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Bette Midler Surprises, Wins Tony Lead Actress: See All the Winners Here!

Keith Girard
Bette Midler scored a surprise Tony as Leading Actress in a Musical for her role as Dolly Gallagher in the hit Broadway staple Hello Dolly at the 71st Tony Awards. Among other notable winners, Hollywood actor Kevin Kline won best Leading actor, play for his role in Present Laughter. Laurie Metcalf won leading Actress, Play for her role in A Doll’s House, Part 2. Former “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon won the Featured Actress, Play award for her role in The Little Foxes....
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Donald Trump Continues to Pick Fight With Hamilton Cast Over Pence

Keith Girard
Donald Trump, supposedly too busy to defend himself against civil fraud charges, still is finding time to wage a Twitter war against the cast of Broadway musical Hamilton. He fired off a series of new Tweets today (Nov. 20) ridiculing the performers. Trump is seething because the cast took a moment at the end of the show to address Vice-President-elect Mike Pence, who was sitting in the audience....
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Mike Pence Schooled on Democracy by Hamilton Cast on Broadway (watch!)

Keith Girard
Vice President-elect Mike Pence got a lesson–a real lesson–in democracy last night from the cast of the hit musical Hamilton on Broadway and President-elect Donald Trump quickly escalated the matter with demands for an apology. Pence and his family showed up in a motorcade to boos at the Richard Rodgers Theater on Broadway and took a seat inside to watch the popular show. Trump reacted to the scene with a vitriolic response on Twitter....
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Peter Reckell Returns to Broadway’s ‘The Fantasticks’ After 35 Years

Iris Wiener
Peter Reckell has performed in soap operas, television series and theater in his long career, though it has been quite some time since he took to the New York stage to sing. In fact, it was thirty-five years ago. But he’s returning to his theatrical roots in The Fantasticks. He returned to the long-running, modern, musical twist on Romeo and Juliet, on Sept 5, this time with career defining experience under his belt. ...
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Donald Trump Musical Coming! First White House, Then Great White Way

David Fagin
Donald Trump may not make it all the way to the White House, but he might just make it big on the Great White Way. Trump the Musical is in the works, featuring notable scores on all his talking points, from the “woman card” and “Immigrants” to “Muslims” and “Mexicans.” Starring George Clooney as The Donald, Sarah Palin, Megyn Kelly, Chris Christie as “The Gimp,” and an all-star cast of fakes, losers and right wing fanatics....
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