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Laura Osnes, who has starred in such Broadway musicals as Bandstand, South Pacific and Bonnie and Clyde, is disputing reports that she was fired from a one-night benefit concert in East Hampton, NY, for her refusal to get a Covid-19 vaccine.

Osnes had been scheduled to perform at East Hampton’s Guild Hall in the August 29 production of song selections from a planned Broadway revival of the musical Crazy for You directed by Susan Stroman. Last week, the New York Post reported that Osnes had been fired from the show for refusing to get vaccinated.

The actress says the report was inaccurate. In an Instagram post, Osnes claims she withdrew from the production after being informed that safety “protocols had changed.”

“I was disappointed but responded that I would have to withdraw, as I have not yet gotten the vaccine,” Osnes writes. (See the full post below.)

Osnes also denied...

Kate Shindle has been re-elected president of Actors’ Equity, the union representing more than 51,000 theatrical actors and stage managers. She was first elected to the post in 2015, having previously served as the union’s eastern regional vice president. She made her Broadway debut in Jekyll & Hyde, with other notable Broadway roles including Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Vivienne in Legally Blonde and the Mad Hatter in Frank Wildhorn’s Wonderland.

In other elections, Dee Hoty was elected Eastern regional vice president and Kelley Faulkner was elected Cntral regional vice president. Doug Carfrae, running unopposed, was elected Western regional vice president.

The union did not provide vote totals or say who the losing candidates were in any of the races.

The election also included 42 council seats across all three regions, representing principal actors, chorus actors and stage managers, along with a new at-large category.

The candidates elected Eastern Region Principal Councilor:

Victoria Clark

Michele L.

Stars in the House continues today 2pm with a City of AngelsCast reunion Gregg Edelman, Randy Graff, Dee Hoty, Kay McClelland, James Naughton, Rachel York and David Zippel. Joined by director Michael Blakemore and tonight 8pm with the cast of Ryan Murphy'sHollywoodDavid Corenswet, Darren Criss, Laura Harrier, Joe Mantello, Dylan McDermott, Jeremy Pope, Mira Sorvino, Holland Taylor and Samara Weaving.

1957: CBS aired the last episode of daytime soap Valiant Lady.

1985: General Hospital's Celia and Jimmy Lee married.

2007: Guiding Light's Olivia ran into Reva during Josh's wedding.

2007: One Life to Live's Asa Buchanan died."The best prophet of the future is the past."

― Lord Byron

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

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1957: The final episode of daytime soap opera Valiant Lady aired on CBS radio and television. The show, which debuted in 1953, was a follow up to the radio soap opera of the same name that ran from 1938 to 1952. Flora Campbell starred as Helen Emerson during the show's final three years.

1971: On The Doctors,...

Connecticut Repertory Theatre Crt presents the second and final show of the 2019 Nutmeg Summer Series Cabaret, the Tony-Award-winning musical centering around a German nightclub against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise to power. The cast is led by Olivier Award-winner Laura Michelle Kelly as Sally Bowles and Tony Award-nominee Forrest McClendon as the Emcee. They will be joined by three-time Tony Award-nominee Dee Hoty and Jonathan Brody. Scott Lafeber will direct with choreography by Christopher d'Amboise. Subscriptions and single tickets are on sale at crt.uconn.edu or 860-486-2113.

Connecticut Repertory Theatre Crt presents the second and final show of the 2019 Nutmeg Summer Series Cabaret, the Tony-Award-winning musical centering around a German nightclub against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise to power. The cast will be led by Olivier Award-winner Laura Michelle Kelly Broadway's Mary Poppins, Finding Neverland as Sally Bowles and Tony Award-nominee Forrest McClendon The Scottsboro Boys as the Emcee. They will be joined by three-time Tony Award-nominee Dee Hoty Broadway's The Will Rogers Follies, Footloose and Jonathan Brody Broadway's Spamalot, A Bronx Tale. Scott Lafeber will direct with choreography by Christopher d'Amboise. Subscriptions and single tickets are on sale at crt.uconn.edu or 860-486-2113.

1957: CBS aired the last episode of daytime soap Valiant Lady.

1985: General Hospital's Celia and Jimmy Lee married.

2007: Guiding Light's Olivia ran into Reva during Josh's wedding.

