Claire Danes to make Broadway debut
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Henry Higgins now has his Eliza Doolittle. Claire Danes will portray the Cockney flower girl who blossoms into a lady in the Roundabout Theatre Company's upcoming Broadway revival of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion."
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Award-winning R&B singer Usher, making  his Broadway debut on Tuesday in the long-running musical  "Chicago," described the role as the most challenging thing he  has ever done.
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Claire Danes has joined the  cast of Richard Linklater's "Me and Orson Welles," an  adaptation of the period coming-of-age novel by Robert Kaplow.
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Playbill - A new musical about the writing of a new musical makes its debut in The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) Sept. 22, only about five months after the seed of it took root.
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Irish accents are the flavor of the  month on Broadway with three out of five of this year&#039;s Tony  Award nominees for best actor starring in plays set on the  Emerald Isle.
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Playbill - Zonya Love will make her Broadway debut in the New York company of The Color Purple  Jan. 9, 2008, when she succeeds "American Idol" winner Fantasia in the role of Celie. Fantasia will play her final performance Jan. 6.
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Brooke Shields will soon be joining the cast of the Broadway revival of "Wonderful Town."
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Playbill - Director-choreographer Martha Clarke's first new show of the season (she'll have three), the 1890s Paris-set Belle Epoque, begins performances  at Lincoln Center Theatre's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre of Oct. 28.
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Prince Charles is to attend the premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Woman in White, starring Michael Crawford.
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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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Randy Quaid will make his Broadway musical comedy debut this season as Col. John Falstaff, a larger-than-life character in "Lone Star Love," a twangy, Wild West variation on Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor."
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Jeremy Irons is to make his debut at the National Theatre as former British prime minister Harold Macmillan.
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Playbill - The lives, loves and losses of the March family of Concord, Massachusetts, come to light Jan. 23 when Little Women, the musical, opens at Broadway's Virginia Theatre.
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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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LONDON  - Claire Danes has joined the cast of Richard Linklater's "Me and Orson Welles," an adaptation of the period coming-of-age novel by Robert Kaplow.
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Playbill - Broadway&#39;s original Cosette, three-time Tony Award nominee Judy Kuhn, will return to Les Mis&eacute;rables, 20 years later, to play the role of Fantine - Cosette&#39;s mother - beginning Oct. 23.
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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.