Denyce Graves Will Sing Carmen in Chicago
242618
Denyce Graves will sing Carmen to open the Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2005-6 season, which also will include new productions of Puccini's "Manon Lescaut," Tippett's "The Midsummer Marriage," Verdi's "Rigoletto" and Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice."
322486
Brooke Shields will soon be joining the cast of the Broadway revival of "Wonderful Town."
617378
Hot off her stint as merry murderess Roxie Hart in the Broadway revival of "Chicago," Melanie Griffith goes on another crime spree with an original movie for CBS.
54029
A couple of New York producers have plans to bring a concert version of âJerry Springer: The Operaâ to, of all places, Carnegie Hall.
598795
Prince Charles is to attend the premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Woman in White, starring Michael Crawford.
683674
Broadway star Nathan Lane is rushing to London to replace Richard Dreyfuss in the London premiere of hit musical "The Producers" after the Hollywood veteran was forced to pull out through injury.
470373
Playbill - Broadway star Peter Gallagher will offer television audiences Jan. 13 a sample of his singing voice as he performs "Don't Give Up on Me" on the Fox series "The O.C."
237999
Ashlee Simpson says she relates to her role as fame-hungry Roxie Hart in the London run of the musical "Chicago." She's been there, done that. "The play is absolutely all about celebrity and wanting to be famous and having your name in the papers and your picture in the papers," the 21-year-old singer-actress told AP Radio in a recent interview.
405423
Playbill - Actor and pop star Jon Secada, seen in Broadway's Cabaret and Grease revivals, dons the Biblical "coat of many colors" in a mini-tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, starting Aug. 24 in Atlanta.
697927
Playbill - The cast of a new concert of Cole Porter's 1929 musical Fifty Million Frenchmen has been announced by Lost Musicals, which is presenting it in Manhattan starting Sept. 17.
92783
The Metropolitan Opera said on  Wednesday it would broadcast six live performances to movie  theaters in North America and Europe starting on December 30 in  a bid to broaden its audience.
715688
Rather than being annoying interrupters, ringing phones are being embraced by Chicago's Sinfonietta
472520
Film director Stephen Spielberg, singers Dolly Parton and Smokey Robinson, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and conductor Zubin Mehta will be honored in December by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
66727
Playbill - David Hyde Pierce, star of Broadway's new musical comedy  Curtains, will appear on TV's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" March 12.
301861
The razzle-dazzle of Usher will continue for an extra two weeks. The silky-voiced R&amp;B star, who made his Broadway debut in the revival of "Chicago," will now stay in the show through Oct. 14. He originally was set to leave the John Kander-Fred Ebb-Bob Fosse musical Oct. 1.
79047
The Chicago Sinfonietta performs a new work without the old warning.
201865
Broadway star Nathan Lane is rushing to  London to replace Richard Dreyfuss in the London premiere of  hit musical "The Producers" after the Hollywood veteran was  forced to pull out through injury.