NEWS FROM WALKING WITH DINOSAURS

WATCH ONLINE

DINOSAUR LOOSE ON COLUMBUS AVENUE!

REGIS PHILBIN SURPRISES KELLY RIPA WITH NEW PET

“WALKING WITH DINOSAURS: The Live Experience”

ON “LIVE WITH REGIS AND KELLY”

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Watch Dinosaur on Live with Regis & Kelly


Dinosaurs returned to earth on “Live with Regis and Kelly” for the first time following 68 million years of extinction! Regis Philbin surprised co-host Kelly Ripa and America by introducing his new “pet” - WALKING WITH DINOSAURS – The Live Experience star Baby T-Rex live in the ABC studio before walking him on Columbus Avenue during the morning rush hour.

Following ten sold-out weeks in five Australian cities, where it was seen by over 300,000 fans, WALKING WITH DINOSAURS – The Live Experience, based on the Emmy Award® winning BBC series, and starring 15 life-sized “live” dinosaurs, came to North America to begin a two-year arena tour on July 11th, 2007 at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington - where it broke box office and attendance records for the entire history of The Tacoma Dome.

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS will visit over 100 U.S. cities over the next two years, including the Continental Airlines Arena in the New York area from October 3rd – 7th and Atlanta, Washington D.C., Norfolk, Nashville, Dallas and Detroit in the coming months.

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS completes an engagement at Columbus, Ohio’s Schottenstein Center this Saturday, August 25th and next visits Atlanta Georgia’s Philips Arena from September 5th – September 9th.

Following years of planning, WALKING WITH DINOSAURS came to life at Sydney’s Acer Arena on January 10, 2007. The show has already proven itself such a sensation, that the North American tour was fast-tracked and began a mere three months after completing its Australian engagements.

The creative team is lead by director Scott Faris, a Broadway veteran who has directed Michael Crawford in EFX at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, the London production of Chicago, and the current national tour of Sweet Charity starring Molly Ringwald. The creatures are designed and built by Sonny Tilders, who worked with Jim Henson's Creature Workshop on the films The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. The set design and projected image design is by Peter England. The lighting is by John Rayment. The score is composed by James Brett.

Tim Haines, creator and producer of the original BBC series, which was seen by a worldwide audience of 700 million, serves as Project Consultant to the production. The series won six Emmy and three BAFTA Awards.

Ten species are represented from the entire 200 million year reign of the dinosaurs. The show includes the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the terror of the ancient terrain, as well as the Plesiosaurus and Liliensternus from the Triassic period, the Stegosaurus and Allosaurus from the Jurassic period and the awesome Cretaceous. The largest of them, the Brachiosaurus is 45 feet tall, and 75 feet from nose to tail. It took a team of 50 – including engineers, fabricators, skin makers, artists and painters, and animatronic experts – a year to build the original production.

Variety said, “The dinosaurs are stunning, life-size and faultlessly nimble. In act one, the beasts parade into the arena gnashing and cavorting as a safari-suited paleontologist describes their attributes … in the second half, the action cranks up, culminating in a spectacular clash as a T-Rex mom defends her baby from predators. Sonny Tilders' triumphant creature design ensures ‘Walking With Dinosaurs’ is a truly spectacular spectacular. It is everything a dino-phile could want.”

The 15 dinosaurs of the original Australian production were “hatched” by Tilders, the head of creature design, in a Melbourne Docklands workshop big enough to park a 747. The show took one year to build. The team of 50 artists and technicians are now building a new set of ‘stars’ to tour North America and later internationally. In the United States, the show is so big that the only building large enough to the Tacoma Dome to house rehearsals for North America is the Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center!

The show depicts the dinosaurs’ evolution, complete with the climatic and tectonic changes that took place allowing them to survive for so long. With almost cinematic realism, WALKING WITH DINOSAURS has scenes of the interactions between dinosaurs, and the audience sees how carnivorous dinosaurs evolved to walk on two legs, and how the herbivores fended off their more agile predators.

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS – The Live Experience is brought to North America by Immersion Edutainment, led by Executive Director Bruce Mactaggart.

