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Award-winning showbiz entertainers, Corky Hale and Charlotte Rae, will perform in a show emceed by Carl Reiner, with Jeff Lass serving as Music Director. The show, 'A Festive Evening For Westside Center for Independent Living,' is a benefit for WCIL.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), now in its fourth year, is a three-week event in NYC that has premiered over 90 musicals in its first three years, becoming the largest musical theatre event in America. Tickets for NYMF productions are available at www.nymf.org or by calling 212-352-3101. This year's Festival will run from September 17 through October 7 with the following schedule of events...

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).

The West Bank Café has announced upcoming performances to be presented in The Laurie Beechman Theatre.

Musicals Tonight! revives the show that premiered on Broadway as The Gay Life

Casting has been announced for the Musicals Tonight! concert production of Schwartz and Dietz' The High Life, which will run from October 18th through October 30th

Victor Herbert's Mlle. Modiste and Oh, Lady! Lady!!, with music by Jereome Kern, have replaced Show Girl and Roberta in Musicals Tonight!'s season line-up

Concert presentations of musicals by Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Schwartz and Dietz, Jerome Kern and more will be included in the Musicals Tonight! 2005-2006 season

The area is bursting with theater companies--with both classics, and premieres of new works.

America's most prolific major playwright reminisces on the birth of Off-Off-Broadway, the creation of gay theatre, the first completely nude play and how a certain Catwoman welcomed him to Broadway.