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On Monday, September 18, 2023, at 8:15 Am, Cartoon Network will air Season 2, Episode 42 of “Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go” titled “It All Adds Up.” In this episode, the engines are excited about a special adventure. They are looking forward to seeing the Northern Lights, and Harold the Helicopter will be there to help them on this journey.

“It All Adds Up” promises an engaging and cheerful episode where Thomas and his friends embark on a new and exciting adventure. The Northern Lights are a beautiful natural phenomenon, and the engines are in for a treat as they set out to witness this wonder with the help of their trusty friend, Harold.

For young fans of “Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go,” this episode is sure to be a delightful and educational experience. Tune in to Cartoon Network on September 18th at 8:15 Am to join Thomas and his friends on...

Diana: The Musical will return to Broadway in December, two months after a special presentation of the production premieres on Netflix, producers announced today.

Pending government approval of Broadway’s reopening, Diana will begin previews at the Longacre Theatre on Wednesday, December 1, with an opening night set for Thursday, December 16. Tickets through November 20, 2022, are on sale now.

Diana: The Musical will premiere as a special presentation on Netflix on Friday, October 1.

In a joint statement, Diana producers Grove Entertainment (Beth Williams), Frank Marshall and The Araca Group said: “The chance to share our show, first with Netflix’s global audience, and then welcoming a live audience back on Broadway, is something we’ve all been dreaming about for more than a year. We could not be more thrilled to finally share both the film and the Broadway musical with the world.”

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A new Broadway musical about the life of the late Princess Diana called “Diana” will make its debut in a filmed version on Netflix ahead of its premiere on Broadway — which has been shut down since March due to the coronavirus.

Jeanna de Waal stars in the musical that started previews back in March and was meant to open on March 31 at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway.

“Diana,” directed by Christopher Ashley, will be filmed without an audience on the stage of the Longacre Theater and will feature the original Broadway cast including de Waal as Diana, Roe Hartrampfas Prince Charles, Erin Davie as Camilla Parker Bowles, and two-time Tony winner Judy Kaye as Queen Elizabeth. The producers have worked closely with Actor’s Equity Association on all protocols.

The show is currently scheduled to open on Broadway on Tuesday, May 25, 2021, and the filmed version will debut on Netflix at some time next year.

Princess Diana‘s story will soon open on Broadway.

Diana: A True Musical Story released a first look at the key art for the highly-anticipated musical, using the late princess’s recognizable eyes to draw people in. The art features the outline of the upper half of Diana’s face, with a side-eye pose giving it a more mysterious look.

Set in 1981, the musical follows Diana as she prepares to marry into the royal family. The show also explores the aftermath of that marriage, from her husband’s highly publicized affair with Camilla Parker Bowles to her relationship with the press.

Hollywood’s stunt performers — whose careers, like those of professional athletes, tend to decline after a certain age — have been lobbying the SAG Pension Plan, without success, for decades to allow them to retire with full benefits at age 55. They can currently take early retirement at that age but with a 30% reduction in pension benefits.

At its meeting this weekend, SAG-AFTRA’s national board of directors is expected to take up the issue in response to a resolution approved at the union’s convention in October, which urged the board to recommend to the Pension Plan’s trustees that they provide full pensions at age 55 to all members – like stunt performers and dancers – who work in physically taxing professions. In the past, however, the pension trustees have said that doing so would cost the Plan too much money.

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The U.S. Department of Labor has found that more than $750,000 was misappropriated from the SAG Pension & Health Plans, according to guild sources familiar with the probe. The money has been repaid by the Plans’ insurer, and the DoL’s investigation was closed last month.

Guild sources say that the misuse of the Plans’ funds stem largely from excessive fees paid on investments; improper spending on holiday, staff retirement and anniversary parties; and excessive spending by the trustees for meals, limos and meetings.

The misappropriation of funds is in addition to the millions of dollars embezzled by Nader Karimi, the Plans’ former chief information officer, who was sentenced in April to five years of probation after having pled guilty to filing a false income tax return in which he failed to report more than $700,000 in kickbacks he received from contractors he hired to upgrade the Plans’ computer system.

Bruce Dow, the Plans’ former chief administrator,...