2007: One Life to Live's Asa Buchanan died."The best prophet of the future is the past."

― Lord Byron

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

On this date in...

1957: The final episode of daytime soap opera Valiant Lady aired on CBS radio and television. The show, which debuted in 1953, was a follow up to the radio soap opera of the same name that ran from 1938 to 1952. Flora Campbell starred as Helen Emerson during the show's final three years.

1971: On The Doctors,...

Little Dancer, the musical by the Tony-nominated Once on This Island duo Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, will get a big-name industry reading next month, directed by five-time Tony-winner Susan Stroman and featuring, among others, New York City Ballet principal dancer and On the Town star Tiler Peck.

The reading marks a reunion for much of the creative team behind the show’s 2014 world premiere in Washington DC.

The private industry, invitation-only reading was announced today by producers Anita Waxman and Rodney Rigby, and is set for Friday, June 8. The musical is scheduled for a West Coast premiere next March in Seattle.

Among the cast taking part in the reading will be Robert Lindsay, Kate Baldwin, Karen Ziemba, Dee Hoty, Christopher Gurr, Kyle Harris, Scarlett Strallen and Sami Bray, among others.

Stroman, whose Broadway credits include The Producers and The Scottsboro Boys, will direct Little Dancer, with book and lyrics...

Actors’ Equity members have re-elected Kate Shindle to a second term as president of the union that reps moire than 50,000 professional stage actors and stage managers. She was running unopposed, as were several other officers chosen in the 2018 National Council election.

Shindle, who was Miss America 1998, beat incumbent president Nick Wyman in the 2015 election. There was an unprecedented number of seats up for grabs across all three regions in the 105-year-old group, and all 55 were filled, effective immediately.

The other officers elected without opposition were 3rd Vice President Ira Mont, Secretary/Treasurer Sandra Karas, Central Regional Vice President Dev Kennedy and Western Regional Vice President Doug Carfrae.

Among those facing challengers, Melissa Robinette was elected 1st Vice President (Principal), Jennifer Cody was elected 2nd Vice President (Chorus) and Sid Solomon was elected Eastern Regional Vice President.

The regional winners are listed below.

After more than a decade of using an electronic voting option,...

54 Below presented '54 Below Sings Kander And Ebb's Woman Of The Year' on Wednesday, November 29th, 2017. This performance featured an all star cast with nine ladies singing the songs of Tess Lauren Bacall on Broadway, four men singing for Sam, and all the other roles covered by the rest of the cast. The performers were Klea Blackhurst, Todd Buonopane, Mary Callahan, Robert Cuccioli, Joyce DeWitt, Natalie Douglas, John Epperson, Anita Gillette, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Dee Hoty, Christine Toy Johnson, Luba Mason, Julia Murney, Brad Oscar, Christine Pedi, Eve Plumb, Robbie Rozelle, and Kevin Zak. The musical director was Joshua Zecher-Ross, with Corey Schuyler on the bass, Chris Schultz on the drums and Dan Glaude on the reed.

The new musical Bright Star, from Grammy and Emmy winner Steve Martin and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Edie Brickell, will play a limited engagement at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater from December 2, 2015 to January 10, 2016. Directed by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie, Bright Star will have its Kennedy Center official opening night on Thursday, December 17.Bright Star will begin performances on Broadway on Thursday, February 25, 2016 with an official Broadway opening night on Thursday, March 24 at the Cort Theatre.Carmen Cusack will make her Broadway debut as Alice, a role she originated in Bright Star's world premiere production, and will be joined by co-stars Paul Alexander Nolan, Tony Award nominee Michael Mulheren, A.J. Shively, Hannah Elless, Tony Award nominee Stephen Bogardus, three-time Tony Award nominee Dee Hoty, Stephen Lee Anderson, Emily Padgett, Tony Award nominee Jeff Blumenkrantz, along with Maddie Shea Baldwin, Allison Briner-Dardenne, Max Chernin, Patrick Cummings, Sandra DeNise, Richard Gatta,...

