The Ravinia Festival Orchestra takes over on Aug. 20 with two nights of Broadway favorites.

Wearing worn tap shoes and tattered black pants, Mr. Rush, 43, belts out Broadway favorites through a microphone.

The title proved prophetic, for " John Murray Anderson's Almanac" made her an instant Broadway favorite when it opened in December 1953.

Ms. Lambert has provided many special arrangements, including old standards, folk tunes and Broadway favorites.

Phyllis Love sings Broadway favorites today at 2 p.m. in the Yonkers Public Library.

Kathleen Marshall ("Anything Goes") is a Broadway favorite.

Many Broadway favorites will be heard when Elegance Two - the wife-husband, soprano-tenor team of Patricia Sebastian and Robert Hulber - presents a free recital next Sunday.

The all-female group, under Judith Lambert, promises "a wide repertory of old standards, folk tunes and Broadway favorites."

Still, a handful of Irish playwrights - including Sebastian Barry and Martin McDonagh, both Broadway favorites - continue to explore the harsh conditions of decades gone by.

The songs include her "signature hits," Fox announced yesterday, along with "pop standards and Broadway favorites."