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New York City Center Announces 16th Encores! Season opening with 'On the Town.'

DAMN YANKEES, starring Sean Hayes and Jane Krakowski, will be the second of New York City Center's Encores! Summer Stars series.

Michael Riedel of the New York Post reports that acclaimed Broadway director and producer Hal Prince 'suffered what close friends are calling a 'minor stroke' Sunday afternoon. He was released from the hospital Wednesday - his 80th birthday - and is expected to be on the mend soon.'

Jason Alexander, new artistic director of Reprise! Broadway's Best, announced that Cleavant Derricks, Meg Gillentine, Amelia McQueen, Ken Page, Ty Taylor, Lillias White and Jackee Harry would head up the cast of Damn Yankees. Damn Yankees will perform Tuesday, November 6 through Sunday, November 25 (opening November 7) at UCLA's Freud Playhouse.

Oscar-winner Shirley Jones will be featured in the Pittsburgh CLO's upcoming staging of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic Oklahoma!,

CD Reviews: 'Jekyll & Hyde: Resurrection', 'The Pajama Game', 'The Jazz Train'

2 CD Set Includes New Broadway Cast Recording of Roundabout Theatre Company's Critically-Acclaimed Hit Revival of 'The Pajama Game' Starring Harry Connick, Jr., Kelli O'Hara & Michael McKean plus Songs from 'Thou Shalt Not,' Composed and Performed by Harry Connick, Jr. featuring Kelli O'Hara

Kelli O'Hara will join Sutton Foster, John Lloyd Young, Kathleen Marshall, Casey Nicholow and Sergio Trujillo in discussing 'Dancing on Broadway' at the Drama Desk's April 6th panel

On April 6th, Sutton Foster, John Lloyd Young, Kathleen Marshall, Casey Nicholaw and Sergio Trujillo will take part in the Drama Desk panel Dancing on Broadway

Performances of THE PAJAMA GAME will begin Friday, January 27th on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre with the official opening set for Thursday, March 2nd. The limited engagement is scheduled to run 20 weeks through June 18th, 2006.

On Tuesday, May 3, the NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG salutes Harold Prince with a benefit concert titled A PRINCE OF A FELLA beginning at 7 p.m. at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall. The performance will be followed by a seated dinner beginning at 8:30 p.m. at Shelly's New York, 104 West 57th St.

Performances begin on March 5 with a international cast of 57 at the London Coliseum.

English National Opera's (ENO) new production of Leonard Bernstein's ON THE TOWN begins March 5, 2005 at the London Coliseum (Press Night March 10, 2005). There will be 17 performances playing in repertory until May 24, 2005.