Jasmine Guy is headed to Alabama.Jasmine Guy, whose career has included notable stints on TV series such as “A Different World” and “The Vampire Diaries,” will be coming to Montgomery’s Alabama Shakespeare Festival in September to star in a world-premiere musical.

Guy has joined the cast of Pearl Cleage’s “The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One-Hundred Years.” The world premiere takes place at ASF Sept. 24-Oct. 3 before moving on to Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre Oct. 20-Nov. 14.

Tickets for the show go on sale Thursday at www.asf.net or by calling 800-841-4273.

Set in Montgomery, Cleage’s show is described by ASF as a “joyous and irreverent romp through black debutante society.” Guy will play a New York Times society reporter.

Guy is no stranger to musicals. She has appeared on Broadway in “The Wiz,” Leader of the Pack,” “Grease!” and “Chicago.”

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Sara Canning has her pick of hot dudes on the set of “The Vampire Diaries” (Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder, Zach Roerig… do we need to go on?), but the 22-year-old actress, who plays Elena and Jeremy’s Aunt Jenna on the show (we know! She’s so young!), told Betty Confidential that she wouldn’t actually date any of them. “The guys are nice, smart, and easy on the eyes, but they’re family to me,” she said.

She couldn’t even decide on which fictional man she’d choose, instead opting for a fusion of several. “In reality, I definitely go for a guy who is driven and has a good soul, but is also funny and bold,” Sara said. “And he’s gotta be able to keep me on my toes and challenge me. Doesn’t that sound like a mixture of Matt, Stefan, and Damon?”

On the show, Sara’s character, Jenna, is dating history teacher Alaric, played by Matt Davis, whom Sara said she gets along with well. “Matt’s so fun to work with,” she said, “a total goof with a big heart. We have the same sense of humor, and he keeps me laughing all the time on set.”

The cast members laugh together off-set too. Sara echoed what we’ve heard previously from “VD” stars Katerina Graham and Steven McQueen — that the cast really does like to spend their free time together. “We love to hang out as a cast, but we typically keep things low-key. Unless we’re all flying to Vegas to celebrate Nina’s 21st birthday. But if we’re all here [in Atlanta] on a weekend, we’ll go out to dinner and play pool. Last summer we spent a lot of time at a lake, tubing and jet skiing. We’re all adventurous, but very laid-back.”

The cast gets along so well, in fact, that some of them live together. Sara said she and Nina Dobrev are roomies, and they get along great. “Nina is such a great roommate. We have our own bathrooms, so it’s never an issue if one of us wants to take a long shower. And we both make grocery trips whenever we have time, and just share everything. We’re both really easy-going. We try to help each other stay healthy, but I usually cave and bring chocolate into the apartment.”

If you had to pick one of the many men of “VD” to date, could you choose?

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Vampire Diaries: The Return: Shadow Souls

Canadian actress Sara Canning is best known for her role as Jenna Sommers on The CW’s freshman TV drama The Vampire Diaries. As the young aunt and new guardian of Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev) and her brother Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen), the 20-something who was always the cool, fun one, now finds the transition to responsible authority figure to be a bit of a challenge.

The show, which follows the relationship between the human Elena, her vampire boyfriend Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley) and his brother Damon (Ian Somerhalder), premiered to the highest ratings in the network’s history and has since gone on to win the 2010 People’s Choice Award for Favorite New TV Drama.

In this exclusive interview with IESB, Sara Canning talked about the wild ride she’s been on with the successful new series and how she can’t wait to see where Season 2 will take them.

IESB: How did you become an actor? Was it just something you always wanted to do?

Sara: There is someone who played a big part in it. When I was 12, I was in a drama class in my junior high school and I auditioned for a play. We would use our after-school time and we were putting on this production, and I just had this really awesome teacher who was into the more quirky sides of theater. He would go into the dark side of Shakespeare, and that kind of stuff. So, I think he really influenced me, just wanting to be a performer and becoming really interested in theater, and then that developed into an interest in film and television, later on.

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f you were evil vampire Damon Salvatore and you just found out that the woman you love hadn’t been trapped in a tomb for the past 200 years as you had previously thought but was instead free and totally able to reconnect with you at any time during those two centuries (just go with it), how would you handle it? I personally would’ve gone on a killing spree, but I guess drowning your sorrows in booze and women like Damon did on last night’s episode of “The Vampire Diaries” is a viable alternative.

Damon handled the news of Katherine’s safety remarkably well (for him) by drinking lots of scotch and having a vampire orgy with some college girls in lingerie, compelling them to let him bite them and presumably have sex (though we hope he didn’t have to compel them to do that — Damon is no legit sexual predator), then returning them to their dorm rooms. Whatever works, right?

Elsewhere in Mystic Falls, Elena, with the help of Aunt Jenna, finally put two and two together and figured out that Alaric’s wife, Isobel, was her birth mother. Naturally the only thing to do then was to visit Isobel’s best friend from high school to learn more about her mother. Said friend turned out to be in league with some sort of evil force and wasn’t very forthcoming with details. She texted a mysterious man who showed up and looked evilly at Elena, who then escaped, before he went inside and killed the friend.

Stefan had this weird thing I didn’t totally understand where he would only tell Alaric, Damon, and Elena parts of the story about Isobel, which clearly backfired. Damon found out Alaric knew he had killed Isobel, so he admitted it in front of the entire town during the bachelor auction (again, go with it), thus indirectly telling Elena, too. Afterward, when Elena told Damon that Isobel was her birth mother, he finally looked like he actually cared (knew it!) and even looked a little repentant. There’s hope for the guy after all.

Though, as it turns out, Damon didn’t kill Isobel. He turned her into a vampire. (Also turns out that the creepy guy stalking Elena had been compelled to tell her to stop looking for Isobel, who didn’t want to know her. Then he stepped in front of a bus.) When Alaric confronted Damon about it at Salvatore Manor, Damon responded logically by stabbing Alaric in the chest and watching him die. …Or so we thought! Silly, this is “Vampire Diaries.” Anything can happen.

Stefan was left to deal with Alaric’s body, which promptly came back to life. But it wasn’t because Alaric had vampire blood in his system — it was because he was wearing a ring his wife had made him promise to never take off. Bless that secret vampire jewelry and its mysterious powers.

Other good things about this episode: JULIE COOPER! Melinda Clarke made her first appearance as Matt’s mom. She was fantastic. We hope she never leaves. Bad things about this episode: No Jeremy! And no Anna until the very end, when the other vampire who escaped from the tomb found Pearl and Anna hiding out in the home of a human they presumably compelled. Drama!

For those of you who didn’t catch the special phone number we were told to pay attention to, it was 919-399-2507 (a Raleigh, NC number, so perhaps that suggests Isobel ventured back to her Duke stomping grounds?). The message, read by Ian Somerhalder (we think!), says, “For those of you who are on Team Stefan, you should know he isn’t as perfect as you think. Just ask him what happened after he turned into a vampire in 1864. And for those of you who are Team Damon, ask him what he’s done since that time. He never looks back at the people he’s killed, the lives he’s ruined. But eventually the storm hits, and it all catches up to him.”

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