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Schedule of school-specific guest speakers for 2008 Commencement

Thursday, May 8

4:30 p.m.: Graduate Degree Ceremony -

Speaker: Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado, Ph.D., Assistant professor in Religious Studies

Friday, May 9, 2008

8:30 a.m.: School of Business Administration; College of Engineering

Speaker: Robert E. Rubin, receiving the Honorary Doctor of Laws, an acclaimed economic strategist and director and chair of the executive committee of Citigroup

12:30 p.m.: School of Architecture, School of Communication, School of Education, Frost School of Music and School of Nursing and Health Studies

Speaker: Norman C. Francis, receiving the Honorary Doctor of Laws, the president of Xavier University of Louisiana and the longest tenured current leader of an American university

5:00 p.m.: College of Arts and Sciences

Speaker: Angela Lansbury Shaw, receiving the Doctor of Humane Letters, a Tony and Golden Globe Award-winning actress and the winner of the 1997 Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award

Sue Miller, receiving the Doctor of Humane Letters, the president, secretary, and treasurer of the Miller Family Foundation

?Saturday, May 10, 2008

5:00 p.m.: Miller School of Medicine Ceremony

Speaker: Thomas D. Pollard, receiving the Honorary Doctor of Science, a researcher and the Sterling Professor and chair of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University

Sunday, May 18, 2008

2:00 p.m.: School of Law Ceremony

Speaker: Carolyn B. Lamm, University of Miami School of Law alumna, a partner of White & Case, LLP

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74th Annual Drama League Award Nominees Announced

Nominees for the 2007-2008 Drama League Awards, which will be held May 16 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, were revealed April 22. Nominees were announced in four categories: Distinguished Production of a Musical, Play, Revival of a Musical and Revival of a Play.

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2007-08 Drama League Award Nominations Announced

The Drama League (Jano Herbosch, President; Roger T. Danforth and Gabriel Shanks, Co-Managing Directors) proudly announces nominations for the 2007-08 Drama League Awards, to be awarded at The 74th Annual Drama League Awards Ceremony and Luncheon on Friday, May 16, 2008 (noon) at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square (1535 Broadway at 46th Street). The event will be hosted by Harvey Fierstein (A Catered Affair).

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You are invited to join actress Angela Lansbury in The ALS Association’s new campaign to eradicate ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s Disease, which will be debuting soon across the nation.

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Photo Coverage: NCTF Honors Angela Lansbury

National Corporate Theatre Fund (NCTF) will held its Annual Chairman’s Awards Gala and benefit on Monday, April 14 at New York’s Cipriani’s Pegasus (30 Rockefeller Plaza). This year, NCTF Chairman James S. Turley, Chairman & CEO of Ernst & Young, honored Angela Lansbury, the Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival of New American Plays and Bank of America. Accepting the award on behalf of the Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival was Artistic Director Marc Masterson and Managing Director Jennifer Bielstein and accepting for Bank of America was be Rena M. DeSisto, Global Arts & Culture Executive for Bank of America. All net proceeds of the event will be distributed as the NCTF/Bank of America Fund for New American Theatre.

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PHOTO CALL: The Ladies Who Sing Sondheim Plays Broadway

Stephen Sondheim was lauded in song by a sold-out Acting Company benefit concert, The Ladies Who Sing Sondheim, April 7 at Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.

According to press notes: "Angela Lansbury is back on Broadway singing Sondheim with...other Broadway notables, in a star-studded event directed and hosted by Tony-winner John Doyle, who weaves together a glorious songbook."

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Photo Coverage: Ladies Who Sing Sondheim

Tony Award-winning director John Doyle (Sweeney Todd, Company) directed a benefit performance Ladies Who Sing Sondheim on Monday, April 7, 2008 at 7PM in celebration of The Acting Company's 35th Anniversary. Angela Lansbury (Anyone Can Whistle, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd) Debra Monk (Company), Pamela Myers (Company, Into the Woods), and Jenna Russell (Sunday in the Park with George) appeared. Mary Mitchell Campbell was the Musical Director.