Danièle Delorme: 'Gigi' 1949 actress and pioneering female film producer. Danièle Delorme: 'Gigi' 1949 actress was pioneering woman producer, politically minded 'femme engagée' Danièle Delorme, who died on Oct. 17, '15, at the age of 89 in Paris, is best remembered as the first actress to incarnate Colette's teenage courtesan-to-be Gigi and for playing Jean Rochefort's about-to-be-cuckolded wife in the international box office hit Pardon Mon Affaire. Yet few are aware that Delorme was featured in nearly 60 films – three of which, including Gigi, directed by France's sole major woman filmmaker of the '40s and '50s – in addition to more than 20 stage plays and a dozen television productions in a show business career spanning seven decades. Even fewer realize that Delorme was also a pioneering woman film producer, working in that capacity for more than half a century. Or that she was what in French is called a femme engagée...

Today in 1998, Footloose opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it ran for 709 performances. Footloose is a 1998 musical based on the 1984 film of the same name. The music is by Tom Snow among others, the lyrics by Dean Pitchford with additional lyrics by Kenny Loggins, and the book by Pitchford and Walter Bobbie. It starred Jeremy Kushnier as Ren McCormack, Stephen Lee Anderson as Reverend Shaw Moore, Jennifer Laura Thompson as Ariel Moore, Tom Plotkin as Willard Hewitt, and Dee Hoty as Vi Moore.

Gigi, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's beloved Oscar and Tony Award-winning musical comedy, celebrated its opening Wednesday night, April 8, at the Neil Simon Theatre 250 West 52nd Street.Gigi starsVanessa Hudgens, who makes her Broadway debut in the title role, Tony Award-winner Victoria ClarkThe Light in the Piazza, Sister Act, Rodgers Hammerstein's Cinderella as Mamita, Corey CottNewsies as Gaston Lachaille, three-time Tony Award-nominee Dee Hoty The Will RogersFollies, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, Footloose as Aunt Alicia, two-time Tony Award-nomineeHoward McGillin The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Anything Goes as Honore Lachaille andSteffanie Leigh Mary Poppins as Liane d'Exelmans.

Gigi, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's beloved Oscar and Tony Award-winning musical comedy, celebrated its opening last night, April 8, at the Neil Simon Theatre 250 West 52nd Street.Gigi starsVanessa Hudgens, who makes her Broadway debut in the title role, Tony Award-winner Victoria ClarkThe Light in the Piazza, Sister Act, Rodgers Hammerstein's Cinderella as Mamita, Corey CottNewsies as Gaston Lachaille, three-time Tony Award-nominee Dee Hoty The Will Rogers Follies, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, Footloose as Aunt Alicia, two-time Tony Award-nomineeHoward McGillin The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Anything Goes as Honore Lachaille and Steffanie Leigh Mary Poppins as Liane d'Exelmans.BroadwayWorld was there for opening night and you can check out photos from inside the after party below...

Gigi, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's beloved Oscar and Tony Award-winning musical comedy, celebrated its opening last night, April 8, at the Neil Simon Theatre 250 West 52nd Street.Gigi stars Vanessa Hudgens, who makes her Broadway debut in the title role, Tony Award-winner Victoria Clark The Light in the Piazza, Sister Act, Rodgers Hammerstein's Cinderella as Mamita, Corey Cott Newsies as Gaston Lachaille, three-time Tony Award-nominee Dee Hoty The Will Rogers Follies, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, Footloose as Aunt Alicia, two-time Tony Award-nominee Howard McGillin The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Anything Goes as Honore Lachaille and Steffanie Leigh Mary Poppins as Liane d'Exelmans.BroadwayWorld was there for opening night and you can check out photos from the curtain call below...

Thank heaven for not-so-little girls. A revival of the Alan Jay Lerner/Frederick Loewe musical Gigi, starring Disney-minted and Spring Breakers starlet Vanessa Hudgens, has booked the Neil Simon Theatre and will begin previews on March 19, with an official opening on April 8. The theater became available when the producers of The Last Ship announced that the Sting musical would trim its sails as of January 24.

The revival of the musical by the team behind My Fair Lady and Camelot will begin its out-of-town tryout this weekend at the Kennedy Center in Washington, where it runs through February 12. The show, based on the novel by Collette about a young Parisian girl who is being groomed for life as a courtesan, will feature a new book (Lerner wrote the original) by UK writer Heidi Thomas.

The director is Eric Schaeffer and the choreographer is Emmy-winner Joshua Bergasse (Smash, the current Broadway revival of On The Town.

