Meet Me in St. Louis - 2006 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 17

The Paper Mill Playhouse Board of Trustees is proud to announce that Mark S. Hoebee, Paper Mill's Acting Artistic Director since March of 2007 has been promoted to Artistic Director effective immediately.

Eric Schaeffer, artistic director of Signature Theatre, announced today that two-time Tony® winner George Hearn will join another two-time Tony® winner Chita Rivera for Kander & Ebb's musical The Visit - a highlight of Signature Theatre's national Kander & Ebb Celebration in the spring of 2008.

A few weeks back, BroadwayWorld.com's international sources tipped us off to the fact that composer Frank Wildhorn was having quite the European adventure this past summer, with new productions of Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel and Rudolf, taking the continent of Europe by storm in Germany, Italy, Austria, Hungary and more. In addition, a musical theatre festival named after him as well as word that the Far East is joining in the Wildhorn fever as well.

The 34th Annual Jefferson Awards presented seven trophies to House Theatre of Chicago's production of 'The Sparrow.' 'Side Show,' 'Fiorello!' and 'Blues for an Alabama Sky' also took top honors.

The winners of the Kevin Kline Awards have been announced

Seventeen St. Louis theater companies are represented in the nominations for the second annual Kevin Kline Awards. Thirty-seven plays and musicals produced in the St. Louis area during 2006 now share 115 nominations in 22 different categories for the coveted award. The nominations were announced on KWMU-FM's 'Cityscape' on January 19.

Roundabout Theatre Company is proud to present John Mahoney (Old Man), Annie Parisse (Rita) and Alan Tudyk (Peter) in a new Broadway production of Craig Lucas' romantic drama Prelude to a Kiss with Robin Bartlett (Mrs. Boyle) and James Rebhorn (Dr. Boyle), directed by Daniel Sullivan at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42nd St).

The Irish Repertory's production of 'Meet Me in St. Louis' exends until February 18th.

Principal cast changes have been announced for the Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, the longest-running show in Broadway history

Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy (LACCTA) will present the World Premiere of a new musical comedy, 'THE BRAIN FROM PLANET X,' with a book by award-winning writers, David Wechter and LACCTA alumna, Bruce Kimmel, who also wrote the Music and Lyrics for the show.

ScriptLab, a non-profit developer of new muscial work, will present the first annual Canadian Musical Theatre Festival, November 21-26, 2006 at the restored Papermill Theatre at Todmorden Mills in Toronto

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Complete scheduling information has been announced for the New York Musical Theatre Festival

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

On December 16th, Dale Kristien and Bill Hutton will perform in A Gala Evening for the Holidays in San Gabriel, CA

Mary Gordon Murray, Alli Mauzey, Jeffrey Rockwell and Brent Schindele have been cast as the stars of the Laguna Playhouse's production of The Musical of Musicals, which will run from July 5th to September 4th