The former chief information technology officer at the SAG Pension and Health Plans, who pleaded guilty to tax fruad was sentenced today to five years’ probation. Nader Karimi pleaded guilty in November to filing a false income tax return in which he failed to report more than $700,000 in kickbacks he received from contractors he hired to upgrade the Plans’ computer system.

U.S. District Court Judge Fernando Olguin also ordered Karimi to serve eight months of home detention with electronic monitoring and pay $208,000 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. U.S. Attorney Angela Davis had asked for a year and a day in federal prison, but the U.S. Probation Office had recommended that he serve no jail time.

“I can’t begin to say how ashamed and sorry I am,” Karimi said before the sentencing. “I let everyone down. I have asked God for forgiveness, and I humbly...

Exclusive: Fully two years before whistleblower Craig Simmons alerted the U.S. Department of Labor to alleged malfeasance at the $3 billion SAG Pension & Health Plans, fellow employee Gary Mathis made virtually identical allegations to the federal agency, Deadline has learned.

Mathis and Simmons both filed claims and wrongful-termination suits, with decidedly different outcomes. Mathis’ claims were rejected by an arbitrator, but Simmons’ claims went public, with coverage so intense it led to the resignation of Bruce Dow, the benefit plans’ longtime CEO. The Simmons arbitration resulted in a confidential settlement, and that Dol probe is ongoing.

Mathis says that while the investigation into his charges led to the subsequent inquiries, “I got nothing out of it,” he told Deadline, which has obtained the Labor Department complaint he filed in 2009 (read it here). “Craig reached out to me when he was going through his lawsuit, and I met with him and with the FBI.

Allegations of widespread embezzlement at the SAG Pension & Health Plans that ruined the career of the benefit plans’ longtime chief administrator Bruce Dow quietly have been settled. “That case is over,” said Robin Dal Soglio, the attorney who represented Dow and the plans in a confidential arbitration of the matter. The case that started with a bang has ended with a thud.

The allegations made headlines when Craig Simmons, the plans’ executive director of human resources, alleged in 2011 that Dow was sending the plans’ insurance business to his wife and that she pocketed part of the premiums, that Dow underreported the amount of money allegedly embezzled by a former employee, that Dow paid his brother-in-law for a no-show job and that Dow used insider information to benefit his church.

In his initial 2012 lawsuit (read it here), Simmons alleged that he was wrongfully terminated in March 2011, because he wouldn’t cover...

Almost two years after merging SAG-aftra still haven’t melded their pension and health plans, but the SAG Plan now has a new CEO. Michael Estrada, former Executive Director, Investments and Finance, will take over the Screen Actors Guild-Producers Pension & Health Plans “effective immediately,” SAG-pphp said today. The scandal-plagued plans saw Christopher Dowdell announced last year he was exiting the CEO gig after just more than a year in the job. The former COO stepped in after previous controversial CEO Bruce Dow exited in April 2012. Both SAG and AFTRA’s separate plans are expected to be a major topic of discussion in the union’s upcoming negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and TV Producers over a new 3-year contract. SAG-aftra and AMPTP have not yet set a start date for those talks, but the current contract expires June 30 — the same day as the DGA, who struck their new...

Update: SAG Pension & Health Plans whistleblower Craig E. Simmons filed a second lawsuit today against his former employers. Today’s suit (read it here) stems from a letter that the SAG-pphp Board of Trustees sent out to plan participants on December 22, 2011 declaring that Simmons’ allegations of embezzlement against then CEO Bruce Dow were false, according to an independent investigator. “Plaintiff is informed and believes that the Board of Trustees wrote this letter knowing that Plaintiff’s allegations against Dow were true,” says today’s complaint. Seeking a jury trial, the defamation and invasion of privacy suit by the former SAG-pphp Executive Director of the Human Resources comes after he filed a wrongful termination suit against the organization back on March 22. In that initial suit, Simmons alleges that he was wrongfully terminated on March 25, 2011, because he wouldn’t cover up Dow’s alleged multi-million dollar embezzlement scheme of the SAG-Pension and Health Plans.

