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Come see Broadway stars Ken Ard Smokey Joe's Caf Jelly's Last Jam Dangerous Games Song and Dance Starlight Express Cats The Little Prince and the Aviator Marlowe Steven 'HeaveN' Cantor In Transit Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award winner Robert Cuccioli Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark Les Miserables Jekyll and Hyde Joshua Dela Cruz Aladdin Lana Gordon Chicago The Lion King Jesus Christ Superstar Taylor Iman Jones Groundhog Day Crystal Kellogg Finding Neverland School of Rock-The Musical, Tari Kelly Groundhog Day Something Rotten Stanley Wayne Mathis Nice Work If You Can Get It The Book of Mormon Wonderful Town Kiss Me Kate You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown The Lion King Jelly's Last Jam Oh. Kay Jon Peterson Cabaret Wayne Pretlow The Civil War Ciara Renee Pippin Big Fish Anthony Rosenthal Falsettos Drama Desk Award nominee Nora Schell Spamilton Ayla Schwartz Frozen and Sarah Jane Shanks Cats Bright Star Promises,...

Happy Birthday, Donna Murphy Murphy has won two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for her roles in Passion as Fosca and in The King and I as Anna Leonowens. She received three more Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Musical for her performances in Wonderful Town as Ruth Sherwood, LoveMusik as Lotte Lenya and The People in the Picture as RaiselBubbie. She is known, most recently, for her role as Mother Gothel in the animated Disney film Tangled 2010, Anij, Captain Jean-Luc Picard's love interest, in Star Trek Insurrection 1998 and her numerous stage roles in musical theatre.

George Gaynes, the man TV’s Punky Brewster called “Henry” (and eventually “dad”) from 1984 to 1988, died Monday in North Bend, Wash., at the age of 98.

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Born in Helsinki in 1917, Gaynes began his career on the Broadway stage in the 1950s and ’60s, including a starring role in the original production of the musical Wonderful Town.

But Gaynes is best known for playing Henry Warnimont — a grouchy photographer-turned-building manager who raises, and ultimately adopts, a young girl (played by Soleil Moon Frye) — in the ’80s sitcom Punky Brewster. (Update:...

With just seven months until the new Ghostbusters hits the big screen, a star from the beloved original movies has passed away. Entertainment Weekly is reporting that actor David Margulies, who played New York City Mayor Lenny Clotch in both 1984's Ghostbusters and the 1989 sequel Ghostbusters 2, has passed away at the age of 78 in New York City. The actor's agent Mary Harden confirmed the news, revealing that he passed from a lengthy battle with an undisclosed illness.

David Margulies was born February 19, 1937 in Brooklyn, and after graduating from City College, he made his off-Broadway debut in 1958 with a role in the production Golden 6. His first film appearance came in 1971's A New Leaf, and he would go on to star in films like All That Jazz, Dressed to Kill, and Times Square before landing the role of New York Mayor Lenny Clotch in the original Ghostbusters. He delivered the memorable line,...

Broadway leading lady Jennifer Hope Wills The Phantom Of The Opera Wonderful Town will play the role of scorned wife 'Billie Burke' who was famously married to Flo Ziegfeld, but was perhaps most known for he role as Glinda in MGM's classic The Wizard Of Oz in the highly anticipated staged reading of Ghostlight the musical tonight, October 22nd at 900 Pm.

Broadway leading lady Jennifer Hope Wills The Phantom Of The Opera Wonderful Town will play the role of scorned wife 'Billie Burke'who was famously married to Flo Ziegfeld, but was perhaps most known for he role as Glinda in MGM's classic The Wizard Of Oz in the highly anticipated staged reading of Ghostlight the musical on Thursday, October 22nd at 900 Pm.

A month after her appointment as co-director of Busan International Film Festival (Biff), Kang Soo-youn was on stage in Seoul speaking with the press alongside her co-director colleague Lee Yong-kwan.

Putting to rest industry concerns over the censorship controversy that resulted in this new co-directorship, the iconic Korean actress voiced a categorical determination to keep Biff’s programming independent of censorship.

Having been on the Biff executive committee since 1998, Kang said: “The Busan film festival from its first edition has been experiencing events like that.

“There have been filmmakers who had to go into exile because of their own country’s politics and there are filmmakers that had their films banned.

“Whether they were affected by politics, economics, distribution or censorship, the Busan film festival showed these directors’ films regardless, and this is how the festival has gotten to its 20th edition.

“It is no longer just a Korean film festival. It is the...

Thailand’s Ministry of Culture will host the Thai Pitch event at Cannes again this year, where projects will be presented by three directors including Wisit Sasanatieng (Tears Of The Black Tiger, Citizen Dog).

Wisit will present drama Suriya, about an ingenious Thai boxer and the addictions he battles outside the ring that lead to his downfall. Athimes Arunrojangkul (Karaoke Girl, Phobia 2) is set to produce.

Also selected for the event are Wasunan Hutawet’s Sydney, about a woman returning to her hometown after trying to better herself in Bangkok, and Sananjit Bangsapan’s Uncle Ho, about the young Ho Chi Minh’s visit to Thailand in the 1920s.

Sydney will be produced by Soros Sokhum (Wonderful Town) and Parinee Buthrasri, while Uncle Ho will be produced by by Supong Javanasundara (Hit Man File) and Nakorn Veerapavati.

Wasunan was selected for Berlinale Talents in 2012 and hopes to make her feature debut with Sydney. Sananjit previously...

Happy Birthday, Donna Murphy Murphy has won two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for her roles in Passion as Fosca and in The King and I as Anna Leonowens. She received three more Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Musical for her performances in Wonderful Town as Ruth Sherwood, LoveMusik as Lotte Lenya and The People in the Picture as RaiselBubbie. She is known, most recently, for her role as Mother Gothel in the animated Disney film Tangled 2010, Anij, Captain Jean-Luc Picard's love interest, in Star Trek Insurrection 1998 and her numerous stage roles in musical theatre.

Thailand’s Mosquito Films Distribution has picked up four Southeast Asian titles, including The Second Life Of Thieves, directed by Woo Ming Jin, which is making its world premiere in Biff’s Window on Asian Cinema section.

