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#broadway

Ava Gallo, dressed in a white skirt and a black top, on Tuesday got a kind of Broadway break in the Theater District. The 18-year-old from Staten Island, who had appeared in her high school production of Mamma Mia, belted out Thank you for the Music at Ellen's Stardust Diner on Broadway. She had been named one of five winners or Junior Stardusters in the restaurant's first such competition, performing on Tuesday in front of the restaurant's audience.

When a frog closes a door, he opens a window for a 12-week theatrical run. For the first time outside of the fictional events of the 1984 classic movie musical Muppets Take Manhattan, the real, live, felt-and-blood Muppets are coming to Broadway. There are so many possibilities for what a live Muppet Broadway show could look like: a Muppet Show-style musical revue!

"I feel like my life is a musical," says an ebullient Wallace today on a rare day off, calling from New York. She's back on Broadway, starring alongside her friend Billy Porter in, for the first time since playing an egg in Something Rotten! in 2015. "I mean, when I tell people I grew up on a hog farm, that's like the beginning of a musical, right?" Another explosive laugh.

The partnership between Harlem Shake and HELL'S KITCHEN celebrates the vibrancy of New York, highlighting Alicia Keys' roots in Hell's Kitchen and Harlem Shake's dedication to its neighborhood.

Critics argue the decision to replace a barrier-breaking Asian actor with a white successor in a production of Asian authorship sends a disheartening message and reflects a broader pattern of exclusion.

Warfield made it to Broadway in October 1968 when she was cast as Clara in The Great White Hope, receiving Theatre World and Clarence Derwent prizes for her powerful performance.

The acclaimed Broadway revival of Gypsy, starring six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and directed by George C. Wolfe, will end its run at the Majestic Theatre on Aug. 17, after 28 previews and 269 regular performances.

Director Jon M. Chu reportedly stated that the second film aims to lean into the darker tone of the book, including elements of anti-fascism.

& Juliet stands out as it incorporates a variety of songs from the extensive catalog of Max Martin, featuring hits from major pop icons like Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake.

The numbers are in, and CNN's live broadcast of 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' the Broadway play starring George Clooney as Edward R. Murrow, is a ratings winner.