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The national touring cast of 80s glam-rock hit ROCK OF AGES attended the movie premiere of the show's film adaptation on Friday, June 15 at 12:01 AM in downtown Chicago. Check out their cast photo below!

Shannon Mullen, who currently stars as Sherrie in ROCK OF AGES' second national tour, has missed four performances. And the show kicked off in October 2011. She's currently proving to Chicagoans she's a tiny powerhouse with a killer voice eight times a week with the rest of the ROCK cast at Chicago's Broadway Playhouse, where the show is currently in the middle of a sit-down run through August 5.

Washington National Opera (WNO) today announced Christina Scheppelmann, WNO's Director of Artistic Operations, will step down effective November 30, 2012.

The Theatre Group at SBCC will return to performing in the newly renovated Garvin Theatre with the irreverent musical AVENUE Q, set for July 11-28, 2012.

Artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller are set to animate Park Avenue Armory's cavernous drill hall this August with a dream-like soundscape that envelops audiences in a poetic and visceral sonic experience. The soundscape opens August 3 and will run through September 9.

Internet Sensation Kitty Pryde is set to play Knitting Factory Brooklyn on June 15. Joining Kitty Pryde for the night is hip-hop/rap sensation from North Carolina Deniro Farrar. The show begins at 12:00AM; tickets for Kitty Pryde's concert are $12, are available at http://bk.knittingfactory.com/event/129769/.

Windy City Gay Idol, now in its 10th year, will crown a new Gay Idol Saturday, June 16 at Sidetrack, 3349 N Halsted. Doors will open at 2PM, while the show will begin at 3PM. The largest annual search for the best amateur gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered singers in the Chicago area ends after three months of events with 12 finalists competing for the title of the 2012 Windy City Gay Idol.

Park Ridge native, Nick Cosgrove, the Frankie Valli alternate in the current national tour of the Broadway hit JERSEY BOYS, went back to his roots late last month in order to connect with aspiring theater students at his former high school, Maine South High School.

Nobody's Business Trio kicks off the summer concert season with their return to the New York stage with two shows at Broadway's Iridium Jazz Club on June 27th, 2012 at 8 and 10PM. Performers Alecia Evans, Cadden Jones, and Linda Sue Moshier reunite to mix their distinct vocal stylings of jazz, pop and opera to breathe new life into Broadway's famed hits.

Rollicking bands of pirates will be swashbuckling through Sleepy Hollow at Philipsburg Manor's July Fourth week-long festival, "Pirates of the Hudson: The Siege of Sleepy Hollow."

The Cape Cod premiere of the smash hit off-Broadway comedy THE DIVINE SISTER opens July 12 at the Provincetown Theater, and runs Thursday, Friday, and Saturday through September 8th. All performances will be at 8:00PM. Ticket for THE DIVINE SISTER are $30.00, and are available by calling the box office at 508-487-7487, or online at www.provincetowntheater.org.

April 30th Entertainment has announced the world premiere of QUEEN FOR A DAY: THE MUSICAL at the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts. The 12-performance run begins September 26, 2012.

The Eifman Ballet St. Petersburg is set to make their Toronto debut with their latest, RODIN, a new ballet by Boris Eifman inspired by the remarkable life and art of French sculptor Auguste Rodin. RDOIN will play the Sony Centre for The Performing Arts from May 23-25 at 7:30PM.

The Connecticut Critics Circle has named Quiara Alegaria Hudes' WATER BY THE SPOONFUL as the best play of the 2011-2012 season. The CCC awards ceremony is scheduled to be held on June 24 at 2PM at the Mark Twain House & Museum, and is open to the public.

Frankie Valli, the frontman of The Four Seasons and inspiration for the Broadway hit JERSEY BOYS, recently performed for Chicago audiences on June 2nd at the Chicago Theater. Nick Cosgrove, who currently plays Valli in the JERSEY BOYS tour, had the opportunity to meet the man behind the show for the first time following his concert. BroadwayWorld brings you the exclusive photos of the two's encounter below.

The Jim Henson Company may be commonly known for its children's programming such as Sesame Street - but the brand of pioneers of puppetry isn't afraid to show off the subversive underbellies of its fuzzy, legless characters, and the actors that control them. STUFFED AND UNSTRUNG, an improvisational puppet show billed as 'adults only,' created by Brian Henson, the son of Jim Henson, and actor/improv wonder Patrick Bristow (SEINFELD, ELLEN), is set to play the Bank of America Theater in Chicago from June 12-17. The show is performed centerstage, where the actors/puppeteers are completely visible, and the stage is flanked by two monitors, in which the puppets are shown from the waste up - what Brian Henson calls 'the Henson technique.' BroadwayWorld was fortunate enough to sit down with creators Brian Henson and Patrick Bristow (who serve as a puppeteer, and director/host, respectively,) as well as puppeteers Peggy Etra and Victor Yerrid.

JERSEY BOY Michael Lomenda has called Chicago his touring-home for just over a month, but the closest Starbucks to The Bank of America Theater, where the first national touring cast of Jersey Boys is currently playing its 9 week run, has rooted itself firmly in his routine. He also calls a brownstone with fellow cast members in Wrigleyville his place of residence, has mastered the el (and gotten plenty of compliments while doing so), and taken in the city's architectural feats on boat tours.

The Orpheum Theater is set to present the national tour of WAR HORSE to Minneapolis audiences from June 12th through June 23rd of next year. Based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford in association with Handspring Puppet Company, War Horse is currently running on Broadway, The West End, and in Canada.

The Kentucky Center presents the National Tour of the Broadway hit JERSEY BOYS, playing November 20 through December 2, 2012.