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Fuzion Artist Management (FAM) debuted the sounds of Dylan Collins at Justin’s Restaurant. The talented 9-year old performed songs from her yet-to-be released album to a crowd of family, friends, media and entertainers. Dubbed as her Bon Voyage Showcase, Ms. Collins will be performing as Young Nala on the Disney Lion King Tour next month traveling across the country bringing the long-running Broadway hit to a city near you.

Already a consummate professional, Dylan was battling a fever but was able to overcome the adversity and stun the crowd which included actress Aunjanue Lewis, producers Lionel and Trevor Job, NY Times Pulitzer Prize winner Trymaine Lee, Bad Boy Records and many more. Brought to the stage by none other than Shaun Derik, acclaimed Speaker for the Dreamer, Dylan had the support of her child performer friends Ashley Jordan (Broadway’s Lion King and the Color Purple), Lanique Young (Dora the Explorer), Emerald Young (Build-a-Bear, National American Miss), and Soroya Dookie (Miss New Jersey – Pre Teen) who joined her onstage during her second song. She performed With You and My Heart to an enticed packed crowd, with MTV’s Making the Band in attendance.

Anthony Van Putten, acclaimed fitness trainer and owner of BBraxton – a men’s grooming salon in Harlem – was in awe of Dylan’s talent. “Her stage presence was beyond my expectations and when she walked into the crowd singing I was left speechless.”

“As her manager, I could not be more proud of Dylan. She was battling a fever all day, and even slept until 30 minutes before the showcase, but when the lights came on, she stepped up and exceeded all of my expectations. I couldn’t be more proud of her and I’m honored to represent Dylan Collins and for Dylan Collins to represent FAM.”, spoke Quency Phillips, CEO of Fuzion Artist Management and Fuzion Marketing Group.

Ms. Collins is the proud daughter of Andre and Felicia Collins, who have successfully managed Dylan’s career prior to joining FAM. She will begin her Lion King tour in Fort Lauderdale on May 22 and will be finalizing her debut album while on tour. As a true triple threat artist, Dylan’s career will not only be defined by her singing, dancing and acting prowess, but will blaze the trail for a bright future. Dylan Collins has not only become the possibility, but she is being the impossible.

For more information, please contact Quency Phillips or Trina Martin at Fuzion Artist Management.

Fuzion Artist Management is an artists’ firm. A multi-faceted talent management firm, FAM incorporates a full range of resources that are not typical to most agencies or management companies. The familial atmosphere combined with their business savvy and sense allows for FAM to continue striving to be the final destination for talent across various industries.
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NYTimes.com Launches New Branding Campaign
NYTimes.com announced the launch of a new branding initiative to increase awareness of the tremendous depth and breadth of the site, which is the No. 1 newspaper site in the United States, according to Nielsen//Net Ratings. The campaign is scheduled to launch on Sunday, Sept. 30.

The campaign capitalizes on the familiar New York Times slogan, "All the News That's Fit to Print," with a subtle update: "All the News That's Fit to Click" - or Blog, Stream, Archive, Digitize, E-Mail, Personalize, etc. The twist in verbs emphasizes the robust features available at NYTimes.com that extend the high-quality journalism of The Times, such as:

-- Numerous blogs like The Caucus (http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com /): The Times's politics staff analyze the latest news from Washington and around the nation and look ahead to the 2008 presidential election;

The Lede (http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com /): NYTimes.com follows the day's news stories as they spiral off into unexpected directions;

City Room (http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com /): a news blog about New York City from The Times's Metro staff and Sewell Chan, City Room bureau chief, that includes expanded coverage, interviews and multimedia;

DealBook (http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com /): daily news on mergers & acquisitions, I.P.O.'s, venture capital and more. Edited by Andrew Ross Sorkin;

Bits (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com /): insights and discoveries about technology from Times reporters in Silicon Valley and beyond;

On the Ground (http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com /): Nicholas D. Kristof, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Op-Ed columnist, posts about his travels around the world; and

TV Decoder (http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com /): a guide to television -- what's on, who`s watching and why it matters.

-- Personalization tools like My Times and TimesFile.

-- Original online video, such as candid interviews with Iraqi citizens in Baghdad.

-- Mobile features such as stock quotes, movie times and real estate listings.

-- 12 audio podcasts and four video podcasts.

-- Free e-mail newsletters such as Today's Headlines, DealBook, UrbanEye and more.

