Arsht Center and Broadway Across America-Miami.

Broadway's most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony Award®-winner in years, Spring Awakening, is coming to Detroit's Fisher Theatre April 20 - May 9, 2010.

The Princeton Packet features an article a look back with Sondheim On Sondheim conceiver and director James Lapine.

USA Today featured an article titled 'Singing 'Sondheim' Praises by Elysa Gardner. The article begins: Don't get theater and cabaret veteran Barbara Cook started on the physical attributes of singer/actress Vanessa Williams, her co-star in Sondheim on Sondheim, the new Broadway musical at Studio 54.

It's just been announced that today's matinee performance of Sondheim on Sondheim at Studio 54 has been canceled.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) announces a two-week extension of Sondheim on Sondheim through Sunday, June 27th, 2010.

The 17th Annual Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration program, posthumously honoring and celebrating the work of lighting and set designer Michael Philippi (Desire Under the Elms, Death of a Salesman), 'an esteemed longtime collaborator and friend', will take place on Monday, May 3, at the Goodman Theatre.

According to a recent Twitter post from the official Wicked the Musical Twitter account, the hit show will end its San Francisco run on September 5th. The production opened at the Orpheum Theatre on February 6, 2009.

Sondheim on Sondheim's Euan Morton will be featured on WNYC's 'Soundcheck' on Thursday, April 22nd from 2:00-2:30PM on 93.9FM and AM 820.

Roundabout Theatre Company's (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) Sondheim on Sondheim opens officially on Broadway tomorrow Thursday, April 22nd at Studio 54 on Broadway (254 West 54th Street).

Today, Vanessa Williams performed Sondheim on Sondheim on ABC's 'LIVE! With Regis & Kelly' on channel 7.

Broadway's most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony Award®-winner in years is coming to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. Spring Awakening, the 8-time Tony Award® winning Broadway musical, will open on May 11, 2010 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and play for eight performances through May 16th. Spring Awakening is presented by the Adrienne Arsht Center and Broadway Across America-Miami.

Tomorrow Wednesday, April 21st, tune in to watch Vanessa Williams perform on ABC's 'LIVE! With Regis & Kelly' on channel 7 between 9:00-10:00AM.

Stephen Sondheim gave an interview to The Today Show, during which he discussed his career, Sondheim on Sondheim and Oscar Hammerstein II.

Broadway's most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony Award®-winner in years, Spring Awakening, is coming to Detroit's Fisher Theatre April 20 - May 9, 2010.

Sondheim on Sondheim opens officially on April 22nd, 2010 at Studio 54 on Broadway (254 West 54th Street). This will be a limited engagement through Sunday, June 13th, 2010. Here - Broadway stars and Sondheim-show veterans share their memories and thoughts on the man himself.