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Noel Coward works to be performed by stellar cast, at the Drama Book Shop As part of the Noel Coward Exhibition, a special performance, April 5th, 4:00 p.m., at The Drama Book Shop, 250 West 40th Street. The event is free. STAR QUALITY: COWARD & Co., a selection of the best of Coward, including scenes, songs, verses and a play excerpt. The very special cast of performers includes: Steve Ross, Simon Callow, Edward Hibbert and Dana Ivey. The one-hour performance will begin at 4 P.M. sharp in the Arthur Seelen Theater, downstairs at The Drama Book Shop.  Admission is free. Following the performance, the performers will chat and sign books. The Drama Book Shop, as the designated book shop for the Coward Exhibition, has a vast selection of Coward's works for sale. Visit www.noelcowardinnewyork.com/ny_festival or Facebook for more information on The Noel Coward Festival, New York 2012. Cast: SIMON CALLOW has had a distinguished career on the stage as both an actor and a director, and has appeared in the films Amadeus, A Room with A View, and Four Weddings and a Funeral. He is the author of Being an Actor, My Life in Pieces, Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu, Orson Welles: Hello Americans, and many others. He lives in London, England. EDWARD HIBBERT has appeared on Broadway in Mrs. Warrens' Profession, Curtains, The Drowsy Chaperone, Noises Off, The Green Bird, Me and My Girl and Alice in Wonderland. Off Broadway includes The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, My Night with Reg, Jeffrey, and as Oscar Wilde in Gross Indecency. Numerous TV includes 11 seasons as Gil Chesterton on NBC'S Frasier. Films include The Prestige, Everyone Says I Love You, First Wives Club, The Paper. DANA IVEY has worked  in both the U.S. and Canada since 1965. She has received five Tony nominations: for both Heartbreak House and Sunday in the Park in the same year, and for The Last Night of Ballyhoo, The Rivals, and Butley.  She received an Obie Award for creating the role of Daisy in Driving Miss Daisy, and for Mrs. Warren's Profession. In 2008, she was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame, and received an honorary doctorate from Rollins College. Among her films are Addams Family, Legally Blonde 2, Rush Hour 3, Ghost Town, Sabrina, Two Weeks Notice, The Color Purple, and The Help. www.DanaIvey.com STEVE ROSS has been a fixture of the cabaret community in Manhattan for over forty years. He was born "forty-five minutes from Broadway" in New Rochelle, NY, and was raised in Washington, DC with an opera-loving father and a mother who played on the piano the songs of Gershwin, Porter and Irving Berlin. His first major job in New York was as a successful singer/pianist at the now famous piano bar Ted Hook's Backstage. Stephen Holden of the New York Times was prompted to describe Steve as "the personification of the bygone dream world that his music summons." The DRAMA BOOK SHOP, Inc. Recipient of the 2011 Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre 250 West 40th Street New York, NY 10018 (212) 944-0595 www.dramabookshop.com