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The 2012 Tony Award Nominees were released yesterday and new musical “Once” is prone to steal the show with a whopping 11 nominations.

Here’s a list of nominees in some of the most popular Tony Award categories:

Best Play

“Clybourne Park”
“Other Desert Cities”
“Peter and the Starcatcher”
“Venus in Fur”

Best Musical

“Leap of Faith”
“Newsies”
“Nice Work If You Can Get It”
“Once”

Best Revival of a Play

“Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman”
“Gore Vidal’s The Best Man”
“Master Class”
“Wit”

Best Revival of a Musical

“Evita”
“Follies”
“The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess”
“Jesus Christ Superstar”

Best Book of a Musical

“Lysistrata Jones”
“Newsies”
“Nice Work If You Can Get It”
“Once”

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre

“Bonnie & Clyde”
“Newsies”
“One Man, Two Guvnors”
“Peter and the Starcatcher”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

James Corden, “One Man, Two Guvnors”
Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman”
James Earl Jones, “Gore Vidal’s The Best Man”
Frank Langella, “Man and Boy”
John Lithgow, “The Columnist”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play

Nina Arianda, “Venus in Fur”
Tracie Bennett, “End of the Rainbow”
Stockard Channing, “Other Desert Cities”
Linda Lavin, “The Lyons”
Cynthia Nixon, “Wit”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical

Danny Burstein, “Follies”
Jeremy Jordan, “Newsies”
Steve Kazee, “Once”
Norm Lewis, “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess”
Ron Raines, “Follies”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical

Jan Maxwell, “Follies”
Audra McDonald, “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess”
Cristin Milioti, “Once”
Kelli O’Hara, “Nice Work If You Can Get It”
Laura Osnes, “Bonnie & Clyde”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play

Christian Borle, “Peter and the Starcatcher”
Michael Cumpsty, “End of the Rainbow”
Tom Edden, “One Man, Two Guvnors”
Andrew Garfield, “Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman”
Jeremy Shamos, “Clybourne Park”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play

Linda Emond, “Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman”
Spencer Kayden, “Don’t Dress for Dinner”
Celia Keenan-Bolger, “Peter and the Starcatcher”
Judith Light, “Other Desert Cities”
Condola Rashad, “Stick Fly”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical

Phillip Boykin, “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess”
Michael Cerveris, “Evita”
David Alan Grier, “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess”
Michael McGrath, “Nice Work If You Can Get It”
Josh Young, “Jesus Christ Superstar”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical

Elizabeth A. Davis, “Once”
Jayne Houdyshell, “Follies”
Judy Kaye, “Nice Work If You Can Get It”
Jessie Mueller, “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever”
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “Ghost the Musical”

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It has been announced that a new production of Annie will be coming to Broadway in Fall 2012.

Director James Lapine and Choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler will be introducing Annie to a whole new generation of young Broadway musical fans.

Originally a comic strip from the 1920s (“Little Orphan Annie”), Annie is the story of an orphan who gets saved from that difficult life by a wealthy man, only to find it is harder to escape her ragtag roots, and the evil folks running the orphanage, than expected.

The music is memorable, possibly more identifiable than any other musical. Almost anybody can recite at least some of the lyrics to “Tomorrow”!

Annie won 7 Tony Awards including Best Musical back in 1977 when the original production debuted. It went on to run for 6 years.

Don’t miss your chance to bring the family to this great musical, find Annie tickets for it’s triumphant return to Broadway this fall.

With previews beginning on April 5, The Lyons will look to successfully make the leap to Broadway from Off-Broadway.

Linda Lavin stars as the matriarch of the dysfunctional Lyons family, her husband is terminally ill, her son is involved in a questionable relationship and her daughter is having difficulty dealing with it all.

Both humorous and touching, The Lyons deals with something most of us can all relate to – relatives and the complicated dealings among them.

With the whole family resistant to being close but still afraid of being alone, the impending death of Ben Lyons may serve as the bonding event that brings this family together at last.

The Lyons on Broadway is expected to be a popular play based upon the strong showing it made Off-Broadway.

See The Lyons on Broadway at the Cort Theatre. The Cort Theatre is located at 138 West 48th Street, New York, NY.

Catch it during previews or when the show officially opens, currently scheduled for April 23, 2012.

Newsies the Musical will begin a limited engagement at the Nederlander Theatre on March 15 and scheduled to close 12 weeks later on June 10.

Broadway musical fans are encouraged to orders Newsies the Musical tickets today if they have any plans of seeing this latest Disney production on Broadway.

Based on the 1992 Disney film of the same title, Newsies is based upon the 1899 true story of a courageous group of scrappy newsboys who become unlikely heroes when they rally forces to fight an unscrupulous newspaper tycoon.

Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre is anxiously awaiting the arrival of the smash hit Broadway musical, The Book of Mormon.

Performances are set to run from December 11, 2012 thru March 3, 2013 and expectations are that the show will be extended far beyond that at a future date. But as of right now, those are the only Chicago dates scheduled.

Winner of 9 Tony Awards including Best Musical, The Book of Mormon took Broadway by storm when it opened in February 2011.

