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Rachel, a new musical about the wife of Andrew Jackson, will open off-Broadway on December 1st

Michael McKean will join Kelli O'Hara and Harry Connick Jr. in the revival of The Pajama Game that opens February 23rd

JAY JOHNSON: THE TWO AND ONLY! will make its Broadway bow at the Helen Hayes Theatre this spring with its previews set for Tuesday, March 7, and its opening on Sunday, March 19 2006.

The Musical of Musicals will close at Dodgers Stages on November 13th

The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop has announced the names of the incoming members of the 2005 First Year Composer-Lyricist class

On November 10th, the new Ariel Dorfman play The Other Side will being previews at Manhattan Theatre Club

Matthew Morrison, Susan Egan and Stephanie J. Block, among others, will be heard on a new holiday CD called Grateful, which will benefit the Joyful Child Foundation

Barra Grant's A Mother, A Daughter and a Gun will wrap up its run on November 20th

The NY Neo-Futurists will present Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind from November 4th through December 17th

Theater Talk, hosted by Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins, will now be seen in New York on CUNY TV as well as on Thirteen/WNET

The Broadway-bound musical Sunfish is holding an open casting call on November 12th in the hopes of casting its ingenue lead

Peter Hilton's The Lady Cavaliers: Signature Stories will run off-Broadway from December 1st through 18th

A December 12th benefit called Dance from the Heart will feature leading performers from the worlds of ballet and modern dance

The ten videos submitted by finalists in the Sweet Charity Dance on Broadway contest are now online and awaiting votes

As of the morning of November 9th, Jersey Boys has raked in over a million dollars at the box office of the August Wilson Theatre

Lauren Ambrose, Jason Biggs, Zoe Caldwell and other performers will join acclaimed writers in 20, a benefit evening for MCC Theater

A Naked Girl on the Appian Way's Jill Clayburgh will be featured on Theater Talk on Friday, November 11th

Three productions of Irving Berlin's White Christmas will be presented in L.A., San Francisco and Boston this holiday season

Harriet Harris will play Vera to Christine Baranski's Mame in the Kennedy Center production of Mame

Norbert Leo Butz will go from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels to a new TV sitcom for CBS that is being developed around him

Two of Broadway's most illustrious stars, the legendary CHITA RIVERA (who begins previews at the Schoenfeld Theatre on November 23 in Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life) and the debonair DAVID HYDE PIERCE (currently starring in the smash musical, Monty Python's Spamalot, Broadway's Tony Award-winning 'Best Musical'), will be joined by cast and company members from virtually every Broadway and Off Broadway show to celebrate and share in the joy of the holiday season when they flip the switch to light the 2005 BROADWAY HOLIDAY TREE.

The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) will continue their 2005-2006 season with George Bernard Shaw's MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION starring award winner Dana Ivey and directed by Charlotte Moore.