Malaysian director Woo Ming Jin’s previous films include Tiger Factory, which screened in Cannes, and Woman On Fire Looks For Water, which was in Venice and Busan.

Mosquito has also picked up Edmund Yeo’s feature directorial debut River Of Exploding Durians, which will make its world premiere in competition at the upcoming Tokyo International Film Festival. Woo took on the role of producer for Yeo’s film.

“Edmund and I are excited to work with Mosquito. We are in good hands and look forward to a long-term relationship with them. I believe this is a collaboration that will serve not just Malaysian and Thai cinema, but also Southeast Asian cinema in general. Together, we can...

Too Much Sun - the newest play by Nicky Silver - plays through June 22 at the Vineyard Theatre108 E. 15 St.. Mark Brokaw directs the cast starring the Tony Award-winning actress Linda LavinBROADWAY Bound, 'Alice', joined by Ken Barnett Wonderful Town, And Baby Makes Seven, Richard Bekins Tartuffe, Love Valor Compassion, Matt Dellapina Outside People, Dream Of The Burning Boy, Matt Dickson War Horse, Coast Of Utopia andJennifer Westfeldt The Library, Kissing Jessica Stein. BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the cast in action below...

Too Much Sun - the newest play by Nicky Silver - plays through June 22 at the Vineyard Theatre108 E. 15 St.. Mark Brokaw directs the cast starring the Tony Award-winning actress Linda LavinBROADWAY Bound, 'Alice', joined by Ken Barnett Wonderful Town, And Baby Makes Seven, Richard Bekins Tartuffe, Love Valor Compassion, Matt Dellapina Outside People, Dream Of The Burning Boy, Matt Dickson War Horse, Coast Of Utopia and Jennifer Westfeldt The Library, Kissing Jessica Stein. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the opening night after party below...

Too Much Sun - the newest play by Nicky Silver - plays through June 22 at the Vineyard Theatre108 E. 15 St.. Mark Brokaw directs the cast starring the Tony Award-winning actress Linda LavinBROADWAY Bound, 'Alice', joined by Ken Barnett Wonderful Town, And Baby Makes Seven, Richard Bekins Tartuffe, Love Valor Compassion, Matt Dellapina Outside People, Dream Of The Burning Boy, Matt Dickson War Horse, Coast Of Utopia andJennifer Westfeldt The Library, Kissing Jessica Stein. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the opening night theatre arrivals below...

Too Much Sun - the newest play by Nicky Silver - plays through June 22 at the Vineyard Theatre 108 E. 15 St.. Mark Brokaw directs the cast starring the Tony Award-winning actress Linda Lavin Broadway Bound, 'Alice', joined by Ken Barnett Wonderful Town, And Baby Makes Seven, Richard Bekins Tartuffe, Love Valor Compassion, Matt Dellapina Outside People, Dream Of The Burning Boy, Matt Dickson War Horse, Coast Of Utopia and Jennifer Westfeldt The Library, Kissing Jessica Stein. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the opening night curtain call below...

Tony Award-Winner Adriane Lenox After Midnight, Doubt, Tony Award-nominees Anita Gillette Neil Simon's Chapter Two amp Robert Cuccioli Jekyll amp Hyde, Drama Desk-nominees Aaron Lazar Les Miserables, A Little Night Music, Patrick Page Spider Man Turn Off the Dark, Cyrano, the upcoming Casa Valentina by Harvey Fierstein, Nancy Anderson Jolson amp Company, Wonderful Town, A Class Act, and Jeffry Denman Yank, Irving Berlin's White Christmas were among the many stars to appear in Town Hall's Broadway by the Year Series last night- The Broadway Musicals Of 1940-1964.BroadwayWorld was there for the special night and you can check out photos from backstage with the stars below...

Tony Award-Winner Adriane Lenox After Midnight, Doubt, Tony Award-nominees Anita Gillette Neil Simon's Chapter Two amp Robert Cuccioli Jekyll amp Hyde, Drama Desk-nominees Aaron Lazar Les Miserables, A Little Night Music, Patrick Page Spider Man Turn Off the Dark, Cyrano, the upcoming Casa Valentina by Harvey Fierstein, Nancy Anderson Jolson amp Company, Wonderful Town, A Class Act, and Jeffry Denman Yank, Irving Berlin's White Christmas were among the many stars to appear in Town Hall's Broadway by the Year Series last night- The Broadway Musicals Of 1940-1964. BroadwayWorld was there for the special night and you can check out photos from the concert below...

Happy Birthday, Donna Murphy Murphy has won two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for her roles in Passion as Fosca and in The King and I as Anna Leonowens. She received three more Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Musical for her performances in Wonderful Town as Ruth Sherwood, LoveMusik as Lotte Lenya and The People in the Picture as RaiselBubbie. She is known, most recently, for her role as Mother Gothel in the animated Disney film Tangled 2010, Anij, Captain Jean-Luc Picard's love interest, in Star Trek Insurrection 1998 and her numerous stage roles in musical theatre.

Tony Award-Winner Adriane Lenox After Midnight, Doubt, Tony Award-nominees Anita Gillette Neil Simon's Chapter Two amp Robert Cuccioli Jekyll amp Hyde, Drama Desk-nominees Aaron Lazar Les Miserables, A Little Night Music, Patrick Page Spider Man Turn Off the Dark, Cyrano, the upcoming Casa Valentina by Harvey Fierstein, Nancy Anderson Jolson amp Company, Wonderful Town, A Class Act amp Jeffry Denman Yank, Irving Berlin's White Christmas will be joined by Ron Bohmer A Little Night Music, Ragtime, The Woman in White and Maxine Linehan Bronte. They will be among the 25 stars set to appear in Town Hall's Broadway by the Year Series on Monday, March 31 at 8pm, The Broadway Musicals Of 1940-1964. More stars to be announced soon...

Though the market seemed slow on the surface, the usual sales got made: the larger companies selling almost out, the smaller ones busily speaking with others, selling here and there, worrying if this would get better, worse, or stay the same.

