Lesley Stahl News

Mama, I Want To Sing, the classic 1983 gospel musical created by Vy Higginsen, will celebrate its 30th anniversary on Saturday, March 23, 2013 with a very special performance of Mama, I Want To Sing: The Next Generation at The Dempsey Theater, located in Harlem at 127 West 127th Street, between Lenox and 7th Avenues. This Gala event, taking place exactly 30 years to the day from when the original production opened in Harlem to great acclaim, benefits Gospel for Teens, a program of the Mama Foundation for the Arts' School for Gospel, Jazz, and R&B Arts.

The producers of Gerard Alessandrini's acclaimed FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: ALIVE AND KICKING! are pleased to announce that Lindsay Nicole Chambers will join the cast of the hit musical on Tuesday, February 5 at the 47th Street Theatre (304 West 47th Street). Last seen on Broadway in Lysistrata Jones, Ms. Chambers replaces Jenny Lee Stern whose last performance is Sunday, February 3rd. FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: ALIVE AND KICKING! is scheduled to run through April 28th . The new recording, from DRG Records, is now available in stores, on iTunes and at Amazon.com.

60 MINUTES will be preempted this Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013 by CBS Sports' coverage of the American Football Conference Championship game between the Baltimore Ravens and the New England Patriots.

60 MINUTES is set to present AN EVENING OF MUSIC hour-long special devoted solely to the most prominent vocal artists of our time. The special is set to air this Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012. Musicians Adele, Rodriguez, and Taylor Swift will be profiled.

60 MINUTES made Nielsen's Top 10 List for the third consecutive week, landing at #2 by attracting 19.63 million viewers, its largest audience in four years. It was the fifth time in seven weeks that the broadcast finished among America's 10 most-watched programs. The CBS newsmagazine also finished at #2 in households (12.1/18), according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012.

60 MINUTES made Nielsen's Top 10 List again, this time for the second consecutive week. It was also the fourth time in six weeks that the broadcast finished among America's 10 most-watched programs. 60 MINUTES drew 11.87 million viewers to land at #8 for the week.

Lesley Stahl travels to Madagascar to report on efforts to save these ancient reptiles by any means necessary, including defacing its stunning shell. Her report will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES, tonight, Dec. 9 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Lesley Stahl travels to Madagascar to report on efforts to save these ancient reptiles by any means necessary, including defacing its stunning shell. Her report will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES, Sunday, Dec. 9 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: ALIVE AND KICKING, The UN-Original Cast Album features Gerard Alessandrini's parodies of Broadway's biggest shows and brightest stars, including Annie, Newsies, Once, The Book of Mormon, Spiderman, Evita, Porgy and Bess, Anything Goes, and Follies, as well of send-ups of Catherine Zeta Jones, Matthew Broderick, Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, among others.

DRG Records announces the release of the cast recording of FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: ALIVE AND KICKING, The UN-Original Cast Album, produced by Hugh Fordin, and available on iTunes and in stores today, November 27, 2012. The recording will be available for download for $9.99 on iTunes; individual tracks will be available for $.99 each. Featured on the album are cast members Natalie Charlé Ellis, Scott Richard Foster, Jenny Lee Stern and Marcus Stevens, with David Caldwell on piano.

Ballet dancers make it look easy. That's one of the signs of a great performance. But as supple and spirited as they appear to be onstage, they sweat, pant and sometimes even collapse backstage from a physical effort as taxing as the hardest contest in sports. Lesley Stahl explores the world of ballet at its center in New York City, and talks to the NYC Ballet's ballet master-in- chief, who is charged with preserving its future. Her report will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Nov. 25 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network

DRG Records announces the release of the cast recording of FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: ALIVE AND KICKING, The UN-Original Cast Album, produced by Hugh Fordin, andavailable on iTunes and in stores on November 27, 2012. The recording will be available for download for $9.99 on iTunes; individual tracks will be available for $.99 each. FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: ALIVE AND KICKING, The UN-Original Cast Album, is also available for pre-order on amazon.com for $14.99.

More Americans watched 60 MINUTES last week than any other primetime non-sports program. The broadcast drew 15.86 million viewers to finish at #2, behind only Sunday night's NFL game coverage - the program's highest weekly ranking in the Nielsen Top 10 since the week ending Dec. 18, 2011.

DRG Records announces the release of the cast recording of FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: ALIVE AND KICKING, The UN-Original Cast Album, produced by Hugh Fordin, and available in stores and online on November 27, 2012. Featured on the album are cast members Natalie Charlé Ellis, Scott Richard Foster, Jenny Lee Stern and Marcus Stevens, with David Caldwell on piano.

Steven Spielberg took more than 10 years to research his film about Abraham Lincoln. He wanted to get it just right because he's always wanted to tell the story of America's 16th president. It's a story of leadership and healing, both relevant topics in today's world he tells Lesley Stahl in his first interview about the upcoming film, which he says is like no other he has ever done. The interview, which will contain the first clips from the film, "Lincoln," will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Oct. 21 (7:30-8:30 PM, ET/7:00-8:00 PM, PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Due to overwhelming popular demand, the producers of Gerard Alessandrini's brand- new FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: ALIVE AND KICKING have announced the show will be extending its run at the 47th Street Theatre (304 West 47th Street - just west of Eighth Avenue) through April 28th, 2013. The production is co-directed by Phillip George. FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: ALIVE AND KICKING opened on September 6th after a three-year absence from New York.

60 MINUTES took home five Emmys at the 33rd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards in New York City last night, the most awarded to any single commercial broadcast network program. In addition, 48 HOURS and the CBS EVENING NEWS each won a statuette, bringing the CBS News Network a total of seven Emmys.

Schwarzenegger appeared in his first interview since it was revealed he had a secret child with his housekeeper Sunday, Sept. 30 on the 45th season premiere of 60 MINUTES (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

In his first interview since it was revealed that he had a secret child with his housekeeper, Arnold Schwarzenegger tells Lesley Stahl that the affair with Mildred Baena was "the stupidest thing" he ever did to his wife Maria Shriver. The interview with Schwarzenegger will be broadcast on the 45th season premiere of 60 MINUTES, tonight, Sept. 30 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Join us for the New-York Historical Society's inaugural Bernard and Irene Schwartz Classic Film Series, World War II and Its Legacy in Film, featuring opening remarks by notable directors, writers, actors, and historians. Produced in conjunction with New-York Historical's exhibition WWII & NYC, this selection of classic films will show a broad scope of life during and after the war and reflect many of the exhibition's themes, including life on the home front, the dispatch of troops and the struggle to readapt to postwar life.