The SAG Pension & Health Plan’s former head of human resources and information technology, Craig Simmons, sued the Plan for defamation and invasion of privacy Wednesday, alleging that the Plan published false allegations about Simmons in a letter sent to SAG members on or about December 22, 2011. This is the second lawsuit filed by Simmons against the Plan. In his first suit, filed in March, he alleged wrongful termination a year earlier, in retaliation for reporting alleged illegal conduct by the organization’s CEO, Bruce Dow. Photos: Top 10 Legal Disclaimers in Hollywood In response to those allegations, the Plan

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More than eight months after the two unions merged, the Los Angeles Local of SAG-aftra is holding its first membership meeting tonight. As Deadline previously reported, one of the items on the agenda is a report on the melding of SAG and AFTRA’s Health and Pension funds. Only members in good standing are permitted to attend the 7 Pm meeting at Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City. Los Angeles co-presidents Gabrielle Carteris and Ned Vaughn will co-chair the meeting and take questions on the benefit plans as well as the 2013 commercials contracts talks. Related: Longtime SAG P&H Plan Manager Exits On October 28, the union’s National Board received the Pension, Health & Retirement Report from the trustees of the SAG-Producers Pension & Health Plans and the AFTRA Health & Retirement Plans. Of course, no details were made public. Earlier in the summer, the National Board passed a motion urging the trustees of...

Marianna Edwards has left her position as manager of the SAG Producers Pension & Health Plan, Deadline has confirmed. “Marianna Edwards is no longer working here,” a SAG P&H Human Resources official said today. In fact, she hasn’t been working there for at least two weeks. Edwards resigned in late October after 27 years at SAG. Her departure came around the same time the SAG-aftra National Board received an uninformative Pension, Health & Retirement Report from the trustees of the still separate SAG Producers Pension and Health Plan and the AFTRA Health and Retirement Plan. In July, the National Board of the now merged union passed a motion urging the trustees of the plans to unify and to immediately implement a reciprocity agreement between the two plans. Related: Controversial Bruce Dow Exiting (Or Exited) As SAG P&H Plan CEO SAG P&H Plan Rocked By Lawsuit: Targets CEO Bruce Dow...

Controversial Bruce Dow Exiting (Or Exited) As SAG P&H Plan CEO SAG P&H Plan Rocked By Lawsuit: Targets CEO Bruce Dow Feds Probing SAG P&H Embezzlements/Cover-Ups Allegations Los Angeles and New York (July 22, 2012) – The National Board of Directors of SAG-aftra met today via videoconference in the final day of a regularly scheduled two-day plenary. The National Board voted overwhelmingly (99.47%) to approve a motion urging the union and industry trustees of the SAG Producers Pension and Health Plans (“P&H”) and the AFTRA Health & Retirement Funds (H&R) to undertake expeditious and appropriate action to create a unified Health Plan for performers, broadcasters and others working under SAG-aftra collective bargaining agreements, and to implement immediately a reciprocity agreement between the two existing Health Plans. The Board also urged the Plan Trustees to review the feasibility and advisability of creating a unified Defined Benefit Retirement Plan and reciprocity...

Controversial Bruce Dow Exiting (Or Exited) As SAG P&H Plan CEO SAG P&H Plan Rocked By Lawsuit: Targets CEO Bruce Dow Feds Probing SAG P&H Embezzlements/Cover-Ups Allegations Los Angeles and New York (July 22, 2012) – The National Board of Directors of SAG-aftra met today via videoconference in the final day of a regularly scheduled two-day plenary. The National Board voted overwhelmingly (99.47%) to approve a motion urging the union and industry trustees of the SAG Producers Pension and Health Plans (“P&H”) and the AFTRA Health & Retirement Funds (H&R) to undertake expeditious and appropriate action to create a unified Health Plan for performers, broadcasters and others working under SAG-aftra collective bargaining agreements, and to implement immediately a reciprocity agreement between the two existing Health Plans. The Board also urged the Plan Trustees to review the feasibility and advisability of creating a unified Defined Benefit Retirement Plan and reciprocity...

