BUDGET WEEK IS BACK AT “THE VIEW,” MAY 10-14

Performance from “One Life to Live’s” Much-anticipated “Starr X’d Lovers: The Musical,” May 14

Vanessa Williams Co-hosts, Live, May 13

Evangeline Lilly, Marcia Cross, Bill O’Reilly, LL Cool J and James Pickens, Jr.
Are Among the Scheduled Celebrity Guests

“Budget Week” returns MAY 10-14 with great looks at affordable fashions from top retailers and designers, including Century 21, Daffy’s, Old Navy, Burlington Coat Factory and Kohl’s.

“One Life to Live” has prepared an exciting three-day musical event (airing May 14, 17 and 18) entitled “Starr X’d Lovers: The Musical,” a follow-up to the show’s “Prom Night: The Musical” (May 2007). “Starr X’d Lovers: The Musical” focuses on the talented cast and features both established and original music, with elaborate production numbers centered around plenty of prom night relationship drama. The cast will perform a musical number on “The View,” MAY 14.

Vanessa Williams returns to co-host, live, MAY 13. Ms. Williams will also be joined by her on-stage co-star, Barbara Cook, for a musical performance from Broadway’s “Sondheim on Sondheim.”

Scheduled guests for the week of May 10-14 are as follows (subject to change):

MONDAY, MAY 10 – Budget Week begins with affordable fashions from Century 21; Day of “Hot Topics”; Tere Jo Duperrault (author, Alone).

TUESDAY, MAY 11 – Budget Week continues with affordable fashions from Daffy’s; Evangeline Lilly (ABC’s “Lost”); the real price of raising a child is examined in a new installment of “Bank on ‘The View'”

WEDNESDAY, MAY 12 – Budget Week continues with fashions from Old Navy; Bill O’Reilly (“The O’Reilly Factor”); Jay Mohr (author, No Wonder My Parents Drank).

THURSDAY, MAY 13 – Budget Week continues with fashions from Burlington Coat Factory; celebrity guest co-host Vanessa Williams; LL Cool J (author, LL Cool J’s Platinum 360 Diet and Lifestyle); James Pickens, Jr. (ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy”); a musical performance from Vanessa Williams and Barbara Cook (Broadway’s “Sondheim on Sondheim”).

FRIDAY, MAY 14 – Budget Week concludes with clothes from Kohl’s; Marcia Cross (ABC’s “Desperate Housewives”); Vijay Vad (“Stop the Pain”); a performance from “One Life to Live’s” much anticipated musical, “Star X’d Lovers: The Musical.”

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