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The NY Post has reported on the latest development of a new modern musical re-telling of the classic fairytale, Cinderella, by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber.

According to The Daily Mail, music legend Elton John and Jake Shears of The Scissor Sisters recently held a reading of their own musical take on the life of the infamous TV evangelist.

In 2017, Best Director of a Musical nominee, Rachel Chavkin, made one heck of a Tony Awards debut with the gleaming spectacle of Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812.

In 2007, the new musical Spring Awakening stormed the Tonys bringing future 2019 nominees for Best Leading Actress In A Musical and Best Featured Actor In A Play nominees, Lilly Cooper & Gideon Glick, with it!

Today's Tony memory is a mid-commercial treat from inside Radio City Music Hall, as host James Corden invites 2019 Best Leading Actor in a Play nominee, Jeff Daniels, onstage for some Tony Awards karaoke at the 2016 ceremony.

In 2008, Robin de Jesus, a nominee this year for The Boys In the Band, made his Tony Awards debut with the new musical In The Heights.

In 2014, Kiss Me Kate choreographer, Warren Carlyle, brought the Harlem nightlife to life with his Tony Award-winning choreography for the musical revue, After Midnight!

In 2011, Casey Nicholaw picked up a win for Best Director of a Musical for the international mega-hit, The Book of Mormon. This year, Casey is once again nominated for his directing duties on The Prom.

In 2016, the Broadway revival of Spring Awakening made history in more ways than one, but its most notable contribution was 2019 Best Featured Actress in a Musical nominee, Ali Stroker.

Today we're revolting against Best Featured Actor In A Play nominee, Bertie Carvel, who made his Broadway and Tony debut in the musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's Matilda.

In 1997, Janet McTeer, a Best Leading Actress In A Play nominee this year for Bernhardt/Hamlet, picked up a win for her portrayal of Nora in A Doll's House! See her acceptance speech below!

In 1983, a three-act groundbreaking work, Torch Song Trilogy, was one of the big winners on Tony night, picking up awards for Best Play and Best Leading Actor in a play for it's author and leading man, then-newcomer Harvey Fierstein.

On Day 22, we're bringing it back to the 2005 ceremony, when David Yazbeck, a 2019 nominee for the score of Tootsie, brought the long con to Tony night with Tony Award-winner Norbert Leo Butz and the cast of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels performing 'Great Big Stuff'. See their performance below!

On Day 23 of 30 Days of Tony, we're taking a trip to Florence, Italy with one of this year's nominees for Best Score, Adam Guettel, who picked up his first nomination and win for the score of The Light In the Piazza.

On Tony night 2006, Broadway flashed back to the 1980's in Ridgefield, New Jersey, when the cast of The Wedding Singer hit the stage performing a Tony-nominated song from The Prom composers, Chad Beguelin and Matthew Sklar! Check out their rockin' performance below!

At the 2007 Tonys, Bob Martin, a 2019 nominee for his book for The Prom, took home the award for Best Book for the hilarious new musical The Drowsy Chaperone.

Each year, Broadway champions works both new and old, welcoming a fresh crop of plays from playwrights both at home and abroad every season. Their works enrapture audiences, offering takes on comedy, drama, history and everything in between, dazzling in their relevance, sparkling in their spectacle, and often challenging in their complexity.

This season, Broadway is traveling way on down to Hadestown, a new musical based on two of Greek mythology's most famous tales.

This season, Hillary Clinton is hitting the Broadway stage for the first time ever, played by none other than the great Laurie Metcalf, in Douglas Hnath's new play, Hillary and Clinton.

This season, Academy Award-nominee Adam Driver is making his return to the Broadway stage alongside Keri Russell in Lanford Wilson's play Burn This.