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Alexa Vega, 'Spy Kids' star will join the Broadway Cast of Hairspray February 13th.

The producers of Hairspray, winner of eight Tony Awards® including Best Musical, have announced that teen idol Ashley Parker Angel will make his Broadway debut as dreamy Link Larkin on Friday, January 19 at the Neil Simon Theatre.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), an annual three-week event created in 2004 to smash the developmental glass ceiling and highlight the vibrant community of writers and artists working in musical theatre today, will be accepting open submissions from January 1 through March 1 for its fourth season. This year's festival will run from September 17 through October 7, 2007.

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas--the latest star-studded Actors' Fund Benefit concert--took place on October 16th at the August Wilson Theatre, and BroadwayWorld was there!

Follow the journey of this new musical from the paper to the stage.

The Wedding Singer will launch its national tour in Minneapolis in September of 2007, while other news has also recently been announced for the hit show

The runaway success of Disney Channel's 'High School Musical,' the sound track from which has hit the No. 1 spot on the Billboard pop-music charts twice this year, has renewed interest in the teen musical genre -- and among the musical productions benefiting is 'In Your Dreams,' a musical written and produced by Miramax-linked screenwriter Zeke Farrow and scored by Marc Shaiman-protégé Lucian Piane.

Hairspray will spritz the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, TX from April 18th through 23rd.

HAIRSPRAY, BROADWAY'S MUSICAL COMEDY PHENOMENON MAKES ITS RETURN TO SOUTH FLORIDA AT THE JACKIE GLEASON THEATER IN MIAMI BEACH FEBRUARY 21 - 26 AND KRAVIS CENTER IN PALM BEACH MARCH 7 - 12

A new musical of the hit film Ever After will be directed by Doug Hughes and will feature a score by Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich when it bows on Broadway in 2007

CanStage's Urinetown and the resident Canadian production of Hairspray led the Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations, with 10 and 8 respectively