A Chorus Line Revival

As the theatre season gets back into gear, BroadwayWorld.com tallies up some numbers that are quite impressive. Their biggest story to date has been an ongoing piece this summer titled 'What's on Your iPod?.' It boasts a host of theatre celebrities, singers and well-known industry professionals listing what they're listening to on their iPod. Due to the feature's huge popularity, it was extended to continue for over 40 days, concluding this Saturday, September 9, 2006.

Tour dates in Phoenix, Boston, Fort Worth and Memphis have been added for the upcoming tour of James Kirkwood's claw-baring comedy Legends, featuring 'Dynasty' co-stars Joan Collins and Linda Evans

Theatre lovers can now place pre-bids for Grand and Silent Auction items that are being offered as part of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' 20th Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction

Jack Noseworthy, who recently appeared at the Delacorte Theatre in Mother Courage, will make his solo nightclub debut with 'You Don't Know Jack!' at The Metropolitan Room on Tuesday, September 19 at 10:00 pm and Wednesday, September 20 at 7:00pm

Back in NYC after doing sketch comedy and nonmusical theater in L.A., Angela will play the 'Drowsy' lead Janet for a week in September.

The exclusive pre-Broadway engagement of 'A Chorus Line' in San Francisco has been kicked back to life with an explosive cast and recreation!

Tony Award-winner Donna McKechnie, whose memoir Time Steps: My Musical Comedy Life celebrates a performing career that has spanned over four decades, will appear in two upcoming book-signing events

The Richmond/Ermet AIDS Foundation presents a One Night Only Cabaret featuring combined company members from the cast of A Chorus Line and the national tour of The Light in the Piazza, Monday, August 21 at 7:30PM at Club Fugazi.

On August 22nd, Stuart Marland will succeed Jacob Young as Lumiere in Broadway's Beauty and the Beast

Due to other engagements, Tony Award-winner Donna McKechnie will no longer be taking on the title role of Mame in a semi-staged concert version of the Jerry Herman classic at the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA

Masterworks Broadway will release the 10th Anniversary CD / DVD Box Set of the Broadway smash Chicago on October 3

Full casting has been set for the upcoming national tour of On Golden Pond, co-starring the previously announced Tom Bosley and Michael Learned

Andrew McCarthy will direct a benefit of Love's Fire, with a starry cast to be announced, on September 25th

The new cast album of A Chorus Line, featuring a bonus track, will be recorded on August 14th and released on October 3rd

Reviews of 3 male vocal CDS

Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre will kick off its 2006-2007 Season with the national tour of Bombay Dreams, the spectacular musical set amid India's bustling Bollywood film industry, from September 12th through October 1st

For J. Robert Spencer, the journey from eager kid with a drum set and aspirations of rock super-stardom to a leading role in one of the biggest Broadway smashes of recent years was one of hard work, humor, inspiration and a dollop of irony. Long before he received accolades for his on-stage portrayal of a rock star, Spencer longed to be a rock star himself.

Full casting, as well as a tour schedule, has been announced for the upcoming tour of James Kirkwood's claw-baring comedy Legends, featuring 'Dynasty' co-stars Joan Collins and Linda Evans

A starry cast that includes Rachel York, Betty Garrett and Vicki Lewis will sing the songs of the Gershwins in Reprise! Broadway's Best's upcoming staged concert of My One and Only, which will be presented at UCLA's Freud Playhouse from September 5th through 17th

On October 31st, Tony Award-nominees Jonathan Hadary and Marin Mazzie will take over the roles of King Arthur and the Lady of the Lake, respectively, in the hit Broadway production of Camelot

William Mastrosimone's A Stone Carver, starring Dan Lauria, opened Off-Broadway on July 27th

'A Chorus Line,' currently playing its pre-Broadway premiere revival at San Francisco's Curran Theatre through September 2, will open on Broadway on September 18.

SHN San Francisco has launched their new internet-audio podcast, Backstage, whereupon episodes will take you behind the scenes and spotlight exclusive interviews for each show from the 2006-2007 Best of Broadway season, including the SF premiere of 'A Chorus Line.'

Borrowing a line from A Chorus Line, I saw the red shoes' at seven years old and I fell in love with dance.