Each campaign message promotes a different online function, with the reference to the original slogan tying it all back to the quality journalism of The Times.

As part of the campaign, NYTimes.com will run ads in advertising trade publications, on a variety of Web sites, in television and radio spots, outdoors on digital taxi tops and in The Times itself.

"We have developed this campaign to make readers aware of the wealth of content and tools available on NYTimes.com," said Murray Gaylord, vice president of marketing, NYTimes.com. "Our core audience - affluent, educated and curious - demands their news and information in a variety of formats, and we are committed to meeting, and exceeding, their expectations. This campaign illustrates all the different ways we do that."

Another goal of the campaign is to increase public awareness of the site's key sections, such as business and technology, real estate, travel, luxury and entertainment, which NYTimes.com has expanded in recent months. These sections enable users to book a trip, download real estate listings from www.NYTimes.com/realestate directly to their phones and much more. They represent the numerous ways that users can interact with the site and utilize the array of services available at NYTimes.com to simplify and enhance their lives.

NYTimes.com offers all the content of the printed paper as well as blogs, slideshows, videos and up-to-the-minute breaking news. Online readers are able to personalize their experience, sign up for newsletters and access The Times archives back to 1987.

About The New York Times Company

The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), a leading media company with 2006 revenues of $3.3 billion, includes The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, 15 other daily newspapers, WQXR-FM and more than 30 Web sites, including NYTimes.com, Boston.com and About.com. The Company's core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news, information and entertainment.

This press release can be downloaded from www.nytco.com .

CONTACT: The New York Times Company Jennifer Pauly, 212-556-1718 paulyj@nytimes.com OR Stacy Green, 212-556-7078 green@nytimes.com

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NEW YORK CITY CENTER ANNOUNCES 15TH ENCORES! SEASON

CHRISTINE EBERSOLE TO STAR IN APPLAUSE

Followed by

JUNO DIRECTED BY GARRY HYNES

&

NO, NO, NANETTE STARRING BETH LEAVEL &
ROSIE O’DONNELL

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Kathleen Marshall, Garry Hynes and Walter Bobbie to Direct

Season Begins February 7, 2008


Rosie O’Donnell, Christine Ebersole and Beth Leavel will star in New York City Center’s 2008 Encores! season, today announced Artistic Director Jack Viertel. Tony Award-winner Christine Ebersole will star in Applause, directed by Kathleen Marshall, the opening show of the acclaimed Encores! series, running February 7 – 10, 2008. Applause will be followed by Joseph Stein and Marc Blitzstein’s rarely seen Juno, directed by Tony Award-winner Garry Hynes, March 27 – 30, and No, No, Nanette, starring Rosie O’Donnell and Tony Award-winner Beth Leavel and directed by Walter Bobbie, running May 8 – 12. Rob Berman has been appointed music director for the 2008 season.

Tony-winner Christine Ebersole (Grey Gardens) will star as Margo Channing in Applause, the 1970 Tony Award-winning musical with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams and book by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, based on the classic film All About Eve, about a great Broadway star and her duplicitous understudy. The original Broadway production, starring Lauren Bacall, opened at the Palace Theatre on March 30, 1970, playing a total of 896 performances. Songs from Applause include “Applause,” “Welcome to the Theater,” and “Good Friends.” Kathleen Marshall will direct and Rob Berman will be the music director for Applause, which runs February 7 – 10. Applause is made possible with major support from the Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust.

Juno, with music and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein and book by Joseph Stein, based on the 1924 play Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey, will run from March 27 –30. Juno will be directed by Tony Award-winner Garry Hynes (The Beauty Queen of Leenane, DruidSynge, The Lonesome West), with music direction by Eric Stern and musical staging by Warren Carlyle. This will be the first production since the original Broadway staging in 1959 to use the original orchestrations by Blitzstein, Hershey Kay and Robert Russell Bennett which will be restored by the Encores! musical staff.

Juno chronicles the disintegration of an Irish family in Dublin in the early 1920s, during the confrontations between the Irish Republican Army and the British. Juno Boyle is the hardworking matriarch who struggles heroically to hold the family together in the face of war, betrayal, and her husband's drinking. The original Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on March 9, 1959, starring Shirley Booth and Melvin Douglas, directed by Jose Ferrer, and choreographed by Agnes de Mille.  It played 16 performances.  Songs include “I Wish It So,” “We’re Alive” and “One Kind Word.”

