According to a statement, the musical will look at the circumstances and fortune, both good and bad, that led to Hal Prince to create some of the most enduring and beloved theatre of all time, including The Pajama Game, West Side Story, Fiorello!, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Evita, and The Phantom of the Opera, the longest-running show in Broadway history

The musical will have an all-star cast including Tony-winner Linda Lavin (The Lyons, Collected Stories), Sierra Boggess (Phantom of the Opera, The Little Mermaid), Tony-nominee Daniel Breaker (Shrek the Musical, Passing Strange), Josh Grisetti (Enter Laughing, the Musical; After the Ball), Tony-winner Shuler Hensley (Young Frankenstein, Oklahoma!), Richard Kind (The Producers, TV’s Spin City), Tony-winner LaChanze (The Color Purple, Once on this Island), Caroline O’Connor (Chicago, Moulin Rouge), Tony-nominee David Pittu (Is He Dead?, Lovemusik) and Tony-nominee Emily Skinner (Billy Elliot, Side Show).

No website or theater has been announced yet, but tickets will most likely be available at www.telecharge.com or www.ticketmaster.com.

Each of the 181 Algonquin guest rooms, including 25 suites, will be updated to reflect a New York residential feel that combines modern design with classic New York City look, the focal point being customized “picture window” headboards, featuring backlit black and white 1920′s photographed by Irving Underhill. New silk-screened damask chandeliers and lights show off new tones of gold, black and tan in the rooms. Each room and suite will feature Roman shades and furnishings, 300 thread count sheets, European pillows and custom made noise reducing heating and cooling. Rooms with bay windows will include a built-in reading seat for guests. New furniture, flat screen TVs, technological amenities like makeup mirrors and additional power outlets will also be available.

In addition to the custom designed furnishings, all bathrooms in the hotel are being completely remodeled with newly designed spaces featuring black and white Italian tiled floors, frameless glass shower stalls replacing the original bathtubs, and a back lit vanity mirror.

The Algonquin suites will also have updated furnishings as well as the addition of a new Barrymore Suite, the largest of the suites in the hotel featuring a sunken living area, a bathroom and dressing room, as well as street views out onto Manhattan’s Club Row. The Dorothy Parker Suite has been given the royal treatment with its own art collection featuring specially commissioned pieces that revolve around her life and literary works.

Public spaces, the Blue Bar and New York’s living room (the hotel lobby), will also be renovated. The Blue Bar will be expanded and new lighting and banquette seating installed that sports black, white and navy fabrics, all atop a jewel-toned blue carpet. The lobby area will retain its grouped seating.

In the rear of the Lobby, the Algonquin’s Round Table restaurant will retain its former state with wood paneling and ceiling design.

The hotel is set to re-open late May.

The partnership comes as Conrad enters New York City with the opening of the Conrad New York, the hotel brand’s nineteenth property and one of six new properties expected to open this year.

As Official Partners of the Tribeca Film Festival, Hilton Hotels & Resorts and Conrad Hotels & Resorts will serve as the destinations for key TFF events, and offer guests and film enthusiasts opportunities to attend film screenings and exclusive events. To celebrate the opening of the Conrad New York, a new 463 luxury, all-suite hotel in New York’s Financial District, the property will host the Festival’s 2012 Award Celebration. Hilton New York Fashion District, a hotel on West 27th street just off Seventh Avenue, will serve as a hub for filmmakers and industry attendees throughout the 2012 festival.

Single ticket and discounted ticket package sales begin on Monday, April 16 for the general public. Single tickets can be purchased online, by telephone, or at one of the Ticket Outlets, with locations at Tribeca Cinemas at 54 Varick Street, Chelsea Clearview Cinemas at 260 W. 23rd Street, and AMC Loews Village VII at 66 Third Avenue. For more information, visit www.tribecafilm.com.

Lewis will direct, but not appear in, the adaptation of the 1963 movie, which he co-wrote, directed and starred in as Julius Kelp, a bumbling professor who invents a love potion. He also doubled as Buddy Love, a suave womanizer (reportedly based on Lewis’ frequent partner Dean Martin, though Lewis always denied the connection). Eddie Murphy starred in a remake of the movie in 1996.

The musical is planned to open in November, and will have music by Marvin Hamlisch (“A Chorus Line”), book by Rupert Holmes (“The Mystery of Edwin Drood”) and choreography by Kathleen Marshall (recent Broadway revivals of “Anything Goes” and “The Pajama Game”).

No word yet on which theater will get the show, but tickets will most likely be available at www.telecharge.com or www.ticketmaster.com.

The design sounds wonderful: Guests enter into a sunlit 15-story atrium highlighted by a blue and purple Sol LeWitt painting rising 13 floors above the registration desk. (Fun fact: The work, entitled Loopy Doopy (Blue and Purple), is reportedly LeWitt’s largest, spanning 100 feet x 80 feet, and required 100 gallons of paint and 3,000 hours to finish.)