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PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Gypsy: Momma Rose, Rock Star

That mother of all stage mothers, Momma Rose, charged down the aisle of the St. James Theatre on March 27, planted her pins squarely on the Broadway stage and proceeded to preach to the converted. Home again, Rose — only this time it was Patti's turn.

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Photo Coverage: GYPSY - Opening Night Arrivals

Producers Roger Berlind, The Routh Frankel Baruch Viertel Group, Roy Furman, Debra Black, Ted Hartley, Roger Horchow, David Ian, Scott Rudin and Jack Viertel present a new Broadway production of the great American musical Gypsy, starring Tony Award winner Patti LuPone. Gypsy reunites LuPone with co-stars Boyd Gaines and Laura Benanti. Directed by multiple Tony Award winner and author of the musical Arthur Laurents, Gypsy began preview performances on Monday, March 3, 2008 and opened last night, Thursday, March 27, 2008 at Broadway's St. James Theatre (246 West 44 Street).

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New photos published!

Angela Lansbury attends the "Gypsy" Broadway Opening Night on March 27.

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Angela Lansbury To Host 'On Broadway' 10/27

Rolex presents “ON BROADWAY! A Glittering Salute To The American Musical”- Career Transition For Dancers’, 23rd Anniversary Jubilee on Monday, October 27 at 7pm at New York City Center, 131 West 55 Street (bet. 7 & 6 Aves). Multi award-winning actress Angela Lansbury will host the Gala, which will be followed by an Anniversary Supper with the Stars at The Grand Ballroom at The Hilton New York. “ON BROADWAY! A Glittering Salute to the American Musical”, is a glorious historical journey inside the Broadway musical seen through the eyes of legendary choreographers. Their choreography transformed Broadway shows into the greatest musicals of all time. The Gala will be the entertainment-dance event of the new season; with appearances by dance companies, musicians, dancers, stars and many surprises. It is produced & directed by Ann Marie DeAngelo. The honorees for the Gala will soon be announced as well as the recipient of the Rolex Award.

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Angela Lansbury at the AARP Movie Awards

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Lansbury and Cook to Be Part of Jerry Herman's Broadway — in London

A one-night-only benefit concert, entitled Jerry Herman's Broadway, will be presented May 4 at the London Palladium to benefit the HIV/AIDS charity called Crusaid.

Presented by Barry J. Mishon, the concert will feature Herman as well as veteran actresses Angela Lansbury and Barbara Cook and stage and screen star Ron Raines, according to the Dress Circle website. The performers — more will be announced at a later date — will be backed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Donald Pippin.

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BOOK TICKETS FOR JERRY HERMAN'S BROADWAY NOW

JERRY HERMAN'S BROADWAY

In Aid of CRUSAID

Sunday 4 May 2008 7.45pm

There are a number of £250.00 tickets available for this concert which include a souvenir programme and access to the after show party in the Cinderella Bar.

These are only available via Crusaid and any customers interested in purchasing them should contact Ellie Arkwright at Crusaid on 020 7539 3892.

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Lansbury, LuPone, Benanti, Monk, Myers and More Are Ladies Who Sing Sondheim April 7

The title says it all. The Ladies Who Sing Sondheim, a one-night musical evening at Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre April 7, will bring major Broadway divas into the spotlight to benefit The Acting Company.

John Doyle (who staged Broadway's recent Sweeney Todd and Company) will write, direct and host the 90-minute evening (billed as a musical revue) featuring Broadway babies who have famously sung Sondheim: Angela Lansbury (Anyone Can Whistle, Sweeney Todd, Gypsy), Patti LuPone (the recent Sweeney Todd and the dawning Broadway Gypsy), Debra Monk (1995's Company), Laura Benanti (the recent Into the Woods and the dawning Broadway Gypsy) and Pamela Myers (the original Company) are expected, among others yet to be named.