CONTACTS:
Tim Choy, David Barber, Davidson & Choy Publicity 323-954-7510 ext. 13, t.choy@dcpublicity.com, d.barber@dcpublicity.com

Adrian Bryan-Brown, Joe Perrotta Boneau/Bryan-Brown 212-575-3030, abrown@bbbway.com, jperrotta@bbbway.com

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NEWS FROM THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

LISTEN TO “THE DROWSY CHAPERONE” STAR

JO ANNE WORLEY

ON ASSOCIATED PRESS RADIO

CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK:
Listen to JoAnne Worley on Associated Press radio

Then click on “AP on Broadway” and select
“JoAnne Worley is Back on Broadway!”

Television icon JoAnne Worley (“Rowan & Martin’s Laugh In”) is now starring as “Mrs. Tottendale” in the five-time Tony Award® winning musical THE DROWSY CHAPERONE. Associated Press Radio’s Jane Waldman recently sat down with the outspoken and vivacious comedienne backstage in her dressing room at the Marquis Theatre to discuss her return to Broadway, experience on the groundbreaking television variety show and recent scene-stealing in the Encores! production of Follies.

Listen online to Worley’s Associated Press radio interview, also permanently available as a pod cast on the Associated Press website.

Click the following link: Listen to JoAnne Worley on Associated Press radio, then click “AP on Broadway” and select “JoAnne Worley is Back on Broadway!”

Prior to joining the cast of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, Worley recently appeared on the New York musical stage in the acclaimed Encores! production of Follies at City Center. She returns to Broadway at for the first time in nearly 15 years since appearing in the revival of Grease! Worley made her Broadway debut in The Billy Barnes People and was Carol Channing’s standby in the original cast of Hello Dolly! She was recently named President of the humane organization "Actors and Others for Animals."

The most celebrated musical of the 2006 season and the recipient of thirteen major awards, THE DROWSY CHAPERONE received the most Tony Awards® of any musical -five in total - including Best Book and Score, seven Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical, four Outer Critic's Circle Awards including Outstanding Score and the Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE began previews April 3, 2006 and opened on Broadway on May 1, 2006 at the Marquis Theatre (1535 Broadway).

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE is directed and choreographed by Tony Award® nominee Casey Nicholaw (Spamalot), with music and lyrics by Tony Award® winners Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison and a book by Tony Award® winners Bob Martin and Don McKellar.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE is produced by Kevin McCollum, Roy Miller, Boyett Ostar, Stephanie McClelland, Barbara Freitag, and Jill Furman.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE plays Tuesday – Saturday at 8:00 p.m. with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday at 2:00 p.m. and Sundays at 3:00 p.m.

Tickets prices range from $26.25 - $111.25 (including $1.25 facility fee) and are available through Ticketmaster (212-307-4100), online at www.ticketmaster.com or in person at The Marquis Theatre box office (1535 Broadway).

www.DrowsyChaperone.com

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NEWS FROM MAMMA MIA!

WATCH ONLINE!

MAMMA MIA! STAR

CAROLEE CARMELLO

On My Broadway.com’s “Cue 2 Cue” Channel

Click to Watch Carolee Carmello Segment

Watch Tony Award® nominated actress Carolee Carmello, now starring as “Donna Sheridan” in Broadway’s smash hit musical MAMMA MIA!, on MyBroadway.com’s “Cue 2 Cue” Channel.

Now watch the full half hour segment online: Click to Watch Carolee Carmello Segment
Once on site, click on orange tab labeled "Channels" for drop down menu, click on “Cue2Cue Interviews with Broadway’s Best!” then select Carolee Carmello.

Seen by more than 30 million people around the world, MAMMA MIA!, is celebrating six sold-out years at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre, and is also currently playing record-breaking engagements in Las Vegas and on National Tour in the United States. The original West End production has played more than 3,500 performances, an international tour has played in more than 30 cities, and the feature film of MAMMA MIA!, produced by Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman, will be released in the summer of 2008.

There are currently 10 productions of MAMMA MIA! running around the world (8 resident productions and 2 tours). With three productions playing in North America alone, MAMMA MIA! has more productions playing around the world than any other current Broadway musical and can be experienced in five different languages globally (English, Spanish, German, Korean and Russian).

With a worldwide gross of over $2 Billion worldwide, and over 17,000 people dancing in the aisles nightly, MAMMA MIA! is acclaimed by the Associated Press as “quite simply, a phenomenon.”

