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Charles Kimbrough and Michael Berresse will join previously announced cast members Sandy Duncan, Rosie O'Donnell, Beth Leavel, Mara Davi and Shonn Wiley in No, No, Nanette, the final 2008 Encores! presentation of the New York City Center season.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) announces the cast for Christopher Durang's award winning comedy The Marriage of Bette and Boo directed by Walter Bobbie, featuring Terry Beaver (Father Donnally), Heather Burns (Emily Brennan), Victoria Clark (Margaret Brennan), John Glover (Karl Hudlocke), Julie Hagerty (Soot Hudlocke), Kate Jennings Grant (Bette Brennan), Adam Lefevre (Paul Brennan), Charles Socarides (Matt), Christopher Evan Welch (Boo Hudlocke).

Shrek The Musical will open December 14 at the Broadway Theatre, after beginning previews on November 8, to star Sutton Foster, Christopher Sieber and Kecia Lewis-Evans.

Arena Stage will present the Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Death of a Salesman and A View from the Bridge in rotating repertory as a salute to one of America's best playwrights, Arthur Miller.

Shrek The Musical will open December 14 at the Broadway Theatre, after beginning previews on November 8, to star Sutton Foster, Christopher Sieber and Kecia Lewis-Evans.

Michael Riedel of the New York Post has left a teasing footnote in his Friday column, declaring that Tony Award-winning actress and Broadway's favorite 'It Girl' Sutton Foster, has been slated to play the princessly role of Fiona in the Broadway-bound Shrek The Musical.

Transport Group, the winner of a special 2007 Drama Desk Award and a 2007 Obie Award, will present 'Gimme A Break,' a benefit honoring Transport Group board member and Broadway producer Barbara Freitag and writer/director/producer Michael Patrick King on Monday, December 3 at 6:30PM.

Tony-nominated composer Paul Gordon made his New York nightclub debut at Joe's Pub with an evening featuring an eclectic selection of his pop and theatre songs including several from his five-time Tony-nominated Broadway musical Jane Eyre on Monday, October 15 at 9:30PM at Joe's Pub.

Following overwhelming critical raves, two extensions and unprecedented ticket demand, The Civilians, the acclaimed New York-based theater troupe, will record their Off Broadway smash Gone Missing. The album will feature the entire original cast.

Tony-nominated composer Paul Gordon makes his New York nightclub debut at Joe's Pub with an evening featuring an eclectic selection of his pop and theatre songs including several from his five-time Tony-nominated Broadway musical Jane Eyre. The show takes place on Monday, October 15 at 9:30PM at Joe's Pub.

The The Drowsy Chaperone tour opened in Toronto this week to rave reviews. Don't miss this final chance to see Bob Martin as The Man in the Chair. * * * * * (OUT OF FIVE)

LONE STAR LOVE, a new musical comedy starring Academy Award nominee Randy Quaid in his Broadway debut as Colonel John Falstaff, has announced full casting as it begins rehearsals this week for its Seattle engagement at The 5th Avenue Theatre, September 8 - 30. LONE STAR LOVE will open on Broadway on Monday, December 3 at New York's Belasco Theatre; previews will begin Thursday, November 1.

On July 10th, The League of Gentlemen's Steve Pemberton joined the cast of the London production of the five-time Tony Award winning The Drowsy Chaperone to play Man in Chair

Three time Tony Award-winner Boyd Gaines discusses his varied acting career, as well as his next role as Herbie in Encores! Summer Stars Gypsy, opposite Patti LuPone!

The League of Gentlemen's Steve Pemberton will join the cast of the London production of the five-time Tony Award winning The Drowsy Chaperone to play Man in Chair. Pemberton will take over from Bob Martin on Tuesday 10 July.

The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, a new musical comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award winning smash The Producers, will open on Broadway November 8th 2007 at the Hilton Theatre (213 W 42nd St). Previews begin October 11th 2007. The production stars Roger Bart (Dr. Frederick Frankenstein), Megan Mullally (Elizabeth), Sutton Foster (Inga), Shuler Hensley (The Monster), Fred Applegate (Kemp) and Christopher Fitzgerald (Igor).

Paper Mill Playhouse announces its mainstage production of Pirates!, a swashbuckling adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, a fully-staged theatrical concert with costumes, choreography and sword fighting.

Gary Beach, Tony award-winner and current cast member of Les Miserables has been announced as Host of Mr. Broadway 2007, the inaugural Broadway beauty pageant, set for Monday evening, April 30th at New World Stages

The American Theatre Wing assembles a quartet of the industry's busiest casting directors on its upcoming 'Working in the Theatre' on CUNY TV on Sunday, March 18 at 5 p.m.

More stars have signed on to the eagerly awaited Encores! staged concert of the Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman classic Follies, presented from February 8th through 11th, 2007 at City Center

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 New York Musical Theatre Festival's Next Link presentation of The Flight of the Lawnchair Man, playing from September 13th through 18th, will reunite its 2005 Goodspeed Opera cast--including Sweeney Todd's Donna Lynne Champlin--as well as much of its creative team

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

'Steam Heat' dancers Joyce Chittick, David Eggers and Vince Pesce, currently in Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of The Pajama Game, will be performing the iconic dance number live on ABC's 'Live with Regis and Kelly' on Wednesday, June 7th

The New York Musical Theatre Festival is pleased to announce the 18 new musicals selected for this year's Next Link Project, to be presented as part of the third-annual New York Musical Theatre Festival, September 10 through October 1, 2006.