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This exciting new staging will star the radiant Laura Griffith as Julie and 5th Avenue favorite Brandon O'Neill as Billy in his first Seattle production following his Broadway debut in Disney's Aladdin. The cast also includes local luminaries Anne Allgood, Eric Ankrim, Allen Fitzpatrick, Sean G. Griffin, Cynthia Jones, and Billie Wildrick, and marks The 5th Avenue debut of rising talent Joshua Downs.

Tony Award-winning producers Junkyard Dog Productions and Hal Luftig announced today that they will present a reading of the new musical First Date today, December 14, 2012. With a book by Austin Winsberg, music and lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner and direction by Bill Berry, the reading of First Date will feature Eric Ankrim, Sara Chase, Alli Mauzey, Brandon O'Neill, Brad Oscar, Nicole Parker and Andre Ward.

On Twitter Watch, Alan Menken wrote Three days of Aladdin meetings starting today. Back with Casey and Chad. This bouncing between projects is crazy The 5th Avenue Theatre's production of Aladdin features Adam Jacobs and Courtney Reed as Aladdin and Jasmine, James Monroe Iglehart as the Genie, and Seattle mainstay Sen G. Griffin as the Sultan. Jonathan Freeman takes the stage to embody the role he originally voiced for the film, the Royal Vizier Jafar. He is joined by comedic favorite Don Darryl Rivera as Iago. Aladdin restores a trio of characters originally conceived by the film's creators Omar, Babkak, and Kassim, played by Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Brian Gonzales, and Brandon O'Neill, respectively.Several 5th Avenue veterans return for the production, including acclaimed director and choreographer Casey Nicholaw, who received his first professional choreography gig at The 5th Avenue Theatre The Prince and the Pauper, 2001 and where he later choreographed My Fair Lady 2002. On Broadway,...

A disgruntled soldier helps a stranger create a hit list in this action thriller from William Kaufman, on Blu-ray and DVD May 10th

Cuba Gooding Jr. stars in director William Kaufman's action thriller The Hit List, which makes its Blu-ray and DVD debut May 10th. The story follows a disgruntled man (Cole Hauser) who creates a hit list with a dangerous stranger (Cuba Gooding Jr.) whom he meets one late, drunken night out at a bar. The following day, he must race to try and save those he marked for extermination as the bodies begin to pile up, and all fingers start to point to him.

We recently caught up with Cuba Gooding Jr., who elevates The Hit List into must-see territory for action film aficionados. The actor arrives guns blazing in one of his best performances yet. We had a chance to talk with him about the film,...