For more information on MAMMA MIA! around the world visit:

http://www.mamma-mia.com/

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NEWS FROM STOMP

STOMP OUT LOUD MAKES NATIONAL TV DEBUT
ON
America's Got Talent Season Finale
Tuesday, August 21 at 8:00p.m. ET/PT on NBC

STOMP OUT LOUD will make its national TV debut next week when it performs on the season-ender of AMERICA’S GOT TALENT on Tuesday August 21.

STOMP OUT LOUD is the expanded and dynamic production from STOMP's creators. It plays at Las Vegas' Planet Hollywood Hotel & Casino in a $28 million theatre built specially to house the production.

Variety said ““Anyone with a pulse should see STOMP OUT LOUD!” and called the show “Intense, engaging, magical and infectious.”

The season finale of "America's Got Talent" will air Tuesday, August 21 from 8-10:00p.m. ET/PT on NBC. Please check local listings for other areas of the country.

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NEWS FROM THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING

THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING

VANESSA REDGRAVE
ON “THEATER TALK”
TO BE RE-AIRED TONIGHT AT 12:30AM

FINAL PERFORMANCE ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 25

Theater Talk’s interview with Vanessa Redgrave, star of the new Broadway play THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING by Joan Didion and directed by David Hare, will be re-aired tonight on WNET/Channel 13 at 12:30AM. The strictly limited engagement will end on Saturday, August 25th at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th Street).

In THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, Vanessa Redgrave relives an almost unfathomably shocking period in Joan Didion's life. Capturing the compassion, humor, and stark bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable, THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING is a love letter to a child and a tribute to an extraordinary, unconventional marriage, told with raw candor and a brilliant storyteller's gift for the absurd.

TICKET INFORMATION

Tickets are available by calling Telecharge.com at (212) 239-6200, (800) 432-7250 outside the NY metro area, online at Telecharge.com, and at the Booth Theatre box office (222 West 45th Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue).

Ticket prices for all performances are $ 76.25 and $96.25. All prices include a $1.25 facility fee.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

Tuesday - Saturday @ 8pm, Wednesday & Saturday @ 2pm

NEWS FROM THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

“THE DROWSY CHAPERONE” STAR

JO ANNE WORLEY

LIVE ON
FOX NEWS CHANNEL’S “FOX AND FRIENDS”

Tuesday, August 14th - 8:30 a.m.

Television icon JoAnne Worley (“Rowan & Martin’s Laugh In”), now starring as “Mrs. Tottendale” in the Tony Award® winning hit musical THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, will visit Fox News Channel’s nationally syndicated morning show “Fox and Friends” live on Tuesday, August 14th in the 8:30 a.m. half hour.

“Fox and Friends” airs on the Fox News Channel (Channel 46 on Time Warner Cable in New York and the metropolitan area) from 7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. EST Monday - Friday. Check local listings for airtimes in your area.

Prior to joining the cast of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, Worley recently appeared on the New York musical stage in the acclaimed Encores! production of Follies and returns to Broadway for the first time in nearly 15 years since appearing in the revival of Grease! She made her Broadway debut in The Billy Barnes People and was in the original cast of Hello Dolly! as Carol Channing’s standby. She was recently named President of "Actors and Others for Animals."

The most celebrated musical of the 2006 season and the recipient of thirteen major awards, THE DROWSY CHAPERONE received the most Tony Awards® of any musical -five in total - including Best Book and Score, seven Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical, four Outer Critic's Circle Awards including Outstanding Score and the Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE began previews April 3, 2006 and opened on Broadway on May 1, 2006 at the Marquis Theatre (1535 Broadway).

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE is directed and choreographed by Tony Award® nominee Casey Nicholaw (Spamalot), with music and lyrics by Tony Award® winners Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison and a book by Tony Award® winners Bob Martin and Don McKellar.

