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Broadway Friday

—Barack Obama, the musical. Yup. Via Playbill: “Celebrating the election and inauguration of America’s first black president, Obama On My Mind takes a humorous look at the weird and wonderful world behind the scenes of a small Obama campaign office and the larger than life characters who make the wheels turn, the cogs whirr and bring in the votes. Pop, …

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Broadway Friday

– The revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo begins previews tonight at the Belasco Theater. Leads: John Leguizamo and Cedric The Entertainer. -It’s her party. Leslie Gore performs tonight at Metropolitan Museum in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium. Tickets $50. -Addams Family: The Musical will stage its world premier in Chicago in the fall of 2009 before its Broadway debut. …

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Broadway Friday

-Hail Xenu. The revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons opens tonight starring Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow, and Mrs. Tom Cruise. Will Anonymous be protesting outside? -Tony winners Bill Irwin and Nathan Lane will star in a revival of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot. Previews begin April 10th at Studio 54. Anthony Page will direct. -Liza Minneli is negotiating a …

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Broadway Friday

-Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, a superstar-laden joint benefit for the Elton John Foundation and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will take place at the New Amsterdam on October 20th. Performing: Elton John, John Cameron Mitchell, Jane Krakowski, Joey Arias, Jake Shears, Rufus Wainwright, Ben Folds Five, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sherie Rene Scott, and many others. Tickets $250-$2,500. -One night only: Auditions for …

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Broadway Friday

– Creepy, kooky, ooky. Workshops for The Addams Family: The Musical begin in January. Music by openly gay (and gay married) composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa (left), book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth have done a rehearsal as Gomez and Morticia. The show is an “original musical” and will not draw upon the TV or movie …

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Broadway Friday

–This should be good: Cry-Baby writers David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger have penned songs for Stephen Colbert’s A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! The Nov. 23 Christmas special, which will air Nov. 23 at 10 PM ET/PT on Comedy Central, features special guests Jon Stewart, Feist, Elvis Costello, John Legend, Willie Nelson and Toby Keith. A DVD of …

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Broadway Friday

-Marni Raab takes over for Jennifer Hope Wills as Christine in Phantom Of The Opera, beginning August 20th. Wills is going on maternity leave and is expected to return to the show next June. – Casting has been announced for 13, A New Musical, set to begin previews on September 16th. The show tells the story of a 13 year-old …

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Broadway Friday

– The screenplay for Hairspray 2 will be written by John Waters. “Also set to return are director/choreographer Adam Shankman, the song-writing team of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, and producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.” The first Hairspray: The Musical grossed over $200M and the sequel is set to open in July 2010. But somebody also thought Grease 2 …

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Broadway Friday

– 9 to 5: The Musical will begin Broadway previews March 24, 2009, at the Marriott Marquis Theatre following a Sept. 3-Oct. 19 tryout at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. Joe Mantello directs a cast that includes Stephanie J. Block, Megan Hilty, Allison Janney and Marc Kudisch. – Whoopi Goldberg joins the cast of Xanadu on July 29th for …

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Broadway Friday

– The revival of Godspell opens at the Barrymore on October 23rd with previews beginning on September 29th. Tony nominee Gavin Creel will star, David Goldstein will direct. – Passing Strange closes on July 20th after a five month run. – Bryant Park’s summer program of free lunchtime Broadway performances kicked off yesterday. For the next five Thursdays you can …

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Broadway Friday

– Critics are predicting that next month’s opening of All My Sons starring Katie Holmes will be a major flop. Advance sales have been abysmal. The cast includes John Lithgow and Dianne Wiest. – Spike Lee will film Tony winner Passing Strange over several performances later this month for release as a feature film. The movie will likely air on …

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Broadway Friday

– Brooklynites no longer have to schlep to Times Square for discount theatre tickets. The Theatre Development Fund has opened a TKTS booth above the Jay Street-Borough Hall subway stop on A,C,F lines. – The usual post-Tony Awards fallout: Cry-Baby will close on June 22 after ony 45 previews and 68 performances. A Catered Affair will close on July 27th …

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Broadway Friday

– Over “200 of Broadway’s hottest bodies” will be on display when the 18th annual installment of Broadway Bares takes place Sunday, June 22nd at the Roseland Ballroom. Benefitting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, this year’s show stars Cheyenne Jackson, Nathan Lane, Andrea Martin, Matthew Morrison, NateKid, AntiGravity, and the Living Art of Armando. Showtimes 9:30pm and midnight. Tickets $55 – …

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Broadway Friday

– Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s musical Bounce will play the Public Theatre from Oct. 28 – Nov.30th, with a possible extension through the end of the year. Tony winner John Doyle will direct. – A new movie version of Lerner & Lowe’s My Fair Lady is coming from Columbia Pictures. Keira Knightley is in talks to star. – Via …

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Broadway Friday

-American Idol winner Taylor Hicks will succeed Stephen Buntrock as Teen Angel in Grease, beginning next month. Hicks is slated to be with the show until September 7th. Hicks: “The Soul Patrol’s gonna invade Broadway!” Ugh. -BASH’d, a “gay rap opera” will be an official event of NYC’s Heritage of Pride, kicking off June 12th at Off-Broadway’s Zipper Theatre. “BASH’d …

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Broadway Friday

– Glory Days closed on opening night, May 6th, after 17 previews. The last Broadway show to close on opening night was 2003’s The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. Glory Days received “kind but dismissive reviews that largely sought to protect and encourage its 24-year-old librettist James Gardiner and 23-year-old songwriter Nick Blaemire.” – Curtis Holbrook [right] will step …

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Broadway Friday

– The Second Annual Broadway Beauty Pageant saw five musical theater hunks compete as the show raised $10,000 for the Ali Forney Center, NYC’s homeless shelter for LGBT youth. The winner: Xanadu’s Marty Thomas, who reportedly performed the showstopper of the evening, a take on Tina Turner titled Proud Marty. – Kiss Of The Spider Woman returns to Broadway in …

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Broadway Friday

– On April 28th, Xanadu star Cheyenne Jackson will host Live Out Loud’s 7th Annual Gala, a benefit dedicated to empowering LGBT youth. Hundreds of community leaders will be on hand as scholarships are awarded to four high school seniors who have “demonstrated outstanding leadership skills.” Tickets start at $85. – The Catered Affair, starring Harvey Fierstein, is getting generally …

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Broadway Friday

– Meta-musical [title of show] begins previews at the Lyceum on July 5th, with the opening set for July 17th. The entire original Off Broadway cast will appear. – Off Broadway: Experimental art group 3 Legged Dog will present the world premiere of Charles Mee’s Fire Island at the 3LD Art & Technology Center in the West Village beginning April …

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Broadway Friday

– In an all-star fundraiser on May 18th at Town Hall, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS will present a one-time performance of Pamela’s First Musical, a new work by Tony winners Cy Coleman and David Zipper. Direction is by Tony winner Graciela Daniele, book by Tony winner Wendy Wasserstein. Cast: Donna Murphy, Lynn Ahrens, Christian Borle, Carolee Carmello, Sandy Duncan, Gregg …

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