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Nearly 70 area girls and their American Girl dolls will take part in a series of fashion shows on Saturday, Nov. 10, at 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza, Warwick. The event is a fundraiser for A Wish Come True, which grants wishes to children 3 to 18 with life-threatening diseases. The American Girl Fashion Show will feature contemporary and vintage styles. American Girl dolls, 18 inches high, depict fictional heroines, age about 9 or 10, and come packaged with a story about her heroics during a critical date in American history. Tickets are $45. (The 1 p.m. show is sold out.) For more information, call (401) 781-9199 or visit on the Web www.awish.org.

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Laurence Fishburne will return to Broadway next spring in Thurgood, a one-man show about the late Thurgood Marshall, the first black member of the U.S. Supreme Court.

The play by George Stevens Jr. will open April 20 at the Booth Theatre. Preview performances begin March 30 for a limited engagement through July 20.

Fishburne last appeared on Broadway in the 1999 revival of The Lion in Winter. He won a Tony Award in 1992 for his performance in the August Wilson drama Two Trains Running. Among his movies are What’s Love Got to Do With It, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Boyz in the Hood and the three Matrix films.

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NBC’s comedy pilot Zip has found its leading man, and it didn’t have to look too far.

Steven Weber, who has a long relationship with the network and most recently co-starred in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, will star in the pilot. His casting lifts a contingency on the project and earns it an official green light, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Weber will star as Trip Stringer, a single dad living in Beverly Hills. Low on money, he runs a series of cons to provide for his three kids. Prior to Studio 60, Weber starred on NBC’s Wings for eight seasons and had a short run on Cursed. He’s also appeared on Will & Grace, ABC’s Once and Again and in Showtime’s Reefer Madness.