Woman of the Year

Four Time Emmy Award winning actress Valerie Harper stars as Tallulah Bankhead in the Pre-Broadway Engagement of Looped , a new comedy by Matthew Lombardo and directed by Rob Ruggiero. The production (direct from its sold out World Premiere at The Pasadena Playhouse) arrives at The Cuillo Centre for the Arts, prior to a Broadway bow in Summer 2009. Tony Award winning actor Jarrod Emick co-stars.

GLIMPSES OF THE MOON, a Jazz Age musical with book & lyrics by Tajlei Levis and music by John Mercurio, choreographed by Denis Jones, and directed by Marc Bruni, premiered with a sold-out run in the Oak Room last winter. GLIMPSES OF THE MOON is back by popular demand for an ongoing run at Off-Broadway's Oak Room in the Algonquin Hotel (59 West 44th Street, between 5th and 6th Ave.). Performances began Sunday, October 26.

The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada is proud to announce the 14th Annual Honorarium, will be held on Saturday, November 1, 2008, 6pm at the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino.

International singing sensation Cristina Fontanelli will sing a program of Italy's best-loved songs, arias, Neapolitan and Christmas classics during her fifth-annual 'Christmas in Italy,' concert at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, Sunday, December 7th at 8:00 p.m.

The lights were bright on Broadway on Monday night and the curtains raised at the Hudson Theater with Marvin Hamlisch headlining the Broadway Salutes Arts Horizons 30th Anniversary Gala.

GLIMPSES OF THE MOON is pleased to announce the following special guest stars have confirmed to appear Monday nights at 8pm in the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel.

SHARON CARR ASSOCIATES, LTD announces the return engagement of GLIMPSES OF THE MOON, a Jazz Age musical with book & lyrics by Tajlei Levis and music by John Mercurio, directed by Marc Bruni. GLIMPSES OF THE MOON is back by popular demand for an ongoing run at Off-Broadway's Oak Room in the Algonquin Hotel (59 West 44th Street, between 5th and 6th Ave.).

'Mitzi Gaynor:Razzle Dazzle! The Special Years' aired last night, October 11th on New York Public Television WLIW. Mitzi Gaynor herself appeared live and in person between 'acts' of the airing. BroadwayWorld was there to bring you photo coverage of the special event!

O.K. Everyone .. THIS IS A WARNING! DO NOT MISS THIS PBS WORLD PREMIERE on Saturday night - if you live in the TRI-STATE area. The rest of the country has to wait 'til December to see this very special SPECIAL.

SHARON CARR ASSOCIATES, LTD is pleased to announce the return engagement of GLIMPSES OF THE MOON, a Jazz Age musical with book & lyrics by Tajlei Levis and music by John Mercurio, directed by Marc Bruni. GLIMPSES OF THE MOON is back by popular demand for an ongoing run at Off-Broadway's Oak Room in the Algonquin Hotel (59 West 44th Street, between 5th and 6th Ave.).

The Prince Music Theater celebrates two Broadway masters - John Kander and Fred Ebb - in a newly re-imagined production of THE WORLD GOES 'ROUND, the smash hit Off-Broadway show that explores the entire career of one of Broadway's most extraordinary creative teams.

The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada is proud to announce the 14th Annual Honorarium, will be held on Saturday, November 1, 2008, 6pm at the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino.

Pittsburgh CLO and Nederlander Presentations Inc. are proud to announce the creation of The National High School Musical Theater Awards, celebrating outstanding student performances in high school musical productions across the United States.

Capathia Jenkins and Louis Rosen Play the Iridium Jazz Club July 15th, 29th, and August 5th.

Debbie Reynolds will be returning to the stage in Debbie Reynolds - American Icon: An Evening of Music and Comedy. The show will be held from July 9-20 at the El Portal Theatre, 5269 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, Calif. (818) 508-4200 or (866) 811-4111.

Debbie Reynolds will be returning to the stage in Debbie Reynolds - American Icon: An Evening of Music and Comedy. The show will be held from July 9-20 at the El Portal Theatre, 5269 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, Calif. (818) 508-4200 or (866) 811-4111.

In honor of the CURTAINS cast taking their final bows this weekend, BroadwayWorld.com spoke with a few cast members to get their reflections on the show, to see what they're up to next, thoughts on the shows closing, and the journey they had being a part of it.

Capathia Jenkins and Louis Rosen Play the Iridium Jazz Club July 15th, 29th, and August 5th.

The Signature Theatre has announced the complete cast for 'The Visit' the Kander and Ebb musical starring Chita Rivera and George Hearn.

Broadway's most celebrated showman debuts his new act 'Steps in Time: A Broadway Biography in Song and Dance' April 19-20 at the Reagle Players in Waltham, Mass.

