Musical "Shrek" to Debut in Seattle
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A green, grumpy, wildly popular ogre will sing and dance on a Seattle stage this summer on his way to Broadway. Shrek, the star of the blockbuster animated movies, will appear in a new musical set to premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre Aug. 14-Sep...
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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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Tales of a family of superheroes  and a green ogre are expected to dominate U.S. entertainment  this week with the Friday releases of "Shrek 2" on DVD and  video and "The Incredibles" in theaters.
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It's official: Sierra Boggess will be going home to star in "The Little Mermaid," Disney's next big Broadway musical, which will have an out-of-town tryout in Denver this summer.
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Playbill - Molly Ringwald, Jason Biggs, Jenn Harris and Craig Bierko star in the Off-Broadway premiere of Daniel Goldfarb's Modern Orthodox, beginning previews Nov. 11 at the 499-seat Dodger Stages at Worldwide Plaza.
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Avril Lavigne will sing the "SpongeBob SquarePants" theme song on the animated film's soundtrack, according to the publicist for the project.
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The Disney hit âHigh School Musicalâ is bound for London.
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Playbill - Gutenberg! The Musical!, the award-winning sensation of the 2006 New York Musical Theatre Festival, begins a commercial run at 59E59 Theaters for a limited Off-Broadway engagement starting Nov. 21.
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Playbill - Ha'Penny Bridge, the new Irish musical making its North American premiere in Toronto in May, will makes its U.S. debut in San Francisco in the summer. The show is billed as "Broadway-bound."
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The stage adaptation of JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings opens in London's West End.
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Playbill - The forthcoming musical version of Oscar Hijuelos' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Mambo Kings will make its debut in San Francisco before opening on Broadway in Aug. 18, 2005, announced the producers.
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Playbill - Playbill.com has learned that Patty Duke, most recently on Broadway in the revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, will star in the new play Billion Dollar Baby at the University of Idaho's Hartung Theatre.
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LOS ANGELES  - "Shrek the Third" reclaimed the No. 1 spot at the foreign box office with an estimated weekend haul of $17.2 million, lifting its overseas total to $436 million.
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Playbill - In Wisconsin, where audiences like their musicals quirky and with lots of local color, Madison Repertory Theatre will open its season with Muskie Love - a rare musical named after a freshwater game fish.
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Denmark&#39;s Queen Margrethe II has designed the sets and costumes for a ballet based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale to premiere on Saturday in Copenhagen&#39;s Tivoli Gardens theatre, the park said Tuesday.
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Katzenberg is taking the animation unit public in a year that has seen box office success for the studio: &quot;Shrek 2&quot; has brought in $876.
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Playbill - New Line Records releases the soundtrack for the new film version of the musical Hairspray July 10.