To chase his blues away, a modern day musical theatre addict known simply as “Man in Chair” drops the needle on his favorite cast album – the 1928 musical comedy The Drowsy Chaperone. From the crackle of his hi-fi, the uproariously funny musical magically bursts to life on stage. We are instantly immersed in the hilarious tale of a glamorous bride and her uproarious wedding day, complete with thrills and surprises that take both the cast (literally) and the audience (metaphorically) soaring into the heavens. Man in Chair’s infectious love of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE speaks to anyone who has ever been transported by the theater.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE features Peter Bartlett, Danny Burstein, Mara Davi, Tony Award® winner John Glover, Troy Britton Johnson, Garth Kravits, Jason Kravits, Tony Award® winner Beth Leavel, Kecia Lewis-Evans, Jennifer Smith, Gerry Vichi, Patrick Wetzel, JoAnne Worley, Andrea Chamberlain, Jay Douglas, Stacia Fernandez, Linda Gabler, Kilty Reidy, Matt Wall and Joanna Young.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE is produced by Kevin McCollum, Roy Miller, Boyett Ostar, Stephanie McClelland, Barbara Freitag, and Jill Furman.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE plays Tuesday – Saturday at 8:00 p.m. with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday at 2:00 p.m. and Sundays at 3:00 p.m. Tickets prices range from $26.25 - $111.25 (including $1.25 facility fee) and are available through Ticketmaster (212-307-4100), online at www.ticketmaster.com or in person at The Marquis Theatre box office (1535 Broadway).

www.DrowsyChaperone.com

NEWS FROM THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

WATCH

“THE DROWSY CHAPERONE” STAR

JO ANNE WORLEY

ON ABC’s “THE VIEW”

NOW ONLINE:
Click Here to Watch the Segment

Television icon JoAnne Worley (“Rowan & Martin’s Laugh In”), now starring as “Mrs. Tottendale” in the Tony Award® winning hit musical THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, sat down and acted up with the ladies of “The View” yesterday, Monday, August 6th. Worley taught fellow funny lady and co-host Joy Behar her signature pearl necklace swing that she displays onstage at the Marquis Theatre nightly, and also demonstrated the Drowsy spit take for guest host Susie Essman.

WATCH THE SEGMENT ONLINE: Click Here to Watch the Segment

“The View” airs on ABC (Channel 7 in New York) from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EST. Check local listings for airtimes in your area.

Prior to joining the cast of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, Worley recently appeared on the New York musical stage in the acclaimed Encores! production of Follies and returns to Broadway for the first time in nearly 15 years since appearing in the revival of Grease! She made her Broadway debut in The Billy Barnes People and was in the original cast of Hello Dolly! as Carol Channing’s standby. She was recently named President of "Actors and Others for Animals."

The most celebrated musical of the 2006 season and the recipient of thirteen major awards, THE DROWSY CHAPERONE received the most Tony Awards® of any musical -five in total - including Best Book and Score, seven Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical, four Outer Critic's Circle Awards including Outstanding Score and the Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE began previews April 3, 2006 and opened on Broadway on May 1, 2006 at the Marquis Theatre (1535 Broadway).

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE is directed and choreographed by Tony Award® nominee Casey Nicholaw (Spamalot), with music and lyrics by Tony Award® winners Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison and a book by Tony Award® winners Bob Martin and Don McKellar.

To chase his blues away, a modern day musical theatre addict known simply as “Man in Chair” drops the needle on his favorite cast album – the 1928 musical comedy The Drowsy Chaperone. From the crackle of his hi-fi, the uproariously funny musical magically bursts to life on stage. We are instantly immersed in the hilarious tale of a glamorous bride and her uproarious wedding day, complete with thrills and surprises that take both the cast (literally) and the audience (metaphorically) soaring into the heavens. Man in Chair’s infectious love of THE DROWSY CHAPERONE speaks to anyone who has ever been transported by the theater.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE features Peter Bartlett, Danny Burstein, Mara Davi, Tony Award® winner John Glover, Troy Britton Johnson, Garth Kravits, Jason Kravits, Tony Award® winner Beth Leavel, Kecia Lewis-Evans, Jennifer Smith, Gerry Vichi, Patrick Wetzel, JoAnne Worley, Andrea Chamberlain, Jay Douglas, Stacia Fernandez, Linda Gabler, Kilty Reidy, Matt Wall and Joanna Young.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE is produced by Kevin McCollum, Roy Miller, Boyett Ostar, Stephanie McClelland, Barbara Freitag, and Jill Furman.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE plays Tuesday – Saturday at 8:00 p.m. with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday at 2:00 p.m. and Sundays at 3:00 p.m. Tickets prices range from $26.25 - $111.25 (including $1.25 facility fee) and are available through Ticketmaster (212-307-4100), online at www.ticketmaster.com or in person at The Marquis Theatre box office (1535 Broadway).

www.DrowsyChaperone.com

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