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BroadwayWorld.com is excited to kick off a new special exclusive content series, in collaboration with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Future entries will delve into the library's unparalleled archives, and resources. Below, we bring you an exclusive interview with Amy Schwegel of the Billy Rose Theatre Division, who chats about the vastness of the archive and shows off part of the library's extensive collection of 3D items. Check out everything from Cole Porter's cigarette cases to a tail from CATS in the special video below!

50 Shades! The Musical Parody (www.50ShadesTheMusical.com) at The Elektra Theatre (300 W. 43rd Street) is directed by Al Samuels and Rob Lindley.The cast features David Andino (The Buddy Holly Story), Daniel Bentley (Hairspray), Kaitlyn Frotton (Scab), Chris Grace ('The Awkward Moment'), Tim Murray (MTV's 'White House Down'), Amber Petty (voice of Sirius/XM's Radio Margaritaville), Casey Rogers (Catch Me If You Can), Alec Varcas (Spamalot), Ashley Ward (Baby Wants Candy), andChloe Williamson (Save The Date). Check out just-released highlights from the show below!

Broadway favorite Seth Rudetsky is at it again! In honor of his upcoming show, Deconstructing Broadway (which plays at the Leicester Square Theatre on August 10), Seth will be releasing one of his famous Deconstructions every day leading up to the big night. Check out some of his most recent Deconstructions below and check back daily for his latest installments!

This week's event was hosted by BUYER & CELLAR's Barrett Foa and featured performances from STOMP, including Jason Mills, Alan Asuncion, Manny Osoria, Marivaldo Dos Santos, Dustin Elsea, Chafic Saad, Penny Wendtlandt, and Kris Lee). BroadwayWorld brings you clips from their performance below!

This week's event was hosted by BUYER & CELLAR's Barrett Foa and featured performances from the cast of WICKED, including Chrstine Dwyer, Jenni Barber and Justin Guarini. Click below to watch clips from 'Popular,' 'As Long as You're Mine,' and 'The Wizard and I.'

This week's event featured performances from the cast of Rocky, including: Andy Karl,Margo Seibert, Terence Archie, Wallace Smith, David Macdonald, Sasha Hutchings, Vasthy Mompoint and Kristin Piro. Click below to watch clips of 'Patriotic,' 'Fight From the Heart,' and 'Happiness.'

Today's event featured performances from the cast of If/Then, including LaChanze, Jenn Colella, James Snyder, Tamika Lawrence, and Jackie Burns. Click below to check out 'Hey Kid,' 'Here I Go,' and 'No More Wasted Time.'

Now Mel Gibson, who has had to deal with his own share of troubles in the spotlight, has weighed in on LaBeouf in a recent interview with New York Post. He told NYP: 'When I see someone like Shia LaBeouf with the bag on his head and stuff, my heart goes out to the poor guy. I think he's suffering in some way.'

Brad Fraser's provocative play, LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS, will open on July 21st at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater. LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS is an edgy, provocative, dark-humored drama about the intertwined lives of seven individuals. The play explores every aspect of raw human emotion and takes the audience on an emotional journey to places often hard to explore. It centers on David McMillan, a former actor/current waiter watching his twenties tick away. Together, with his book-reviewing roommate Candy, his best friend Bernie, and S/M prostitute friend Benita, David encounters a number of seductive strangers on their search for love and sex. However, the games turn ugly when it appears one of them might be a serial killer. LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS stars Frances Brennand Roper, Zach McCoy, Kerri Lynn Miller, Nicholas Baroudi, Paul Castro Jr., Cassandra Paras and Dan Almekinder. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you one of a series of character featurettes, this time featuring Dan Almekinder!

Brad Fraser's provocative play, LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS, will open on July 21st at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater. LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS is an edgy, provocative, dark-humored drama about the intertwined lives of seven individuals. The play explores every aspect of raw human emotion and takes the audience on an emotional journey to places often hard to explore. It centers on David McMillan, a former actor/current waiter watching his twenties tick away. Together, with his book-reviewing roommate Candy, his best friend Bernie, and S/M prostitute friend Benita, David encounters a number of seductive strangers on their search for love and sex. However, the games turn ugly when it appears one of them might be a serial killer. LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS stars Frances Brennand Roper, Zach McCoy, Kerri Lynn Miller, Nicholas Baroudi, Paul Castro Jr., Cassandra Paras and Dan Almekinder. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you one of a series of character featurettes, this time featuring Paul Castro Jr.!

Brad Fraser's provocative play, LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS, will open on July 21st at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater. LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS is an edgy, provocative, dark-humored drama about the intertwined lives of seven individuals. The play explores every aspect of raw human emotion and takes the audience on an emotional journey to places often hard to explore. It centers on David McMillan, a former actor/current waiter watching his twenties tick away. Together, with his book-reviewing roommate Candy, his best friend Bernie, and S/M prostitute friend Benita, David encounters a number of seductive strangers on their search for love and sex. However, the games turn ugly when it appears one of them might be a serial killer. LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS stars Frances Brennand Roper, Zach McCoy, Kerri Lynn Miller, Nicholas Baroudi, Paul Castro Jr., Cassandra Paras and Dan Almekinder. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you one of a series of character featurettes, this time featuring Zach McCoy!

