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BroadwayWorld TV http://broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-TV-Special-2012-Tony-Nominees-Jordan-Roth-on-the-Hysterical-and-Provocative-CLYBOURNE-PARK-20120528 http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/7520037445CA9-9CF1-3CFB-DBF961B5317C69D7.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-TV-Special-2012-Tony-Nominees-Jordan-Roth-on-the-Hysterical-and-Provocative-CLYBOURNE-PARK-20120528 Mon, 28 May 2012 09:37:29 EST BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was thrilled to sit down and speak with nearly all of this year's Tony Award nominees at the official Tony Brunch on May 2, 2012, and we will be bringing you special coverage on all of them throughout the awards season. Today we bring you Jon Robin Baitz, nominee for Best Play for writing Other Desert Cities. BroadwayWorld TV http://broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-TV-Special-2012-Tony-Nominees-Jon-Robin-Baitz-on-Being-Invited-to-the-Tonys-Party-20120528 http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/7520033B46409-E8B0-3B26-D937414B5BA41A82.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-TV-Special-2012-Tony-Nominees-Jon-Robin-Baitz-on-Being-Invited-to-the-Tonys-Party-20120528 Mon, 28 May 2012 09:37:24 EST BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was thrilled to sit down and speak with nearly all of this year's Tony Award nominees at the official Tony Brunch on May 2, 2012, and we will be bringing you special coverage on all of them throughout the awards season. Today we bring you George Tsypin, nominee for Best Scenic Design for Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark. BroadwayWorld TV http://broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-TV-Special-2012-Tony-Nominees-George-Tsypin-on-His-Comic-Inspiration-for-SPIDER-MAN-20120528 http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/751336643518.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-TV-Special-2012-Tony-Nominees-George-Tsypin-on-His-Comic-Inspiration-for-SPIDER-MAN-20120528 Mon, 28 May 2012 09:37:15 EST Cynthia Nixon and Christine Marinoni got married in New York this Sunday, May 27, three years after their enguagement. BWW News Desk http://broadwayworld.com/article/Cynthia-Nixon-and-Christine-Marinoni-Marry-20120528 http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/7520093917B2C-D4CB-64A9-103C7559CC2F3E89.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/Cynthia-Nixon-and-Christine-Marinoni-Marry-20120528 Mon, 28 May 2012 09:12:05 EST Check out performances from the casts of MEMPHIS, GODSPELL, and ROCK OF AGES below BroadwayWorld TV http://broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-TV-Broadway-Salutes-the-Troops-at-Fleet-Week--Part-3-GODSPELL-MEMPHIS-and-More-20120528 http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/75200864C8F24-0A52-86A5-5A0B929FDAE4EBB0.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-TV-Broadway-Salutes-the-Troops-at-Fleet-Week--Part-3-GODSPELL-MEMPHIS-and-More-20120528 Mon, 28 May 2012 09:00:51 EST Yesterday in the 2012 Tony Awards Clip Countdown - a look at the finest moments in theatre history as shown on the Tony Awards telecasts over the last sixty years - we focused on the 1982 Best Musical winner, NINE. While Tommy Tunes Fellini-inspired fever dream won the big prize, Michael Bennetts innovative and visionary RampB pop opera DREAMGIRLS won many of the nights most significant awards and has certainly firmly established itself as a firmament of the history of the modern musical in the intervening years. Among the prizes won by the DREAMGIRLS cast and creative team Best Actress for Jennifer Holliday, as well as wins in the Featured Actor In A Musical category, Best Book for Tom Eyen and wins in the technical categories for the unprecedented, hi-tech design. Pat Cerasaro http://broadwayworld.com/article/2012-Tony-Awards-Clip-Countdown-Day-17-DREAMGIRLS-20120528 http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/752008C099517-0D87-76C1-61BEDBF628E97AD2.