New Stage Collective plans to ring in the 2008-2009 season with a “New Stage in the City/Sex and the City” Subscription Kickoff Party “with a swanky party that worthy of Carrie Bradshaw!” promises artistic director Alan Patrick Kenny.

Mark May 16 on your calendar, when Below Zero Lounge (12th & Walnut St., Over-the-Rhine) will be stirring up cosmos from 8 to 11 p.m.

There will be a raffle including “Sex in the City” (The Movie) swag and swag, Sarah Jessica Parker Lancome make-up gifts and other stuff, but it’s the entertainment line-up that looks really fine.

Special guests include Richard Oberacker, Patricia Linhart, Amy Warner, Charlie Clark, Sherman Fracher, Steven Milloy, Alan Patrick Kenny, cast members of NSC’s upcoming “Jerry Springer: The Opera,” and more.

We hear Kenny talked Mahogany Scott, headed into town for the May 19 Acclaim Awards into coming in early to show off the fine voice we heard in “Caroline, or Change” last autumn.

Jackie Demaline