Ken Billington News

Alan Muraoka will play Ito in the Kennedy Center production of Mame, which will star Christine Baranski and run from June 1st through July 2nd

The national tour of Doctor Dolittle, starring director Tommy Tune and Dee Hoty, will launch in Houston, TX on January 17th

The Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th Street) will continue its 24th season with [title of show], the much buzzed-about new musical by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell.

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts will host a production of the Irving Berlin musical White Christmas--currently seen in 3 US cities--during the 2006 holiday season

Dee Hoty will star opposite Tommy Tune in the new national tour of Doctor Dolittle, for which full casting is now complete

Three productions of Irving Berlin's White Christmas will be presented in L.A., San Francisco and Boston this holiday season

Harriet Harris will play Vera to Christine Baranski's Mame in the Kennedy Center production of Mame

The Johnny Cash musical Ring of Fire will open on Broadway on March 12th, 2006, after beginning previews on February 8th

A new stage adaptation of Irving Berlin's White Christmas, starring Brian D'Arcy James, Anastasia Barzee, Meredith Patterson and Jeffry Denman, will be presented in LA from November 28th through January 1st, 2006

A new national tour of Annie will open at L.A.'s Pantages Theatre on October 4th and will run through October 16th

Danny Burstein, Lenny Wolpe, Beth Leavel and other performers complete the cast of the Broadway-bound The Drowsy Chaperone, opening at LA's Ahmanson Theatre on November 18th

Due to poor ticket sales, the national tour of Dr. Dolittle will shutter on October 2nd in Hershey, PA

The Johnny Cash musical Ring of Fire will open at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in February, 2006, after playing engagements in Buffalo and San Francisco

Doctor Dolittle, starring Tom Hewitt as the critter-crazy doctor, will play Chicago from October 4th through 16th as part of its national tour

Tony Award-winner Jarrod Emick and Cass Morgan have been cast in Ring of Fire, the Johnny Cash musical that will begin a test run in Buffalo on September 2nd before moving to San Francisco and to Broadway in early 2006

Princesses, a new musical by David Zippel and Matthew Wilder, will open at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre tomorrow, August 17th

Doctor Dolittle will arrive in Chicago with a full menagerie of animal puppets on October 4th; it will run through October 16th

Co-created and staged by Richard Maltby Jr., Ring of Fire: The Johnny Cash Musical Show will open in Buffalo, NY on September 2nd before moving to engagements in San Francisco and on Broadway

Tom Hewitt and Nancy Anderson are some of the performers who will star in the Pittsburgh CLO's touring production of Dr. Doolittle, which is now fully cast

Brooke Shields will make her British stage debut starring as 'Roxie Hart' in the London production of Chicago for 9 weeks.