Bette Midler News

On Twitter Watch, Bette Midler wrote ' Congrats to @CicelyTyson on her well deserved Tony. I was not at the awards. Dined out with @AlecBaldwin, @ScarlettJohansson and @FionaShaw.'

Emmy Award-winning actress Jane Lynch, who stars in the hit FOX television show 'Glee' as ruthless cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, made her Broadway debut last month as tyrannical orphanage matron Miss Hannigan in Annie. Lynch will play Miss Hannigan for eight weeks only, through Sunday, July 14. The actress recently chatted with BroadwayWorld about making the move to New York for the show, sharing the stage with so many talented little girls, filling the big shoes of Katie Finneran, and so much more!

The Tonys are about celebrating the best of Broadway theatre from the past 12 months. And what is America's favorite way to celebrate? By pouring liquids into our mouths!!

The divas took all the top prizes at the 2013 Tony Awards, from Cyndi Lauper and Billy Porter (as Lola) of KINKY BOOTS through to Best Directors Diane Paulus and Pam McKinnon to Cicely Tyson, Patina Miller, Judith Light and Andrea Martin in the acting categories to Caroline O'Connor of A CHRISTMAS STORY to MATILDA, CINDERELLA, and beyond in smashing performances. Polished, practiced, poised and primed to deliver, the show was a splendid showcase for Broadway today, fabulously decked out to the nines (and over-elevens).

CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD was the #1 Sunday morning news program and posted year-to-year double-digit percentage increases in adults 25-54

The Ogunquit Playhouse, America's Foremost Summer Theatre, is thrilled to announce the opening of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Thoroughly Modern Millie on stage June 12 to July 6. Becky Gulsvig, plays small-town girl Millie Dillmount, who heads to New York City in 1922 to start a new life in a city filled with intrigue, jazz and a whole new set of rules for love! Her new flapper lifestyle leads to a series of madcap adventures when she checks into a hotel owned by a dragon-lady villainess audiences are sure to love to hate - played by none other than Ogunquit's favorite, Sally Struthers. This musical-comedy, based on the Mary Tyler Moore, Julie Andrews, Carol Channing film, opened on Broadway in 2002 and garnered six Tony Awards including Best Musical. A new glittering set design, along with the Tony Award-winning costumes and show-stopping dance numbers will be featured in the Ogunquit production. Musical theatre has found a new heroine for the ages - Thoroughly Modern Millie!

Chromolume Theatre has announced its next production, Love Songs, with book, music and lyrics by Steven Cagan, and directed by Kay Cole. Featuring orchestrations and arrangements by Doug Walter and music direction byRichard Berent, there will be one preview performance on June 21, andopening is set for Saturday, June 22 at 8pm. Love Songs will play a limited engagement through July 28 only.

MUSE/IQUE, known for its counter-conventional performances that feel more like parties than formal concerts, launches 'Summer of Sound' 2013 with 'Lost in the Stars with Patti Austin,' featuring the Grammy Award-winning legend, on Saturday, June 29, 2013, 7:30 pm, outdoors at Caltech's Beckman Mall in Pasadena.

Transport Group, the Drama Desk, Outer Critics, and OBIE award-winning theatre company, has announced additional casting for the one-night-only, all-star concert of the acclaimed 1959 Broadway classic musical Once Upon A Mattress on Monday, June 17 at 7pmat the The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre in The Pershing Square Signature Center, 480 West 42nd Street. Joining previously announced Jackie Hoffman as Princess Winnifred and John 'Lypsinka' Epperson as Queen Aggravain are Tony nominee Danny Burstein (Follies) as King Sextimus, Tony nominee John Cariani (Fiddler on the Roof) as The Jester, Jill Paice (Curtains) as Lady Larken, Drama Desk nominee Lewis Cleale (The Book of Mormon) as Sir Harry, OBIE winner Jonathan Hammond (The Boys in the Band) as The Wizard, Stanley Bahorek (Queen of the Mist) as The Minstrel, and Drama Desk nominee David Rossmer (Peter and the Starcatcher) as Prince Dauntless.

Wow! When BroadwayWorld.com launched back in 2003, one of the very first site features was our Fans' Choice awards. Each year since, we've set new records for online voting totals and are proud to share that our 2013 voting more than DOUBLED our 2012 totals with a massive turnout.

Appearing on Broadway for the first time in almost 40 years, Tony and Grammy Award-winning superstar Bette Midler plays the legendary Hollywood agent Sue Mengers (1932-2011) in I'LL EAT YOU LAST, written by Tony Award winner John Logan, and directed by Tony Award winner Joe Mantello. Below you can check out photos of Midler in the BroadwayWorld.com series 'In The Spotlight' by acclaimed photographer Walter McBride below!

On Twitter Watch, Bette Midler wrote 'WELL!! Now I hear I have been offered 'Hello, Dolly'! First I've heard of it. Still I would look great coming down that staircase...'

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I'LL EAT YOU LAST star Bette Midler was featured on 'CBS Sunday Morning' today, June 2. Midler sat down with correspondent Mo Rocca at the Booth Theatre on the set of I'LL EAT YOU LAST to discuss her critically acclaimed return to Broadway playing Hollywood superagent Sue Mengers and her career in film, television, and music. Click below to watch the interview!

I'LL EAT YOU LAST star Bette Midler will be featured on 'CBS Sunday Morning' today, June 2. Midler sat down with correspondent Mo Rocca at the Booth Theatre on the set ofI'LL EAT YOU LAST to discuss her critically acclaimed return to Broadway playing Hollywood superagent Sue Mengers and her career in film, television, and music. 'CBS Sunday Morning' airs locally on WCBS2 between 9-10:30AM. If outside the tristate area, please check local listings.

A host of international and Australian music theatre stars will feature in Melbourne premieres in this year's Melbourne Cabaret Festival, 26 June - 7 July.

Robert Klein has built a 40 plus year career on stage, film, and television and will perform in a benefit for the White Plains Performing Arts Center. BWW got a chance to talk to him about his incredible career.

I'LL EAT YOU LAST star Bette Midler will be featured on 'CBS Sunday Morning' Sunday, June 2. Midler sat down with correspondent Mo Rocca at the Booth Theatre on the set ofI'LL EAT YOU LAST to discuss her critically acclaimed return to Broadway playing Hollywood superagent Sue Mengers and her career in film, television, and music. 'CBS Sunday Morning' airs locally on WCBS2 between 9-10:30AM. If outside the tristate area, please check local listings.

In 1994, Bette Midler returned to New York after nearly 20 years in Los Angeles, and started the New York Restoration Project, a non-profit organization devoted to bringing abandoned and neglected parks, gardens, and open spaces in all five boroughs back to life. NYRP includes the beautiful New Leaf Cafe in Fort Tryon Park as part of its success, and is committed to helping restore parks and gardens devastated by Hurricane Sandy. The organization just held its 12th Annual Spring Picnic and you can check out full coverage below!