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Check also the Acting Company's official website at theactingcompany.org.

NCTF to Honor Lansbury and Actors Theatre of Louisville April 14

The National Corporate Theatre Fund will salute Angela Lansbury during its annual Chairman's Awards Gala, which is set for April 14.

The Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of New American Plays will also be honored. All proceeds from the gala evening will benefit NCTF's development of new American plays and world-premiere works.

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Angela Lansbury to Be Honored by National Corporate Theatre Fund

Four-time Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury will be honored at the National Corporate Theatre Fund's Chairman's Awards gala on Monday, April 14. The event, which will also honor the Actors' Theatre of Louisville, will be hosted by Michael McKean.
Lansbury made her Broadway debut in Hotel Paradiso in 1957, and won Tony Awards for her subsequent performances in Mame, Dear World, Gypsy, and Sweeney Todd. She was Tony nominated last year for her performance in Terrence McNally's Deuce. Lansbury is also known for her work on the long-running CBS series Murder, She Wrote and for her appearances in such classic films as National Velvet, The Harvey Girls, and The Manchurian Candidate.

For more information, visit www.nctf.org.

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The AARP Magazine's 7th Annual "Movies for Grown Ups" Awards

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Angela Lansbury Visits the Love House Gallery During Photo Ventura

Over 150 visitors came to view the new photo exhibits of several photographers at the Historic Love House Gallery at SPA by Diane Loring, Inc. including the famous Angela Lansbury, in honor of her sister-in-law Gail Lansbury’s, upstairs exhibit and reception.

Gail Lansbury, one of five exhibiting photographers at the Love House Gallery, drew a large crowd of over 150 throughout her 3-hour reception, including her sister-in-law Angela Lansbury and her retired television executive husband Bruce Lansbury.

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Photo Flash: Legendary Leading Ladies Donate to National Museum of American History

At a special ceremony in the historic El Portal Theater in North Hollywood on Tuesday January 29, nine legendary leading ladies of American motion pictures, television and Broadway productions donated objects from their award-winning careers to the National Museum of American History. The objects will be preserved in the museum's permanent entertainment collections. The event was hosted by Dick Van Patten and JoAnne Worley.

Highlights include Carol Channing's diamond dress from the Broadway production Lorelei; Tippi Hedren's script from the movie The Birds; Florence Henderson's TV Land Pop Culture Icon Award; Angela Lansbury's costume from Broadway hit Mame; June Lockhart's 1947 Tony Award; Julie Newmar's original Catwoman suit from the TV show "Batman"; and a bequest of Esther William's scrapbooks from her days as an MGM star. The ceremony also commemorated the recent donations from Phyllis Diller and Rose Marie.

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Stars give keepsakes to Smithsonian

It's not every day that you get to rub elbows with legendary ladies of stage and screen. But Tuesday was one of those incredible days.

Esther Williams, Carol Channing, Tippi Hedren, Rose Marie, Florence Henderson, Julie Newmar and June Lockart got together at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood to donate career mementos to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

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Angela Lansbury and Phyllis Diller also donated items that will be in the museum but were unable to attend the event. Lansbury gave the typewriter she used in "Murder She Wrote" along with the horn used in the Broadway production of "Mame." Diller's gift included a joke file cataloging more than 50,000 index cards of jokes.

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Smithsonian Salutes the Legendary Ladies of Stage and Screen

As Carol Channing, clad in a Bob Mackie sleeveless pantsuit, chinchilla (?) wrap, bright red lipstick, and a 77-karat diamond said last night: "Musical theater is a strictly American art form." The ladies who helped forge that - along with movies and television - were being feted by The Smithsonian, who were specifically honoring women who have woven their way into the American cultural fabric, welcoming their treasured memorabilia into the Smithsonian's permanent collection.