Meanwhile fascinating and energizing conversations were carried on with friends, newcomers, keepers of funds, representatives of countries and their needs to internationalize, to join forces with one another to create new models, internationalize, form cross cultural competent and cooperative ways of working together. We know the past model is failing to keep up with the technology and its fast spawning product. Some would say the old model is old and frail, sucking its old teeth as it pretends to carry on, but in reality, it is carrying its own corpse upon its shoulders. I would never go so far as to say this; the model will be changed, refined and redesigned, but it will survive because some people enjoy theatrical settings and that helps further other sales

FBI Casting Director Beatrice Kruger (now working on Fatih Akin¹s The Cut) spoke to us over dinner at Einsteins about her experience on Woody Allen¹s To Rome With Love, how he got involved in the real life politics of Italy as he attempted to cast real newscasters in the roles they play in real life. He didn't want the right wingers. He didn't like them, but he was told he had to hire them if he wanted to access the government monies, ...besides, how could he cast a left wing newscaster into the role off a right wing commentator? The experience of Italian politics did not make him happy.

Frank Cox, the founder of the Australian arthouse distributor Hopscotch which has been sold to eOne Entertainment, was in the Scandinavian Pavilion and told me he is still carrying on though on a smaller scale with his original company, New Vision Distribution. He recently acquired We¹re The Best by Lucas Moodyson, a darling film that showed in Cannes and Toronto and totally endeared me to its 13 year old girls as they searched for ways to get into trouble. (Magnolia has U.S.)

Robbie Little and Elie Mechoulam, Director of Sales and Marketing of The Little Film Company tallying up that $30,000,000 at the box office at $11 per ticket is only 3 million admissions, or 300,000 tickets sold...TV would be failure if it had such numbers. TV makes $46 million in ad sales on one episode of a great series...

Andrea Kaul, the EFM¹s new Co-Director who comes from Rtl TV and ad sales was not at that conversation, but when we spoke after the market was finished, such a topic as episodic content and online ad sales was also on her mind. The Berlinale screening of Netflix¹s second installment of Houses of Cards was a great success in the last days of the Berlinale, which was in itself food for thought. Even Dieter Kosslick, in his interview with Indiewire¹s Eric Kohn (Read Here) said, "We showed, for the first time in history, House of Cards. We have never done such a thing before. Heads were turning last night. Last year, we had [Jane Campion¹s TV series] Top of the Lake (in its entirety),so we are starting this new whole world."

Ted Hope of Fandor pointed out, "Research company Markets and Markets predicts global video-on-demand (VOD) revenue will grow from $21 billion last year to $45 billion in 2018. They define this as the combined revenues of all VOD outlets, worldwide ‹ essentially digital (online) VOD plus cable & satellite VOD. Huge numbers, but actually not a particularly high compound annual growth rate (16%) to get to the $45b number in years. Figure roughly half of this revenue flows to content owners and half to the VOD outlets."

To see the excitement of young people just beginning...everything to gain and little to lose, learning to like what they are doing to further their aims at telling stories their way. When I spoke with Wafa Tajdin, a founding partner and lead producer at Seven Thirty Films, an Africa based indie production company she runs with her sister, artist and film maker Amirah Tajdin. This Arab Indian pair of sisters is working to tell their stories of growing up in Kenya and living in Dubai...I asked which parent was what and was told that each parent was also half Arab, half Indian, the same sexes too...I should have told them about Peter, whose Italian Jewish parents also lived in such a ghetto of mixed marriages in east Harlem in the 1910s and 1920s. These are the stories which are forming in world cinema today. You can see her work Here

True cross-culture creation is taking place in the Talents section of the Efm. Eleven films of former Talent Campus participants are showing in the festival this year

One talent, Sompot Chidgasornpongse has formed a new international sales agency (and distribution company) called Mosquito. Thailand¹s leading independent filmmakers ­ Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives), Pimpaka Towira (One Night Husband), Aditya Assarat (Hi-So), Soros Sukhum (Wonderful Town), Anocha Suwichakornpong (Mundane History), and Lee Chatametikool ­ have joined hands to open Mosquito Films Distribution. The new company will handle international sales and festival distribution for the partners¹ films as well as upcoming titles from the new generation of Southeast Asian filmmakers. - See more Here

Ben Gibson of London Film School,Ira Deutchman of Colombia Film School, German film school dffb, Frances La Femis, Fescac the Romanian Film and Theater University are continuing their initiative Making Waves, bringing in students to work collaboratively to develop creative campaigns, edit trailers, design posters and plan roll-out packages for actual independent movies in the Efm.

Also exciting was the search for new models, not only in the film world of funding by government organizations, but of society as discussed in such films as Göran Hugo Olsson¹s (Black Mix Tapes) Concerning Violence and Hubert Sauper¹s We Come as Friends , and of women in society. 50% of public funds should be made available for women who not only constitute 50% of the public as moviegoers and should represent 50% of the cinephiles (those working in the film business) but 50% of all societies and therefore should have 50% of the voice of public policy.

In its second year, the Dortmund Women's Film Festival drew even more women to hear and discuss the status of women in the film business and gender parity. Speakers such as Heike Meyer-Döring of the Creative Europe Desk of Film and Medienstiftung Nrw, Bosnian filmmaker and Golden Bear Winner in 2006 Jasmila Zbanic, So-in Hong of the Seoul International Womens Film Festival speaking on aims and projects of the Asian Women Film Network, Melissa Silverstein of the Athena Film Festival and blogger on Women and Hollywood updating on the status of women filmmakers in the U.S., Mariel Macia of Mica/ Cima, Spain speaking of the proposal for the EU Commission regarding gender equality on state aid for film - all these and more, like Claudia Landsberger head of Eye International, Film Institute Netherlands hosting a panel of Susana de la Sierra, General Director of Icaa, Spanish Film Institute noting that 7% of the leading roles were women and the 2007 Law for Gender Equality, Cornelia Hammelmann, Project Director of the German Federal Fund, Sanja Ravlic, President of the Gender Equality Study Group of Eurimages, Croatia -- all spoke of what seems as obvious as the noses on our faces, but which has made little impact on the reality of policies yet... We had so many more conversations, I wish I could put them all here.

With all the ideas circulating, one could hardly say that the Berlinale and the European Film Market were not busy.

