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The 2006 Tony Awards, which will mark the awards' 60th year, will be held at Radio City Music Hall and broadcast on CBS on June 11th of next year

LaChanze has been announced as the star of the upcoming musical The Color Purple, which will begin previews at the Broadway Theatre on November 1st

Avenue Q, starring original cast members John Tartaglia and Rick Lyon, will have its opening night at the Wynn Las Vegas' Broadway Theatre tonight, September 8th

Eighteen rarities sung by legendary composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim have been assembled for the CD Sondheim Sings II, which will be released by PS Classics on October 25th

Angela Lansbury, Victor Garber, Frances Conroy and others will headline a staged reading of This is Me, An Evening of Dorothy Parker in LA on October 10th; the reading will benefit The Acting Company

MICHAEL BLAKEMORE will be the guest on THEATER TALK premiering Friday, September 9 at 12:30 AM on Thirteen.

Robin de Levita, Dragone and The Firm have announced the creative team for CARMEN: The Musical, based on the classic 1845 novel by Prosper Mérimée, directed by Franco Dragone. With music by John Ewbank, and a book by Sarah Miles, a developmental staging will be work-shopped later this year, with a Broadway production targeted for the 2006/07 season.

The movie musical version of Hairspray, which was first to have been directed by Jack O'Brien and then by Rob Marshall, is still without a director

The career of Broadway legend Bernadette Peters will be toasted on the week of September 5th on Sirius Satellite Radio's Broadway's Best 77; the star will also be interviewed

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 9/4/2005

Belly, a one-woman comedy performed and written by Julie Tortorici, will run off-off-Broadway from September 30th through October 28th

On September 25th, 50 free Stomp tickets will be handed out to those who donate $20 to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts

Kerry Butler, Felicia Finley, Jenny Powers and other stars will lend their voices and money-raising efforts to a Ten-in-Ten benefit concert at the Duplex on September 12th

Liz Callaway, Judy Blazer and Walter Charles will perform songs from the Saver/Cole musicals Dodsworth and Time After Time at Tower Records at Lincoln Center on September 21st

Lois Smith and Hallie Foote have been announced as the stars of A Trip to Bountiful and Sherie Rene Scott and Lili Taylor will headline Landscape of the Body; both plays will run as part of Signature Theatre Company's '05-'06 season

Monsieur Chopin, the one-man play about Frederic Chopin written by and starring Hershey Felder, will extend its run at Chicago's Royal George Theatre from August 30th to the month of October

Mamma Mia!, currently running at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Theatre, has reached its 32nd month of performances