Bruce Dow, the controversial CEO of Screen Actors Guild -- Producers Pension & Health Plans, has turned his extended leave of absence into a full-blown retirement. The SAG-pphp  announced Wednesday that Dow has vacated his position, as TheWrap reported he would do last month. Dow will remain on as a consultant. "It is with regret that we accept our CEO Bruce Dow's decision to resign from employment with the Plans," a statement from the union reads. "For the last 28 years, Bruce has been instrumental in assisting the Trustees in designing and...

Bruce Dow, a 28-year employee of the SAG Pension and Health Plan and its current CEO, has resigned effective April 30, the organization’s board of trustees announced today. He had previously been on a sixty day medical leave starting in January, and then returned to work a few weeks ago. According to the statement, COO Chris Dowdell, a 20-year veteran of the Plan, will serve as interim CEO. Dow, the statement said, will continue as a consultant for a term and salary that were not disclosed. Pending in state court is a wrongful termination suit filed March 22

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SAG Pension & Health Plan Rocked By Lawsuit: Targets CEO Bruce Dow Feds Probing SAG P&H Embezzlements/Cover-Ups Allegations Exclusive… Update: It’s official - Bruce Dow just announced to the staff at 3:10 Pm today that he is “retiring” as CEO of the SAG Pension and Health Plans on April 30th. I found out months ago this was in the works the moment Dow became controversial, and that’s why he was on leave for so long. Replacing him will be COO Chris Dowdell serving as Interim CEO. Dow’s stepping down follows considerable controversy, including a civil lawsuit’s descriptions of questionable activities by him, and even what is an “active” federal investigation into allegations he improperly conducted his job there. So the question now remains what if anything the SAG P&H Plans Board Of Trustees plan to do in the way of their own investigation into...

SAG Pension & Health Plan Rocked By Lawsuit: Targets CEO Bruce Dow Feds Probing SAG P&H Embezzlements/Cover-Ups Allegations Exclusive… Update: It’s official - Bruce Dow just announced to the staff at 3:10 Pm today that he is “retiring” as CEO of the SAG Pension and Health Plans on April 30th. I found out months ago this was in the works the moment Dow became controversial, and that’s why he was on leave for so long. Replacing him will be COO Chris Dowdell serving as Interim CEO. Dow’s stepping down follows considerable controversy, including a civil lawsuit’s descriptions of questionable activities by him, and even what is an “active” federal investigation into allegations he improperly conducted his job there. So the question now remains what if anything the SAG P&H Plans Board Of Trustees plan to do in the way of their own investigation into...

Welcome to The Friday Six QampAs With Your Favorite Broadway Stars. Want to know what hooked them to a career in the theater Their dream roles Their Broadway crushes Read onIn this next edition, we caught up with Bruce Dow who is starring as the outrageous 'King Herod' in Jesus Christ Superstar- currently playing at the Neil Simon Theatre...

Craig Simmons, the former human resources director for the Screen Actors Guild --Producers Pension & Health Plans, sued the plans for wrongful termination on Thursday.  Simmons has drummed up a firestorm of controversy with allegations involving fraud and embezzlement at the plans. He has been threatening to sue SAG-pphp for months.  In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Simmons made good on those threats. In the filing, Simmons continued to level accusations at SAG-pphp CEO Bruce Dow, claiming that his former boss covered up embezzlement at the nonprofit and used the...

Feds Probing SAG P&H Embezzlements/Cover-Ups Allegations Breaking 7:30 Pm… Exclusive… More Details… Whistleblower Craig E Simmons today filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against his former employer, the Screen Actors Guild Pension & Health Plan. And the fired high-ranking executive makes explosive allegations against CEO Bruce Dow who is still apparently employed there. These accusations have been informally leveled against Dow and the SAG P&Hp for months now, but for the first time Simmons puts them into the record via his legal complaint. (Read the 19-page lawsuit here.) If true, they beg for a complete and independent investigation as well as housecleaning at SAG P&Hp which governs more than $2 billion in assets on behalf of SAG members. Simmons was executive director of Sagp&Hp human resources and held other top titles, and is a lawyer. One of his attorneys on this lawsuit is the well-known Greg Smith, who...

