Broadway Across America - Atlanta is pleased to introduce 2009-2010 Flex Holiday Season Packages.

When she makes her debut in December 2009, Royal Caribbean International's newest ship, Oasis of the Seas, will introduce the most unique and varied collection of entertainment and activities ever offered for guests of the global cruise line.

Sense & Sensibility, the new musical originally developed in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in New York - which has nurtured Broadway shows such as Avenue Q, Ragtime, and A Chorus Line - will get an industry reading at Playwrights Horizons on November 16. The musical most recently had a development reading at the Berkshire Musical Theater Workshop this past May.

Billboard's Top Cast Albums chart for week ending 11/7/2009.

The Tony Award® nominated hit musical Irving Berlin'S WHITE CHRISTMAS, the stage reinvention of the beloved classic film, directed by Walter Bobbie and choreographed by Randy Skinner, with music supervision by Rob Berman, returns to Broadway!

Irving Berlin's I Love a Piano, at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on Monday, Nov. 30 at 8 p.m., looks at America through the perceptive and hopeful eyes of one of America's greatest composers. Tickets are $40-$55 (a limited number of 'Smart Seats' are available for $10).

Famed performance space Joe's Pub has announced a revised upcoming line up of event in November and early December. Performers include Lauren Abrose, Coleman Domingo, Capathia Jenkins and Louis Rosen, Hair's Caissie Levy, and more. Kelly Joe Phelps who was previously scheduled to perform on 11/14, has pulled out and has been replaced PT Walkley.

Broadway Across America - Atlanta is pleased to introduce 2009-2010 Flex Holiday Season Packages.

Camelot, the definitive musical theater fable that The New York Times calls 'the ultimate fantasy of the musical stage,' ushers in the new Broadway Series at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on Sunday, Nov. 29 at 7 p.m.

Jeffrey Seller Kevin McCollum Allan S. Gordon have announced an extra week of performances in Toronto of RENT: The Broadway Tour, starring Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp and Gwen Stewart, reprising the roles they originated on Broadway.

No, that steady rumble you may hear and feel beneath your feet as you walk along 50th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues these evenings is not the A train making its way to Columbus Circle. It's the sound of laughing audiences having a swell time in the underground quintet of auditoriums called New World Stages. The former movie multiplex turned Off-Broadway house seems to be experiencing a happy renaissance, with its long-running anchor production, Altar Boyz, having been joined by laughter-inducing hits like The Toxic Avenger, Naked Boys Singing, My First Time and The Gazillion Bubble Show (which I haven't seen but I'm sure brings out many giggles from the youngsters). The hilarious Love Child, which previously ran at 59E59 will be moving in shortly, but first the welcome mat (and perhaps a red carpet) has been set for the center's new crown jewel as the Tony-winning Avenue Q completes its successful Broadway run and returns to its Off-Broadway roots.

I just got back from Avery Fisher Hall, where Frank Rich was partaking in a fireside chat (sans fireside) with Stephen Sondheim. I scribbled down as much as I could from the 90 minute conversation. Some of the more interesting topics included the inability for most theatre critics to critique the music in a musical and the greater gratification Sondheim gets from composition than lyric writing because of the way language can restrict him from expressing exactly what he wants to say. ('There are very few lyrics that are perfect lyrics.') I wish there was more time to discuss his observation that Jerry Bock's music has the same edginess as Fred Ebb's lyrics and John Kander's outpouring of music matches Sheldon Harnick's elegant lyrics, giving great dramatic tension to the songs of both teams.

I somehow doubt that, despite Broadway's struggles in the current economy, Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez would be so cynical as to use the title of this entry as their new 'For Now' lyric in Avenue Q, but since it's only a matter of weeks before the sharply satirical children's educational musical for adults they penned with Jeff Whitty outlasts the current presidential administration, that infamous lyric, 'George Bush is only for now,' is about to be impeached.

Playwrights Horizons (Artistic Director, Tim Sanford; Managing Director, Leslie Marcus) and the Vineyard Theatre (Artistic Director, Douglas Aibel; Executive Director, Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell) have announced that four-time Helen Hayes Award-winning director Joe Calarco (Shakespeare's R&J) has joined the creative team of the upcoming new musical THE BURNT PART BOYS by Mariana Elder (book), Nathan Tysen (lyrics) and Chris Miller (music).

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Celebrated cabaret performer Jamie deRoy presents a special evening of her multi MAC Award-winning variety show, Jamie deRoy & friends on Tuesday, November 17th (7PM) at the New York hotspot Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street between 5th & 6th Avenues). 'The More The Merrier Duets & More...' will feature an evening full of duets and multi-voice musical partnering.

West End stars Julie Atherton, Samuel Barnett, Daniel Boys, Ashleigh Gray, Leanne Jones, Paul Spicer, Oliver Tompsett, Hannah Waddingham and Rachael Wooding will headline this year's instalment of the perennially popular festive concert Christmas in New York, which arrives for its fourth triumphant year, at the Prince of Wales Theatre, for one night only on Sunday 6 December 2009.

This November the residents of Avenue Q will be climbing into bed with moustache growers across the UK. The puppets and humans of London's funniest adult musical will be supporting Movember, the annual month-long celebration of the moustache that highlights men's health issues, and particularly the dangers of prostate cancer.

The Tony Award-winning Vineyard Theatre has announced that it will extend its critically acclaimed play A BOY AND HIS SOUL - written and performed by Colman Domingo - by 2 weeks, now until November 1.

Broadway's most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony Award®-winner in years is coming to San Jose. SPRING AWAKENING, the 8-time Tony Award® winning Broadway musical, will be presented by Broadway San Jose, the Bay Area's newest showcase for Broadway shows October 28 - November 1 at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts.

Carrie Dunn is delighted to see that the saucy show of twenty- and thirty-something angst is still as bright and funny as ever

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With its newest production Store Trek, Princeton's famed Triangle Club boldly goes where no musical comedy has gone before to the crass crossroads of corporate greed and American consumerism. The production will run Friday and Saturday, November 13 and 14 at 8pm on the Matthews stage of McCarter Theatre Center (91 University Place, Princeton).

Billboard's Top Cast Albums chart for week ending 10/31/2009.

The award-winning York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) announces casting for Love Songs the next offering in its acclaimed Developmental Reading Series.