Broadway stars Teri Dale Hansen Show Boat, The Boys From Syracuse Nat Chandler Scarlet Pimpernel, The Phantom of the Opera Jason Graae A Grand Night for Singing, Falsettos Mendel Jennifer Hope Wills The Phantom of the Opera, Wonderful Town and Eric van Hoven Candide, Master Class will be appearing with The Regina Symphony Orchestra at the Conexus Arts Centre in Saskatchewan, Canada in The Merry Widow tonight, January 11th at 800pm.

Broadway stars Teri Dale Hansen Show Boat, The Boys From Syracuse Nat Chandler Scarlet Pimpernel, The Phantom of the Opera Jason Graae A Grand Night for Singing, Falsettos Mendel Jennifer Hope Wills The Phantom of the Opera, Wonderful Town and Eric Van Hoven Candide, Master Class will be appearing with The Regina Symphony Orchestra at the Conexus Arts Centre in Saskatchewan, Canada in The Merry Widow on Saturday, January 11th at 800pm.

The highly anticipated industry reading of the new musical Ghostlight, starring Anneliese van der Pol 'That's So Raven' Beauty and the Beast Three-time Tony nominee Carolee Carmello Scandalous 'Smash' Tony nominee Robert Cuccioli Jekyll and Hyde Spiderman Turn Off The Dark Rachel Bay Jones Pippin Hair Jennifer Hope Wills The Phantom of the Opera Wonderful Town Kimberly Faye Greenberg One Night With Fanny Brice Ghostlight at Nymf and Trevor McQueen Annie Get Your Gun S'Wonderful, will offer two performances tomorrow, December 3rd, at The New 42nd Street Studios in NYC.

Exclusive: At Busan’s Asian Film Market, Thailand’s Pop Pictures has sold previous New Currents Award winner 36 to UK distributor Day for Night.

Thai director Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s debut feature also picked up the Fipresci Award last year at the Busan International Film Festival (Biff) before going on to other fests including Rotterdam’s Tiger Competition.

“We’re very happy to continue this relationship with Day for Night. They had a very nice release for our previous film Hi-so in London in March, and when they showed the same enthusiasm for 36, I did not hesitate to work with them on the new title,” said Aditya Assarat, Pop Pictures managing director and producer of the film.

Assarat’s own directorial debut Wonderful Town was also a New Currents winner in 2007 as well as an Asian Cinema Fund winner. He has since returned with several films - either as director or producer, including this year...

Pippin star Rachel Bay Jones Women on the Verge... Hair and Jennifer Hope Wills Wonderful Town The Phantom of the Opera have joined the cast of the highly anticipated industry reading of Ghostlight, with book, music and lyrics by Matthew Martin and Tim Realbuto. Jones and Wills join previously announced Tony nominee Robert Cuccioli, Trevor McQueen, and Kimberly Faye Greenberg. The industry reading will take place on December 2nd at the famed New 42nd Street Studios.

Today we are talking to a supremely talented triple-threat who has carved out an astonishingly impressive career thus far onstage with her string of stupendous performances ranging from her blazing debut in the late-90s revival of The Sound Of Music and Wonderful Town through to Swing, Into The Woods, Nine, The Wedding Singer and her Tony Award-winning work in the recent revival of Gypsy - the alluring and simply phenomenal Laura Benanti. Touching upon many of her past stage and screen roles and expressing candid insights into many of her most celebrated characters to date, Benanti opens up about the productions and properties which have made her one of the most exciting and in-demand Broadway crossover performers of the 21st century. In addition to all about her many Broadway bows - including her most recent runs in In The Next Room Or The Vibrator Play and Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown...

Brooke Shields has signed with Untitled for management, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The actress currently plays Air Force Colonel Kat Young on Lifetime’s Army Wives, which she joined midway through the recently completed seventh season, and recently starred in the indie comedy The Hot Flashes alongside Daryl Hannah and Wanda Sykes. This summer she also made her directorial debut with Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl. Shields starred as Roxie Hart in the musical on Broadway, where she also took favorable turns in Grease, Wonderful Town and Cabaret. The showbiz veteran began her career practically at birth. She became the

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Drama Desk nominee Nancy Anderson Far From Heaven, Wonderful Town, Jannie Jones The Full Monty, Tony Award nominee Isabel Keating The Boy From Oz, Hairspray, Drama Desk nominee Garrett Long South Pacific, Bonnie and Clyde and Jonathan Rayson The Fig Leaves Are Falling, Legally Blonde joined host and two-time Tony Award nominee Tom Wopat Catch Me If You Can, The Trip to Bountiful, A Catered Affair, as well as Rachel de Benedet Catch Me If You Can and Christine Pedi Chicago, Forbidden Broadway for UnsungMusicalsCo.'s Unsung Jimmy Van Heusen concert last night, June 17 at The Cutting Room. Scroll below for photos...

The third annual 'Night of A Thousand Judys' - presented by The Meeting hosted by Justin Sayre - has added Carolee CarmelloTony Award nominee for Scandalous, Justin VivIan Bond Tony Award nominated performance artist, Lea DeLaria acclaimed comedian and jazz vocalist, Jaime Cepero 'Smash', Telly Leung 'Glee,' Godspell, Scott Matthew Shortbus, Natalie Joy Johnson Silence, Legally Blonde and Nancy Anderson Wonderful Town, A Class Act to the lineup of talent for the show tonight, June 17.

The Explorers Club is now in previews at Manhattan Theatre Club with an official press opening set for Thursday, June 20 featuring Brian Avers Rock 'n' Roll, Max Baker Cyrano DeBergerac, Steven Boyer Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Arnie Burton Peter and the Starcatcher, Carson Elrod All in the Timing, David Furr The Importance of Being Earnest, Tony Award nominee John McMartin Into The Woods, Drama Desk Award winner Lorenzo Pisoni Humor Abuse at Mtc, and Tony Award nominee Jennifer Westfeldt Friends With Kids, Wonderful Town. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below...

The third annual Night of A Thousand Judys - presented by The Meeting hosted by Justin Sayre - has added Carolee CarmelloTony Award nominee for Scandalous, Justin Vivian Bond Tony Award nominated performance artist, Lea DeLaria acclaimed comedian and jazz vocalist, Jaime Cepero Smash, Telly Leung Glee, Godspell, Scott Matthew Shortbus, Natalie Joy Johnson Silence, Legally Blonde and Nancy Anderson Wonderful Town, A Class Act to the lineup of talent for the show on Monday, June 17.

