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BURNHAM'S Fairstart Pre-school won a t-shirt decorating competition run by Octopus Children Centre to celebrate National Surestart Week.

STAFF from Sure Start Redditch Childrena s Centres will be out and about in the town next week promoting the work of the centres.

This was a good week on Broadway. David Cromer's production of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and the new revival of Finian's Rainbow , both of which I review in this morning's Wall Street Journal , are exceptionally fine and persuasive mountings of deeply flawed shows.

Let's start with the obvious: The second floor landing on the way up to the Crystal Ballroom -- where the bathrooms are -- has never smelled better than it smelled last night.

The curtain opens on a large room of a country estate, and one of the dominant pieces of furniture is a giant white rectangular box, attached to snaking pipes, that looks like a coffin.

Al Caiola is a guitarist who initially made his reputation as a session musician, playing on records made by Percy Faith and Andre Kostelanetz, among others.

A SINGAPORE theatre company is staging 'Victor/Victoria' for the first time in Asia, more than a decade after it left Broadway and with jazz singer Laura Fygi in the role that actress Julie Andrews made famous.

Yves Saint Lauren, who died in June 2008, topped the list by raking in $350 million over the past year.

It goes without saying that they don't make combos like Pink Martini any more - and one wonders if they ever really did.

Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approx. 9:00 a.m. ET Enlarge Adam Levey Pink Martini features NPR's Ari Shapiro on its new album, Splendor in the Grass .

It happened Monday to Zoe Saldana , Katie Holmes and Renee Zellweger at Elle magazine's Women in Hollywood tribute, where they were honored alongside legendary actress Julie Andrews .

His party days may be over, but 81-year-old Andy Williams - confirmed as the big turn at next summer's Glastonbury Festival - intends to keep on singing until he drops Andy Williams has been invited to perform at the festival's 40th anniversary Photo: GETTY IMAGES That's the trouble with showbusiness.

Dame Julie Andrews is hoping an innovative new throat treatment will help her sing again - after a botched operation robbed the star of her famous vocal range.

Carshalton will be transformed into the Old West this week when the Charles Cryer Theatre plays host to the Lyric Playersa new spectacular, Calamity Jane.

Dame Julie Andrews could be back singing on stage within a year or two thanks to a revolutionary new treatment that could repair her shattered vocal chords.

Katie Holmes and Renee Zellweger have admitted they were starstruck to be in the same room as Julie Andrews at Elle magazine's Women In Hollywood tribute.

It happened Monday to Zoe Saldana, Katie Holmes and Renee Zellweger at Elle magazine's Women in Hollywood tribute, where they were honored alongside legendary actress Julie Andrews.

Though Julie Andrews' practically perfect singing voice was irreparably damaged in 1997 when she underwent botched throat surgery, the actress's innate musicality is irrepressible.

MTV is dumping its Freeview-centric channel TMF and rebranding it as Viva : The channel, aimed at 16-34 year olds, comprises of a mix of content from the US, including The Hills and Two and a Half Men, as well as established music programming.

Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church is sponsoring its Pumpkin Patch beginning Sunday and ending on Halloween, Oct.