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"High School Musical" is a bonafide hit with Shanghai audiences! The stage adaption of Disney's record breaking TV movie musical first opened in South Africa as part of a global tour before coming to its second stop, here in Shanghai. According to CCTV news, "the show has been a box office success" at the Shanghai Grand Theater for the past two weeks since its June 30th debut, with "ninety-five percent of the house sold for each performance."

Apparently one time just wasn't enough for Shanghai's cat crazy audience, because Andrew Lloyd Weber's super popular show about felines doing feline things is making its return trip to the city this September.

                          

The Scottish Ballet came to the Shanghai Grand Theatre May 22-23 and the company was kind enough to provide a backstage view. Preparations for the Friday night performances of "Carmen" and "Pennies from Heaven." began in the morning with 90 minutes of stretches and practice routines with the ballet's pianist providing the music.

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On a windy and freakin' cold night (yesterday), Linkin Park finally played their long awaited China show... and Shanghaiist has to admit that the turnout was really impressive. Not a complete sellout, but close... and HongKou stadium can hold more than 28,000 people, which is triple the capacity of the Shanghai Grand Theater. Out of all the big named foreign bands we have seen play in China, this by far had the best attendance. A...

The Shanghai Evening Post tells us that Mission: Impossible III (or M : I : III, as the cool kids are calling it) will make its world premier in Shanghai. Yes, Shanghai! The red carpet event is slated for April 22 at the Shanghai Grand Theater. But leave your camcorders at home: