All Shook Up - 2004 - Regional (US) Articles Page 19

The producers of JERSEY BOYS, winner of this year's Tony® Award for Best Musical, have announced the cast that will launch the National Tour in San Francisco.

Conceptual pop artist Francesca Harper, currently on stage in The Color Purple, blended original music, choreography, dance, and film into a contemporary pop variety show, 'Modo Fusion Lounge,' which was performed at the 92nd Street Y's Makor/Steinhardt Center on October 9th

Jennifer Hudson, 'American Idol' finalist and star of the upcoming film of Dreamgirls, and The Drowsy Chaperone's Tony-winning star Bob Martin have joined the cast of The Actors' Fund one-night-only benefit performance of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Francesca Harper, currently on stage in The Color Purple, will blend original music, choreography, dance, and film into a contemporary pop variety show, 'Modo Fusion Lounge,' which will be performed at the 92nd Street Y's Makor/Steinhardt Center on October 9th at 7:30 PM

Tony Award-nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger, who currently appears in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, has been cast as the waifish Eponine in the upcoming Broadway return of Les Miserables

How to Save the World and Find True Love in 90 Minutes, a new musical, will open at New World Stages/Stage 5 (340 West 50th Street) on November 12th after beginning previews on November 4th; it will be directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli

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

Musical director and producer Brian J. Nash shares the diary that he wrote aboard Rosie's Family Cruise, which featured performances by Audra McDonald, Cyndi Lauper and more!

Drew Sarich, Doug Kreeger, Megan McGinnis and more round out the cast of Les Miserables, which returns to Broadway this fall

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

A Chorus Line, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning musical, proudly announces the 2006 cast.

Hal Luftig, Fox Theatricals and Dori Berinstein, in association with MGM Onstage, Darcie Denkert and Dean Stolber, are psyched to announce LEGALLY BLONDE, the musical, based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture. Previews begin on March 30, 2007 and opening night is set for April 26, 2007 at a Broadway theatre to be announced. LEGALLY BLONDE will play a world premiere, pre-Broadway engagement in San Francisco at The Orpheum Theatre January 2007.

The hit Broadway musical, JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, which has taken Broadway by storm, will launch a National Tour in San Francisco beginning in December, 2006. JERSEY BOYS, which opened to rave reviews on November 6, 2005, continues to set new weekly box office records at the August Wilson Theatre and has been among the top grossing shows on Broadway ever since.

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Donna English, Jenny Fellner and Tom Hewitt will be featured in a March 9th private industry reading of Matthew Wilder and David Zippel's Princesses

On February 7th, Scott Porter will depart Altar Boyz in order to pursue his burgeoning TV career

The production will star Josh Strickland as Tarzan, Jenn Gambatese as Jane, Merle Dandridge as Kala, Shuler Hensley as Kerchak, Chester Gregory II as Terk, Timothy Jerome as Professor Porter and Donnie Keshawarz as Clayton. Daniel Manche and Alex Rutherford will alternate in the role of Young Tarzan.

I LOVE YOU BECAUSE stars Farah Alvin, David A. Austin, Tony Award nominee Stephanie D'Abruzzo (Avenue Q) and Colin Hanlon.

A CD with songs from the first Broadway Unplugged concert, which was held at Town Hall in 2004, will be released on September 12th

Host Star Jones ('The View') and special guest Deborah Cox (Aida) will join Tony Award nominee Michael McElroy (Big River) and The Broadway Inspirational Voices for the return of BROADWAY GOSPEL CELEBRATION: 11 a special evening of gospel music to benefit BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS on Sunday, October 16 at 8 PM at Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street).

The former child star of 'The Wizard of Oz' is now playing Polly Browne in 'The Boy Friend,' directed by Broadway's original Polly, Julie Andrews.

Sixty-nine theatre artists representing 51 shows have been nominated for 2005 Henry Hewes Design Awards

Cheyenne Jackson and Michael McElroy have been added to a star-studded cast of performers who will sing off-mic at the second Broadway Unplugged concert on September 19th

Kerry Butler, along with Cheryl Freeman, Tyler Maynard, Anika Larsen and Karen Olivo, will star in Tina Landau's staging of Kirsten Childs' new work, Miracle Brothers, which opens on August 25th at the Vineyard Theatre