4/11/05 - 4/17/05
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— The New Group's acclaimed production of David Rabe's Hurlyburly starts performances at off-Broadway's newest venue, 37 Arts. The killer ensemble cast—Bobby Cannavale, Haley Wegryn Gross, Josh Hamilton, Ethan Hawke, Catherine Kellner, Parker Posey and Wallace Shawn—is intact for the transfer. 
— Actress, comedian, talk show host and blogger Rosie O'Donnell hosts Rosie's Broadway Belters at 8PM at the Zipper Theatre to benefit her charity Rosie's Broadway Kids. Seth Rudetsky will act as musical director with Michael Arden, Alix Korey (All Shook Up), Euan Morton, Orfeh and Shayna Steele (Hairspray) all featured on the line-up. Tickets are $250 and available by calling (212) 703-4300.
— Sweet Charity returns to Broadway, with a new production at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Star Christina Applegate is still nursing a broken foot, which means that standby and all-around talented gal Charlotte d'Amboise will play the dance hall hostess with a heart of gold for the first week of previews.
— Maureen McGovern, currently winning over audiences as Marmee in Broadway's Little Women, makes a solo appearance at Birdland. Entitled One Enchanted Evening, the 9PM concert will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. 
— Our Time Theatre Company, an "artistic home for people who stutter," will hold their 3rd annual benefit gala at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Hosted by The Producers star Richard Kind, the evening will honor Ken Roberson, currently represented on Broadway by Avenue Q and All Shook Up.
— The Broadway-bound musical Lennon starts performances at San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre, where it will run through May 14. A run in Boston follows, with the first preview at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre set for July 7.
— Broadway favorite Hunter Foster and sitcom sweetheart Sarah Chalke join the cast of off-Broadway's Modern Orthodox at Dodger Stages. They'll play a young engaged Upper West Side couple whose lives run ragged when they meet a Jewish diamond dealer played by Tony nominee John Cariani.
— The new off-Broadway drama Beast on the Moon starts performances at the Century Center for the Performing Arts. In the show, an Armenian mail-order bride (newcomer Lena Georgas) comes to 1920s Milwaukee to start life with her new husband, played by Sixteen Wounded star Omar Metwally.
— The Baker's Wife, a musical with a cult following thanks mostly to Stephen Schwartz's score, starts performances at Paper Mill in New Jersey. Directed by Gordon Greenberg, this new reworked production stars Alice Ripley as the title heroine, who must choose between her stable bread-making hubby (Lenny Wolpe) and a hunky younger man (Max von Essen). Runs through May 15.
— A dark chronicle of wounded British youth, Slag Heap opens at off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre. Brienan Bryant, Alexander Flores, Vincent Kartheiser, Polly Lee, Maggie Moore and Janelle Anne Robinson are featured in the cast.
— The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee starts performances at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre, after a sold-out run at Second Stage Theatre. The final new musical of the Broadway season, the show follows six young people on the edge of puberty striving to win the titular contest.
— Rebecca Luker, Simon Jones, Beth Fowler and Stephen Mo Hanan star in Darling of the Day, part of the Musicals in Mufti series at the York Theatre. The 1968 musical tells the story of a world famous but publicity shy painter in Edwardian England who switches identities with a dead butler in order to gain a peaceful life. Performances through Sunday.
— Newsical, the ever-changing musical born out of the headlines of the day, plays its final performance at Upstairs at Studio 54. The revue will hit the road with plans to return to Gotham in November.
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