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Dreamgirls Begins Previews at the Apollo Theatre Nov. 7
07 Nov 2009
Dreamgirls, the 1981 Motown musical about a girl group on the rise to stardom, returns to New York in a newly-imagined production (with new songs), bowing at Harlem's Apollo Theatre. The Dreams will take to the road after NYC.

You're Invited: My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding Begins Toronto Run
07 Nov 2009
An expanded and reworked new production of the recent Toronto Fringe festival hit, My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, begins Nov. 7 at the Panasonic Theatre in Toronto.

Dreamgirls' Angela, Mercado and Warren
photo by Joan Marcus

Reeve Carney Is Broadway's Spider-Man; New Producers Promise 2010 Opening
06 Nov 2009 -- Producers of the new Broadway-bound Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark gave a progress report about the developing show on Nov. 5. New producing partners are on board and Reeve Carney has been announced to play the title role.

Today in Theatre History: NOVEMBER 7
07 Nov 2009 -- 1879 Composer Rudolf Friml (1879-1972) is born in Prague. He will emigrate to the U.S. and become one of the top Broadway operetta composers of the 1910s and 1920s. His works will include The Firefly, Rose-Marie, The Vagabond King, The Three Musketeers and two editions of The Ziegfeld Follies(1921 and 1923).

SHELF LIFE: Tharp, the Orbachs, Forbidden Broadway, The Sound of Music and More (07 Nov 2009)

The Accidental Pervert Will Reveal Himself Off-Broadway (07 Nov 2009)

Kerns and Spirtas Begin Loaded Off-Broadway Nov. 7 (07 Nov 2009)

Scott Alan to Welcome Kennedy, Jibson, Trimm and More to Birdland Dec. 7 (06 Nov 2009)

Welch Added to Marlowe vs. Shakespeare Event at Kaye Playhouse (06 Nov 2009)

Williamstown to Honor Fontana in Manhattan Nov. 16 (06 Nov 2009)

Birney, Houdyshell, Pedi, More to Read On the Rocks for Nov. 16 Project Shaw (06 Nov 2009)

PHOTO CALL: The Lover and the Poet Benefit for The Acting Company (06 Nov 2009)

PHOTO CALL: The Lion King Celebrates 5,000th Performance on Broadway (06 Nov 2009)

PHOTO CALL: Rebeck's The Understudy Opens Off-Broadway (06 Nov 2009)

"Forbidden Broadway: Behind the Mylar Curtain" Available in Stores (06 Nov 2009)

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