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/2012-Tony-Awards-Clip-Countdown-Day-17-DREAMGIRLS-20120528 Mon, 28 May 2012 08:54:27 EST Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 28 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events http://broadwayworld.com/article/BWWs-On-This-Day-May-28-2012-20120528 http://images.broadwayworld.com/bway1920.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/BWWs-On-This-Day-May-28-2012-20120528 Mon, 28 May 2012 07:00:00 EST Twelve year old Harrison Dowzell from Nottinghamshire has become the thirtieth boy to play the title role of Billy Elliot in the West End. Check out the production photographs of Dowzell in action below. BWW News Desk http://broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Flash-First-Look-at-Harrison-Dowzell-as-BILLY-ELLIOT-20120528 http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/752009301022C-0467-8D38-B244A1A69CC827A0.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Flash-First-Look-at-Harrison-Dowzell-as-BILLY-ELLIOT-20120528 Mon, 28 May 2012 06:33:24 EST Jim Parsons, who is starring in the Broadway production of Harvey, will appear on ABCs Live with Kelly today, May 28th between 900AM-1000AM on channel 7. BWW News Desk http://broadwayworld.com/article/HARVEYs-Jim-Parsons-to-be-Featured-on-LIVE-With-Kelly-528-20120527 http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/75200806E5B10-0B89-9AA7-E52F6B2CAE9DADCD.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/HARVEYs-Jim-Parsons-to-be-Featured-on-LIVE-With-Kelly-528-20120527 Mon, 28 May 2012 02:00:00 EST Kingsley Leggs, currently performing in Sister Act on Broadway, appears in Take Me Back - an unplugged Just a Piano Concert at The Triad Theater, 158 West 72nd Street, tonight, May 28th, 2012 at 930pm. The evening will feature Jeff Waxman on piano with special guest Tony Winner LaChanze, with whom Mr. Leggs shared the Broadway stage in The Color Purple. BWW News Desk http://broadwayworld.com/article/SISTER-ACTs-Kingsley-Leggs-Feat-LaChanze-Comes-to-NYCs-Triad-Theater-528-20120527 http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/7520085CFBADC-B5B7-C517-789063FD22766010.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/SISTER-ACTs-Kingsley-Leggs-Feat-LaChanze-Comes-to-NYCs-Triad-Theater-528-20120527 Mon, 28 May 2012 02:00:00 EST YouTube sensation, chanteuse and high-end vocal coach Miranda Sings is making her ninth concert appearance at Birdland tonight, May 28 at 7pm. This event is part of the Broadway at Birdland concert series, which showcases performers and composers from the Great White Way and environs. BWW News Desk http://broadwayworld.com/article/Miranda-Sings-Returns-to-Birdland-With-Adam-Pascal-and-Seth-Rudetsky-528-20120527 http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/75200C60F529D-CD0B-84F1-9E994228C50747DA.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/Miranda-Sings-Returns-to-Birdland-With-Adam-Pascal-and-Seth-Rudetsky-528-20120527 Mon, 28 May 2012 01:30:00 EST Hottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from this weekend Sunday, May 27, 2012 - Sunday, May 27, 2012. http://broadwayworld.com/article/Top-Stories-You-Missed-on-BWW-This-Weekend-20120527 http://images.broadwayworld.com/columnpic/hotnews.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/Top-Stories-You-Missed-on-BWW-This-Weekend-20120527 Sun, 27 May 2012 23:45:00 EST Ana Gasteyer, from SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and SUBURGATORY and Brian d'Arcy James from the new hit series SMASH performed to a sold-out crowd last night, May 26, at Bay Street Theatre. Gasteyer and James mingled with the crowd, including actress Blythe Danner, at the post-show VIP soiree. Among the evenings attendees, Board Chairman Frank Filipo, Board Member Jane Holden as well as Hamptonites Bruce Sloan and Sal amp Mary Lou Ranieri and Matt McGrath, a Bay Street Theatre Artistic Associate and the director of the upcoming Mainstage production of Polly Draper in MY BRILLIANT DIVORCE, by Geraldine Aron. See below for photos from the after-party BWW News Desk http://broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Flash-Ana-Gasteyer-and-Brian-DArcy-James-at-Bay-Street-Theatre-20120527 http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/75200903627C8-CAFF-BF78-70CEBAA65EEE4B87.