Thailand’s Ministry of Culture is once again organizing the Thai Pitch event at this year’s Cannes Film Festival market. Four projects from well-regarded Thai filmmakers have been chosen to take part in this year’s initiative, to be held on Saturday May 18th from 10:00-15:30. The event will take place at the Thailand Pavilion in Cannes’ Village International no. 140. This year, Thai Pitch will be coordinated by producer and film programmer Raymond Phathanavirangoon.

The four projects include:

A Culinary Murder

dir: Somkiat Vithuranich (October Sonata)

prod: Pawas Sawatchaiyamet (Headshot, Red Eagle)

Born poor and raised as the kitchen maid to a wealthy, corrupt family, Anoma spends her childhood learning that the secrets to a man’s heart lie in his stomach. When she is made to marry the master of the house, she begins to transform her culinary skills into a deadly weapon. If food could kill, then her food is the deadliest.

The General’S Secret

dir/prod: Pimpaka Towira (One Night Husband)

Rian lives alone with her mother who suffers from a chronic back pain. One day, after a trip, she finds that her mother's condition has gotten better after receiving a homeopathic massage from an old masseuse called “auntie”. Rian does not believe in the treatment, but her mother feels otherwise. She decides to find out auntie’s secret by making a massage appointment with her.

The Way Back

dir: Boonsong Nakphoo (Four Stations)

prod: Pantham Thongsang (Tropical Malady, Mid Road Gang)

Sueb decides to leave the capital city Bangkok behind and bring his family to live a humble life in the countryside. Things initially seems to be as joyful as anticipated, until stresses gradually pile up. Unexpectedly, one day his wife takes their only son back to the capital city. Sueb insists on hanging onto his land until he finds the key to a harmonious life.

The White Buffalo

dir: Aditya Assarat (Wonderful Town, Hi-so)

prod: Aditya Assarat, Soros Sukhum (Mundane History, P-047)

This is the story of Peter, a European, who is married to a Thai woman and living in her village. It is a situation that reflects a colonial past, an age when white men came to the East to exploit and build their own paradise. But today, the balance of power has changed. The European is large only in body. He is no match for the cunning and deceit of the Thais.

For more information about the event and individual projects, as well as inquiries into booking meetings, please go to www.thaipitch.com...

You can add director to Brooke Shields’ long resume. The actress will helm Chicago at the Hollywood Bowl this July, the show’s producers announced Tuesday. The annual summer musical will play at the Bowl in Los Angeles for only three performances: July 26, 27, and 28.

Though best known for her film and TV roles, Shields is hardly a newcomer to the stage. She starred in the Broadway and West End productions of Chicago as Roxie Hart and also performed on Broadway in the Wonderful Town, Grease!, and Cabaret. The Bowl production will be her first time directing. Rob Fisher, supervising music...

MTV goes retro with classic seasons of The Real World this weekend.

Stay indoors, unless you want to risk catching youself saying, "In my days..."

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The cast of Pretty Little Liars is managing to get even hunkier, according to TV Guide with the addition of Sean Faris as an investigator from outside of Rosewood.

Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson tells EW that he would like to direct an episode of Doctor Who, providing the iconic series is willing to meet his fee — a Dalek.

My Name is Earl alum Nadine Velaquez is joining the cast of Major Crime in its second season, according to Deadline. Velaquez will play a D.A. working on the Phillip Stroh case who clashes with Captain Raydor.

I guess Fox News was having a slow news day. Have there been any national stories they've been trying to ignore this week? Any anniversaries?...

Playwrights Horizons Tim Sanford, Artistic Director Leslie Marcus, Managing Director announced today complete details for Far From Heaven, a new musical with book by Tony Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard Greenberg Take Me Out, Three Days of Rain, the current Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Assembled Parties both now on Broadway, music by Tony Award nominee Scott Frankel Grey Gardens at Ph and on Broadway, Finding Neverland and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie Grey Gardens at Ph and on Broadway, The Grapes of Wrath, Finding Neverland. The musical is choreographed by Alex Sanchez Giant, Fiorello and directed by three-time Tony Award nominee Michael Greif Grey Gardens at Ph and on Broadway Rent, Next to Normal, Giant. The musical is based on the Focus FeaturesVulcan Productions motion picture Far From Heaven, written and directed by Todd Haynes. Far From Heaven will now begin previews Wednesday evening,...

Lee Chang-Dong

Korean director Lee Chang-dong will be the Dean and directing mentor of the Asian Film Academy (Afa) 2013 which is now accepting applications.

Afa appointed director Lee Chang-dong making him the second Korean director to serve as Dean of the Academy since Im Kwon-teak.

Chang-dong’s second feature film Peppermint Candy opened 4th Busan International Film Festival, won Special Prize of the Jury at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2000, and was invited to the Cannes’s Directors’ Fortnight.

His next feature film Oasis earned him Best Director at the Venice Film Festival 2002 and Poetry received Best Screenplay at Cannes 2010. Moreover, Secret Sunshine won its lead actress, Jeon Do-yeon, Best Actress at Cannes 2007. Lee Chang-dong is one of the most important Korean directors, from his directorial debut Green Fish to his most recent feature Poetry, he has told a diverse range of stories that touch Korean and global audiences.

Happy Birthday, Donna Murphy Murphy has won two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for her roles in Passion as Fosca and in The King and I as Anna Leonowens. She received three more Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Musical for her performances in Wonderful Town as Ruth Sherwood, LoveMusik as Lotte Lenya and The People in the Picture as RaiselBubbie. She is known, most recently, for her role as Mother Gothel in the animated Disney film Tangled 2010, Anij, Captain Jean-Luc Picard's love interest, in Star Trek Insurrection 1998 and her numerous stage roles in musical theatre.

