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Bye Bye “Birdie,” Hello New Work and New Horizons

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Bye Bye "Birdie" [picapp align="none" wrap="false" link="term=bye+bye+birdie&iid=6822616" src="3/a/5/4/Opening_Night_Of_d5b1.jpg?adImageId=9478895&imageId=6822616" width="234" height="200" /] The universally panned production of Bye Bye Birdie, starring John Stamos and Gina Gershon, closed on Broadway on Jan 24 after playing 117 performances. Though selling at 90% capacity, producers decided the show's success would dwindle upon the departure of its stars and so…

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Closing, opening, cast albums, casting and more in a huge Broadway news round-up

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A lot has been happening on Broadway these last few weeks. Here are the biggest of the announcements: Closing soon Bye Bye Birdie has offically announced that it will play its final performance on Jan 24. Though technically an extension of its limited run, many had expected this expensive production to run much longer, and…

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Million Dollar Quartet to open at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre in April 2010

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Million Dollar Quartet, the show about the legendary night when icons Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Prestley joined together for a Rock and Roll jam session has been playing to packed houses at Chicago's Apollo Theatre. Producers have now officially announced that the show will play at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre (the…

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Million Dollar Quartet is headed to Broadway in the spring of 2010

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Chicago's Million Dollar Quartet, about the December 4, 1956 meeting of Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis "played together for the first and only time," is officially transferring to Broadway in the spring of next year. Eric Schaeffer (Putting it Together, Glory Days) will direct the production, which features a book…

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