NEW YORK, May 27 (UPI) -- "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is to be honored with the Towering Song Award at the upcoming 2008 Songwriters Hall of Fame gala in New York, organizers said.

NEW YORK, April 16 (UPI) -- U.S. entertainer Paul Anka has been chosen to receive the Johnny Mercer Award at the upcoming Songwriters Hall of Fame 2008 Awards dinner in New York.

NEW YORK, Feb. 29 (UPI) -- Desmond Child, Albert Hammond, Loretta Lynn, Alan Menken and John Sebastian are to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York this year.

NEW YORK, July 29 (UPI) -- "Beauty and the Beast," the first of several Broadway musicals based on Walt Disney Co. properties, ends its 13-year run Sunday.

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PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Dawnn Lewis, from TV's "A Different World," is set to play a singer hiding out in a convent for a stage production of the Hollywood film, "Sister Act."

Today is Saturday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2006 with 162 to follow.

NEW YORK, May 18 (UPI) -- Tony Award-winner Hugh Jackman says he may return to the theater with a new version of "Pal Joey" or a stage adaptation of the film, "Leap of Faith."

LOS ANGELES, March 1 (UPI) -- Eight-time Academy Award-winning songwriter Alan Menken is back in the house of Disney, it was reported Wednesday.