The talented Aditya Assarat shows his connection to the rhythms of life in this plotless piece about a drifting actor

Aditya Assarat is the Thai writer-director who caught eyes back in 2007 with his quietly stirring debut, Wonderful Town, about an architect dispatched to a region flattened by the Asian tsunami. His third feature – its title is short for "high society" – returns to similar terrain, watching discreetly as a drifting actor (Ananda Everingham) splits with his model girlfriend (Cerise Leang) while filming in a desolated coastal resort. Assarat shares Apichatpong Weerasethakul's ability to conjure delicate moods and memories, but his interests reside in the concrete, rather than spiritual: the semi-demolished apartment block the actor retreats to becomes a particular source of fascination. It's almost gallery-like in its resistance to urgent narrative drives – anyone who finds Sofia Coppola movies wispy should stay clear. Yet if life, as they say, moves on,...

★★★☆☆ Thai director Aditya Assarat's debut film, Wonderful Town (2007), saw a quiet romance set amidst a community mourning in the wake of the 2004 tsunami. Whilst his sophomore feature does shift away from it slightly, Hi-So (2010) - and its first half in particular - is still haunted by the spectre of that devastating natural disaster. Meditatively taking in both an eerily desolate seafront and similarly deserted husk in Bangkok, it is perhaps through the settings that Assarat tries to convey his thoughts on the high society (hi-so) types of the title. The action opens in a derelict coastal hotel where American educated actor, Ananda (Ananda Everingham), is hooting a film.

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Danny Rutigliano has been kicking around New York theater circles for years. (His last Broadway credit: the bellhop in the 2011 revival Born Yesterday.) But the fire-hydrant-sized actor finally gets his moment in the center-stage spotlight in the new revival of composer Sheldon Harnick and lyricist Jerry Bock’s 1959 biomusical Fiorello!, running through this Sunday at New York City Center as part of the Encores! series. Rutigliano makes the most of the opportunity, bringing an infectious energy (and some surprisingly light-footed dance moves) to the role of Fiorello Laguardia, the five-foot-tall New York city pol who challenged the corrupt Tammany Hall...

Click below to watch a fun and funny video featuring Broadway's Caroline O'Connor A Christmas Story, Prince of Broadway, Mark Price Mary Poppins, Rocky Horror, Dance of the Vampires, Wonderful Town, Sarah Litzsinger Beauty and the Beast and Adam Monley Mamma Mia in Brian Sills' The Sills System for Success in Regional Theater, a lighthearted, satirical look at the realities of an actor's life.

Phyllis Diller, the wild-haired, eccentrically-dressed performer credited with opening the doors of stand-up comedy to women, passed away at her home in Los Angeles. She was 95 years old.

She was born Phyllis Ada Driver on July 17, 1917 in Lima, Ohio to Perry Marcus and Frances Ada (Romshe) Driver. After graduating from Central High School, she headed to Chicago's Sherwood Music Conservatory, where she continued to study piano, with dreams of one day becoming a concert pianist. From the Conservatory, she transferred to Bluffton College in Ohio, where she became the school's newspaper editor and oversaw the publication of humor pieces.

In November 1939, at the age of 22, she married Sherwood Anderson Diller and gave birth to a son, Peter, in 1940. She would have five more children: Sally (1944), a son who died two weeks after being born (1945), Suzanne (1946), Stephanie (1948), and Perry (1950). Perry would later manage his mother's business affairs. Contrary to popular belief, she is no relation to Susan Lucci.

During WWII, the fledgling Diller clan moved to Michigan, where she began to mine her home-making experiences for jokes. She also worked as an advertising copywriter at this time. After the war, the Dillers moved to San Francisco, where she found work as a secretary at the radio station KROW. Later that year, she was in front of the camera for the first time with a program titled "Phyllis Dillis, the Homely Friendmaker" for Bay Area Radio-Television. She continued working in Bay Area television, this time at KGO-TV, where she was invited to participate in the station's show "Belfast Pop Club", co-hosted by Willard Anderson and Don Sherwood.

Both Anderson and Sherwood encouraged her to pursue her stand-up comedy ambitions, and in 1955, she landed a two-week gig at the venerable San Francisco nightclub, The Purple Onion, where her self-deprecating wit and unique laugh kept her on the stage for the better part of two years. The buzz created by her act reached Hollywood, and she made her first rounds on talk and variety shows with the likes of Jack Benny and Red Skelton.

Her appearance on "The Tonight Show" with Jack Parr was her breakthrough, and led to recurring gigs as a contestant on "You Bet Your Life" with host Groucho Marx, "What's My Line?", "I've Got a Secret", and "Hollywood Squares". She appeared on the silver screen as well, making her debut in William Inge's drama, Splendor in the Grass. In 1961, she made her stage debut in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. Appearances in films with Bob Hope -- Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!, The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell, and Eight on the Lam -- began a lifelong bond between the two performers, who would co-star in numerous TV specials; in fact, Diller would be featured in every Bob Hope Christmas Special from 1965 through 1994. At the height of the Vietnam war in 1966, Diller joined Hope's USO troupe overseas.

As her star rose, husband Sherwood managed her career, though the relationship broke down and the couple divorced in 1965. By this point, however, Sherwood had become a staple of her act, as she made jokes about a husband named "Fang," while she smoked from a exaggerated cigarette holder -- which would become the comedienne's signature prop, paried with her increasingly outlandish wardrobe and hairstyles. Soon after her divorce, she married Ward Donovan, whom she met while appearing on stage in "Wonderful Town". Worth noting is the fact that Joan Rivers was one of her writers at this period in her career.

In the late 1960s, she starred in a pair of short-lived series, "The Pruitts of Southampton" and variety show "The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show", though she found her greatest success elsewhere, from her continued guest appearances on talk, variety, and game shows. Toward the end of the decade, she began a successful string of guest spots on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In". Harkening back to her film debut, she gained notices for her work in the drama The Adding Machine with Milo O'Shea.

For three months, at the start of the 1970s, she appeared on Broadway in "Hello, Dolly!", stepping in for Carol Channing. On TV, she frequented on Dean Martin's celebrity roast specials and "the Mike Douglas Show". She cut hit comedy records, published her first books, and continued working the stand-up circuit. A new source of laughs -- her own plastic surgery -- stood in humorous contrast with other Hollywood performers.

Her on-screen career began to wane in late in the decade and into the 1980s, with guest appearances on "The Love Boat", "Celebrity Hot Potato", and a revamped version of "Hollywood Squares".

