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The actor cites scheduling conflicts in dropping out of the show.
Ticket sales for premium-priced seats rose last week for popular Broadway musicals.
Frederick Weller and Bobby Steggert will join the Tony Award winner Tyne Daly on Broadway this winter in Terrence McNally's "Mothers and Sons."
The production, which originated in Chicago, costars Brian Dennehy and is directed by Robert Falls.
The 34-year-old actress played Diana Ross in the hit musical.
The principal of Trumbull High School in Trumbull, Conn., said he was reversing his decision to cancel a student production of "Rent."
Arielle Tepper Madover, who won Tonys for "Red" and "Spamalot," joined the board in 2009.
The two-character play, starring Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella, will begin performances at the Booth Theater on April 1.
WNET will record the Richard Nelson cycle for broadcast at a future date.
A musical adaptation of the dark comedy will begin performances in March at New World Stages.
"Beautiful," the new Broadway musical about Ms. King's early years, has seen strong sales in the show's first weeks of preview performances.
Ms. Drescher will make her Broadway debut as the cruel stepmother, replacing Harriet Harris.
The production, based on interviews with people affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion in 2010, is to have its premiere this spring.
Seoul, South Korea, has become a boomtown for American musicals, with producers opening Korean-language versions of hits and flops alike.
Ms. Mazzie will play the role of the diva Helen Sinclair in the stage adaptation of Woody Allen's 1994 film.
The principal of Trumbull High School in Trumbull, Conn., canceled a planned drama-club production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical.
Ms. Greenfield, the artistic producer of Manhattan Theater Club, will succeed Jenny Gersten beginning September 2014, the festival announced.
The Hartman Group, which represents such hit shows as "Wicked" and "Rock of Ages," will close in January.
Ticket sales for the 32 musicals and plays running last week hit $31.5 million, a record for Thanksgiving week.
"Mothers and Sons," a new play by Mr. McNally starring Tyne Daly, will begin performances at the Golden Theater in February.
The Tony Award-winning revival of "Pippin" has recouped its $8.5 million capitalization after about eight months of performances.
Conor McPherson's "The Night Alive" opens at the Atlantic Theater Company in a production he directed.
"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," which has drawn good reviews, saw modest sales, like some other new musicals this fall.
James Franco and Chris O'Dowd will make their Broadway debuts in a production of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men."
Ms. Foster will play a disfigured woman on a journey to meet her father in the Roundabout Theater Company's Broadway production of the 1997 musical "Violet."