PS CLASSICS is proud to announce the release of ONE OUNCE OF TRUTH: THE NIKKI GIOVANII SONGS, the extraordinary new collaboration from the team of vocalist Capathia Jenkins and songwriter/performer Louis Rosen. The new disc will be available in stores and online on May 13, 2008. They will celebrate the release with four concerts at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater in New York on May 12, 18, 19 and 26.

The 1969 Broadway musical 1776 a great choice for revival almost anytime, but especially during a hard-fought Presidential primary season like the one facing us now.

Lemon Tree Productions is pleased to announce the following special guest stars have confirmed to appear in Glimpses of the Moon, every Monday night at 8pm in the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel. January 21st will feature Liz Larsen, January 28th will feature KT Sullivan, February 25th will be Susan Lucci, March 3rd will be Joyce Dewitt and March 10th will feature Alison Fraser.

This year, San Francisco's EXIT Theatre marks its 25th year of commissioning, developing and producing ground-breaking new work and presenting independent artists from across the U.S. and beyond.

Gerry Vichi will join the cast of Curtains on Tuesday, January 8 as Broadway producer Sidney Bernstein, replacing original cast member Ernie Sabella. Curtains, the Musical Comedy Whodunit from the authors of Cabaret and Chicago, is playing at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre

The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada is proud to announce the 13th Annual Honorarium, presented by Lovett Companies, will be held on November 3 at 6PM at the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino. This year's theme, 'Many Colors, One Cause' reminds us that we unite to create positive change for the Southern Nevada community.

Twyla Tharp will be honored as Nevada Ballet Theatre's Woman of the Year 2008 at The Black & White Ball on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at Wynn Las Vegas.

Tony Award-winning talents will take the stage of Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, Connecticut to celebrate guest of honor John Kander, the Tony Award-winning composer of Chicago, Cabaret and Curtains, on Monday, September 24.

Peter Stone, who is credited with the original book and concept for Curtains, the New Musical Comedy Whodunit, will be honored on 'Theater Talk' on Friday, June 29th with 'Remembering Peter Stone,' a tribute to the great librettist.

Broadway's Tony Award-winning hit musical The Drowsy Chaperone will welcome Broadway veteran Gerry Vichi to the cast on Tuesday, June 5th at the Marquis Theatre

North America's foremost women's lecture series presents renowned poet, author, historian, actor, activist (etc.) for one night only

And The World Goes 'Round: The Songs of Kander & Ebb, will close St. Bart's Playhouse's 79th Season, running Thursday through Friday at 8PM, with matinees Saturday at 2PM and Sunday at 3PM, through April 29.

Paintings collected by the legendary late Broadway lyricist Fred Ebb will be on display at the Morgan Library from April 20th through September 2nd.

The Reagle Players host the unsinkable Broadway, movie and television star in three performances only at the Robinson Theatre, 617 Lexington Street, Waltham, Mass.

Fans of Kander and Ebb musicals will want to travel to Arlington, VA next season. The Helen Hayes Award-winning Signature Theatre will present three musicals by the legendary songwriting team during 2007-2008 as part of a Kander and Ebb festival.

Robert McWhir's staging of the Kander and Ebb song showcase 'The World Goes Round', with musical direction by Heather Weir (currently playing at the Landor Theatre until February 10), displays an uneven mix of superb musical renditions and some near misses. Most of the songs are delivered with a high degree of accomplishment and the staging is generally full of energy and sophistication, perfectly balancing the layers of poignant emotion, cutting wit and Broadway bravado that pervades Kander and Ebb's musical theatre work. But some numbers miss the mark, let down by awkward, almost substandard, vocals - and the staging of 'All That Jazz' not only fails to conjure up anything that remotely resembles the choreographic arcs of the Fosse original but is also lacking in the sensuality that the number begs for. Ebb's lyric calls for them to 'let their stockings down' but the nylon seems reluctant to slip from the garters.

Tuesday, January 16 will see the opening of the revue 'And The World Goes Round' at one of London's most atmospheric and intimate pub theatres, the Landor. The show draws its material from the songbook of John Kander and Fred Ebb, one of the greatest of all musical theatre song-writing duos, whose resume boasts the scores for such musicals as 'Cabaret', 'Chicago', 'Kiss Of The Spider Woman', 'Woman Of The Year', 'The Rink', and 'Flora, The Red Menace'.

Tony Award-winners Joel Grey and Anthony Crivello will join West End theatre star Ruthie Henshall in celebrating the work of John Kander and Fred Ebb

On December 6th, stage and screen legend Lauren Bacall appeared at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center to sign copies of her (second) autobiography 'By Myself and Then Some.'

Tony Award-nominee Melissa Errico will be honored by the Italian Welfare League as its Woman of the Year.

The Kander and Ebb musical All About Us, based on the Thornton Wilder play The Skin of Our Teeth, will be presented at the Westport Country Playhouse in CT from April 10th through 28th, 2007.