Feds Probing SAG P&H Embezzlements/Cover-Ups Allegations Breaking 7:30 Pm… Exclusive… More Details… Whistleblower Craig E Simmons today filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against his former employer, the Screen Actors Guild Pension & Health Plan. And the fired high-ranking executive makes explosive allegations against CEO Bruce Dow who is still apparently employed there. These accusations have been informally leveled against Dow and the SAG P&Hp for months now, but for the first time Simmons puts them into the record via his legal complaint. (Read the 19-page lawsuit here.) If true, they beg for a complete and independent investigation as well as housecleaning at SAG P&Hp which governs more than $2 billion in assets on behalf of SAG members. Simmons was executive director of Sagp&Hp human resources and held other top titles, and is a lawyer. One of his attorneys on this lawsuit is the well-known Greg Smith, who...

Craig Simmons, the SAG Pension & Health Plan’s former head of human resources and information technology, sued the Plan for wrongful termination Thursday, alleging that he was discharged a year ago after reporting alleged illegal conduct by the organization’s CEO, Bruce Dow. The suit was not unexpected. Since his termination, which Simmons says occurred on March 25, 2011, he has made public a letter he sent to the Plan’s trustees and a complaint he filed with the U.S. Department of Labor. The Plan responded by having an outside investigation conducted, which resulted in a Dec. 22 statement from the

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Bruce Dow wanted to be a leading man and believed it was necessary for him to become one lean dude. He spent a decade as an anorexic and then a bulimic. (No, it's not only a woman's issue). He landed leading roles, but these were not especially satisfying and he ultimately regained the weight. When director Susan H. Schulman cast him as the rotund Pancho Sanza in "Man of La Mancha" at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, he had a life and career altering revelation.It was not simply his success in the part or the juicy character roles that poured in—from the emcee in "Cabaret," to Trinculo in "The Tempest" to his current gig as the wild and campy King Herod in the Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera, "Jesus Christ Superstar."It turned out to be a lesson in self-acceptance. "When I was thin,...

Bruce Dow, embattled CEO of the Screen Actors Guild -- Producers Pension & Health Plans has extended his leave of absence, TheWrap has learned.   Dow was to have returned last Monday but now is tentatively scheduled to be back at his roughly $400,000-a-year position on March 21, according to an individual with knowledge of the situation.  Reached by TheWrap this week, Dow (left) would only say that he was on disability leave and could not comment on his return to work. A spokeswoman for the plans said she could not comment on...

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's hit production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar, directed by 2-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff, opens March 22, 2012 previews begin March 1 at the Neil Simon Theatre.The cast features Paul Nolan as Jesus Christ, Josh Young as Judas Iscariot, Chilina Kennedy as Mary Magdalene, Tom Hewitt as Pontius Pilate, Bruce Dow as King Herod, Marcus Nance as Caiaphas and Aaron Walpole as Annas.The cast of the new production met the press yesterday, February 14, and BroadwayWorld was there for the photo op. Check out complete photo coverage below...

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's hit production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar, directed by 2-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff, opens March 22, 2012 previews begin March 1 at the Neil Simon Theatre 250 West 52nd Street.The cast features Paul Nolan as Jesus Christ, Josh Young as Judas Iscariot, Chilina Kennedy as Mary Magdalene, Tom Hewitt as Pontius Pilate, Bruce Dow as King Herod, Marcus Nance as Caiaphas and Aaron Walpole as Annas.The cast of the new production met the press today, and BroadwayWorld was there for the festivities. Check out interviews with the cast and creative team below...

The Stratford Shakespeare Festivals hit production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rices Jesus Christ Superstar, directed by 2-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff, opens March 22, 2012 previews begin March 1 at the Neil Simon Theatre 250 West 52nd Street.The cast features Paul Nolan as Jesus Christ, Josh Young as Judas Iscariot, Chilina Kennedy as Mary Magdalene, Tom Hewitt as Pontius Pilate, Bruce Dow as King Herod, Marcus Nance as Caiaphas and Aaron Walpole as Annas.The cast of the new production met the press today, and BroadwayWorld was there for the festivities. Check out a photo preview of the event below, and check back later for full coverage...

