Broadway Friday

-Neil Patrick Harris will be among 30 celebrities to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Other honorees: Joe Mantegna, Gwyneth Paltrow, Donald Sutherland, Penelope Cruz, Bruce Dern, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, The Muppets, Kenny Ortega, Ridley Scott, Sissy Spacek, Reese Witherspoon, Danny DeVito, Tina Fey, Simon Fuller, John Langley, Ed O’Neill, John Wells, Oprah Winfrey, Melissa Etheridge, Los Tigres Del Norte, Rascal Flatts, Go-Go’s, Slash, Will i. Am, and Bebe & Cece Winans. Whew!

-GLAAD will host an evening at the Tony winning revival of La Cage Aux Folles on June 24th. Tickets are almost half-off with 10% of sales going to GLAAD.

-Finally? Rehearsals for the long-delayed Spider-Man: The Musical are said to be starting on August 10th. The show is said to be the most expensive in Broadway history.

-The Tony Awards will need a new home next year after 13 years at Radio City. Under consideration: the Apollo, the Beacon, and Madison Square Garden. Too small, too small, and way too big. Where’s the Goldilocks house?

-The 2010 cast of Broadway Bares is releasing a CD from the show titled Openings. Get it here. Performers include Jane Krakowski, Tituss Burgess, Euan Morton, Mo Rocca, Christopher Sieber, and many others. Great CD review here. Broadway Bares XX: Stripopoly takes place this Sunday at the Roseland Ballroom. I’ll be at the extra-raunchy midnight show!

-Broadway legends Elaine Strich and Bernadette Peters will replace Angela Lansbury and Catherine Zeta-Jones (respectively, of course) when Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music resumes on July 13th. The show with the current cast concludes this Sunday.