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The second annual SOUL TRAIN AWARDS gears up for a highly anticipated show on Wednesday, November 10 at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in metropolitan Atlanta, GA. Hosted by Oscar-nominated actors Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson, the 2010 SOUL TRAIN AWARDS will premiere on both CENTRIC and BET on Sunday, November 28 at 9:00 PM*.

The Palais Royale - South Bend's Premier Event Facility -- is pleased to host its ninth annual New Year's Eve gala event on Friday, December 31, which starts at 8:00 p.m.

GRAMMY® Award-winning showman David Foster, whose recent 10-city Foster & Friends Tour was an extraordinary success nationwide, will return to the Mandalay Bay Events Center Friday, Oct. 15 at 8 p.m. for an extraordinary evening of music.

Grammy nominated superstars Katy Perry and Akon will be the musical guests on THE VICTORIA'S SECRET FASHION SHOW, taped in New York, to be broadcast Tuesday, Nov. 30 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Supermodels Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Candice Swanepoel, Chanel Iman, Erin Heatherton, Lily Aldridge, Behati Prinsloo and a bevy of other Victoria's Secret Angels will star in this lingerie runway show, which will also include red carpet interviews, model profiles and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the world's most celebrated fashion show.

Guitarist, vocalist, composer, producer and arranger, Steve Lukather is set to release his new solo album 'All's Well That Ends Well' on Monday 11th October 2010.

'Wildhorn&Friends concert in Vienna reunited Wildhorn and Eder in a grand night of singing produced by Walter Feucht

'It's a Grilled Cheesus!' Finn exclaims, thus beginning a 'Holy Cheesus' of an episode of Glee. Gleeks, this week was kind of heavy with its take on God and spirituality being the front and center focus of the episode. Finn makes a grilled cheese sandwich, which has the likeness of Jesus on it, thus making it a 'Grilled Cheesus.' Kurt visits his dad's garage to bring his dad his breakfast, leading to a conversation about their traditional Friday night dinners, which Kurt seems to find pointless now with his mother gone, much to Burt's disappointment. At rehearsal, the discussion of Finn's 'Grilled Cheesus' leads to a discussion on religion and varying opinions of it, the most harsh and agnostic coming from Kurt, who feels religion is a joke of sorts. Mr. Schuester decides to make the theme of the week spirituality, leading to Puck jumping up to perform 'Only the Good Die Young' by fellow Jew, Billy Joel.

Today we begin a new comprehensive academic music discussion series on BroadwayWorld in which I speak to the most cutting-edge artists in the recording industry, on Broadway and in Hollywood about their influences and experiences in the industry with an emphatic emphasis on the songwriting process itself and what drives and inspires it. While these discussions may be on occasion only tangentially theatre-related, the insights provided by the various participants is a demonstrative way in which to illuminate perhaps the most mysterious of all the arts: music. Peering into the psyche of the composer and lyricist, we may begin to understand what the craft of composition and lyric-writing is all about and why musical theatre tends to attract the most talented and innovative songwriters, both in the twentieth-century and today (as this column proves).

It took me more than five years of being in Las Vegas but I finally saw Frank Marino's show. The city's best-known, and longest-running, drag performer is now in Divas Las Vegas at the Imperial Palace. The very special occasion the night I saw it was the celebration of Marino's 25 years as a Las Vegas Strip headliner.

2010 Keep A Child Alive's Black Ball at the Hammerstein Ballroom on September 30, 2010 in New York City.

September 23, 2010. The Hartt School presents the Hartt Symphony Orchestra on Friday, October 1, at 7:30 PM in Millard Auditorium, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford. This concert of orchestral masterpieces is conducted by Edward Cumming, Hartt's Interim Director of Orchestral Activities and long-time Music Director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. Admission is $20, with discounts for seniors, students, and groups. Please call the University Box Office at 860.768.4228 or 800.274.8587 or visit www.hartford.edu/hartt for more information.

This week GLEE took on Britney, but according to E! Online, the forecast for the hit show's next episode is a little more spiritual.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced back in August that Bernadette Peters will star as Sally Durant Plummer in the Kennedy Center production of Follies in the Eisenhower Theater May 7 to June 5, 2011. Additionally, BroadwayWorld.com had heard that starring alongside Peters could be Sex and the City star and Golden Globe winner Kim Cattrall as Phyllis, Danny Burstein as Buddy and John Dossett as Ben, all of whom were cast and were then in contract negotiations. We've now heard from reliable sources that neither Cattrall or Dossett were able to work out their contract deals for the production and that both sides have moved in. Now said to be in talks? First lady of the British Musical Theatre Elaine Paige and Linda Lavin, who was most recently a 2010 Tony nominee for Collected Stories. More information to come soon...

Multiple award-winning hit maker, songwriter, producer and recording artist Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds will perform live in concert at The Orleans Showroom November 6 and 7, each evening at 8 p.m.

Jim Caruso is proud to announce that TONY®-nominated GAVIN CREEL will be performing three concerts at Birdland on Mondays, November 1, 8 and 15 at 7pm. These events will be part of the long-running Broadway at Birdland concert series.

BroadwayWorld.com presents Twitter Watch, which brings you only the best and most interesting reports straight from the mouths of Broadway stars, shows and more on the hot social networking service - Twitter! Broadway legend and Tony Award-winning actress Bernadette Peters has just opened her own Twitter account and BroadwayWorld brings you her first Tweets below:

September 23, 2010. The Hartt School presents the Hartt Symphony Orchestra on Friday, October 1, at 7:30 PM in Millard Auditorium, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford. This concert of orchestral masterpieces is conducted by Edward Cumming, Hartt's Interim Director of Orchestral Activities and long-time Music Director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. Admission is $20, with discounts for seniors, students, and groups. Please call the University Box Office at 860.768.4228 or 800.274.8587 or visit www.hartford.edu/hartt for more information.

On Monday, September 20th at 8:00pm, the Bleecker Street Theater Company will present a reading of Charles Messina's astoundingly hilarious new Broadway-bound comedy, 'A ROOM OF MY OWN' as part of that theater's Play Development Series.

Marion J. Caffey's 3 Mo' Divas will be live again at the Apollo Theater but this time, in the Up Close & Personal setting of the Apollo Theater's 3rd floor Sound Stage. This wonderfully intimate performance space (150 seats) will have you face to face with three of the most powerful and versatile voices on the planet. Singing music from their PBS TV Special and from their NAACP Image Award Nominated CD...and Mo'. This is the Divas 3rd time playing the Apollo, but their first time in this intimate setting. New York audiences will feel like the Divas are in their own living room.

Marion J. Caffey's 3 Mo' Divas will be live again at the Apollo Theater but this time, in the Up Close & Personal setting of the Apollo Theater's 3rd floor Sound Stage. This wonderfully intimate performance space (150 seats) will have you face to face with three of the most powerful and versatile voices on the planet. Singing music from their PBS TV Special and from their NAACP Image Award Nominated CD...and Mo'. This is the Divas 3rd time playing the Apollo, but their first time in this intimate setting. New York audiences will feel like the Divas are in their own living room.