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BROADWAY BARES 19.0 'CLICK IT!' will be held on Sunday, June 21 with two performances only (9:30 PM & Midnight) at Roseland Ballroom (239 West 52nd Street). BROADWAY BARES 19.0 'CLICK IT!' is produced by and benefits Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS.

'Toxic Avenger The Musical' won the 2009 Outer Critics Circle Award for OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL.

During this Tony Award season social messaging networks such as Twitter and Facebbok have helped theatre industry insiders stay updated and connected on what is happening leading up to this Sunday's telecast. Every now and then they even help to break a story, today the good news comes from actor, director and producer Kevin Spacey.

The Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye reports that producer David Ian is hoping to bring hit film The Bodyguard which starred Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner and featured I Will Always Love You, one of the best-selling singles in music history, to the musical stage.

The Broadway community mourns the loss of George MacPherson, who died Wednesday.

Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated actor, Neil Patrick Harris, will take Center Stage when he hosts the 63rd Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards on Sunday, June 7th, live from Radio City Music Hall. Harris visited to read the 'Top Ten Signs You've Hired A Bad Tony Awards Host'

Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello has revealed the news that Tony winner Lin-Manuel Miranda has been cast in Fox's dramatic hit series HOUSE.

UK's The Daily Mail is reporting that London will get revivals of the musicals Annie Get Your Gun and Sweet Charity for Fall 2009.

The Associated Press is reporting that Britain's Got Talent runner-up Susan Boyle has been released from the mental health care facility she was adimitted to and is doing better.

Playwrights Horizons, under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, proudly announces the sixth and final production of its upcoming 2009/2010 Season, as well as additional casting. Presented at the theater company's home at 416 West 42nd Street, the new production will be: A COOL DIP IN THE BARREN SAHARAN CRICK - the World Premiere of a new play by Playwrights Horizons alumna Kia Corthron (Breath, Boom at Playwrights Horizons, Force Continuum), directed by Obie Award winner Chay Yew (Durango at The Public). A co-production with The Play Company (Kate Loewald, Founding Producer) and Culture Project (Allan Buchman, Artistic Director).

Audemars Piguet will be the presenting sponsor of the 63rd Annual Tony Awards Telecast Red Carpet on June 7th at Radio City Music Hall. Audemars Piguet, considered one of the world's finest watch manufacturers, will display eight solid aluminum clocks along this year's red carpet.

The New York Daily News reveals that Neil Patrick Harris is thinking about getting into Hugh Jackman's pants. The News' Joe Dziemianowicz reports that Sunday's Tony Awards host Harris has asked Jackman, who has emceed Broadway's big night three times, for tips on spicing up the ratings-impaired telecast.

At a press conference held today at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced 176 nominations from 218 eligible productions that opened between June 1, 2008 and May 31, 2009 for the 30th annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards which honour excellence in the performing arts in Toronto.

The producers of Neil LaBute's Reasons To Be Pretty, the best new Broadway play of the season*, have announced a new summer performance schedule. Beginning Monday, June 15, 2009 the show will play Mondays at 8:00 p.m., Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m., Wednesdays at 2:00 & 8:00 p.m., Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. and Saturdays at 2:00 & 8:00 p.m.

Tony Award and Grammy Award -winning songwriter DUNCAN SHEIK follows up his Broadway sensation, SPRING AWAKENING, with his new musical WHISPER HOUSE. Concert readings of the production will take place at Vassar and New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater program in Poughkeepsie, NY on the Vassar campus on July 10/11 followed by a debut run at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, CA on January 13 - February 21.

Motherhood Out Loud, a new American play, conceived by Susan R. Rose and Joan Stein, produced by Ms. Rose, Ms. Stein, Renee Landegger and Judith Resnick, directed by Lisa Peterson, and written by more than 15 writers, will have a special work-in-progress, 3-performance engagement as part of Bay Street Theatre's 2009 'Bay Street at the Parrish' season. Motherhood Out Loud plays July 30 - August 1 at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY.

CBS News is reported the sad news that Actor David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series 'Kung Fu' who also had a wide-ranging career in the movies, has been found dead in the Thai capital, Bangkok.

SISTER ACT, the new musical comedy, opened on June 2nd at the London Palladium. Our West End video partners, Reelkandi.tv were there to cover all the opening night excitement - right here on BWW TV!

Stage and screen superstar Hugh Jackman confirmed he is indeed coming to Broadway in 'A Steady Rain', the actor revealed the news to Entertainment Tonight while attending a private party for Joel Grey's new book of photography, 1.3 - Images from My Phone in Manhattan.