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Flash-Ana-Gasteyer-and-Brian-DArcy-James-at-Bay-Street-Theatre-20120527 Sun, 27 May 2012 17:35:16 EST Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the nation's top acting talents known for playing extremely varied roles in film and on stage, including Truman Capote, which earned him an Oscar, and Father Brendan Flynn in Doubt, which earned him an Oscar nomination, speaks with Mo Rocca about his Tony Award-nominated performance as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman on Broadway. Stage Tube http://broadwayworld.com/article/STAGE-TUBE-Philip-Seymour-Hoffman-Talks-DEATH-OF-A-SALESMAN-20120527 http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/7520090245209-AEE6-11F5-944680EDD11159F1.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/STAGE-TUBE-Philip-Seymour-Hoffman-Talks-DEATH-OF-A-SALESMAN-20120527 Sun, 27 May 2012 17:20:56 EST Voting opened on May 3, 2012 and runs through June 4, 2012 for the 10th Annual BroadwayWorld.com Awards Here are the current standings as of 527 with just 7 days to go in voting BWW Special Coverage http://broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-Awards-Update-527-7-Days-to-Go-20120527 http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/752000467438B-D98E-9F98-9EE69C8E67238DA7.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-Awards-Update-527-7-Days-to-Go-20120527 Sun, 27 May 2012 16:11:53 EST In celebration of Bring It On The Musical getting its marquee this week, Spencer Howard of TripKnowledgy The Science of Suitcase Living, interviewed cast members of the Bring It On tour about their favorite parts of being on the road. Hear what Taylor Louderman, Elle McLemore, Ryann Redmond, Michael Mindlin, and Neil Haskell have to say in the video below Stage Tube http://broadwayworld.com/article/STAGE-TUBE-Cast-of-BRING-IT-ON-Tour-Talks-Being-On-the-Road-20120527 http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/752008EE49509-E256-2047-63F9600CBE4F158A.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/STAGE-TUBE-Cast-of-BRING-IT-ON-Tour-Talks-Being-On-the-Road-20120527 Sun, 27 May 2012 11:28:53 EST On Twitter Watch, Annette O'Toole wrote of Michael McKean Surgery went great. He took 4 steps just now. Sitting in chair. Very good attitude. Sends his love. BWW http://broadwayworld.com/article/Twitter-Watch-Annette-OToole-Michael-McKeans-Surgery-Went-Great-20120527 http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/752008EA876BC-9EBF-A42E-9E8FCBADDC0B6B23.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/Twitter-Watch-Annette-OToole-Michael-McKeans-Surgery-Went-Great-20120527 Sun, 27 May 2012 10:25:05 EST Today we are continuing our 30-day Tony Awards countdown - ending, of course, on the 2012 Tony Awards, June 10 - with a salute to a Tony-winning Best Musical directed and choreographed by the one and only Tommy Tune and composed by Maury Yeston - NINE. Based on Federico Fellinis 8 , NINE is a surrealistic concept musical that concerns itself with the mid-life crisis of a glamorous Italian film director and the many, many women in his life - his wife, his mother, his mistress, his muse, his agent and many, many more. Pat Cerasaro http://broadwayworld.com/article/2012-Tony-Awards-Clip-Countdown-Day-16-NINE-Is-A-10-Twice-20120527 http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/752008AE2390E-9165-2F43-DF5963468DF4EA9F.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/2012-Tony-Awards-Clip-Countdown-Day-16-NINE-Is-A-10-Twice-20120527 Sun, 27 May 2012 09:35:50 EST Today, as a sideline to this weekends extensive, exhaustive and exclusive InDepth InterView Tony Awards Edition Jeff Calhoun, we are shining a special spotlight on the career of Calhoun on the Great White Way thus far with an electrifying collection of clips beginning with his collaborations with master directorchoreographer Tommy Tune on THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES - todays 2012 Tony Awards Clip Countdown dedicatee - and BUSKER ALLEY, through to his directorial debut with GREASE and his subsequent work on ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, BELLS ARE