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The show’s producers have decided not to recast after stars Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster finish runs of slightly more than a year in the show.

Arkansas Public Theatre stages "The Music Man" by Meredith Willson, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Sept. 22-24 and Sept. 29-Oct. 1; 2 p.m. Sept. 18, 25 and Oct. 2 at the Victory Theater in Rogers.

Before every opera performance at the Glimmerglass Festival, Francesca Zambello, its artistic and general director, cruises around its bucolic campus

During Francesca Zambello’s 12 years as the festival’s leader, she did what she set out to do: took on “complex issues through storytelling and music making.”

Part of the celebration around Ye Old Mills 100th anniversary at the Iowa State Fair includes a butter sculpture, displayed alongside the butter cow.

Voting ends on Labor Day.

Labor Day marks the end for voting in the Peoples Choice sculpture competition.

Voting ends on Labor Day.

This year, the 600-pound butter cow gets a companion piece honoring The Music Man and Ye Old Mill as it turns 100.

Sarah Pratts twin daughters, Hannah and Grace, are 18. Sarah Pratts approximately 1,200 pounds of butter for sculpting are 17, just a year younger.