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Trio of 30-second spots to begin airing Sept. 12, 2005 on WCBS-TV/CBS 2

Carter will make her London stage debut in the role of Mama Morton on September 26th.

You never know who will show up at Jim Caruso's Cast Party! Last week, Amanda McBroom, Jamie DeRoy, Michael Feinstein, Erich Bergen, Devon May, and others were there.

Rooms, a new musical billed as a 'rock romance,' opened as part of NYMF on September 13th at the 45th Street Theatre (354 West 45th Street, between 8th & 9th Avenues) and BroadwayWorld was there for the afterparty.

The event will star Ben Vereen & Liza Minnelli and feature Bryan Batt, Shoshana Bean, Victoria Clark, Charlotte D'Amboise, Jill Eikenberry, Raul Esparza, Shuler Hensley, Megan Hilty, Bill Irwin, Brian d'Arcy James, Isabelle Keating, Adriane Lenox, Terrence Mann, Rue McClanahan, Michael McElroy, Julia Murney, Bebe Neuwirth, Kelli O'Hara, Denis O'Hare, David Hyde Pierce, Carole Shelley, Christopher Sieber, Michael Tucker, Frederick Weller and The Broadway Inspirational Voices, plus the casts of The Light in the Piazza, Hairspray, Mamma Mia!, All Shook Up, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Two Gentlemen of Verona and Wicked.

JOY, the new romantic comedy by John Fisher, will play its final performance at Off-Broadway's Actors' Playhouse (100 Seventh Ave. South) on Sunday, September 25, 2005.

Kathleen Turner ('The Graduate,' '...Virginia Woolf') and Robert Cuccioli ('Jekyll & Hyde') have just been added to the roster of stars appearing in ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, presented by The Actors' Fund of America as its Fifth Annual Broadway Benefit Concert.

Celia Keenan-Bolger, Hunter Foster, Stephanie D'Abruzzo and other stars have been cast in the eight National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival of New Musicals, which will be held on September 25th and 26th

Dan Israely's sex comedy Orgasms will re-open at the Soho Playhouse on September 16th

The New York Musical Theatre Festival production of Wild Women of Planet Wongo will open tonight, September 13th, and run through the 25th

The Theatre Intern Group, the American Theatre Wing's program for young workers in the theatre, will host a meeting on September 20th, with Owning and Operating a Broadway Theatre as the topic of discussion

Pray for the Soul of Betty, the band of American Idol's Constantine Maroulis, will have their t-shirt worn on the September 24th performance of Once Around the Sun

THE THIRD SEASON, a series of concerts at Birdland (315 West 44th Street, NYC) featuring top Broadway performers, continues on Monday, October 3 at 7PM with AVENUE Q SWINGS!

Lenore Zann brings her Marilyn Monroe to the Blue Heron Arts Center

The Jeff Blumenkrantz Songbook, Vol. 1, the first printed collection of music written by Tony-nominated composer Jeff Blumenkrantz, is now available

Broadway producer/theatre owner Rocco Landesman, president of Jujamcyn Theatres, will be presented with a special award by the Times Square Alliance for his longtime support of design, as part of the Alliance's Design Times Square initiative.

Elaine Stritch will sing songs by Porter, Coward, Sondheim and others in At Home at the Carlyle, which opens tonight, September 13th

Pamela Hunt is no longer the director of the Kinsey musical Dr. Sex, but Ethan McSweeney is lending a hand for the production

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 9/11/2005

Stars such as Jennifer Cody, Nora Mae Lyng and Stanley Wayne Mathis will appear in the Paper Mill Playhouse's production of Cinderella, which will run from October 19th through December 4th

PARTY COME HERE, a new musical by Daniel Goldfarb and David Kirshenbaum, will be part of the the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's 17th Annual Festival of New Musicals, on September 25th-26th.

Rumors are floating that Renee Zellwegger may put on the green nail polish as Sally Bowles in a film remake of Cabaret

Adam Monley will replace Cheyenne Jackson as one of the stars of the NAMT musical Ace, which will be presented to NAMT members and to a small public audience on September 26th