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The Barn Players Seeks Directors For 2011 Season, 7/15 Deadline

After almost a decade of traveling the country (to go along with countless international productions as well as a recently planted sit-down production in Las Vegas), the National Touring company of DISNEY'S THE LION KING returns to the Orange County Performing Arts Center for a strictly-limited three-week run through June 13, to dazzle a new generation of wide-eyed audiences, offering the chance for many to relive one of the most celebrated, most creatively-staged musicals to ever grace the Broadway stage. There is no denying the awe-inspiring wonder this show elicits out of its rapt audience; even after years of seeing the show's last visit to the O.C. (as well as the three-year sit-down production that christened the newly-refurbished Pantages Theatre in Hollywood back in 2000), the show surprisingly holds up well with age, especially when you consider what other shows have followed in its wake.

Sacramento Music Circus has announced the casting for its sixtieth summer season. The seven-show season will include the Music Circus premieres of 'Spamalot,' 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' and 'The Marvelous Wonderettes' and new stagings of 'Oklahoma!,' 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,' '42nd Street' and 'Funny Girl,' the latter returning to Music Circus after an 18-year absence.

The Orange County return of DISNEY'S THE LION KING opens tonight, Friday, May 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Segerstrom Hall at the Orange County Performing Arts Center for a limited engagement of three weeks through Sunday, June 13.

MTG Seeks Directorial Staff For JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

Disney's THE LION KING set new box office records in Madison during each week of its four-week premiere engagement which concluded on Sunday, May 23. THE LION KING is the highest grossing theatrical production to ever play Overture Center for the Arts where it grossed over $4.8 million and entertained more than 68,000 people.

Whatsonstage.com is reporting that famed lyricist Tim Rice may be revisiting an old partnership with Andrew Lloyd Webber for the upcoming West End production of The Wizard of Oz. The production found its Dorothy last week via the BBC talent show Over The Rainbow, casting Danielle Hope in the role that Judy Garland has made famous.

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President & Executive Producer Wally Jones is excited to announce the 2010-2011 Broadway season at Casa Mañana Theatre.

The Fine Arts Center Theatre Company, with one week remaining for the hit Gershwin musical comedy, Crazy For You, announces its 2010-2011 season.

Covedale Center for the Performing Arts will hold Auditions for the first two up-coming Productions Of The Covedale's 2010/2011 season: EVITA And UNNECESSARY FARCE on Monday, May 24, 2010, 6:30 - 9:30 pm.

Bailiwick Chicago Presents One Night Only Benefit Performance of SHOW US YOUR LOVE 5/23

Covedale Center for the Performing Arts will hold Auditions for the first two up-coming Productions Of The Covedale's 2010/2011 season. Auditions for EVITA And UNNECESSARY FARCE will be held Sunday, May 23, 2010, from 6:30 to 9:30 pm and on Monday, May 24, 2010, from 6:30 to 9:30 pm.

Today, April 29, Bailiwick Chicago's Executive Director, Kevin Mayes, announced that their musical revue titled, SHOW US YOUR LOVE, will be revived for a one-night only benefit performance at the Skokie Theatre on Sunday, May 23 at 7:30pm.

All auditions will be held at the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, 4990 Glenway Avenue in West Price Hill.

Covedale Center for the Performing Arts will hold Auditions for the first two up-coming Productions Of The Covedale's 2010/2011 season: EVITA And UNNECESSARY FARCE on Sunday, May 23, 2010, 6:30 - 9:30 pm and Monday, May 24, 2010, 6:30 - 9:30 pm.

On May 23, Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America (www.yangtze-rep-theatre.org) will end its run of 'Laughing in the Wind: A Cautionary Tale in Martial Arts,' based on a novel by Jin Yong, China's most popular writer of the Martial Arts (Wuxia) genre, and arguably the most widely read author in the Chinese speaking world.

Disney Theatrical Productions is delighted to announce the return of DISNEY'S THE LION KING to Toronto. The multi-award-winning, record-breaking musical comes back to the city where it had its Canadian premiere in April 2000 and played 1,560 performances (closing in January 2004).

Single tickets for the 60th anniversary Music Circus season at the Wells Fargo Pavilion will go on sale on Monday, May 17 at 10 a.m. Tickets for all seven shows, Monty Python's SPAMALOT, JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, OKLAHOMA, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, FUNNY GIRL, THE MARVELOUS WONDRETTES, and 42ND STREET will be available by phone at (916) 557-1999, at the Wells Fargo Pavilion box office window at 1419 H Street, or online at http://www.SacramentoMusicCircus.com. Tickets are $50 for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday evenings, as well as Saturday matinees. Tickets are $53 for Friday and Saturday evenings and $41 for Thursday matinee.

Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the smash hit Broadway musical, is coming to the Shubert Theater for a limited engagement, May 14-16. The five performances, Friday at 7:30pm, Saturday at 2pm & 7pm and Sunday at 1pm & 6 pm, are sponsored by Lexus of New Haven, New Haven Register and WTNH, News Channel 8.