Rehearsals are currently underway for the new Broadway production of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's beloved Oscar and Tony Award-winning film and stage musical, Gigi. The production starsVanessa Hudgens who will make her Broadway debut as Gigi, Tony Award-winner and two-time Tony Award-nominee Victoria Clark The Light in the Piazza, Sister Act, Rodgers amp Hammerstein's Cinderella as Mamita Alvarez, Corey CottNewsies as Gaston Lachaille, three-time Tony Award-nominee Dee Hoty The Will Rogers Follies, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, Footloose as Aunt Alicia, two-time Tony Award-nominee Howard McGillin The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Anything Goes as Honore Lachaille and Steffanie Leigh Mary Poppins as Liane d'Exelmans.

Rehearsals are currently underway for the new Broadway production of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's beloved Oscar and Tony Award-winning film and stage musical, Gigi. The production stars Vanessa Hudgens who will make her Broadway debut as Gigi, Tony Award-winner and two-time Tony Award-nominee Victoria Clark The Light in the Piazza, Sister Act, Rodgers amp Hammerstein's Cinderella as Mamita Alvarez, Corey CottNewsies as Gaston Lachaille, three-time Tony Award-nominee Dee Hoty The Will Rogers Follies, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, Footloose as Aunt Alicia, two-time Tony Award-nominee Howard McGillin The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Anything Goes as Honore Lachaille and Steffanie Leigh Mary Poppins as Liane d'Exelmans. The cast just met the press and you can check out a photos from the festivities below...

Rehearsals are currently underway for the new Broadway production of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's beloved Oscar and Tony Award-winning film and stage musical, Gigi. The production starsVanessa Hudgens who will make her Broadway debut as Gigi, Tony Award-winner and two-time Tony Award-nominee Victoria Clark The Light in the Piazza, Sister Act, Rodgers amp Hammerstein's Cinderella as Mamita Alvarez, Corey CottNewsies as Gaston Lachaille, three-time Tony Award-nominee Dee Hoty The Will Rogers Follies, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, Footloose as Aunt Alicia, two-time Tony Award-nominee Howard McGillin The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Anything Goes as Honore Lachaille and Steffanie Leigh Mary Poppins as Liane d'Exelmans. The cast just met the press and you can check out a photos from the festivities below...

Rehearsals are currently underway for the new Broadway production of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's beloved Oscar and Tony Award-winning film and stage musical, Gigi. The production stars Vanessa Hudgens who will make her Broadway debut as Gigi, Tony Award-winner and two-time Tony Award-nominee Victoria Clark The Light in the Piazza, Sister Act, Rodgers amp Hammerstein's Cinderella as Mamita Alvarez, Corey CottNewsies as Gaston Lachaille, three-time Tony Award-nominee Dee Hoty The Will Rogers Follies, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, Footloose as Aunt Alicia, two-time Tony Award-nominee Howard McGillin The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Anything Goes as Honore Lachaille and Steffanie Leigh Mary Poppins as Liane d'Exelmans. The cast just met the press and you can check out a photo preview from the festivities below...

Today in 1998, Footloose opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it ran for 709 performances. Footloose is a 1998 musical based on the 1984 film of the same name. The music is by Tom Snow among others, the lyrics by Dean Pitchford with additional lyrics by Kenny Loggins, and the book by Pitchford and Walter Bobbie. It starred Jeremy Kushnier as Ren McCormack, Stephen Lee Anderson as Reverend Shaw Moore, Jennifer Laura Thompson as Ariel Moore, Tom Plotkin as Willard Hewitt, and Dee Hoty as Vi Moore.

Complete principal casting has been announced for the new Broadway production of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's beloved Oscar and Tony Award-winning film and stage musical, Gigi. Victoria Clark, who won a Tony Award for her luminous performance in The Light in the Piazza and was also Tony-nominated for Rodgers amp Hammerstein's Cinderella and Sister Act, will star as Mamita Alvarez. Dee Hoty, who has starred on Broadway in City of Angels, Me and My Girl and Mamma Mia and is a three-time Tony Award nominee for The Will Rogers Follies, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public and Footloose, will star as Aunt Alicia. Gigi also stars Vanessa Hudgens in the title role, two-time Tony Award-nominee Howard McGillin The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Anything Goes, The Phantom of the Opera as Honore Lachaille, Corey Cott Newsies as Gaston Lachaille and Steffanie Leigh Mary Poppins as Liane d'Exelmans.

