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Theatre Talk congratulates all of the 2011 TONY Nominees, including 14 of this year's Theater Talk guests: David Lindsay-Abaire, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Jez Butterworth, Bobby Cannavale, Colman Domingo, John Kander, Robert Lopez, Trey Parker, Mark Rylance, Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman, Matt Stone, Susan Stroman, and Alex Timbers.

THE BOOK OF MORMON features book, music and lyrics by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone. Parker and Stone are the four-time Emmy Award-winning creators of Comedy Central's landmark animated series, 'South Park'. Tony Award-winner Lopez is composer and co-creator of the long-running hit musical comedy, Avenue Q. The world premiere musical is choreographed by three-time Tony Award-nominee Casey Nicholaw (Monty Python's Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone) and directed by Nicholaw and Parker. THE BOOK OF MORMON stars Josh Gad as Elder Cunningham. Last night, he stopped by to chat with Jimmy Fallon about the show, audience reactions, and what it's like to receive a Tony nomination. Click below to view the video!

The first ballot for Best Play was radically fractured, with no single candidate garnering more than five of the 24 total votes. On the third (weighted) ballot, the race remained competitive, with Good People and Jerusalem winning 23 points and Other Desert Cities running just behind them with 22 points. Since no play reached the necessary threshold of 37 points, the Circle moves to a fourth ballot-newly approved in a bylaw change in January-that reduced the field to the third ballot's top four vote-getters (including The Motherf**ker with the Hat, which had received 11 points, narrowly edging out such contenders as Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, War Horse and The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures). On this ballot, in which previous proxy voters did not participate, Good People won with 34 points, with Other Desert Cities in second place with 30 points.

Good People, written by David Lindsay-Abaire, today won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award (NYDCC) for Best Play of the 2010-2011 season. The award for Best Foreign Play play went to Jerusalem, written by Jez Butterworth. The Book of Mormon received the award for Best Musical. The selections were made at the 76th annual voting meeting of the organization today at the offices of Time Out New York in Manhattan.

Due for release next week is Sh-K-Boom's cast recording for Broadway's THE BOOK OF MORMON. Today though, the album is the first Broadway cast recording to be made available on NPR's First Listen. To tune in to preview the album for free, click here.

THE BOOK OF MORMON will present an extra matinee performance, to be offered to fans of the show for free, according to Variety. This comes after the new musical by ‘South Park' creators earned 14 Tony nominations.

Yesterday morning, past Tony winners Anika Noni Rose and Matthew Broderick announced the 2011 Tony Awards nominees live from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City. Today, BroadwayWorld talked to this year's nominees to hear their exciting stories of their reactions to the news. THE BOOK OF MORMON composer, lyricist, and book writer Robert Lopez went on the record about his double nomination and the story of how he became involved with the production!

Nominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 65th Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards were announced May 3, 2011 by Tony Award winning actor Matthew Broderick and Tony Award winning actress Anika Noni Rose, at the Tony Award Nominations Announcement sponsored by IBM.

Nominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 65th Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards were announced May 3, 2011 by Tony Award winning actor Matthew Broderick and Tony Award winning actress Anika Noni Rose, at the Tony Award Nominations Announcement sponsored by IBM.

Nominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 65th Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards were announced May 3, 2011 by Tony Award winning actor Matthew Broderick and Tony Award winning actress Anika Noni Rose, at the Tony Award Nominations Announcement sponsored by IBM.

'Well I'm in LA right now. So I rolled over in bed and I opened up my laptop and I had a Google Alert all set and it came up. You know, 5:30am is too early to hear announcements, I figured I would just wait until 11:30 to hear it. Mostly I am just so excited about the collaborative nature of the whole enterprise- it's been a story that we have been trying to tell people for a while, and I feel like some of it hasn't gotten through but a lot of it has and that is all because of who we are working with. Trey and I get most of the ink for our TV and film work, but its great to get a collaborative acknowledgement for the whole crew. A Broadway show is a totally different beast that way. With Bobby and Josh... everyone has been with us from the beginning so they are a huge part of what the show is, their DNA is in the show. And then in the last year we got Andrew and Rory... we didn't think it was possible to have such amazing actors take on the characters. We couldn't have the show without Andrew, the show started to gel with him. As for ever thinking we could win a TONY, all we ever wanted to do was write a cool musical that was a good night out. You don't start off thinking 'let's aim for a TONY.' If you do, you are kind of an asshole. It has already been such a fun experience. You know, we work in TV and film I like our job, it's not that our job is shitty, but we wanted to do this show. When we started with a musical people were like 'why are you doing that? Broadway is this world that is shitty and snotty' and we now know that it's just not true. It has been much more of a fun process. Putting it on can be intense moment to moment, but overall, it has been great. Today I have work, South Park work, so I won't really have time to celebrate. Actually this is our longest day of the week so we'll be working 'till five or six in the morning. It sucks, I would love to raise a glass with the cast and crew because they must really be flying high. Maybe I'll sneak a beer at work.'

Los ganadores de la pasada edición de los Premios Tony: Anika Noni Rose y Matthew Broderick, han anunciado los nominados para los Premios Tony 2011. Se trata de la edición número 65 de los premios y tendrá lugar en el Beacon Theatre el próximo 12 de junio.

Los ganadores de la pasada edición de los Premios Tony: Anika Noni Rose y Matthew Broderick, han anunciado los nominados para los Premios Tony 2011. Se trata de la edición número 65 de los premios y tendrá lugar en el Beacon Theatre el próximo 12 de junio.

Past Tony winners Anika Noni Rose and Matthew Broderick announced the 2011 Tony Awards nominees live from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City. BroadwayWorld.com will be talking to all of the nominees to hear their exciting stories of how they heard, who they told and more!

Nominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 65th Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards were announced May 3, 2011 by Tony Award winning actor Matthew Broderick and Tony Award winning actress Anika Noni Rose, at the Tony Award Nominations Announcement sponsored by IBM.

THE BOOK OF MORMON star Andrew Rannellsrecently chatted with MensWeek about playing leading man Elder Price and what he's done to prepare for the role. Rannells commented: 'I got to be funny - and a lot of times you're not supposed to be. I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh. [The producers] let me sort of explore that and what is funny about that guy and also to make him quirky and weird in his own way.'

The 56th Annual Drama Desk Awards, hosted by Harvey Fierstein, will be held Monday, May 23, at 9:00 PM at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan Center, 8th Avenue and 34th Street. This year, for the first time, a 90-minute Highlights Special of the Drama Desk Awards Ceremony will be televised nationally on OVATION, the national cable network dedicated to presenting creative arts programming to national TV audiences. The ceremony will be given two primetime broadcasts plus four other airings between June 4 and June 19, 2011.

Christopher Weekes, whose Jim Henson biopic spec screenplay Muppet Man topped 2009's Black List, has been tapped by producers Jean Doumanian (August: Osage County, All The Real Girls) and Michael Shulman and Craig Saavedra, (principals of Starry Night Entertainment - Sherman's Way, White People) to adapt Mitchell Zuckoff's acclaimed biography Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend for the big screen.

The foul-mouthed fourth-graders of 'South Park' are back for their 15th season with seven all-new episodes beginning Wednesday, April 27 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on COMEDY CENTRAL.

The foul-mouthed fourth-graders of 'South Park' are back for their 15th season with seven all-new episodes beginning Wednesday, April 27 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on COMEDY CENTRAL.