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Good morning BroadwayWorld! Today's top stories: Celebrity Autobiography holds its final performance, and more!

This week has been a week of releases from Lin-Manuel Miranda as he released three demos recorded during the early days of Hamilton! We've collected all three demos below for your listening enjoyment! Here's to hoping that even more demos will be released soon!

With Mary Poppins Returns coming to movie theaters in a week, I thought the perfect  #TBT would be a look back at the Opening Night of Mary Poppins on Broadway. So I dove back into the BroadwayWorld archives and found the 2006 video (when we were formerly known as BroadwayBeat) with Ashley Brown, straight from starring as 'Belle' Beauty and the Beast on Broadway! And lets not forget Gavin Lee who made his Broadway debut with Mary Poppins.

Go behind the scenes of Theatre Under The Stars's latest production, Beauty and The Beast with 'Belle' herself, Delphi Borich. She will be taking over the BroadwayWorld Instagram tomorrow, December 15th! Follow along as Borich takes you behind the scenes of the show's two show day! Be sure to tune in! And you can watch a highlight reel from the production below!

The top growing current Broadway musicals were The Cher Show (+23.09%), The Prom (+3.13%), King Kong (+1.89%), Once On this Island (+1.85%) and My Fair Lady (+1.85%). The top growing current Broadway plays were Network (+14.08%), To Kill A Mockingbird (+11.20%), The New One (+8.00%), The Waverly Gallery (+6.85%) and Torch Song (+6.16%). The top growing upcoming Broadway productions were Tootsie The Musical (+11.11%), Moulin Rouge (+4.87%), Hadestown (+3.62%), Ain't Too Proud (+2.91%) and Be More Chill (+1.91%).

Earlier this week we asked you which current Broadway musical did our followers want to see as the next movie musical. Well after a lot of debate and four days of voting...the results are in! 

Go behind the scenes of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's critically-acclaimed Yiddish language production of Fiddler on the Roof with Michael Einav, as he takes over the BroadwayWorld Instagram tomorrow, December 8th! Follow along as Einav takes you behind the scenes of the show! Be sure to tune in!

For this week's #TBT, I dug back into the BroadwayWorld archives and found the Opening Night video of Bonnie and Clyde on Broadway! The show opened this week, seven years ago! Watch the video below as a young Jeremy Jordan and Laura Osnes talk about tackling the dynamic gangster couple!

The top growing current Broadway musicals were The Prom (+5.92%), The Cher Show (+5.81%), King Kong (+2.14%), Once On this Island (+2.05%) and My Fair Lady (+1.91%). The top growing current Broadway plays were To Kill A Mockingbird (+12.74%), The New One (+9.73%), Network (+5.82%), Torch Song (+4.91%) and The Waverly Gallery (+3.49%). The top growing upcoming Broadway productions were Be More Chill (+2.64%), BeetleJuice (+2.21%), Ain't Too Proud (+1.27%), Tootsie The Musical (+0.97%) and Moulin Rouge (+0.60%).

Good morning BroadwayWorld! Today's top stories: The Cher Show officially opens tonight, and more!

Go behind the scenes of Off-Broadway's The Other Josh Cohen with Hannah Elless, as she takes over the BroadwayWorld Instagram today, December 2nd! Follow along as Elless takes you behind the scenes of the show and celebrates the first day of Hanukkah! Be sure to tune in!

Go behind the scenes of Off-Broadway's Puffs with Jessie Cannizzaro, as she takes over the BroadwayWorld Instagram tomorrow, December 1st! Follow along as Cannizzaro takes you behind the scenes of her two-show day as Sally! Be sure to tune in!

For this week's throwback, we are highlighting the 2006 Broadway revival of Company that opened on this day, November 29th, starring Raúl Esparza as Bobby, as well as Barbara Walsh as Joanne. Currently running on the West End is a reimagining of the musical with Rosalie Craig as Bobbie and Patti LuPone as Joanne! Enjoy watching the video below of Esparza's rousing rendition of 'Being Alive.'

In honor of The Cher Show's opening tonight, a show that traces the life and music of Cher herself, I thought I would look back at the best of her twitter legacy! I've picked some of my favorite Cher tweets that prove why she's not only a pop queen, but a twitter queen too!

BroadwayWorld is giving you a chance to win two of tickets to PUFFS! The winner will receive two tickets to a performance of their choosing! The contest will run from November 26th until 11:59PM on December 2nd. Enter your chance to win TODAY!

The top growing current Broadway musicals were The Prom (+27.43%), King Kong (+4.37%), My Fair Lady (+4.14%), The Cher Show (+3.50%) and Head Over Heels (+3.32%). The top growing current Broadway plays were Network (+15.82%), To Kill A Mockingbird (+14.49%), The Waverly Gallery (+10.01%), The New One (+6.60%) and Torch Song (+5.49%). The top growing upcoming Broadway productions were Ain't Too Proud (+7.09%), Moulin Rouge (+2.26%), Be More Chill (+1.98%), BeetleJuice (+1.86%) and Tootsie The Musical (+0.92%).

Go behind the scenes of Broadway's Once On This Island with Tony nominee Hailey Kilgore, as she takes over the BroadwayWorld Instagram tomorrow, November 24th! Follow along as Kilgore shows you her two-show day as Ti Moune! Be sure to tune in!

Broadway stars, they're just like us! Many of your favorite Broadway stars traveled home for the holiday, welcomed family into New York or even had to perform on Thanksgiving! BroadwayWorld has curated some of your favorite Broadway stars's social media posts to show you how they celebrated the big turkey day!