O'Donnell Celebrates B'day with 'View' Bway Performances

"The View" co-host Rosie O'Donnell will celebrate her birthday by welcoming cast members of The Color Purple, Les Misérables and A Chorus Line to the show on March 21st.

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"On my birthday, which is Wednesday, (we will welcome) cast members from The Color Purple. We're going to have a performance from them. We're going to have a performance from Les Misérables. We're going to have a performance from A Chorus Line, all here on my birthday. Three musical numbers. Kapow! Isn't that fantastic?," O'Donnell stated. 

O'Donnell, along with co-stars Barbara Walters, Joy Behar and Elizabeth Hasselbeck, is currently up for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host.  Formerly the host of "The Rosie O'Donnell Show," she has appeared on Broadway in Grease and Fiddler on the Roof.

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