Broadway
- J. Elaine Marcos just became the new Connie in A Chorus Line on Broadway. She has also appeared on Broadway in Miss Saigon, The Wedding Singer, Flower Drum Song,
Wonderful Town & Sweet Charity.
- Brooke Engen recently joined the cast of Hairspray on Broadway as a swing and dance caption.
- Yvette Clark recently returned from her long stint as Motormouth Mable in the national tour of Hairspray. She also recently had a final a callback for Mama Morton in Chicago on
Broadway.
- Corbin recently performed in Broadway Bares. Corbin was recently featured in The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway.
- Georgi James recently made it to the final cut to play Cindy Lou in the Broadway production of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
- Georgi James is a possible cast member for the Broadway bound production of Elton John's Billy Elliot.
Music
- Emily Morris and her band will release their 1st album on Universal Records in 2008
- Adam Barta's video for I Wanna Hold You, (EsNTion Reocrds/Warner Brothers label) is currently the #1 video on MTV's LOGO network, beating out Hillary Duff's new video. The
single has also topped the charst on Sirius Satellite radio as well as KTU 102.7.
- Dan Torres - After completing his first US tour, Dan recently licensed his music catalog MTV and Oxgen to be used for future episodes of the Real World, Road Rules, and the
Bad Girls Club.
- Anelle just released her first independent CD titled, Yesterday's Tomorrow. Anelle kicks of her world tour this fall.
- Samantha Jo Kaspar was recently featured on Barry's McGuire's new CD of patriotic songs on Frogtown Records.
- Victor A. Barrientos - Victor's band, Verttigo, is pre-nominated for a Latin Grammy.
- Haale - Haale has several big concerts this year including Symphony Space, Carnegie Hall, Bowery Ballroom, & Joe's Pub. Additionally she was recently reviewed by the New
York Times and the Washington Post.
- Kashish - Kavita recently performed at the Bollywood Music Awards at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City.
- Alex Codella starred in pop/rock singer, John Vanderslice's, new video, directed by Bren Chesanek.
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- Valerie Greene's video for Nasty was recently released.
- Jerry Cherry's CD, Life is Sweet, will be released this month in conjunction with a CD release party performance at the Bitter End.
- Angela Simon recently opened for American Idol finalist, Elliot Yamien, for his concert in Connecticut.
- Angela Simon was a recent finalist in the KISS FM Backstreet Boys concert contest.
Dance
- Lauren Obertubbesing is now a dancer for Britney Spear's surprise comeback tour performances.
Film/TV
- Ryan Simpkins - After finishing her run in Festen on Broadway with Jerry Sisto, Ali McGraw and Julianne Margulies, Ryan is in California filming a new movie with John
Malcovich & Jerry Sisto. Also look out for her new movie, Sherry Baby, where she stars with Maggie Gyllenhaal. This film did very well at Sundance and already has Oscar buzz.
Ryan recently had her picture in Entertainment Weekly.
- Brooke & Tiffany Engen are starring as Noreen & Doreen in the motion picture version of Hairspray, in theaters now.
- Rob Armstrong recently co-starred in a film with Joe Gannascoli from the Sopranoes television show.
- Lauren Obertubbesing filmed an indie vampire movie called the Vampires of Zanzibar.
- The trailer for Alex Codella's latest film, Ratred, the Prophecy, was recently released.
- Alex Codella is featured in a short on collegehumor.com
- Hamza Ahmed starred in a recent episode of 30 Rock on NBC.
- Samantha Jo Kaspar was recently featured on the Today Show on NBC with Anne Curry.
- Jerry Cherry is starring in an episode of Matched in Manhattan on the Lifetime network.
Off-Broadway
- Demosthenes Chrysan was just cast in the upcoming Off Broadway production of Queens Boulevard at the famed Signature Theater.
- Zach Van Mourik will be appearing Off Broadway this fall in the musical School House Rock Jr..
- Tess Paras is appearing this month Off Broadway in Slammer, the new Women in Prison Musical, as part of the New York City Fringe Festival.
- Taylor Wilson will be joining the cast of the American Girl show this March at the American Girl Store in Midtown.
Cabaret
- Parry Adams recently performed a cabaret at Don't Tell Mama.
- David Rappaport and his production company, ABCD will be performing a cabaret in September called Crossroads: a Musical Journey.
Tours
- Thomas Rainey just left for the national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Whistle Down the Wind.
- Ryan Malyar recently completed a tour of the Sponge Bob Square Pants Live show in Asia.
- Tommaso Antico is on tour in the international tour of Hairspray playing sketch. He was also in the international tour of Cabaret starring Andrea McCardle and the Donkey Show
Off Broadway.
Regional Theater
- Courtney Tilford is currently performing in Swing at Prather Family Theater in Arizona.
- Jennifer Cameron will be performing in the Irving Berlin musical, White Christmas, at Virginia Musical Theater this winter.
- Georgi James will be performing in the Sound of Music at the Count Basie Theater, Redbank, New Jersey.
- Ryan Malyar will be appearing in Les Miserables at the North Shore Musical Theater.
Community Theater
- Susan Schnitzer, Christopher Baron, Dave Desio, Benjamin Brooks recently appeared in Plays in the Park's production of Once Upon A Mattress.
- Jeffrey Luong recently appeared in Plays in the Park's production of Thoroughly Modern Millie.
- Natalie Romeo was just cast in A Year with Frog and Toad at the Cranford Dramatic Society.
- Bobby Wolfe i currently participating in a musical review with the Mystics Players in Elizabeth.
- Susan Schnitzer is currently playing the mother in Villager's production of Charlotte's Web.
- Susan Schnitzer was recently cast in the Cranford Dramatic Society's production of Oklahoma.
- Bobby Wolfe was recently cast in Villagers productions of Little Women.
- Alex Codella is playing Huck Finn the musical verision of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer at his middle school.
- Kenny and Andrew Bambridge were recently cast as the leads, Harold Hill and Wintrop, in their middle school production of the Music Man.
- Cami Luckewicz was cast in her high school's production of Fiddler on the Roof.
- Susan Hagen was cast in Chester's production of The Baker's Wife.
- Bobby Wolfe was recently cast in teh Marlboro Players production of Beauty & the Beast.
- Cody Kassleman, Cody Gould, & Michael Anderson will be playing the leads in Red Bank Regional Performing Arts High School's production of Beauty & the Beast.
- Michael Anderson earned a 1st chair place in All Shore Regional Chorus this year as a tenor 1.
Pageants
- Samantha Jo Kaspar was recently named Little Miss Hemisphere. Samantha received both a cash prize and cruise with her title.
Commercials
- Chris King just taped a commercial for AIG insurance where he sings Neil Diamond's classic, Sweet Caroline. The film was directed by the director or Bandidas and produced
by the producer of La Femme Nakita.
- Samantha Jo Kaspar recently filmed an infomercial for Walmart.
Modeling
- Deanna Karlheim just returned from Malaysia where she was modeling fashions for the company, Sogo, through her agency, Fusion.
- Rob Armstrong was recently photographed for a new campaign for Citibank.
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