Brad Fraser's provocative play, LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS, will open on July 21st at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater. LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS is an edgy, provocative, dark-humored drama about the intertwined lives of seven individuals. The play explores every aspect of raw human emotion and takes the audience on an emotional journey to places often hard to explore. It centers on David McMillan, a former actor/current waiter watching his twenties tick away. Together, with his book-reviewing roommate Candy, his best friend Bernie, and S/M prostitute friend Benita, David encounters a number of seductive strangers on their search for love and sex. However, the games turn ugly when it appears one of them might be a serial killer. LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS stars Frances Brennand Roper, Zach McCoy, Kerri Lynn Miller, Nicholas Baroudi, Paul Castro Jr., Cassandra Paras and Dan Almekinder. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you one of a series of character featurettes, this time featuring Kerri Lynn Miller!

Brad Fraser's provocative play, LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS, will open on July 21st at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater. LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS is an edgy, provocative, dark-humored drama about the intertwined lives of seven individuals. The play explores every aspect of raw human emotion and takes the audience on an emotional journey to places often hard to explore. It centers on David McMillan, a former actor/current waiter watching his twenties tick away. Together, with his book-reviewing roommate Candy, his best friend Bernie, and S/M prostitute friend Benita, David encounters a number of seductive strangers on their search for love and sex. However, the games turn ugly when it appears one of them might be a serial killer. LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS stars Frances Brennand Roper, Zach McCoy, Kerri Lynn Miller, Nicholas Baroudi, Paul Castro Jr., Cassandra Paras and Dan Almekinder. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you one of a series of character featurettes, this time featuring Nicholas Baroudi!

Brad Fraser's provocative play, LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS, will open on July 21st at The Peter Jay Sharp Theater. LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS is an edgy, provocative, dark-humored drama about the intertwined lives of seven individuals. The play explores every aspect of raw human emotion and takes the audience on an emotional journey to places often hard to explore. It centers on David McMillan, a former actor/current waiter watching his twenties tick away. Together, with his book-reviewing roommate Candy, his best friend Bernie, and S/M prostitute friend Benita, David encounters a number of seductive strangers on their search for love and sex. However, the games turn ugly when it appears one of them might be a serial killer. LOVE AND HUMAN REMAINS stars Frances Brennand Roper, Zach McCoy, Kerri Lynn Miller, Nicholas Baroudi, Paul Castro Jr., Cassandra Paras and Dan Almekinder. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you one of a series of character featurettes, this time featuring Frances Brennand Roper!

The new production of Scott Organ's play PHOENIX, starring Emmy Award and Golden Globe nominee Julia Stiles and James Wirt, begins performances at the Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street) Monday, July 28. Presented by Nicholas Jabbour, PHOENIX will play a limited engagement through Saturday, August 23, and is produced by Poverty Row Entertainment, Rian Patrick Durhamand Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, by special arrangement with The Cherry Lane Theatre. The company met the press just yesterday and BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was there to chat with the gang about the new play. Check out what Stiles, Wirt, and Delia had to say below!

Today in 2011, the return engagement of the second Broadway revival of HAIR opened at the St. James Theatre, where it ran for 67 performances. Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. Hair tells the story of the 'tribe', a group of politically active, long-haired hippies of the 'Age of Aquarius' living a bohemian life in New York City and fighting against conscription into the Vietnam War.

Happy Birthday Cheyenne Jackson! Jackson has been featured in Broadway shows including XANADU, FINIAN'S RAINBOW, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, and AIDA. His first Broadway leading role in ALL SHOOK UP earned him a Theatre World Award for 'Outstanding Broadway Debut.' He's been seen in such television shows such as 30 ROCK, GLEE, UGLY BETTY, and CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM.

Happy Birthday Yul Brynner! His best-known role remains that of King Mongkut of Siam in the Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical The King and I which he played 4,525 times on stage over the span of his career. He appeared in the original production and later touring productions as well as a 1977 Broadway revival, London Production in 1979 and another Broadway revival in 1985. He also appeared in the film version for which he won an Academy Award as Best Actor and in a short-lived TV version (Anna and the King) on CBS in 1972. Brynner is one of only nine people who have won both a Tony Award and an Academy Award for the same role.

Today in 2007, Xanadu opened at the Helen Hayes Theatre, where it ran for 512 performances. Xanadu is a musical comedy with a book by Douglas Carter Beane and music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar, based on the 1980 cult classic film of the same name. The story of the musical focuses on a Greek muse, Clio, who descends from Mt. Olympus to Venice Beach, California, in 1980 on a quest to inspire a struggling artist, Sonny, to achieve the greatest creation of his life - a roller disco. It earned an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical and a Drama Desk Award for Best Book. It was also nominated for Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Book.