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Tony Award-winner Richard Maltby Jr. and multi-Tony Award-nominee Graciela Daniele have signed on to the creative team of the Broadway-bound musical The Pirate Queen

The new Boublil and Schonberg musical The Pirate Queen, starring Stephanie J. Block as the swashbuckling title character, began previews at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre on October 3rd and opened on October 29th

U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, James C. Kenny and producers of the new musical, The Pirate Queen, Moya Doherty and John McColgan, will be honored at The American Ireland Fund 22nd Annual Chicago Dinner

Beginning Wednesday, October 4th, The Pirate Queen castcom® will present a series of videos chronicling the day's activity at the world premiere performance on Tuesday, October 3rd

Tickets for Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's The Pirate Queen, the spectacular new musical from the authors of Les Misérables and Miss Saigon, will be available exclusively to American Express Card members beginning Wednesday, September 20th through Ticketmaster

If there was ever a performer who, like fine wine, seems to get better with time, it has got to be the ever-smiling, ever-so-talented and truly nice guy, Norm Lewis.

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The Pirate Queen castcom will go live from the Chicago Cadillac Palace Theatre today, Tuesday, September 12th at 4:00 PM

The Pirate Queen castcom® will go live from the Chicago Cadillac Palace Theatre on Tuesday, September 12th at 4:00 PM

In a press conference that only public relations guru Margie Korshak could pull off, the principle cast and creative team of the sure-to-be hit The Pirate Queen moored into the Cadillac Palace Theatre to give a glimpse of the newest musical by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, creators of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon

A castcom for The Pirate Queen, the new musical by Boublil and Schonberg that opens on Broadway in the spring, will go live from Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre on Tuesday, September 12th

Henry Krieger and Bill Russell's Side Show will return to New York in a new Off-Broadway production at the American Theatre of Actors from August 31 to September 3

Cast members and creative team of The Pirate Queen, which opens in Chicago in October prior to moving to Broadway in late winter, recently gathered for a press meet and greet, and BroadwayWorld was there!

The new Boublil and Schonberg musical The Pirate Queen, starring Stephanie J. Block as the swashbuckling title character, will drop anchor at the Hilton Theatre for preview performances beginning February 23rd, 2007 and an opening night on March 22nd

The New York Post's Michael Riedel has reported that the Kennedy Center's hit production of Mame, starring Christine Baranski, may settle for a Broadway run at the Palace for a limited run beginning in July--if the show isn't curtailed by production expenses

Mame, starring Christine Baranski as the glamorous aunt of the title, opened at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theatre on June 1st after beginning previews on May 27th

In the famous Act One finale of Mame, the musical's irresistible title character single-handedly revives the drowsy South, sending its courtly gentlemen and Georgia peaches into an ecstatic serenade of acceptance and very high octaves. It's a rousing number in the Kennedy Center's gorgeously-mounted production, but it's hard to find the same kind of enthusiasm with Christine Baranski filling Mame's jodhpurs

Mame, starring Christine Baranski as the glamorous aunt of the title, will begin previews at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theatre on May 27th, open officially on June 1st and run through July 2nd

Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg's THE PIRATE QUEEN, the spectacular new musical from the authors of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, will play a pre-Broadway, World Premiere engagement in Chicago from October 3rd through November 26th, 2006.

Complete casting is now set for the upcoming Kennedy Center production of Mame, which will open at the Eisenhower Theatre at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on June 1st after beginning previews on May 27th; the show, starring Christine Baranski, will run through July 2nd