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Amas Musical Theatre's Rosetta LeNoire Musical Theatre Academy (Donna Trinkoff, Producing Artistic Director; Rosetta LeNoire, Founder) will present the Tony Award-Winning musical Street Dreams: The Inner City Musical, by Eve Merriam, with a score by Helen Miller. Street Dreams: The Inner City Musical will open on Friday, May 9 and run through the 18th at the American Theatre of Actors (314 West 54th St.)

42nd Street Moon offers a glorious musical salute to lyrical whiz, E. Y. Yip Harburg, with the world premiere of Peddling Rainbows, a revue celebrating Harburg's poetry and songs. It previews May 15 and 16, opens May 17 and runs through May 25.

The producers of Hairspray have announced that Jenifer Lewis will join the Broadway company on Tuesday, April 22, in the role of Motormouth Maybelle at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre, 250 West 52 Street.

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Jason Alexander, new artistic director of Reprise! Broadway's Best, announced that Cleavant Derricks, Meg Gillentine, Amelia McQueen, Ken Page, Ty Taylor, Lillias White and Jackee Harry would head up the cast of Damn Yankees. Damn Yankees will perform Tuesday, November 6 through Sunday, November 25 (opening November 7) at UCLA's Freud Playhouse.

Tony Award winning choreographer Dr. Henry LeTang, who choreographed the movies Tap, Bojangles, and The Cotton Club, died last week in a Las Vegas hospital.

'Newport '57 Revisited: The Legacy of Ella, Billie & Basie' is the theme of the 2007 Jazz Festival Newport

Rosie Leaves 'The View' and Broadway Musicals Will Suffer

Ringwald Reigns in Baltimore in 'Sweet Charity'

The Marx Brothers, Mae West, Sophie Tucker, Bert Williams, Florence Mills, and Eva Tanguay are among the legends featured as part of 'Voices of the Town -- A Vaudeville Salute!,' which will soon invade the South Street Seaport.

Family fun for all invades the South Street Seaport on Sunday, March 18 and Saturday, March 24 in 'Voices of the Town-A Vaudeville Salute!'.

Maurice Hines, Andrew Lippa, Jason Danieley, Euan Morton, Tammy Grimes and Linda Lavin are among the performers who will play the Metropolitan Room (34 W. 22nd St.) in upcoming months.

Casting has been announced for the Washington D.C. premiere of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean, presented by Arena Stage

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Full casting is complete for the Delacorte Theatre production of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage, which will run from August 8th through September 3rd in Central Park

Playgoers looking for a perfect nightcap to an evening on Broadway and late-nighters wanting to start their fun with a blast of energy are well-advised to head for Danny's Skylight Room the next two Saturday nights, where Mary Bond Davis delivers the kind of big, beautiful performance that'll send you into Sunday morning with a smile on your face

Keith David, Ann Duquesnay and Vivian Nixon will star in Hot Feet, the new Broadway-bound musical collaboration between Maurice Hines, Maurice White and Heru Ptah

The dance musical Hot Feet, with songs by Earth, Wind and Fire's Maurice White and direction and choreography by Maurice Hines, will play a try-out in D.C. before opening at Broadway's Hilton Theatre in April

The Autograph Suit, featuring the signatures of dozens of celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, Judi Dench and Ethel Merman, will be auctioned off on eBay to fund a Broadway-bound musical premiering at a Pennsylvania high school

Variety reports that 'Hot Feet' will try out at the National Theater in Washington, D.C. from March 18-April 9, followed by previewing on Broadway April 15 for an April 30th opening.

Harold Thau will present the New York premiere of ALMOST HEAVEN: THE SONGS OF JOHN DENVER, a new musical opening Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at Off-Broadway's Promenade Theatre (2162 Broadway at 76th Street). Directed by Tony Award nominee Randal Myler (It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues), ALMOST HEAVEN begins preview performances on Friday, October 28.

Richard E. Waits will headline Andrea Frierson-Toney's new musical drama Soon of a Mornin,' which will open on September 13th as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival

Tony award winners Karen Ziemba and Donna McKechnie, Urinetown's Jeff McCarthy, City of Angels's Leslie Denniston, and Tony-nominated Lara Teeter will star in Barrington Stage Company's production of James Goldman's and Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece Follies. Broadway veteran Marni Nixon will also be featured. Artistic Director Julianne Boyd will direct and Lara Teeter will choreograph. Follies, presented in celebration of Sondheim's 75th birthday, will run from June 23 through July 16 at the Consolati Performing Arts Center, Sheffield, MA.

The New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) will continue its season with a program titled At Harlem's Height on Wednesday, February 23 at 8:00pm as part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook in the Rose Theatre at Jazz at Lincoln Center. The featured soloists will be soprano Dana Hanchard, tenor Darius de Haas, and baritone James Martin, with Steven Blier at the piano.

When presented last year, Darius de Haas' 'Stevie Wonder Songbook' concert at Lincoln Center was a sold-out hit…so he's doing two more shows on February 4th. We checked in with the star of stage and concerts to find out what to expect.