There are approximately 2,000 other art selections throughout the hotel: Pat Steir has created a wall painting entitled Topsy Turvy in the hotel’s Gallery Ballroom. Other site-specific works include Imi Knoebel’s Mennige (Polygon) in the east entry of the Atrium lobby. Guests will also find artwork from other contemporary artists in their rooms, including Mary Heilmann, Elizabeth Peyton, and Sara Sosnowy.

Nice touch for those who drive: The hotel provides valet parking, a unique feature for a New York City hotel.

Conrad New York’s signature full-service restaurant, Atrio, serves contemporary Mediterranean cuisine prepared in an open kitchen with a wood-stone oven. Executive Chef Anthony Zamora, who recently came from Four Seasons Hotel New York, will oversee the restaurant, rooftop bar and in-room dining with dishes inspired by his Italian and Lebanese roots.

Loopy Doopy, the hotel’s rooftop bar, will be open seasonally from spring to autumn, serving up small plates, cocktails and 180-degree views of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, New York Harbor and the Hudson River. Directly above the bar will be a green roof designed by renowned landscape architect Ken Smith, including a garden with fresh herbs and vegetables for the culinary teams at Atrio and Danny Meyer’s North End Grill, located next door to the hotel.

And if guests want something a little less formal, the neighborhood around the hotel has plenty of casual dining options. The popular Shake Shack, which provides a modern take on a “roadside” burger stand, opened in the summer of 2011, and was joined earlier this year by Blue Smoke’s second New York City location, serving Chef Kenny Callaghan’s authentic pit barbecue. In January, North End Grill was added, a modern American bar and grill from Chef Floyd Cardoz, winner of Season 3 of Bravo’s Top Chef Masters.

Best of all, the Conrad New York is pursuing Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification for New Construction from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) for sustainable building practices and design. Once certified, the hotel will be the first LEED Gold new construction project in an existing building in New York. Environmentally-friendly considerations at the Conrad include: a green roof and chef’s roof garden, bike racks for public use, low flow plumbing fixtures for water conservation, LED lights that consist of more than 60 percent of all the lighting in the hotel, low VOC materials to promote indoor air quality, and Energy Star kitchen equipment

The Conrad New York is located at 102 North End Avenue in New York City. Visit www.conradnewyork.com for more information.

Performances include a salute to Gil Scott-Heron with Abiodun Oyewole and a tribute to Gloria Lynne by Lil Phillips. Other concerts: Pucho and his Latin Soul Brothers, Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, and a celebration of the music of Kenny Dorham and Cecil Payne by the Long Island University Brooklyn music faculty. Jazz great, Bob Cunningham, will be inducted into the Brooklyn Jazz Hall of Fame by way of an all star jam session. Jazz performers of tomorrow are showcased during a Youth Jazz Jamboree at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza.

For information, including tickets, visit www.centralbrooklynjazzconsortium.org.

The trend of adapting Whoopi Goldberg movies into Broadway musicals is continuing: First there was The Color Purple, which ran for several years and won star LaChanze a Tony Award. Then came London import Sister Act, which is still running. And now, following from across the pond is Ghost, with a book adapted by Bruce Joel Rubin from his screenplay for the 1990 film. According to the New York Times, the musical will have a score by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard, will open in April at a Nederlander Theater. No word yet on casting, but the London production stars Richard Fleeshman and Hair’s Caissie Levy as the main couple (Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore in the film) and Sharon D. Clarke will pick up Goldberg’s mantle as the psychic who tries to help them. (So when will we get Jumpin’ Jack Flash: The Musical?)

Also in the spring will be a new production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, only five years after the most recent revival. This production is set to follow in the footsteps of the 2008 Broadway revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and like that production will have an all-minority cast, giving actors who might otherwise never get to play these iconic roles the chance of a lifetime. According to the Times, Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker are set to play Stanley and Blanche, and Rent’s Daphne Rubin-Vega will play timid Stella. The production will be directed by Emily Mann, and no theater or official opening date has been announced yet.

Tickets will most likely be available on telecharge.com.

From January 20-29 at New York’s Park Avenue Armory (67th Street and Park Avenue), collectors will gather to view objects exhibited by 75 specialists in American, English, European and Asian fine and decorative arts from antiquity through the 1960s.

U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management will sponsor the Opening Night Party with Sallie Krawcheck, president of Global Wealth and Investment Management, Bank of America.

All net proceeds from the show will benefit East Side House Settlement.

Cool touch: The 2012 loan exhibition, Celebrating Historic Hudson Valley at 60: Rockefeller Patronage in Sleepy Hollow Country, marks the 60th anniversary of John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s founding of Sleepy Hollow Restorations.

For more information visit www.winterantiquesshow.com.

The event kicks off at 7 p.m. and is priced at $38 per person, subject to a 15 percent service charge.

For more information visit www.helmsleyparklane.com.