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's hit production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar, directed by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Artistic Director Des McAnuff, will open on Broadway on March 22, 2012. Previews begin March 1, 2012 at the Neil Simon Theatre. The cast will feature Paul Nolan as Jesus Christ, Josh Young as Judas Iscariot, Chilina Kennedy as Mary Magdalene, Tom Hewitt as Pontius Pilate, Bruce Dow as King Herod, Marcus Nance as Caiaphas and Aaron Walpole as Annas. The marquee is up and BroadwayWorld brings you a look below...

Exclusive Bruce Dow, the chief executive officer of the Screen Actors Guild -- Producers Pension & Health Plans (SAG-pphp) will take a leave of absence from the organization, TheWrap has learned.  Dow (left) has been dogged by allegations from an ousted employee that he covered up an embezzlement scheme at the benefits administrator and used the funds for personal expenses. Also read: CEO of SAG Pension Plan Accused of Embezzlement Cover-Up (Exclusive) Less than two weeks ago, the board of trustees for SAG-pphp released a statement to members announcing that a review of the charges...

The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's hit production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar, directed by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Artistic Director Des McAnuff which will open on Broadway on March 22, 2012 previews begin March 1 at the Neil Simon Theatre 250 West 52nd Street. The cast will feature Paul Nolan as Jesus Christ, Josh Young as Judas Iscariot, Chilina Kennedy as Mary Magdalene, Tom Hewitt as Pontius Pilate, Bruce Dow as King Herod, Marcus Nance as Caiaphas and Aaron Walpole as Annas. Check out a first look at the production below...

Members of the Screen Actors Guild are being reassured that their benefits packages are safe and secure amid allegations that the pension plan’s CEO Bruce Dow covered up an embezzlement scheme and used the funds for personal expenses. The charges first bubbled up in Department of Labor complaint submitted last September by ousted plan executive Craig Simmons, but gained traction after an online petition demanding an “independent” investigation into the charges garnered over 560 signatures in recent weeks. In response, the board of trustees of the Screen Actors Guild Producers Pension and...

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The cast for the upcoming revival of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s Jesus Christ Superstar was announced this week. The cast will feature Paul Nolan, Josh Young and Chilina Kennedy reprising their roles as Jesus Christ, Judas Iscariot and Mary Magdalene, respectively. Tom Hewitt will take on the role of Pontius Pilate, with Bruce Dow as King Herod, Marcus Nance as Caiaphas and Aaron Walpole as Annas.

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Over 560 people have signed an online petition calling for an independent investigation into allegations that Bruce Dow, CEO of the Screen Actors Guild's health and pension plans, covered up a $5 million - $10 million embezzlement scheme and raided the fund for personal use. “People are fed up,” Paul Edney, a SAG member who signed the petition, told TheWrap. “They are ticked off because it’s our money that’s being stolen.” Also read: CEO of SAG Pension Plan Accused of Embezzlement Cover-Up (Exclusive) The allegations stem from a labor department complaint from Craig E.

New York — What's the buzz? A hit production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" in Canada is coming south to Broadway.

Producers announced Tuesday that the rock musical about the last days of Jesus written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice will hit New York in the spring, a move that was widely expected.

Previews will begin on March 1 at the Neil Simon Theatre and an official opening is set for March 22. Des McAnuff, the artistic director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, where the revival originated this summer, will again direct.

"I'm extremely happy, and very, very happy for the company of actors because I think they anticipated that this might happen and I certainly haven't discouraged them from believing that," McAnuff said by phone from Italy.

The guitar- and keyboard-driven musical, which debuted on Broadway in 1971, includes such songs as "What's the Buzz?" "Superstar" and "I Don't Know How to Love Him.

The board of trustees of the fund that provides health and pension benefits for SAG members announced Friday that there will be a "full review" of allegations that CEO Bruce Dow covered up a $5 to $10 million embezzlement scheme.  In a statement, the board said it had retained outside counsel to conduct the investigation.  TheWrap broke the news that Craig E. Simmons,, an ex-employee of the Screen Actors Guild's Producers Pension and Health Plans (SAG-pphp), had filed a complaint with the U.S. Dept. of Labor seeking a civil and criminal investigation...