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NYFWA looking for Financial Follies dancers and singers

The New York Financial Writers’ Association is gearing up for the 2011 Follies, which will be hold Nov. 18 at the Marriott Marquis.

The staff is hired, the show is written, the hotel is booked. All they need is business journalists.

If you have ever wanted to be on stage, here’s your chance to work with your colleagues and NYC theatre professionals. No talent required. Just a willingness to have a lot of fun with a lot of wonderful people. No pressure, no stress. We even buy dinner on rehearsal nights.

The following is the rehearsal schedule: Ripley-Grier Studios, 520 8th Ave FL16, 6-9 p.m.: Wednesday, October 12; Monday, October 17; Wednesday, October 19; Monday, October 24; Wednesday, October 26; Monday, October 31; Wednesday, November 2; Monday, November 14; Wednesday, November 16.

SIR Studios, 475 10th Ave.: Monday, November 7 and Wednesday, November 9 (6-9 p.m.); dress rehearsal, Saturday, November 12 (10-4 p.m.).

For more information, contact NYFWA executive manager Jane Reilly at Nyfwa@aol.com.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.