The 2008 Encores! season will conclude with No, No, Nanette, running May 8 – 12, and starring Rosie O’Donnell and Tony Award-winner Beth Leavel (The Drowsy Chaperone). Walter Bobbie, who served as Artistic Director of the series in 1995 and 1996, and directed the multi-award winning Chicago for Encores! on Broadway and around the world, will return to direct; music direction will be by Encores! founding music director Rob Fisher. Based on the comedy My Lady Friends by Frank Mandel and Emily Nyitray, No, No, Nanette is a light-hearted tale of millionaires, misunderstood wives, innocent young girls, beautiful women and betrayal, with lots of tap dancing.

No, No, Nanette has had two major Broadway productions; the show originally opened in 1925, and was revived and reconceived in 1971 in a production supervised by Busby Berkeley and adapted and directed by Bert Shevelove.  Encores! will present the 1971 version of Nanette, which has music by Vincent Youmans, lyrics by Irving Caesar and Otto Harbach, and book by Otto Harbach. The show features such classic songs as “Tea for Two” and “I Want to Be Happy.”

Rob Berman succeeds Paul Gemignani.  Gemignani turned over the baton to Berman at the end of the 2007 season, when he found his music directing obligations for Broadway and film made him unavailable.   

Rob Berman is no stranger to Encores!, having served as music director for last season’s Encores! production of Stairway to Paradise.  He worked as founding music director Rob Fisher’s associate on a number of productions at City Center and took over the podium from Maestro Fisher during the Broadway transfers of Wonderful Town and The Apple Tree, both of which originated at Encores! He was the conductor of the Broadway revival of The Pajama Game and music director of the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration’s Sunday in the Park with George (Helen Hayes Award, Best Musical Direction). Berman is music supervisor of Irving Berlin's White Christmas and music director for the Kennedy Center Honors.

Newman’s Own is the Season Sponsor for the 2008 Encores! season.  Paul Newman and the Newman’s Own Foundation donate all profits and royalties after taxes for educational and charitable purposes.  Paul Newman and the Newman’s Own Foundation have given over $200 million to thousands of charities worldwide since l982.  For years, Paul Newman filled old wine bottles with his homemade salad dressing for Christmas gifts.  One day, he reckoned that what was good enough for his pals was good enough for the public, and Newman's own all-natural line of food products was born.   It has grown to include pasta sauce, microwave popcorn, salsa, lemonade and steak sauce.  For more information about Newman’s Own, please visit www.newmansown.com.

Major support for the New York City Center Encores! 2008 season is provided by the Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust.

New York City Center Encores!(Jack Viertel, Artistic Director) has, since 1994, celebrated the rarely-heard works of America’s most important composers and lyricists.  Conceived as “concert versions,” each Encores! season gives three scores the chance to be heard as originally intended by their creators.  Over the years, Encores! has presented the works of the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Bock and Harnick, Burt Bacharach, Kander and Ebb, Comden and Green, and many more.  The program is the recipient of a special 2000 Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre, as well as an Outer Critics Circle Award, Lucille Lortel Award and Jujamcyn Theaters Award.

New York City Center (Arlene Shuler, President and CEO) has long been known and beloved by New York audiences not only as one of the City’s preeminent performing art institutions but also as an accessible and welcoming venue for dance and theater.  New York City Center produces the Tony-honored Encores! musical theater series, and is home to some of the country’s leading dance companies, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Paul Taylor Dance Company and now for its inaugural season, Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, as well as Manhattan Theatre Club, one of New York’s leading theater companies. Continuing to fulfill its mission to make the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, in 2004 New York City Center launched the acclaimed Fall for Dance Festival.  In 2006, New York City Center formed partnerships with both London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre to facilitate the exchange of innovative dance works, and with Carnegie Hall to work together on exciting new programming initiatives between the two neighboring institutions. In 2007 New York City Center introduced the Encores! Summer Stars series with the critically-acclaimed production of Gypsy.

Tickets for the 2008 Encores! season are available at the New York City Center Box Office (West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues), through CityTix® at 212-581-1212, or online at www.nycitycenter.org.  Tickets for the Orchestra, Grand Tier are $95; Mid-Mezzanine tickets are $90; tickets for the Rear Mezzanine and Front Gallery are $50; tickets for the Rear Gallery are $25.
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