Claire Danes to star on Broadway
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US actress Claire Danes is to make her Broadway debut later this year in the role of Eliza Doolittle.
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The hit Broadway show may now be filmed.
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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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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.
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Dolly Parton, below, citing a back injury, has postponed a United States tour that was to have begun on Feb. 28 in Minneapolis. An announcement said the concerts, promoting her âBackwoods Barbieâ album, to be released on Feb. 26 on Dolly Records, would be rescheduled for late April and May. ... A show arrives: âShrek the Musical,â so far starring Sutton Foster, Christopher Sieber and Kecia Lewis-Evans, is to begin previews on Nov. 8 at the Broadway Theater with an opening on Dec. 14. The title ogre and Donkey have yet to be cast. ... And a show leaves: âThe Farnsworth Invention,â which opened on Dec. 3, will end its run on March 2. It will have played 34 previews and 104 regular performances. ... Julia McKenzie, 67, will be the new Miss Marple, succeeding Geraldine McEwan, who said last month that she was leaving âMarple,â the British crime series. Ms. McKenzie will be the seventh actress to portray this character, created by Agatha Christie, the BBC reported.
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By MICHAEL KUCHWARA  NEW YORK - Terrence McNally, who already has had two new plays done in New York this year ("Deuce" and "Some Men"), will get a Broadway revival of an earlier effort this fall.
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Oscar winner Jennifer  Hudson has joined the cast of &quot;Sex and the City: The Movie,&quot;  which begins filming next week in New York.
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Jennifer Aniston will  produce and potentially star in a period musical about singing  prisoners.
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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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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."
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In tradition with Broadway versions of &quot;The Lion King&quot;? and &quot;Beauty and the Beast,&quot; the popular animated film franchise about the loveable green ogre is set to become a singing and dancing extravaganza on Broadway.
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American Beauty director Sam Mendes is to oversee a Broadway musical version of Shrek.
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Jennifer Hudson, who went from  little-known performer to Oscar winner in the past year, has a  new role: representing a perfume.
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Another star of "The Producers" is crossing the Atlantic. Brad Oscar, currently starring in the Mel Brooks musical on Broadway, will replace Nathan Lane in the London production next month, producers confirmed Friday.
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The Conor McPherson drama âThe Seafarerâ will end its run at the Booth Theater on March 30 after 19 previews and 133 regular performances. ... âTake Me Along,â the musical based on the Eugene OâNeill comedy âAh, Wilderness!,â will be presented by the Irish Repertory Theater beginning with previews on Feb. 20. Directed by Charlotte Moore, the show, with a book by Joseph Stein (âFiddler on the Roofâ) and Robert Russell and music and lyrics by Bob Merrill, opens on Feb. 28. ... Oprah Winfrey has made âA New Earthâ (Penguin Group), the 2005 self-help guide by Eckhart Tolle, her latest book-club selection, The Associated Press reported. ... The appointment of Martin E. Sullivan as director of the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, effective April 28, was announced on Wednesday. Mr. Sullivan, since 1999 the chief executive of the Historic St. Maryâs City Commission in Maryland, succeeds Marc Pachter, who retired on Jan. 25.
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Michael Frayn seemed unfazed on Nov. 1, just two days before the first Broadway preview of his newest London hit, "Democracy." Tall, lean and friendly, the 71-year-old dramatist ("Copenhagen," "Noises Off") and ...
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The Tony Award winner, starring in Tom Stoppardâs marathon of a play at Lincoln Center, âThe Coast of Utopia,â checks out Broadway by air.