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Broadway Friday

Casting has been announced for Broadway Backwards 5, the fantastic annual Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS show in which performers sing songs written for the opposite sex. Appearing this year: Nick Adams, Martine Allard, Gary Beach, Dan Butler, Tituss Burgess, Mario Cantone, Len Cariou, Raúl Esparza, Harvey Evans, Tony Goldwyn, Ann Haarda, Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, Aaron Lazar, Michele Lee, …

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Broadway Friday

– Lady Bunny and former Detroit Tigers pitcher Matthew Pender open Off Broadway tonight in When Joey Married Bobby, “a tale about gay marriage in an ultra conservative household.” Get tickets here. – David Mamet’s A Life In The Theater will be revived on Broadway this fall. Casting has not been announced. – American Psycho: The Musical is Broadway bound. …

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Broadway Friday

-Mo Rocca will host Miscast 2010, a benefit show featuring Broadway performers singing songs “from roles they would never actually play” at the Hammerstein Ballroom on March 1st. Performing: Raúl Esparza, Sutton Foster, Ana Gasteyer, Montego Glover, Cheyenne Jackson, Aaron Tveit and Marin Mazzie. Sounds a lot like Broadway Backwards, doesn’t it? -Eddie Clendening, Lance Guest, Levi Kreis and Rob …

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Broadway Friday

– Tony nominee and Glee star Matthew Morrison has signed a recording contract with Mercury Records for his first solo album to be released in fall. – The first NYC revival of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels In America opens Off Broadway on September 14th at the Signature Theater. The two parts of the play will be performed on alternating …

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Broadway Friday

– Next month openly gay heartthrob and Torchwood star John Barrowman will release an album of recent Broadway hit songs, including numbers from The Boy From Oz, Dreamgirls, and Mamma Mia. This week Barrowman battled Neil Patrick Harris in an amusing Twitter war over who would be named After Elton’s “Man Of The Decade.” NPH won. – Green Day’s American …

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Broadway Friday

– Valerie Harper will star as Tallulah Bankhead in Looped, a new comedy by Matthew Lombardo. Previews at the Lyceum begin Feb. 19th. “Looped tells the story of Tallulah Bankhead, the internationally celebrated actress, being called into a sound studio in 1965 to re-record (or ‘loop’) one line of dialogue for what would be her last film — the dreadful …

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Broadway Friday

-Rocker Reeve Carney has been named as the title lead for Spider-Man: The Musical. The lavish but troubled $40M production is scheduled to open sometime next year. Music by Bono and the Edge. -Green Day’s American Idiot musical is headed for Broadway after this weekend’s close of its Berkeley debut. No theater or opening date has been announced. -Dame Edna …

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Broadway Friday

-Open lesbian and GLEE star Jane Lynch will appear at the NYC LGBT Center on November 9th. Stage and screen star Jane Lynch will appear at the first installment of Newsmakers at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center (208 West 13th Street) on November 9 at 7pm. The conversation series celebrates important figures in the arts and politics. …

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Broadway Friday

– Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner will receive the Courage Award from the NYC Anti-Violence Project at an event to be held November 9th. Get tickets here. The evening will include cocktails, a chefs’ tasting, and a program featuring the award presentation. Honorees will also include Clifford Chance US LLP, and Weblog creators Bil Browning, Joe Jervis, Pam Spaulding and …

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Broadway Friday

– Starpower: Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman delivered record-setting opening week receipts for A Steady Rain. The show grossed $1.1M, a new plateau for a non-musical production. Could it be the $376 “premium seating”? – Superior Donuts, a new play by Tracy Letts, opened to rave reviews at the Music Box last night. Micheal McKean stars. – Cheyenne Jackson is …

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Broadway Friday

-Next Fall, playwright Geoffery Nauffts’ “exploration of faith in a modern gay relationship” moves to Broadway in the spring. Previews begin at the Helen Hayes in mid-February. The show got rave reviews in its Off Broadway run earlier this year, where it was extended three times. You probably recognize Nauffts from his numerous Law & Order bad guy appearances. -Costumes …

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Broadway Friday

– Matthew Broderick will star in Kenneth Lonergan’s new play The Starry Messenger, set to have its world premiere on October 24th at Theatre Row. – The Broadway Cabaret Festival opens at Town Hall on October 16th with A Tribute To David Merrick, the producer who brought Gypsy, Oliver!, Hello Dolly! and 42nd Street to Broadway. Robert Cuccioli, Stephen Bogardus, …

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Broadway Friday

– A revival of Angels In America will come to Off Broadway’s Signature Theater next year as part of their year-long tribute to its Pulitzer-winning playwright, Tony Kushner. – World premiere: A musical version of Green Day’s landmark album, American Idiot, has its first preview at the Roda Theater in Berkeley tonight. Get tickets here. – The annual free Broadway …

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Broadway Friday

– Openly gay Tony nominee Gavin Creel has been sidelined from his starring role in Hair due to an onstage ankle injury. – Spike Lee’s documentary of the Tony winning Passing Strange debuts tonight at NYC’s IFC Film Center. Next week the film will be available on demand via Sundance Network. – UGH: Disney is in negotiations to turn the …

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Broadway Friday

– Spider-Man: The Musical, the most expensive spectacular in Broadway history, is in trouble. The NYT reports that opening day has been put on hold and that stars Alan Cumming and Evan Rachel Wood have been released from their contracts. Producers insist the show will open as planned on February 25th once “cash flow problems have been resolved.” – Equity …

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Broadway Friday

– Two-time Tony winner Chita Rivera will receive the Presidential Medal Of Freedom at the White House on August 13th. – Avenue Q celebrates its sixth year on Broadway today. The show closes on September 13th. – Dolly Parton’s 9 To 5: The Musical will close on September 6th after a mere three month run. – The Broadway-bound First Wives …

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Broadway Friday

-Gay funnyman Seth Rudetsky will host the 2009 Broadway Touring Awards on Monday at the Hilton Theater. Liza Minnelli among the presenters.-The limited engagement of Waiting For Godot had its official opening last night at Studio 54 starring Nathan Lane, Bill Irwin, John Goodman and John Glover.-The soundtrack to Big Gay Musical will be released on July 14th.-PBS will broadcast …

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Broadway Friday

– You’ve still got a few days to get tickets to Monday’s gigantic marriage equality fundraiser, Defying Inequality. Appearing: Jane Fonda, Keith Olbermann, Cyndi Lauper, Harvey Fierstein, Nathan Lane, the casts of many hit Broadways shows, and many more. – Will Ferrell’s smash one-man show about Dubya, You’re Welcome America, has recouped its investment in just a couple of weeks. …

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Broadway Friday

Defying Inequality, Broadway’s all-star benefit for marriage equality, plays the Gershwin Theater on Monday, February 23th. Appearing: Nathan Lane, Harvey Fierstein, Matt Alber, David Hyde Pierce, Cyndi Lauper, Judy Gold, Mary Testa, the NYC Gay Men’s Chorus, Alison Janney, Douglas Carter Beane, Lynda Carter (!!!), Gavin Creel, Kerry Butler, and many many more. Among the numbers to be performed will …

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Broadway Friday

— Equus star Daniel Radcliffe had his caricature added to the walls of Sardi’s this week. The show closes on Feb. 8th. — Tom Wopat returns to the cast of Chicago on Feb. 16th. — Drag king stand-up comedian Murray Hill will host his annual Oscars party at Joe’s Pub on Feb.22nd. $15 advance, $20 at the door. — Freebie: …

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