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Courtesy of the show’s promoters, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to the brand new Broadway revival of the legendary La Cage Aux Folles. THIS DEFINITIVE NEW PRODUCTION received glowing reviews in London, where it was honored with the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival. Now, JERRY HERMAN and HARVEY FIERSTEIN’s glittering musical comedy arrives in New York …

The Ali Forney Center’s annual Broadway Beauty Pageant takes place Monday, April 19th at Symphony Space in Manhattan. The Ali Forney Center serves NYC’s homeless LGBT youth. Handsome hunks from your favorite Broadway shows competing to raise money for the Ali Forney Center, an organization that provides shelter and services to homeless LGBT youth in New York City. Join host …

The musical version of Armistead Maupin’s Tales Of The City will see its world premiere in San Francisco next summer. “Tales of the City,” a new musical adaptation of Armistead Maupin’s famed stories – created with veterans of “Avenue Q” and members of the rock band Scissor Sisters – will receive its world premiere in the American Conservatory Theater’s 2010-11 …

-Reportedly due to creative differences with Tony winning director Joe Mantello, Megan Mullally has abruptly pulled out of the revival of Terrence McNally’s Lips Together, Teeth Apart, causing producers to cancel the run. It was scheduled to begin previews on April 9th and producers are scrambling for a replacement show. -The Off Broadway revival of The Boys In The Band …

– Neil Patrick Harris will star in a mixed live action/animated version of The Smurfs. NPH will be live, Alan Cumming and Jonathan Winters will be animated. NPH is also slated to guest star in an upcoming episode of Glee. – Ugly Betty stars Vanessa Williams and Michael Urie will co-host this year’s 76th Annual Drama League Awards on May …

On Monday night, official JMG staff photographer Dr. Jeff and I attended Broadway Backwards 5, the annual gender-reversal fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the NYC LGBT Center in which songs are performed by the opposite sex for whom they were written. Over 50 Broadway singers, dancers and a galaxy of Tony winners and nominees blew away the sold …

A billboard company in Colorado Springs (home to Focus On The Family, numerous megachurches, and a completely devastated city infrastructure) has banned a bus stop campaign for Avenue Q. Because it shows puppet cleavage. The puppet’s name is Lucy the Slut. She’s a pink Sesame Street-like puppet in the touring Broadway show “Avenue Q.” “Avenue Q” is a Tony-winning musical …

– Carrie Fisher says the producer of her just-closed hit show Wishful Drinking hasn’t paid her what he owes and failed to move the show to a big enough Broadway house. The show had its entire run at the small and non-profit Studio 54. – South Pacific will close on August 22nd. – Women On The Verge Of A Nervous …

We need some gay-ass fabulosity up in this here joint today. Via Broadway World’s Pat Cerasaro: A fantastically fun moment from The Dinah Shore show in which Liza Minnelli performs “Nowadays” from CHICAGO alongside the songwriters who wrote it, John Kander and Fred Ebb. The mutual affection they feel for each other is palpable, but the clip reaches new heights …

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, …

– 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. …

-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 …

– 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 …

Desperate Housewives’ Eva Longoria and her pro-basketball player husband Tony Parker perform a lip-sync spoof of Summer Nights from Grease to kick off a fan contest to win tickets to see the San Antonio Spurs. The fan with the best musical lip-sync performance gets season tickets.

Courtesy of Art Meets Commerce, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to the Broadway smash, Rock Of Ages, starring Tony nominee Kerry Butler (Xanadu) and American Idol finalist Constantine Maroulis. The New York Times raves: You want hair? Big hair? Hair you wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley? The champ is unquestionably “Rock of Ages,” a …

Courtesy of Art Meets Commerce, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to the Broadway smash Finian’s Rainbow, starring openly gay heartthrob Cheyenne Jackson. This week the show made TIME Magazine’s list “The Top Ten Everything Of 2009.” A Broadway revival for this 1947 musical was a long time coming. And with good reason: its book, featuring a leprechaun looking …

Via Muckety, a Broadway to GLEE chart. Interactive version here.

– 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 …

Strictly for the show queens. “Every one down on Broadway liked Christmas a lot. But the Stritch who lived just north of Broadway, on Mount Carlyle, did not!” I love that one of the keywords for this on YouTube is EGOT. (Tipped by JMG reader Alan T.)

Broadway Speaks OUT’s holiday concert to benefit the Ali Forney Center is tomorrow (Monday). Get tickets here.