Get swept away by an all-star cast in Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma's lush production of A Little Night Music, which runs August 5 through 9 at the Civic Center Music Hall. The show, which features the popular song 'Send in the Clowns', stars Broadway's own Dee Hoty and George Dvorsky. Called 'heady, civilized, sophisticated and enchanting' by the New York Times, Lyric's production is directed by artistic director Michael Baron and includes an original scenic design, new costumes, and a full orchestra. Check out a sneak peek below...

Get swept away by an all-star cast in Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma's lush production of A Little Night Music, which runs August 5 through 9 at the Civic Center Music Hall. The show, which features the popular song Send in the Clowns, stars Broadway's own Dee Hoty and George Dvorsky. Called heady, civilized, sophisticated and enchanting by the New York Times, Lyric's production is directed by artistic director Michael Baron and includes an original scenic design, new costumes, and a full orchestra.

Tony nominee Kate Baldwin Big Fish, Giant, Finian's Rainbow two-time Tony Award winner Katie Finneran Annie, Promises Promises three-time Tony Award winner Hinton Battle The Tap Dance Kid, Miss Saigon, The Wiz three time Tony-nominee Dee Hoty The Will Rogers Follies, Footloose Tony Award winning producer, singer and actor Tamara Tunie producer of Spring Awakening, performed in Broadway's Oh Kay and Tony Award winner Leslie Uggams Hallelujah Baby, On Golden Pond all gathered last week to preview their upcoming shows at 54 Below. BroadwayWorld was there for the sneak peek event and you can check out photos below...

54 Below celebrates some favorite musicals with the new series, 54 Sings. Re-live the hit songs from these groundbreaking shows, performed by some of the best in the biz and, occasionally, by the very voices for whom they were written. Kicking off the series will be 54 Sings Mame December 8 at 930pm, starring Leslie Uggams, Beth Leavel, Klea Blackhurst, Donna Lynne Champlin, Eric Michael Gillett, Annie Golden, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Dee Hoty, Pamela Myers, and Lee Roy Reams.

This month, Unplugged will welcome just announced guests George Lee Andrews and Harvey Evans, as well as special guests Dee Hoty, Pamela Myers, Sarah Rice amp Alice Ripley. The cast also includes cabaret and Broadway veterans Trent Armand Kendall Broadway's Smokey Joe's Cafe, Into the Woods,Award-winning vocal group Marquee 5, T. Oliver Reid Broadway's Sister Act, The Color Purple, Julie ReyburnMACBistroNightlife Award winner and Lucia Spina Broadway's Kinky Boots, South Pacific. Sondheim Unpluggedis hosted by 54 Below's Director of Original Programming, Phil Geoffrey Bond, with Musical Direction by Joe Goodman. In 2011, Sondheim Unplugged received the 2011 Bistro Award for Outstanding Cabaret Series, and was nominated for the 2011 Mac Award.

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre Namt announced today that Tony winners Beth Leavel The Drowsy Chaperone and Lillias White The Life along with Sierra Boggess Disney's The Little Mermaid, Kerry Butler Catch Me If You Can, Patti Murin Lysistrata Jones, Dee Hoty The Will Rogers Follies, Susan Egan Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and Grammy winner Amanda McBroom 'The Rose' are among the performers that will headline Show Off, a benefit concert celebrating 25 years of Namt's Annual Festival of New Musicals on Sunday, October 20 at 7pm at New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts 566 Laguardia Place at Washington Square.

San Jose Rep presents its sassy and sentimental summer hit Love, Loss, and What I Wore. The cast features Dawn Wells Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island, Zuzanna Szadkowski 'Gossip Girl', Tony-nominated Dee Hoty Mamma Mia and TV's 'Smash', Sandra Tsing Loh off-Broadway Aliens in America and NPR's 'The Loh Down on Science' and Ashley Austin Morris 'Ugly Betty' and 'The Electric Company'.

