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Featuring my favorite Broadway star, Sutton Foster. Plus Patti Lupone, Glenn Close, Audra McDonald and lots of others.(Via – Evan Hurst)

Mike Myers is turning the Austin Powers franchise into a Broadway musical. At this stage it is thought that he will not actually star in the musical, but is simply developing it with The Book Of Mormon co-director Casey Nicholaw. The musical will tell the tale of how the buck-toothed spy got his mojo, and will be set to the …

Courtesy of the Karpel Group, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is the 50th anniversary Blu-ray reissue of the musical classic, West Side Story, which is available online and at music/video retailers beginning today. Five decades after its historic debut, a timeless classic returns to dazzle audiences young and old. Based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, the iconic …

Hugh Jackman’s latest Broadway show officially opened last night and the reviewers are gushing. Even the New York Times’ Ben Brantley is swept away: The impossibly talented, impossibly energetic Mr. Jackman is a glorious dinosaur among live entertainers of the 21st century: an honest-to-gosh old-fashioned matinee idol who connects to his audiences without a hint of contempt for them or …

Rather hypnotic, isn’t it?

Hugh Jackman will reprise numbers from his Tony-winning turn in Boy From Oz when his solo show Back On Broadway debuts on November 10th. The show’s limited run ends on January 1st.

Towleroad reports that Maggie Gallagher was spotted in the balcony of last night’s celebrity reading of the new play about Proposition 8. Andy Towle: So what could Gallagher have hoped to glean from her perch in the balcony? Perhaps she was finally enlightened last night, that her mission is flawed and hateful, that it is futile, that what she has …

I’m told that tickets are still available for tonight’s all-star celebrity reading of Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black’s play about Proposition 8. Online sales have closed out, but my source says rush tickets will be selling at the box office until 7pm.

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Topics include the new Broadway show about Prop 8 and the continuing battle against North Carolina’s anti-gay marriage amendment.

Savage and Olbermann ran into each other at a performance of The Book Of Mormon and this web-only interview resulted.

Last night Father Tony and I attended the 21st annual edition of Broadway Bares, the bawdy and deliciously raunchy fundraiser by Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS in which dozens of buff chorus boys and girls writhe and expose it all to the delight of several thousand gay men. See Tony’s possibly NSFW slideshow here. Among last night performers were …

Watch this now, it’ll get yanked from YouTube.

Despite host Neil Patrick Harris’ fantastic opening number which promised that “Broadway isn’t just for gays anymore,” tonight’s Tony Awards were extra super gay with lots of gay on the side. Not only did Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart win three awards, the show featured Martha Wash performing It’s Raining Men, and there was a lot of thanking of same-sex …

JMG reader Evan tips us that NPR is streaming the cast recording of The Book Of Mormon, which garnered 14 Tony nominations last week. Today only, folks.

Openly gay Broadway legend Arthur Laurents has died at the age of 93. Theater Mania reports: Laurents was best known for his collaborations with Stephen Sondheim, including writing the books for West Side Story and Gypsy (earning Tony nominations for both), Anyone Can Whistle, and Do I Hear a Waltz. Early in his career, Laurents wrote such plays as Home …