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The Paley Center for Media

Watch videos of past the Paley Center events. The tapes of these events are part of the Paley Center's collection. (To see the entire video of an excerpted event, come to the Paley Center in New York or Los Angeles, where you can access the program through the Library).

To watch the video of Angela's interview, explore the Library on the Paley Center website at paleycenter.org.

Channing, Lansbury, Henderson and More to Donate Career Memorabilia to National Museum

Ten legends from stage and screen will donate objects from their award-winning careers to the National Museum of American History, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

A by-invitation-only ceremony will be held Jan. 29 at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, CA, to unveil the various donations. The museum will receive items from Carol Channing, Phyllis Diller, Tippi Hedren, Florence Henderson, Angela Lansbury, June Lockhart, Rose Marie, Julie Newmar and Esther Williams.

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Opening Up
A Who's Who of Hollywood and Broadway -- including Steven Spielberg, Angela Lansbury, Elaine Stritch, Gary Sinise, and David Schwimmer -- come out for the openings of The Farnsworth Invention and August: Osage County.

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Tuesday night's opening of August not only brought an amazing ensemble of actors from Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company to New York, it brought out a slew of A-list celebrities. Here's a quintet of musical theater's greatest leading ladies: four-time Tony winner Angela Lansbury, who wowed the crowd last week at the special Broadway's Back concert at the Marriott Marquis...

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Jerry Herman Documentary to Arrive on DVD in January with Bonus Features

On the same day the acclaimed Jerry Herman documentary, "Words and Music by Jerry Herman," makes its nationwide premiere on PBS, a DVD of the film will arrive in stores.

PBS Home Video will release "Words and Music by Jerry Herman" Jan. 1, 2008. The DVD will also include these bonus features: the complete "Hello Dolly!" number performed by Carol Channing and the original cast of Hello, Dolly!; "Put On Your Dancing Shoes" from Jerry Herman's 1955 college musical; and "Before the Parade Passes By" with Jerry Herman and Ethel Merman.

"Words and Music by Jerry Herman" chronicles "Herman's rapid rise from witty, topical off-Broadway revues during the 1950s, to his first Broadway hits in the 1960s (Milk and Honey, followed quickly by the record-breaking Dolly and then Mame) through the less successful shows from the 1970s (Dear World, Mack & Mabel and The Grand Tour) to his triumphant return in 1983 with La Cage aux Folles, which made social and political history," according to press notes."

The documentary by award-winning filmmaker Amber Edwards features interviews with Carol Channing, Angela Lansbury, Charles Nelson Reilly, Marge Champion, Arthur Laurents, Charles Strouse, Fred Ebb, George Hearn, Phyllis Newman, Michael Feinstein, Donald Pippin, Leslie Uggams Jason Graae, Francine Pascal, Miles Kreuger, Ken Bloom and Herman himself. DVD watchers can expect to see "behind-the-scenes rehearsal sessions, rare photographs, and never-before-seen archival footage of original Broadway performances."

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Lansbury, Peters and Martin Declared Broadway's Back! Nov. 30

Three Tony-winning Broadway stars joined cast members from most every Broadway show Nov. 30 at the Marquis Theatre to celebrate the recent relighting of marquees throughout the theatre district.

A hush fell on the capacity crowd, who were all admitted free-of-charge, as the lights dimmed for the beginning of the celebratory event, which was simply titled Broadway's Back!

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Free Broadway's Back Concert — with Peters, Fantasia and Lansbury — Scheduled for Nov. 30

To celebrate the return of The Great White Way, the League of American Theatres and Producers will present a free concert at the Marriott Marquis Theatre Friday, Nov. 30 at noon.

The one-time-only event will boast performances by Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters, Fantasia and Bob Martin. Cast members from nearly every Broadway show will also take part in the event, which celebrates the return of the Broadway theatre. Seth Rudetsky, currently part of the cast of The Ritz, will lead a full orchestra.

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Murder She Saw! Angela Lansbury Investigates Die Mommie Die!