San Jose Rep announced today the cast for its sassy and sentimental summer hit Love, Loss, and What I Wore Dawn Wells Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island, Zuzanna Szadkowski 'Gossip Girl', Tony-nominated Dee Hoty Mamma Mia and TV's 'Smash', Sandra Tsing Loh off-Broadway Aliens in America and NPR's 'The Loh Down on Science' and Ashley Austin Morris 'Ugly Betty' and 'The Electric Company'. The off-Broadway hit makes its Bay Area premiere July 19 - July 28, 2013.

Today in 1998, Footloose opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it ran for 709 performances. Footloose is a 1998 musical based on the 1984 film of the same name. The music is by Tom Snow among others, the lyrics by Dean Pitchford with additional lyrics by Kenny Loggins, and the book by Pitchford and Walter Bobbie. It starred Jeremy Kushnier as Ren McCormack, Stephen Lee Anderson as Reverend Shaw Moore, Jennifer Laura Thompson as Ariel Moore, Tom Plotkin as Willard Hewitt, and Dee Hoty as Vi Moore.

Coming up this week, 54 Below, the new performance venue located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54th Street, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, and beyond. Starring Emmy and Tony winner Andrea Martin with Seth Rudetsky, acclaimed singerpianist Tony Desare, Tony nominees Dee Hoty, Christiane Noll and Christine Andreas, as well as award-winning vocalist Tom Judson and the fabulous dragapella beauty shop quartet The Kinsey Sicks.

The Hangar Theatre has announced casting for its The 38th season, which will include a thrilling line-up of plays and musicals. The season takes off with Ken Ludwigs knock-down, drag it out farce, Lend Me A Tenor June 21-July 7, starring Emily Skinner, Michael McCormick, Janet Dacal, Daniel Berlingeri, Lindsay Clemmons, Eddie Vona and Judy Levitt. That will be followed by the premiere of a strikingly innovative concept of the Tony winning best musical Titanic July 12-July 28, starring Alma Cuervo, William Youmans, Drew McVety, Christianne Tisdale, Phillip Hoffman, Joneil Joplin, and Robert Cuccioli. The sophisticated comedy Full Gallop August 2-August 11 is next, starring Dee Hoty, followed by the area premiere of the Pulitzer Prize winning musical Next to Normal August 16-September 1, with Andra Burns and Chris Hoch. The final offering is a true American classic, Horton Footes The Trip to Bountiful September 13-September 22, featuring Susannah Berryman.

Announcing The Active Theater Inaugural Gala, featuring performances from Tony Award-Winner David Hyde Pierce (Broadway's Curtains, Spamalot, Emmy Award-winner for TV's Frasier) Tony Award-Winner Chuck Cooper (Broadway's The Life, Caroline or Change, Finian's Rainbow) and Tony Award-Nominee Dee Hoty (Broadway's Bye, Bye Birdie, Mamma Mia, Will Rogers Follies), Sunday, October 18th at 7:00Pm at Del Posto restaurant - 85 10th Avenue (corner of 10th Avenue & 16th Street).

Bye Bye Birdie celebrated Opening Night on Thursday, October 15th at the new Henry Miller's Theatre (124 West 43rd Street). Bye Bye Birdie stars John Stamos, Gina Gershon, Bill Irwin & Nolan Gerard Funk with Jayne Houdyshell, Dee Hoty, Matt Doyle, Jake Evan Schwencke and Alllie Trimm. BroadwayWorld and Broadway Beat were on hand to welcome the revival and bring you this Mega preview featuring interviews with the cast, creative and tons of clips to satisfy even the most rabid "Birdie" fans!

The Cleveland Play House is excited to announce that Dee Hoty, a three-time Tony Award? nominated actress, will be the featured entertainer at their Annual Gala on Saturday, June 6, 2009. Born and raised in Lakewood, Ohio, Hoty began her professional career at The Cleveland Play House as a member of the repertory company (1975 and 1976). The evening begins at 6:30pm and will include complimentary valet parking, a cocktail hour with hors d'oeuvres, dinner, silent and live auction, entertainment and dancing. Hoty earned Tony Award? nominations for her starring roles in Footloose, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, and The Will Rogers Follies. She recently starred on Broadway in Mamma Mia! and continued on the national tour in eight major U.S. cities. She can be heard on the original recordings of City of Angels, The Will Rogers Follies, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, and Footloose, and on the 2Cd set...