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HAIR will close on Broadway on June 27th but, before it does the show celebrated it's 500th performance on Friday, June 11th by giving away 500 tickets to lucky fans. Among the night's attendees? None other than Paula Abdul!

BWW's UK editor-in-chief is backstage at the Tonys - live!

Broadwayworld.com will be updating the winners of The 2010 Tony Awards in real time as they are presented. All winners will be marked in bold red next to their names as they are announced.

BroadwayWorld.com will be offering THE MOST Tony Awards coverage anywhere on or off the Internet on Sunday night making us your one-stop-shop for all your Tony needs!

Connecticut's Courant Blog reports the 2010 Connecticut Critics Circle winners, awarded Monday evening. Winning for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Musical of the Year is New Haven's Yale Rep, for ECLIPSED and POP!, respectively.

Actors' Equity Association announced today that Green Day's AMERICAN IDIOT has been selected as the recipient of its Extraordinary Excellence in Diversity on Broadway Award for the 2009-2010 Season. The Diversity Award will be presented at a reception at the Equity headquarters in New York City on Tuesday, June 15, 2010.

HAIR will close on Broadway on June 27th. The show, which had recouped on Broadway has been performing poorly as of late at the box office.

Tony Award nominee Jennifer Damiano will play her final performance as Natalie in the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical Next to Normal on Sunday, July 18 at 7:30p.m. As previously announced, Tony Award winner Alice Ripley and two-time Tony Award nominee Brian d'Arcy James will also play their final performance on that date. Meghann Fahy will assume the role of Natalie on Monday, July 19th.

Alfred Hitchcock's THE 39 STEPS welcomes Adam Philips for a special talk back on Monday, June 7 following the performance. Adam is a Hitchcock aficionado and owner of the blog 'Hitchcock and Me'.

Voting has concluded for BroadwayWorld's 2010 Theatre Fans' Choice Awards, and with hundreds of thousands of votes cast, we've had another record year further solidifying the Theatre Fans' Choice Awards place as the largest, and most popular online Broadway polling event of its kind!

As the season sets on Eutaw Street, patrons of the Hippodrome are being treated to the only non-musical of the season, Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps. The reason may include there are not that many non-musicals which tour.

Alfred Hitchcock's THE 39 STEPS welcomes Adam Philips for a special talk back on Monday, June 7 following the performance. Adam is a Hitchcock aficionado and owner of the blog 'Hitchcock and Me'.

SHN is thrilled to announce the 2010-2011 Best of Broadway Season, under the direction of Carole Shorenstein Hays and Robert Nederlander presented at San Francisco's Orpheum, Curran and Golden Gate Theatres. SHN, the pre-eminent theatrical entertainment company in San Francisco, offers the ultimate Broadway experience to all Bay Area audiences.

Voting is fully underway for BroadwayWorld's 2010 Theatre Fans' Choice Awards, with thousands of votes already in and recording voting numbers already being set. So far there have been early leads established for some surprising and not so suprising early leaders.

The New York Times is reporting that real-life married couple Marrin Mazzie and Jason Danieley will be taking over the lead roles in Next to Normal on July 19th. This will mark the couple's first on-stage pairing in a Broadway show.

On June 21, New World Stages' THE 39 STEPS will begin a new performance schedule. The schedule is as follows: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings at 8:00PM; and Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday matinees at 3:00PM.

On Sunday, May 30, HAIR's Diana DeGarmo performed live on the CBS Early Show and chatted about the show as part of the 'Backstage Live' segment. Click below to watch her belt out 'I Believe in Love,' 'Easy to Be Hard' and other tunes!

Steel Burkhardt, original cast member of the current Broadway and London revival of HAIR, will succeed Will Swenson as Berger on May 31 at London's Gielgud Theatre. As previously announced, Tony Award-nominee Will Swenson is departing to lead the cast of the pre-Broadway North American company of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT: THE MUSICAL, written by Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott and directed by Simon Phillips. PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT: THE MUSICAL will open on Broadway in Spring 2011 at a theater to be announced.

In celebration of the 39th performance in their new theater Off-Broadway, Alfred Hitchcock's THE 39 STEPS offers 39 tickets for $39 for every performance through Monday, May 31st.

HAIR's Diana DeGarmo sat down on CBS' The Early Show in their 'Backstage Live' segment to chat all about HAIR!