In the 1990s, roles in B movies Dr. Hackenstein and Silence of the Hams were minor cultural blips, but in 1998 she regained the spotlight for her voice role as the Queen ant in the second Pixar movie, A Bug's Life. She also had a recurring role on "The Bold and the Beautiful". A year later, she suffered a heart attack and was fitted with a pacemaker.

By 2002 she mostly retired from the stage and screen, though she appeared in the 2005 documentary The Aristocrats, notable because Diller, who steered clear of graphic material, did not recite the content of the famous dirty joke. An autobiography, Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse, was published that same year; in 2006, a DVD version of the project was released, and she voiced several roles for "Robot Chicken" and, later, "Family Guy". She cameoed in 2007 on "Boston Legal" as a supposed lover of William Shatner's Denny Crane. A planned appearance later in the year for her 90th birthday on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" was canceled when she fractured her back.

Diller was a long-time member of the Society of Singers, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping singers in need. Two cities proclaimed "Phyllis Diller Day"s: Philadelphia (2001) and San Francisco (2006).

She is survived by daughters Sally and Suzanne and son Perry.

New York Stage and Film and Vassar Colleges Powerhouse Theater present Stephen Belbers The Power of Duff, directed by Peter DuBois and starring Greg Kinnear Little Miss Sunshine, As Good As It Gets. The ensemble cast also features Desmin Borges The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Dominic Fumusa Fault Lines, Passion Play, Nurse Jackie, Neal Huff Take Me Out, The Wire, Russell G. Jones Ruined, Traffic, Ilana Levine Jakes Women, Youre A Good Man Charlie Brown, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Ben Platt Caroline, or Change, Pitch Perfect, and Jennifer Westfeldt Friends with Kids, Kissing Jessica Stein, Wonderful Town. Check out photos of the cast onstage below...

What will the next year's festivals be showing? Look at what the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has selected for a preview: nineteen film projects will receive grants for script development, digital production, postproduction or workshops. In its Spring 2012 selection round, the Fund gives 260,000 Euro to projects from fifteen Asian, African and Latin-American and Eastern European countries. (See full list below)

In this selection round, the Fund welcomes promising first or second time feature film projects by Song Fang, Huang Ji (both China), Gurvinder Singh (India), Caroline Kamya (Uganda), Ognjen Glavonic (Serbia), Sebastian Hofmann (Mexico) and Eduardo Nunes (Brazil).

Supporting more experienced filmmakers, the Fund has selected projects from, among others, Pablo Stoll (Uruguay), Aditya Assarat (Thailand) and Tariq Teguia (Algeria).

The selection round also awards 5,000 Euro prize money for the Hubert Bals Fund Award, to be handed out to the most promising fiction project at the upcoming Durban FilmMart (20-23 July 2012), and a grant for the next Colón Workshop for Latin American filmmakers, partner organization of the Rotterdam Lab.

Postproduction

When finished in time, the films receiving Hbf postproduction grants are expected to screen at the 2013 International Film Festival Rotterdam.

After her short film 'Goodbye' (2009, awarded at Cannes’ Cinefondation), Chinese filmmaker Song Fang makes her feature debut with 'Memories Look At Me', a strikingly observed portrait of her Chinese family life.

DoP or editor of films by among others Fernando Eimbcke, Carlos Reygadas and Gerardo Tort, Sebastian Hoffman (Mexico) writes and directs his first feature film 'Halley', a contemporary gothic story that casts a compassionate look at the life of a zombie.

After 'Rome Rather Than You' (which premiered 2006 in Venice) and 'Inland', Tariq Teguia (Algeria) is working on his third feature film, 'Ibn Battuta' which follows a journalist on his investigative journey throughout North Africa and the Middle East. The project previously received a script development grant from the Hubert Bals Fund.

Digital production

This round, digital production support goes to acclaimed filmmakers Yang Heng (China) and Riri Riza (Indonesia). Yang’s previous works are 'Betelnut' (New Currents Award in Busan and Hivos Tiger Award competitor in 2010) and 'Sun Spots' (also supported by the Hubert Bals Fund). In his 'Lake August' he continues to portrait young adults’ life in his home province. Experienced film maker, producer and writer Riza ('Eliana, Eliana' 2002) situates his new film 'Atambua 39° Celsius' among a family separated from their relatives following the independence of the state of Eastern Timor in 2002.

Script development

The ten grants for script development support both upcoming and experienced filmmakers. Huang Ji (China) works on 'Foolish Bird', the second installment of the trilogy she started with her feature debut and Hivos Tiger Award-winning 'Egg and Stone'.

Ognjen Glavonic (Serbia) writes his first feature film, 'The Load'. Set in Serbia during the Nato bombings in 1999, the film follows the driver of a freeze truck. He does not want to know what the load is, but the cargo slowly becomes his burden.

Alex Piperno (Mexico) prepares his first feature project 'Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine', in which a ship crew member discovers a solitary girl behind a mysterious door.

Caroline Kamya (Uganda) works on her second feature film, 'Hot Comb' in which two school girls from different backgrounds become close. Her debut feature 'Imani' premiered in Berlin.

Furthermore, the Fund supports the script development of new projects by two experienced filmmakers: Pablo Stoll (Uruguay) whose ‘3’ was launched at CineMart and received its premiere this year in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, writes and produces his next project 'Silver Shadow'; Aditya Assarat (Thailand), Hivos Tiger Award winner for 'Wonderful Town', prepares 'The White Buffalo' also presented at this year’s CineMart.

The line up of the Iffr’s Hubert Bals Fund Spring 2012 Selection Round in full:

Post-production funding or final-financing

Halley; Sebastian Hofmann; Mexico

Ibn Battuta; Tariq Teguia; Algeria

Peculiar Vacation and Other Illnesses; Yosep Anggi Noen; Indonesia

Poor Folk; Midi Z; Myanmar

Memories Look At Me; Song Fang; China

Digital production

Atambua 39° Celcius; Riri Riza; Indonesia

Lake August; Yang Heng; China

Script and projectdevelopment

Foolish Bird; Huang Ji; China

The Fourth Direction; Gurvinder Singh; India

A Happy Death; Eduardo Nunes; Brazil

Hot Comb; Caroline Kamya; Uganda

Leave It For Tomorrow, For Night Has Fallen; Jet Leyco; Philippines

The Load; Ognjen Glavonic; Serbia

The Sigbin Chronicles; Joanna Vasquez Arong; Philippines

Silver Shadow; Pablo Stoll; Uruguay

The White Buffalo; Aditya Assarat; Thailand

Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine; Alex Piperno; Uruguay

Workshops

Durban FilmMart; South Africa, Hubert Bals Fund Award

Xiii Colón Workshop for Latin American Filmmakers; Argentina

Profile of the Hubert Bals Fund

The Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf), along with the CineMart, is part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr). The 42nd Iffr will take place January 23 – February 3, 2013. Year-round news on Iffr, Hbf and CineMart can be found onwww.filmfestivalrotterdam.com.

