Arts and Stage News - Playbill

It's not easy to assume a leading role in a play that has already won every prize in the book.

Million Dollar Quartet, a new musical directed by Eric Schaeffer in Chicago, re-creates one of the most influential nights in rock 'n' roll history.

The California world premiere of The Best Is Yet to Come, the new revue of songs by the late Cy Coleman, devised and directed by his pal and collaborator David Zippel, begins July 9. The starry cast includes David Burnham, Jason Graae, Sally Mayes, Julia Murney, Billy Stritch and Tony Award winner Lillias White.

The fourth annual Capital Fringe Festival begins July 9 in Washington, DC, offering 18 days of performances by more than 100 local, national and international companies in a collection of venues in downtown DC.

Michael McKean, most recently on Broadway in the 2007 revival of The Homecoming, will return to The Great White Way this fall in the new Tracy Letts drama Superior Donuts, which begins previews Sept. 16 at the Music Box Theatre.

Hairspray's Aubrey O'Day will assume the role of the "Peep Diva" in Jerry Mitchell's Peepshow at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Musical Theater Conference has added an additional staged reading of the new musical adaptation of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City.

Tony Award winner Alan Cumming, who will star in Julie Taymor's Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark in winter 2010, will return to the West End stage in September.

Vices: A Love Story, a musical billed as "a sophisticated exploration of relationships told through music and dance," gets its world premiere July 8-Aug. 2 in a production by Caldwell Theatre Company in Boca Raton, FL. Broadway talent activates the show.

Moli�re's classic verse farce, The School for Wives, directed by Brian B. Crowe, gets a new staging beginning July 8 at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.