The Book of Mormon is the brainchild of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the four-time Emmy Award-winning creators of the long-running hit animated series South Park.

Broadway theatre fans can find The Book of Mormon Tickets for most performances at SelectATicket.com.

Peter and the Starcatcher is a new play, with music but not necessarily a musical, which tells the story of how Peter Pan came to be.

It is based on the 2004 book “Peter and the Starcatcher”.

From the official website:

A wildly theatrical, hilarious and innovative retelling of how a miserable orphan came to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, PETER AND THE STARCATCHER upends the century-old legend of Peter Pan. Based on the best-selling Disney-Hyperion novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, PETER AND THE STARCATCHER is co-directed by Tony Award®-winning actor Roger Rees (Nicholas Nickleby) and Tony Award® nominee Alex Timbers (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Pee-wee Herman Show), and written by Tony Award® nominee Rick Elice (Jersey Boys). A dozen brilliant actors play more than a hundred unforgettable characters using their enormous talent, ingenious stagecraft and the limitless possibilities of imagination. Don’t miss this epic origin story of one of popular culture’s most enduring and beloved characters and discover the Neverland you never knew.

This prequel to Peter Pan will take you on a magical journey to Neverland, long before Peter and Tinkerbell brought Wendy and her brothers there.

Peter and the Starcatcher will be performing at Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre, with preview set for March and the official opening night is currently planned for April 15th.

This is going to be quite the production as a cast of 12 actors plays 50 different characters, all on a quest to answer the age-old question: Just how did Peter Pan become The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up?!

Fans are anxiously awaiting for this show to hit Broadway, you can find Peter and the Starcatcher tickets now and enjoy this great story which tells you all you ever wondered about Peter Pan and Neverland!

How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying has added Nick Jonas to the cast and the result has been an uptick in ticket sales, according to a report from CBS News.

“My fans are amazing. They have been so supportive. I think when they know there is something that I am really passionate about, they get behind it in a major way…They are truly the best fans in the world”, Jonas told CBS News

Jonas replaced departed star Daniel Radcliffe (of Harry Potter fame) and Jonas will remain in the role until July 1st.

Fans can find How to Succeed in Business tickets or any Broadway tickets for most performances by visiting SelectATicket.com.

Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, in 1964 made into a film starring Henry Fonda, is coming to Broadway. Previews begin on March 6th and Opening Night is April 1st but don’t let that date “fool” you, this play is going to be excellent.

Absolutely loaded with an unbelievable cast of talented, veteran actors, The Best Man is destined to be a major Broadway hit. Dealing with politics in an election year also does not hurt.

Just a few cast member names for you to process: Candice Bergen, John Larroquette, James Earl Jones and Angela Lansbury. Just one of those stars would make a show interesting but all four of them?! It is no wonder this is one of the most talked about Broadway shows opening up this year.

The Best Man revolves around two rival political figures who cannot stand each other. The two characters are competing for the presidential nomination of an unspecified political party and both have skeletons in their closet that could bring their aspirations to a grinding halt.

What unfolds and how this all plays out? You’ll just have to find out for yourself.

With such a star-studded cast, it is expected demand to see The Best Man is going to be very high. As a result, the best time to order The Best Man tickets is ‘as soon as possible’ so you’re not on the outside looking in!

Not quite boldly going where no man has gone before but a bold move nonetheless, dynamic personality and acting star William Shatner is going to star in a one man Broadway show entitled “Shatner’s World: We All Just Live In It.” The show starts in February at New York’s Music Box Theatre.

William Shatner has had countless starring roles in his over 50 years of acting. While his style is often mocked, it cannot be argued that he has been a tremendous success for whatever reason and his endearing personality and willingness to laugh at himself has served him well over the years.

Most famous for his starring role as Captain James T. Kirk in the legendary sci-fi series “Star Trek”, Shatner got loads of laughs from a Saturday Night Live skit in which he made fun of “Trekkies”, the intensely devoted fans of Star Trek.

His comedic skills were on display once again in the show “Boston Legal” as he played aging lawyer Denny Crane.

This one man Broadway show is going to be Shatner’s take on his life and career, pretty much anything goes! Who knows, maybe he’ll sing a song or two as he has been known to do, he does have a few record albums on his extensive resume as well.

The Music Box Theatre is located at 239 West 45th Street in Manhattan, the first show is scheduled for February 17.

Find Shatner’s World tickets today and see this limited run show before it is no longer on Broadway.

Dolly Parton, one of if not the most successful woman in country music, is reportedly working on an auto-biographical Broadway musical. The show will not star Dolly Parton but she plans on writing all the music and the story.

Broadway fans may recall Parton’s first journey into Broadway musicals didn’t fare as well as hoped, “9 to 5″ ended after a four month run. But if there is anything Dolly Parton has proven in her life is that when she wants something, she keeps working until she gets it and then keeps working to keep it. So you can bet she will conquer Broadway just as she conquered Nashville many years ago and then Hollywood with her successful acting career as well.

In January Parton will be starring in a new film with Queen Latifah called “Joyful Noise”. The movie is about two choir singers who have differing opinions on how to win the National Choir Competition. Is this is another project that perhaps could become a Broadway show someday? We’ll have to wait and see but don’t count anything out!

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