RINGING, TABOO, GREY GARDENS, BIG RIVER, NINE-TO-FIVE and this years twofer of new musicals that he directed and choreographed, the recently-closed BONNIE amp CLYDE and the still-running mega-hit NEWSIES. As a performer, Calhoun appeared in Tune productions like MY ONE AND ONLY and THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS - as well as the montage film ARIA - but, unquestionably, he is most well-known and best-loved by Broadway babies for his visionary work on so many new and original musicals, as well as some stupendous revivals along the way, as well. Cowboys to call girls to Pink Ladies Boy George to Huck Finn to Edie Beale - this collection has it all Pat Cerasaro http://broadwayworld.com/article/FLASH-SPECIAL-A-Jeff-Calhoun-Celebration-From-GREASE-to-NEWSIES-20120527 http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/752008601973D-DB3F-BAC3-1A8E1C12D86B80FA.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/FLASH-SPECIAL-A-Jeff-Calhoun-Celebration-From-GREASE-to-NEWSIES-20120527 Sun, 27 May 2012 09:35:35 EST The Intrepid Sea, Air amp Space Museum, along with the City of New York and the United States Navy, this week celebrated the 25th annual Fleet Week, to be held through May 28, 2012. Fleet Week is Americas premier tribute and thank you to the men and women who serve in the armed forces, and BroadwayWorld was there this afternoon for a special tribute to the troops from Broadway.Check out performances from the casts of ANYTHING GOES, PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, and PORGY AND BESS below BroadwayWorld TV http://broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-TV-Broadway-Salutes-the-Troops-at-Fleet-Week--Part-2-PORGY-BESS-ANYTHING-GOES-and-More-20120527 http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/75200861F6CE6-9B9F-81B8-1A8AEB48FFE61D24.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-TV-Broadway-Salutes-the-Troops-at-Fleet-Week--Part-2-PORGY-BESS-ANYTHING-GOES-and-More-20120527 Sun, 27 May 2012 09:00:51 EST Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on May 27 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events http://broadwayworld.com/article/BWWs-On-This-Day-May-27-2012-20120527 http://images.broadwayworld.com/bway1920.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/BWWs-On-This-Day-May-27-2012-20120527 Sun, 27 May 2012 07:00:00 EST On the eve of Memorial Day, a star-studded line-up will grace the stage for one of PBS' highest-rated programs, the NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT. The program is co-hosted for the seventh year by Tony Award-winner Joe Mantegna CRIMINAL MINDS and Emmy Award-winner Gary Sinise CSINEW YORK BWW News Desk http://broadwayworld.com/article/Joe-Mantegna-Gary-Sinise-to-Host-PBSs-NATIONAL-MEMORIAL-DAY-CONCERT-527-20120526 http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/75200CB77E585-A147-6CBE-47FD59370C0704B5.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/Joe-Mantegna-Gary-Sinise-to-Host-PBSs-NATIONAL-MEMORIAL-DAY-CONCERT-527-20120526 Sun, 27 May 2012 01:30:00 EST Broadway Cleans House, a yard sale featuring items from Broadway performers, takes place today, Sunday, from 10 am to 6 pm at Pearl Studios in New York City. Organized by Kate Shindle Wonderland, Legally Blonde, Cabaret, Jekyll amp Hyde, the sale will feature donations and sale items from cast members of Godspell, The Addams Family, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, A Chorus Line, and many others. Expect to find one-of-a-kind opening night presents and show relics, along with clothes, books and furniture BWW News Desk http://broadwayworld.com/article/BROADWAY-CLEANS-HOUSE-Yard-Sale-to-Benefit-Humane-Society-527-20120526 http://images.bwwstatic.com/columnpic5/752008543B2A9-9462-060C-F27716C9C69F3E07.jpg http://broadwayworld.com/article/BROADWAY-CLEANS-HOUSE-Yard-Sale-to-Benefit-Humane-Society-527-20120526 Sun, 27 May 2012 01:30:00 EST BroadwayWorld.com's Upcoming Events calendar for the week - updated on 5262012. http://broadwayworld.com/article/Coming-Up-This-Week-in-Theatre-5262012-20120526 http://broadwayworld.com/article/Coming-Up-This-Week-in-Theatre-5262012-20120526 Sat, 26 May 2012 22:30:00 EST