The Hubert Bals Fund is designed to bring remarkable or urgent feature films and feature-length creative documentaries by innovative and talented filmmakers from developing countries closer to completion. The Hubert Bals Fund provides grants that often turn out to play a crucial role in enabling these filmmakers to realize their projects. Although the Fund looks closely at the financial aspects of a project, the decisive factors remain its content and artistic value. Since the Fund started in 1989, hundreds of projects from independent filmmakers in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe have received support. Approximately 80% of these projects have been realized or are currently in production. Every year, the Iffr screens completed films supported by the Fund.

The Hubert Bals Fund is supported by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Media Mundus, Dutch non-governmental development organization Hivos Culture Foundation, the Doen Foundation and the Dioraphte Foundation and Lions Club Rotterdam: L’Esprit du Temps.

Grants and selection rounds

Annually, the Hubert Bals Fund is able to make individual grants of up to Euro 10,000 for script and project development, Euro 20,000 for digital production, Euro 30,000 for post-production, Euro 15,000 towards distribution costs in the country of origin or Euro 10,000 for special projects such as workshops. Selection rounds take place twice a year and have application deadlines on March 1 and August 1.

Hubert Bals Fund-supported films in Iffr and on DVD/VOD

Most of the films supported by the Hubert Bals Fund throughout the year are screened during the International Film Festival Rotterdam in attendance of the filmmaker. Subsequently, part of the Hbf-supported films is released by the Iffr on DVD or VOD, available on www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/webshop (VOD for viewers in the Benelux only).

The winners of the 78th annual Drama League Awards were announced today at a luncheon ceremony hosted by Stockard Channing ("Other Desert Cities") and John Larroquette ("Gore Vidal's The Best Man") at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in New York City.Philip Seymour Hoffman presented the award for Distinguished Play to "Other Desert Cities," Christian Borle presented the award for Distinguished Revival of a Play to "Death of a Salesman," Cynthia Nixon presented the award for Distinguished Production of a Musical to "Once," Kelli O’Hara presented the award for Distinguished Revival of a Musical to "Follies," and John Lithgow presented the award for Distinguished Performance to Audra McDonald ("Porgy and Bess").In addition, Tony Award-winner Donna Murphy ("Wonderful Town") presented eight-time Academy Award-winning theater and movie composer Alan Menken (currently represented on Broadway by "Newsies") with the Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theatre Award in recognition of his contribution to musical theater; Tony.

Nashville, Tenn. — George Lindsey, who made a TV career as a grinning service station attendant named Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Hee Haw," has died. He was 83.

The Marshall-Donnelly-Combs Funeral Home in Nashville said Lindsay died early Sunday morning after a brief illness.

Lindsey was the beanie-wearing Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" from 1964 to 1968 and its successor, "Mayberry Rfd," from 1968 to 1971. He played the same jovial character on "Hee Haw" from 1971 until it went out of production in 1993.

"America has grown up with me," Lindsey said in an Associated Press interview in 1985. "Goober is every man; everyone finds something to like about ol' Goober."

He joined "The Andy Griffith Show" in 1964 when Jim Nabors, portraying Gomer Pyle, left the program. Goober Pyle, who had been mentioned on the show as Gomer's cousin, replaced him.

"At that time, we were the best acting ensemble on TV," Lindsey once told an interviewer.

Nashville, Tenn. — George Lindsey, who made a TV career as a grinning service station attendant named Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Hee Haw," has died. He was 83.

The Marshall-Donnelly-Combs Funeral Home in Nashville said Lindsay died early Sunday morning after a brief illness.

Lindsey was the beanie-wearing Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" from 1964 to 1968 and its successor, "Mayberry Rfd," from 1968 to 1971. He played the same jovial character on "Hee Haw" from 1971 until it went out of production in 1993.

"America has grown up with me," Lindsey said in an Associated Press interview in 1985. "Goober is every man; everyone finds something to like about ol' Goober."

He joined "The Andy Griffith Show" in 1964 when Jim Nabors, portraying Gomer Pyle, left the program. Goober Pyle, who had been mentioned on the show as Gomer's cousin, replaced him.

"At that time, we were the best acting ensemble on TV," Lindsey once told an interviewer.

Best known for his role as "Goober" on The Andy Griffith Show, George Lindsey has died at the age of 83. The thesp, who starred on Hee Haw and appeared on TV shows like Gunsmoke, died Sunday after battling an undisclosed illness, according to Nashville television station Wsfa. Before Lindsey's career in television sparked, he dabbled in theater, landing roles in Broadway plays like All American and Wonderful Town after studying at the American Theater Wing in New York City. He then went on to play villainous characters on western shows like The Rifleman and Gunsmoke, and appeared in The Real McCoys, The Twilight Zone and The Jar, among other things. But Lindsey's career truly took...

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Making a name for herself as a model at a very early age set the stage for a career on screens large and small - as well as the Broadway stage itself many, many times over - for iconic beauty Brooke Shields. On April 24, she takes on the role of the Baroness in a starry Carnegie Hall concert mounting of Rodgers amp Hammersteins much-loved musical classic The Sound Of Music, co-starring previous InDepth InterView participant Tony Goldwyn as Captain Von Trapp in addition the subject of next weeks upcoming InDepth InterView as Maria, rising star Laura Osnes. Sharing her insights on her many notable Broadway appearances since her bow in Grease in the 1990s - including thoughts on her stints in Cabaret, Chicago, Wonderful Town, The Addams Family and more - Shields opens up about her affection for the theatrical form and her desire to pursue plays and musicals in the future.