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• The Westport Country Playhouse will honor composer Mary Rodgers Guettel and board chairperson Elisabeth Morten at its annual gala, entitled An Enchanted Evening - The Music of Richard Rodgers, on Nov. 2. The benefit gala will include performances from James Naughton and Karen Ziemba, as well as Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale.
• Julie Reiber will perform upstairs at The Duplex on Friday, October 2nd at 11:30.
• Playwrights Horizons' popular benefit, Stories on 5 Stories, an evening of brief new plays staged in unconventional spaces within its 42nd Street complex, will return Nov. 9.
• Natascia Diaz will play The Amazing Voice in the world premiere of the new musical Barrio Grrrl!, which will play Oct. 24-Nov. 15 in the Kennedy Center Family Theater. The cast will also feature Ana Noguiera, Salma Qarnain, Diego Prieto, Erika Rose, Vishal Vaidya and Chris Wilson.
• Julianne Nicholson has joined the cast of Playwrights Horizons’ forthcoming world premiere of Melissa James Gibson’s This, replacing Parker Posey, who dropped out after being diagnosed with Lyme disease. The play will begin previews on November 6 and open on December 2 at the off-Broadway company’s Mainstage Theatre. The limited engagement is scheduled to continue through December 13. Completing the five-person cast is Darren Pettie, Eisa Davis, Glenn Fitzgerald and Louis Cancelmi.
• The Kansas City Repertory Theatre has extended its production of Into the Woods, directed by Tony nominee Moisés Kaufman, an additional week of performances. Originally scheduled to conclude Oct. 4, the acclaimed production will now run through Oct. 11.
• On Monday, October 5, CHICAGO will welcome back Brent Barrett as Billy Flynn for an eight-week return engagement (through Sunday, November 29).
• A quartet of former Sex and the City scriptwriters are joining forces to write a stage soap opera titled Cedar City Falls: A Midwest Conflict. The show’s eight “episodes” will play on Tuesday nights beginning October 6 at the Cell Theater and later Brooklyn’s Galapagos Theater. Proceeds will go to charity. The initial cast of more than 20 will include Grant Shaud, Peter Frechette and Talia Balsam, with Jesse L. Martin as narrator of the first week’s episode. Future narrators may include Martin’s Rent co-star Daphne Rubin-Vega and Balsam’s husband and fellow Mad Men star, John Slattery.
• Victoria Clark and music director and orchestrator Ted Sperling will make their New York cabaret debut at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency October 20-24. The Vicki and Ted Show celebrates 30 years of friendship and professional collaboration that began when Clark and Sperling were students at Yale.
• The hit family musical The Gruffalo is headed back to London’s Apollo Theatre for a holiday run. The musical adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s picture book will run from November 25 to January 10, 2010.
• Columbia Pictures has purchased screen rights to ENRON, Lucy Prebble's new play investigating the infamous energy company's 2001 scandal that is currently running at London's Royal Court Theatre. The production will premiere on the West End on January 16, 2010. 
• Okay, so apparently Lily Allen would be Steph in London's reasons to be pretty. I guess I could see that.

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