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After three days of the first all-ESPN US Open, ESPN's TV audience is up 58% from a year ago, averaging 853,000 viewers (P2+), up from 540,000 in 2014. The corresponding household rating is up 50%, from 0.4 to 0.6.

The Broadway company of the Tony Award-winning, record-breaking hit musical Chicago will welcome back Drama Desk Award nominee Ryan Silverman in the role of Billy Flynn beginning tonight, Wednesday, September 2 at the Ambassador Theatre (219 W. 49th St., NYC).

Yanni's World Tour continues with an all new show for 2016. Yanni and his worldrenowned orchestra will perform audience favorites from throughout his career as well as newly reworked arrangements of the classics. The legendary artist and his orchestra will perform live for one night only in Orange County at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Sunday, March 20 at 7 p.m. in Segerstrom Hall. Single tickets, starting at $59, will go on sale Friday, September 4 at 10 a.m. PT and will be available online at www.SCFTA.org, at the Box Office at 600 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa or by calling (714) 556-2787. For inquiries about group ticket savings for 10 or more, call the Group Services office at (714) 755-0236. The TTY number is (714) 556-2746.

NBC DEPORTES presents Week 7 of the Liga MX Torneo Apertura 2015 with Pachuca vs. Atlas, this Saturday, August 29 at 9PM/8C/6P live from Hidalgo Stadium and airing simultaneously on TELEMUNDO, NBC UNIVERSO and NBCDeportes.com digital platforms. The match will be narrated by the award-winning Andrés Cantor, joined by the veteran Sammy Sadovnik and with the unique commentary of three-time top Mexican scorer Carlos Hermosillo.

After 3 days of TV playback, ABC's Bachelor in Paradise grew to a 1.9 rating among Adults 18-49 (from a 1.2 in L+SD), coming within 1-tenth of its series high (to deliver its 2nd-best rating ever), while growing for the 3rd straight week (+6%) to score a season high on the night in the L+3 numbers.

On NBC's TONIGHT SHOW, Keegan-Michael Key chatted about Key & Peele's future and why getting to play his character Luther at the White House Correspondence Dinner was the second best day of his life.

What would happen if one were to switch the first few letters of "amazing" to form a new, exciting word that only certain minds could quickly figure out? Actually, who cares! As long as each of you knows the word's definition and what it implies, there can only be synonyms of the word used to describe Monomoy Theatre's current production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Having never before seen a production of this rather well-known comedy of a musical, letting Monomoy give me a very impressive and lasting first impression was a wonderful was an absolute privilege; I didn't expect anything less from the group, as the amount of talent on stage makes every play and musical performed wonderful, to say the least. Spelling Bee is really something quite special, as such a simple idea for a plot is taken and transformed, through music and rather peculiar characters, into something that will keep audiences laughing for an evening; it is a production that will not have anyone spelling "regret."

Fresh off last weekend's fuel mileage chess match and Matt Kenseth's second victory of the year, NBCSN heads to Watkins Glen International for a full weekend of NASCAR coverage.

YANNI's World Tour continues with an ALL NEW show for 2016. YANNI and his world-renowned orchestra will perform audience favorites from throughout his career as well as newly reworked arrangements of the classics.  YANNI will appear at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in the Walt Disney Theater on Saturday, February 13, 2016 at 8PM.  Tickets will go on sale Friday, August 28. 

Legendary Composer And Performer Yanni Announces 2016 North American Tour, coming to the Times-Union Center's Moran Theater, February 3, 2016.

YANNI's World Tour continues with an ALL NEW show for 2016. YANNI and his world-renowned orchestra will perform audience favorites from throughout his career as well as newly reworked arrangements of the classics. Blumenthal Performing Arts is proud to announce that YANNI will appear in concert at Belk Theater at Blumenthal Performing Arts Center Sunday, February 21, 2016, at 7 p.m.

  Legendary Composer and Performer Yanni Announces 2016 North American Tour. YANNI's World Tour continues with an ALL NEW show for 2016. YANNI and his world-renowned orchestra will perform audience favorites from throughout his career as well as newly reworked arrangements of the classics at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on February 2 at 8pm. Tickets go on sale August 21 at 10am. 

A.C.T. favorite and Academy Award nominee, David Strathairn (Underneath the Lintel at A.C.T.; film: 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' 'Lincoln,' 'The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'), returns to American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) for a special three-week engagement of Joseph Dougherty's Chester Bailey (May 25-June 2, 2016) at A.C.T.'s Strand Theater.

Amy Winehouse's career, though meteoric, was unfortunately cut short by tragedy, but the multi-GRAMMY Award winner's musical legacy can now be appreciated anew with Island Records/Universal Music Enterprises' digital re-mastering of her first two albums.

ZOO is the week's top scripted summer series in viewers, adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 for the third consecutive week, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending July 19.

This past weekend, NBC Sports Group hit the ignition switch on its 10-year partnership with NASCAR, highlighted by the Subway Firecracker 250 XFINITY Series race on NBCSN Saturday, and the Coke Zero 400 Powered by Coca-Cola on NBC Sunday, both from Daytona International Speedway.

All three editions of BIG BROTHER placed in the week's top 10 among adults 18-49, while the premiere of ZOO delivered the summer's largest audience for a new scripted broadcast, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending July 5.

 Golf Channel tied its most-watched second quarter ever and served 23.5 million unique viewers, which was driven by increases across the network's live events and news programming schedules. For 24-hour Total Day (6AM-6AM), 124,000 average viewers per minute were tuned into Golf Channel in the second quarter, representing a 3% increase compared to second quarter 2014 (120,000) and tying second quarter 2013 as most-watched second quarter ever. This represents a 44% increase since Golf Channel joined NBC Sports Group, according to data released by The Nielsen Company.

ZOO, CBS's new event summer series, premiered with 8.07 million viewers making it the most-watched new scripted show of the summer, according to Nielsen preliminary live plus same day ratings for Tuesday, June 30.

ESPN just announced the 2015 ESPYS Nominees, all of which can be found here!

As those preliminary numbers stand, NBC, featuring coverage of NHL Stanley Cup Final hockey, won the night in adults 18-49

Stage Door Records has announce the release of LOST WEST END, a unique collection of recordings from lost West End musicals, due for CD release on July 24th, 2015.

This year's Stanley Cup Final marks the first time since 2010 that the first three games of the series have all been decided by one goal, and at no point through the first three games has a team led by more than one goal. If tomorrow night's Game 4 is decided by one goal, it will be the first time since 1968 (Montreal vs. St. Louis) that the first four games of a Stanley Cup Final are one-goal games. Dating to Game 6 of the 2013 Stanley Cup Final - which also featured the Blackhawks - seven of the past nine Stanley Cup Final games have seen the victorious team overcome a deficit at any point in the contest, including five such games in the third period.

NBC's “America's Got Talent” and “American Ninja Warrior” have generated the #1 and #2 ratings among primetime entertainment shows on the Big 4 networks for the week of June 1-7

The Tampa Bay Lightning will look to send the Stanley Cup Final to Chicago even at one game apiece with a Game 2 victory on Saturday night against the Blackhawks at 7:15 p.m. ET on NBC. NBC Sports Live Extra – NBC Sports Group's live streaming product for desktops, mobile devices, and tablets – will provide comprehensive streaming coverage of Game 2.