Tommy Dorsey News

The Town and Country Players will stage Arthur Miller's New York Drama Critics Circle Award-winning play All My Sons, opening on Friday, July 17 and running through Saturday, August 1 at their venue in Buckingham.

Frank Sinatra Jr. will take the Blue Note stage for the first time in late May to sing the songs of his father, the late great vocalist Frank Sinatra Sr., as he remembers them. Sinatra Jr. grew up on the bandstand, listening to his father sing the classics from the Great American Songbook night after night, all over the world.

Frank Sinatra Jr. will take the Blue Note stage for the first time in late May to sing the songs of his father, the late great vocalist Frank Sinatra Sr., as he remembers them. Sinatra Jr. grew up on the bandstand, listening to his father sing the classics from the Great American Songbook night after night, all over the world.

Girl Crazy, with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and Jack McGowan, will open New York City Center's 2009-2010 Encores! season on November 19, 2009. The season will continue with Fanny, with music and lyrics by Harold Rome and book by S. N. Behrman and Joshua Logan, on February 4, 2010. Fanny will be the 50th Encores! production presented by City Center since 1994. The season will conclude with Anyone Can Whistle, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents' legendary 1964 musical, on April 8, 2010.

Music from around the world, from the ?40s Big Band Song and Dance Revue IN THE MOOD, the very funny and entertaining 3 REDNECK TENORS, the ever popular IRISH ROVERS, Miami?s hot Cuban timba band TIEMPO LIBRE, Portuguese fado singer MARIZA along with a newly added performance by the MARIACHI LOS CAMPEROS de NATI CANO who will bring the second performance season at the Balboa Theatre to a resounding close!

In its 13th Season, the Virginia Arts Festival will present the world?s great performers to audiences throughout Hampton Roads, in six whirlwind weeks that will bring over 50 performances to more than two dozen venues in ten cities across the region. Performances include the best of Broadway, breathtaking ballet, electrifying modern dance, colorful performance traditions from around the world?and great music for every taste, from the world?s most acclaimed classical artists to top performers of pop, country, bluegrass, and jazz. Showstoppers Liza Minnelli and Patti LuPone, two of the most extraordinary voices in American theater, bookend the 2009 Festival.

Music arranger Angela Morley, who won Emmys for arranging two of Julie Andrews television specials has died at 84 in Scottsdale, Arizona. She's said to have passed away from complications of a fall and a subsequent heart attack. The three-time Emmy winner, also received Oscar nominations for adaptaing the songs in the musicals 'The Little Prince' and 'The Slipper and the Rose' This prolific woman also wrote her own official bio for her web site, which we reprint below. A very full life! Our thoughts and prayers go out to her partner Christine Parker, along with her son, grandchildren and great-grandchildren during this difficult time.

JAMS celebrates their 9th season at The Harriet on Feb. 24, as pianist and University of Miami Frost School of Music Dean Shelly Berg and his trio team up with clarinet virtuouso Ken Peplowski for what's sure to be an exciting set of traditional jazz. Peplowski apprenticed with the bands of Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman in the late '70s and early '80s, and is perhaps best known for his sparkling duet work with guitarist Howard Alden, with whom he also teamed for the soundtrack to the Woody Allen movie Sweet and Lowdown.

Feinstein's at Loews Regency, will continue their Fall 2007 season with the Grammy Award nominated Hawaiian singer Amy Hanaiali'i from October 9 - 13. All shows are at the Regency Hotel.

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