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Celebrate the Fourth of July by seeing the fireworks... on Broadway! The new 'Broadway on the Fourth' program allows you to purchase discounted show tickets to some of the best shows on Broadway. Orchestra/Front Mezzanine seating for 8 Broadway shows is available at the low price of $59. The offer is valid for performances taking place June 29 through July 10, 2009.

Five-time Tony Award Nominated smash hit musical, ROCK OF AGES, along with US Air Guitar (the official air guitar association of the United States who is responsible for operating the US Air Guitar Championships) will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for Largest Air Guitar Ensemble immediately following the matinee performance on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 (at 4:30pm) at The Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 256 W. 47th Street.

The entire cast and all-star band of HAIR, the Tony-Award Winning Best Musical Revival, will perform live on the 'Good Morning America' Summer Concert Series tomorrow, Friday, June 26, during the 8:30 a.m. half-hour in Central Park. This concert will be open to the public with special surprises in-store for the live audience!

Tony Award winner Christian Hoff, Richard Kind, Liz Larsen and Glory Crampton will star in GUYS AND DOLLS at the Ogunquit Playhouse. The musical will run July 15 through August 8, with previews July 15 and 16 and an opening set for July 16. Additional casting will be announced shortly.

As part of Morning Edition's 'Open Mic' series on NPR, IN THE HEIGHTS creator Lin-Manuel Miranda sat down with NEXT TO NORMAL composer Tom Kitt and the legendary John Kander for a unique roundtable interview.

Williamstown Theatre Festival Artistic Director Nicholas Martin has announced the cast of the final Nikos Stage show of the 2009 season, Caroline in Jersey by Melinda Lopez (Sonia Flew, Alexandros) and directed by Amanda Charlton (WTF Artistic Associate, Dissonance) playing August 5-16.

Nicholas Rodriguez will join the cast of 'One Life to Live' in August. The news was initially reported by AfterElton.com. The actor will play 'Nick' on the long-running daytime soap, but no further details have been released. It is rumored that the role will be a gay character involved with the budding gay couple's story - reportedly as the latin lover of 'Kyle Lewis'.

From the genius who created the smash hit, 'Rent,' comes 'tick, tick...BOOM!,' a vital American musical about a young artist on the verge in New York City. Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, Connecticut, will stage this lesser-known work by Jonathan Larson, June 23 through July 18. The director is Scott Schwartz, who helmed the original off-Broadway production of 'tick, tick... BOOM!,' winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for outstanding musical.

Emmy Award-winning broadcaster John Callaway has passed away. The noted journalist died June 23 from a heart attack. He was 72 years old. Callaway is the father of Broadway performers Ann Hampton Callaway and Liz Callaway.

The first national tour of the Broadway hit musical, Legally Blonde the Musical, will open Starlight Theatre's 2009 season with a six-night run on June 30-July 5.

Two local winners in Starlight Theatre's 2009 Blue Star Awards competition depart this week on a five-day journey to New York City, where they'll participate in the first annual National High School Musical Theater Awards. Johnson Countians Samantha Steinmetz, 18, and Keegan Rice, 17, are among 32 teens who will compete for The Jimmy Award for Best Performance by an Actress and Best Performance by an Actor.

Following a series of sold-out readings last spring, LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE, an intimate collection of stories by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron, will play a 12-week run at New York's Westside Theatre (407 West 43rd Street). Preview performances will begin on September 21, 2009, with the opening night set for October 1. The announcement was made today by producer Daryl Roth.

The 82nd Academy Awards, which will be presented on March 7, 2010, will have 10 feature films vying in the Best Picture category, Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis announced today (June 24) at a press conference in Beverly Hills.

The Broadway production of WICKED will perform an additional performance on Sunday, June 28th at 8pm to benefit The Actors Fund. All of the actors' salaries and all of ticket sales will be donated to The Actors Fund benefiting people in film, theater, television, music, opera, and dance.

SPEECH & DEBATE plays at the Unicorn Theatre and runs June 12th through July 12th with previews on June 10th and 11th

Fox television series GLEE has another reason to celebrate; famed R&B singer Eve will appear on the new show, according to Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello. Eve will play a 'no-nonsense girls' choir director from a rival school'. The Grammy Award-winning singer will appear in a two-episode arc.

Acclaimed British tenor and 2007 Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts will be thrilling US concert stages this summer and you can win the chance for a pair of tickets to see him right here on BWW! There is still time to win June tickets!

Oscar-winning songwriter Joseph Brooks, famous for writing 'You Light Up My Life,' has been indicted on sex assault charges. The writer is a suspect in two rapes, a sodomy case and two sexual assaults, the NY Daily News reports.

Two-Time Tony Award nominee André De Shields, who created the title role of 'The Wiz' in the original Broadway production (1975), caught the ENCORES! production of 'The Wiz' last night and visited the members of the cast backstage.

The Philanthropist star Matthew Broderick and Sex in the City comedic ace Sarah Jessica Parker, welcomed twin girls on Monday, June 22nd. The surrogate birth comes a few weeks ahead of schedule, but the babies are reportedly healthy. The news was announced this morning by Barbara Walters on 'The View'.