Thomas B McGrath News

The national tour of The Wizard of Oz announced that local youth from the Neenah-Menasha YMCA will perform the roles of 'munchkins' onstage in their hometowns when the national Broadway tour touches down at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center June 25-27, 2010.

Tickets for the return engagement of the Tony®, Grammy® and Olivier Award-winning hit musical JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, will go on sale Wednesday, June 16 at 9:00am through an authorized ticket seller found only at Ticketmaster 1-800-982-2787, at all Ticketmaster outlets, by visiting www.BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com/Boston and directly at the box office of Boston's Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street, Boston, which will open early at 8:00am for ticket sales.

Nickelodeon and Broadway Across America are bringing Storytime Live! to Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE October 16-17 for five shows and Orange County Performing Arts Center October 30-31 for six shows.

Nickelodeon, Broadway Across America, and the Kimmel Center bring Storytime Live! to the Merriam Theater from June 4 - 6. Storytime Live! is the first-ever live family theatrical tour featuring characters from four of the current top-rated preschool shows on television today : Dora the Explorer, The Backyardigans, The Wonder Pets! and Ni Hao, Kai-lan;. Preschoolers and their parents can see their favorite Nick Jr. characters come to life in one action-packed on-stage adventure hosted by Nick Jr.'s Moose A. Moose and Zee. The tour will visit more than 70 cities in 2010.

Nickelodeon, Broadway Across America, and the Kimmel Center bring Storytime Live! to the Merriam Theater from June 4 - 6. Storytime Live! is the first-ever live family theatrical tour featuring characters from four of the current top-rated preschool shows on television today : Dora the Explorer, The Backyardigans, The Wonder Pets! and Ni Hao, Kai-lan;. Preschoolers and their parents can see their favorite Nick Jr. characters come to life in one action-packed on-stage adventure hosted by Nick Jr.'s Moose A. Moose and Zee. The tour will visit more than 70 cities in 2010.

The greatest family musical of all time, The Wizard of Oz, is touching down at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center as NETworks Presentations brings this national treasure to the Fox Cities June 25 through June 27, 2010.

'Without our traditions, our lives would be as shaky as...as a FIDDLER ON THE ROOF,' announces Tevye, a humble milkman from the Russian village of Anatevka. And so begins a tale of love and laughter, devotion and defiance, and changing traditions.

Kumiko Yoshii for Gorgeous Entertainment, John Gore and Thomas B. McGrath in association with Nica Burns and Max Weitzenhoffer for Nimax Theatres present A new production of The Fantasticks Book, lyrics and music by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, Director and Choreographer Amon Miyamoto, Designer Rumi Matsui, Lighting Designer Rick Fisher, Costume Designer Nicky Shaw

Katie Finneran is this year's recipient of the 2010 Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for PROMISES, PROMISES.

The First National Tour of Legally Blonde: The Musical will end its stint at the Aronoff Center, on May 23, 2010 as a Fifth Third Bank Broadway Across America 09/10 Season Presentation.

Nickelodeon and Broadway Across America bring Storytime Live! to the Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Wang Theatre in Boston this spring, playing 6 performances on Saturday, May 22 and Sunday, May 23. Storytime Live! is the first-ever live family theatrical tour featuring characters from four of the current top-rated preschool shows on television today : Dora the Explorer, The Backyardigans, The Wonder Pets! and Ni Hao, Kai-lan;.

Nickelodeon and Broadway Across America bring Storytime Live! to the Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre, 270 Tremont Street, this spring, playing 6 performances on Saturday, May 22 and Sunday, May 23. Showtimes are 11am, 2pm and 5pm. Tickets are $15-$56 and are availlable online at www.citicenter.org or by calling 866-348-9738.

Nickelodeon and Broadway Across America are bringing their latest theatrical production Storytime Live! to Charlotte, NC from June 25-27 for six performances. Storytime Live! is the first-ever live family theatrical tour featuring characters from four of the current top-rated preschool shows on television today: Dora the Explorer, The Backyardigans, The Wonder Pets! and Ni Hao, Kai-lan. Preschoolers and their parents can see their favorite Nick Jr. characters come to life in one action-packed on-stage adventure hosted by Nick Jr.'s Moose A. Moose and Zee. The tour will visit more than 70 cities in 2010.

Fiddler on the Roof has captured the hearts of people all over the world with its universal appeal and timeless message. The North American Tour continues the tradition of the 1964 Jerome Robbins Tony® Award-winning production playing at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center May 11-16, 2010. Robbins won twin Tony awards for his direction and choreography of Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof. In this national tour, both are faithfully recreated by Director Sammy Dallas Bayes, choreographer of the Broadway reviv

August: Osage County, the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play that tells the bitingly funny and sensationally entertaining tale of the Weston family of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, is coming to Boston's Colonial Theatre May 4 - 16 for two weeks only.

Nickelodeon and Broadway Across America bring Storytime Live! to Raleigh from May 15-16. Storytime Live! is the first-ever live family theatrical tour featuring characters from four of the current top-rated preschool shows on television today : Dora the Explorer, The Backyardigans, The Wonder Pets! and Ni Hao, Kai-lan;.

Tickets to WICKED, 'Broadway's biggest blockbuster' (The New York Times), go on sale Saturday, May 15 for a limited 4 week run at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts.

Nickelodeon and Broadway Across America bring Storytime Live! to Raleigh from May 15-16. Storytime Live! is the first-ever live family theatrical tour featuring characters from four of the current top-rated preschool shows on television today : Dora the Explorer, The Backyardigans, The Wonder Pets! and Ni Hao, Kai-lan;.

Nickelodeon and Broadway Across America bring Storytime Live! to Raleigh from May 15-16. Storytime Live! is the first-ever live family theatrical tour featuring characters from four of the current top-rated preschool shows on television today : Dora the Explorer, The Backyardigans, The Wonder Pets! and Ni Hao, Kai-lan;. Preschoolers and their parents can see their favorite Nick Jr. characters come to life in one action-packed on-stage adventure hosted by Nick Jr.'s Moose A. Moose and Zee.

MASTERWORKS BROADWAY proudly announces the upcoming release of the New Broadway Cast Recording of PROMISES, PROMISES. The recording is available nationwide physically and digitally on June 22, 2010 and is produced by Grammy Award winners David Caddick and David Lai. For the first time in over forty years PROMISES, PROMISES returns to the stage starring Emmy Award winner Sean Hayes and Tony and Emmy Award winner Kristin Chenoweth. Directed and choreographed by Tony and Emmy Award winner Rob Ashford, this new production of PROMISES, PROMISES, with Neil Simon's funny and touching book and Burt Bacharach and Hal David's hit-packed score, opened at the Broadway Theatre on Sunday, April 25, 2010.