At the New World Stages this weekend, Jessica Fletcher was doing some sleuthing: Who's been knocking audiences dead with laughter at the New World Stages? The culprit, it turns out, was a group effort—Charles Busch and his band of merry-makers in Die Mommie Die!. Indeed, the iconic star of Murder She Wrote Angela Lansbury discovered a great time at the new hit comedy, in which Busch stars in drag as a fading songbird in Hollywood in the late 1960s with a two evil teenagers, an ulcer-ridden hubby, a sneaky boy toy and a knows-where-the-bodies-are buried maid, on Saturday, November 17. After the show, we took the mug shots. Check it out.

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Angela Lansbury Visits The Ritz

Angela Lansbury, who was lured back to Broadway last spring by playwright Terrence McNally to appear in his play Deuce (picking up both a 2007 Tony nomination as well our Broadway.com Audience Award for Favorite Leading Actress in a Broadway Play) returned to the Great White Way this weekend for Mr. McNally—as an audience member. On Sunday, November 18, the legendary stage star of Mame and Sweeney Todd took in the matinee of the revival of her friend's first big hit, the rollicking '70s bathhouse farce The Ritz, courtesy of the Roundabout Theatre Company production at Studio 54 through December 9. After the show, we caught Lansbury as she met stars Rosie Perez, Kevin Chamberlin and a bunch of those handsome bathhouse boys in 54's Patrons' Lounge. Click on!

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Photo File
Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters, Robert Cuccioli, Jack Klugman, Bill Pullman, Mercedes Ruehl, Priscilla Lopez, Tyne Daly, Michael Cerveris and lots more stars smile for our cameras.

On Monday, November 12, The Acting Company held its annual gala benefit at Cipriani Wall Street. Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters provided the entertainment -- and a hug to Shubert Organization board chairman Gerald Schoenfeld, who received the company's Joan Warburg Humanitarian Award.

The legendary Angela Lansbury -- who was on hand to support the evening's other honoree, her brother, producer Edgar Lansbury -- shared a moment with Robert Cuccioli, who's soon to star in the White Plains Performing Arts Center's production of Man of La Mancha.

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PHOTO CALL: The Acting Company Honors Schoenfeld and Lansbury; Peters Sings

Shubert Organization Board Chairman Gerald Schoenfeld and veteran producer Edgar Lansbury were honored by The Acting Company Nov. 12 at Cipriani Wall Street.

Schoenfeld received the Joan Warburg Award for his "humanitarian work for the nonprofit arts." Lansbury — who spent 30 years as the Acting Company's Board Chairman — was presented with the John Houseman Award, which honors the producer's "commitment to the development of classical actors and a national audience for the theatre."

Broadway favorite Bernadette Peters performed a tribute to Schoenfeld and Lansbury in song.

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Jerry Herman Documentary to Air on PBS in January 2008

The acclaimed Jerry Herman documentary, "Words and Music by Jerry Herman," will make its nationwide premiere on PBS Jan. 1, 2008.

The 90-minute program is scheduled to air at 9:30 PM ET; check local listings.

"Words and Music by Jerry Herman," from NJN Public Television, chronicles "Herman's rapid rise from witty, topical off-Broadway revues during the 1950s, to his first Broadway hits in the 1960s (Milk and Honey, followed quickly by the record-breaking Dolly and then Mame) through the less successful shows from the 1970s (Dear World, Mack & Mabel and The Grand Tour) to his triumphant return in 1983 with La Cage aux Folles, which made social and political history," according to press notes."

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Mrs. 'arris Goes to Paris

Area 2 DVD is now available on Amazon.co.uk!

Click here to buy it from Amazon.co.uk.

16 October 2007

It's birthday time for Angela... so... Happy Birthday, Angela!

All previous news will be available soon in our brand new archives. Please allow us a few weeks to arrange the whole amount of info we stored during the years..... :-)