More Magic to Do: 'Pippin' Tony Winner Ben Vereen to Be 'Wicked''s Next Wizard
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Playbill - Pippin Tony Award winner Ben Vereen is returning to Broadway in another Stephen Schwartz musical. He'll play the Wizard in Wicked, starting May 31, a production spokesperson confirmed.
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Oskar Eustis, the artistic director at Providence's Trinity Repertory Company reportedly has been tapped to become the new producer at the Public Theater in New York.
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Thanks to breakout roles in Broadway  blockbusters "Rent" and "Wicked," Idina Menzel has become one  of the biggest stars on the American musical theater scene.
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Rising designer Rachel Roy and veteran  song-and-dance man Ben Vereen won top honors on Saturday at a  colorful and lively presentation of the 2006 Bollywood Fashion  Awards.
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Playbill - Tony Danza will play Max Bialystock in the Broadway production of The Producers starting Dec. 19.
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Playbill - Journey&#39;s End actor Stark Sands&#39; pre-Tony Awards experience on Sunday, June 10, will be unlike that of any of his fellow nominees with the possible exception of fellow cast member Boyd Gaines, who is also nominated.
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Arts & entertainment: Epic trilogy Coast of Utopia sets new record at Tony Awards, rounding off a Broadway season in which British imports continued to dominate.
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By MICHAEL KUCHWARA  NEW YORK - By George, he's got it. Jefferson Mays will portray Henry Higgins in a revival of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," arriving on Broadway in October. No word yet on who will play Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney flower girl Higgins transforms into a lady.
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NEW YORK  - You've gotta hand it to   Broadway producers Barry and Fran Weissler. Their knack for   canny stunt casting has helped keep their acclaimed revival of   "Chicago" alive for nearly 10 years now, with no signs of its   slowing down.
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Launching a fantasy  franchise with the bankability of a "Harry Potter" or "Lord of  the Rings" can be a tricky proposition, as demonstrated by "The  Golden Compass," but "The Spiderwick Chronicles," based on the  series of imaginative young people's books by Tony DiTerlizzi  and Holly Black, could just be the ticket.
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Arts & entertainment: Four years ago, he was conducting rehearsals in a Newbury chip shop. Now John Doyle is being hailed as the saviour of the Broadway musical.
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"A Chorus Line," the legendary Michael Bennett musical, will kick again on Broadway.
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The Broadway show sees its first significant cast change.
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The new Los Angeles  production of "Wicked," the award-winning, high-grossing  musical about the wacked-out witches from Wizdom, runs an epic  2 1/2 hours, scores on virtually all entertainment levels and  is everything you would expect it to be. It's no wonder its run  at the Pantages is open-ended.
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Usher, the silky voiced R&amp;amp;B superstar, will soon be crooning a Broadway melody. The multi-platinum recording artist and five-time Grammy winner will take over the role of conniving lawyer Billy Flynn in the long-running musical revival &quot;Chicago,&quot; making his Broadway debut, producers Barry and Fran Weissler announced Friday.
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The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players are hoping to lure a new generation of Gilbert and Sullivan fans.
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Jaromir Jagr and Brendan Shanahan better start working on an encore. If it's anything like their Broadway debut together, the New York Rangers are bound to be a smashing hit.