On With the Dance - 1917 - Broadway Articles Page 18

Ren?e Fleming and Thomas Hampson star in the Met's first new production of Jules Massenet's richly melodic Tha?s in thirty years. The rarely performed opera opens at the Met on Monday, December 8, and runs through January 8, with the December 20 matinee transmitted live worldwide as part of The Met: Live in HD series. 'Fleming and Hampson made a heavenly match,' Chicago Sun-Times critic Wynne Delacoma wrote when this production, which comes from the Lyric Opera of Chicago, opened there in 2002.

A Tony Award-winning play by Arthur Kopit that depicts the life of master showman "Buffalo Bill" Cody is the second 2008-09 season production of the Theatre and Interpretation Center (TIC) at Northwestern University.

A Tony Award-winning play by Arthur Kopit that depicts the life of master showman "Buffalo Bill" Cody is the second 2008-09 season production of the Theatre and Interpretation Center (TIC) at Northwestern University.

A NIGHT AT THE OPERETTA on July 14th featured the sounds of Broadway music one rarely gets to hear anymore - Operetta - including music by Sigmund Romberg, Rudolph Friml and Victor Herbert. A NIGHT AT THE OPERETTA featured Alexander Gemignani, Lisa Howard, William Michals, Jennifer Hope Wills, Christine Andreas, Bill Daugherty, Brian Charles Rooney, Karen Murphy, John Easterlin, Jason Graae and Milla Ilieva. The show featured the dance talents of Eric Sean Fogel, J. Austin Eyer, Billy Harrigan Tighe, and Ben Franklin. The show is under the direction of Dan Foster with musical direction by Fred Barton

Angel Desai, Stephen Bogardus, Patricia Birch and others salute NYC and 'West Side Story' in a concert at a Manhattan museum.

The 2008 Fred & Adele Astaire Awards recognizing excellence in dance on both stage and film have announced that nine time Tony Award & two time Astaire Award winner Tommy Tune will receive the 2008 Fred & Adele Astaire Lifetime Achievement at the awards gala slate for June 2, 2008

After a hiatus of 3 years, The Astaire Awards will once again recognize excellence in dance on both stage and film.

June Allyson, who performed in several Broadway musicals before becoming one of Hollywood's leading actresses, has passed away at the age of 88

Replacing The Rat Pack is Back!, Frank, Dean and Sammy: Live in Concert will open at the Supper Club on December 17th

The Plymouth Theatre and the Royale Theatre, both on 45th St., will be rechristened after two leaders of the Shubert Organization