In this edition: MAF in final weekend, Chekhov at Spotlighters, Music Man at Cockpit, The Baltimore Playwrights Festival, plus - a day in New York.

Lenape Regional Performing Arts Center celebrates its fifth Anniversary with an original Jersey Boy.

Although the national tour of Chicago, currently onstage at Wolf Trap in DC, offers darkly sexy fun and a stunning turn by Michelle DeJean, performances are uneven and the revival itself lacks a bit of sting

A memorial service in celebration of the life of Cy Feuer - legendary Broadway producer, director, composer, musician, and immediate past chairman and long-time president of The League of American Theatres and Producers - has been set for Thursday, September 21st at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre

'The Work of a Casting Director' on July 11th will be the focus of the next panel of The American Theatre Wing's Theatre Intern Group

WHAT: Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story WHERE: Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia WHEN: Now through September 3, 2006 TIMES AND PRICES: Contact Toby's. See end of review.

A DVD of Kevin Spirtas' hit show 'Night and Days,' which he performed at Los Angeles' El Portal Theatre, is now available for pre-order online

Drama Desk President William Wolf recently stopped by the BMI New York office to hand deliver the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop's crystal statuette

On July 3rd, Lewis Cleale succeeded Christopher Sieber in the Broadway production of Spamalot

On July 7th and July 8th at 8:00pm, nine stars--including Donna McKechnie--will be on hand for Neil Berg's retrospective concert 104 Years of Broadway at the Lenape PAC in New Jersey

The American Theatre Wing's Acting: Working in the Theatre (Continuum International Publishing Group/The K.S. Giniger Company Inc.; $14.95; paperback), a collection of advice and anecdotes from a chorus line of the stage's biggest stars, will be available in bookstores on June 30, 2006

JAY JOHNSON: THE TWO AND ONLY! will open on Broadway Thursday, September 28, 2006, at the Helen Hayes Theatre (240 West 44th Street), it was announced by the show's producers.

Drew Sarich, who played Armand in Broadway's Lestat, will succeed Rodney Hicks in the Off-Broadway revival of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris on July 7th

The cast and crew of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris celebrated the show's 100th performance on June 25th at Camino Sur Restaurant

The dates for the upcoming London production of Monty Python's Spamalot have been rearranged; the madcap musical will now begin previews at the Palace Theatre on September 30th for an opening on October 17th

NYC & Company and The League of American Theatres and Producers today announced the full cast for Broadway Under the Stars, a free public concert presented by Target on Monday, June 26th at 8pm at Central Park's Great Lawn. A fireworks finale will follow the performance.

The Wedding Singer is the first Broadway show to participate on ksolo.com, and is the proud sponsor of the site's entire catalog of 80s tunes.

Full casting has been announced for the upcoming national tour of The Light in the Piazza, which will circle the country for 50 weeks beginning in August

The producers of The Legend of Pearl Hart, the new musical about the life and exploits of Pearl Taylor Hart have added a performance on Tuesday, June 20th at 7:30pm

Sally Struthers, Adrian Zmed and Vicki Lewis are among the stars set for the first season of California's new Valley Musical Theatre

In this edition: A Baltimore.BroadwayWorld exclusive discount for readers of this column! Murder mysteries circle the beltway! Cockpit has Monty and Plaza Suite! CSC has Lear and Shrew in outdoor venue! Toby’s Baltimore opens a new show! Sissies take on Gay Pride at Spotlighters! Plus some Post-Tony thoughts and a special thank you.

Over three decades after opening on Broadway, the nostalgic 40s-set musical Over Here will be jumping across the pond this November to open in a new West End production with Donna McKechnie among its stars

There will be a celebration of the life of Tony-nominee Susan MacNair on June 15th at 1PM at the Booth Theatre

Life imitated art on the '42nd Street' tour for Cara, who's now an expert at last-minute understudying.

The Roundabout's new production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera might well have been the most shocking and innovative theatre event of the 1967-68 Broadway season

The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop presented a showcase of new musical works on Monday, June 5 at the Manhattan Theatre Club, featuring stars such as Robb Sapp, Kate Wetherhead and Michael Winther, and BroadwayWorld was there for the occasion!