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After five weeks of packed houses and standing ovations, Toronto audiences cannot seem to get enough of the touring production of TONY Award-winning musical FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, starring Harvey Fierstein. Due to popular demand, the production will return to Toronto's Canon Theatre for one week only, June 8 - 13, 2010. Tickets to this limited return engagement are now on sale.

Chazz Palminteri will guest star as 'Shorty' in an upcoming episode of 'Modern Family' on ABC. The episode, titled 'Fifteen Percent' begins when Mitchell plants the seed in Jay's head that he thinks one of Jay's old buddies, Shorty, might be secretly gay.

CBS's hit sitcom, How I Met Your Mother, will celebrate the broadcast of its 100th episode on January 11 at 8:00pm. In the episode, Neil Patrick Harris busts out in song and dance when Barney (Harris) is torn between a hot woman -- Karina, the bartender -- and his suit. He is joined by the entire cast in the musical number, 'Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit,' written by the show's exec producers/creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, as Barney debates surrendering his suits in order to land Karina (Stacy Keibler). BroadwayWorld brings you the musical sneak peak of Neil Patrick Harris starring in 'Girls vs. Suits' below!

For former Spring Awakening star Lea Michele, landing her GLEE gig was far from smooth sailing. The actress recently sat down with Us Weekly Magazine to discuss her role, revealing that she nearly missed her audition after wrecking her car in a car crash outside of the FOX lot. Listen to the ordeal and watch clips of the star's audition below!

Sarah Stiles, who starred as Kate Monster and Lucy in AVENUE Q on Broadway, will re-join the cast of the musical now at New World Stages (340 W. 50 St. in Manhattan) starting Friday, January 8, 2010.

In celebration of Black History Month 2010, The Working Theater Mark Plesent, Producing Director, will present award-winning Broadway star André De Shields performing his solo work-in-progress entitled Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory: From Douglass to Deliverance for 12 performances only from Thursday, February 4 through Sunday February 14 at the Abingdon Theater, 312 West 36 Street. Conceived, researched and written by Mr. De Shields, Mine Eyes is directed by Alfred Preisser.

Entertainment Weekly's Pop Watch Blog now features the first exclusive photo from the new Broadway production of Arthur Miller's A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Entertainment Weekly, on stands tomorrow, Friday, January 8, will feature a second exclusive image from the play.

Directors Guild of America President Taylor Hackford today announced the five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2009.

The nominees for the final South Bank Show Awards for 2010 have been announced, and include An Education and The Seagull stage star Carey Mulligan, and Enron playwright Lucy Prebble. Enron will be making its Broadway premiere this spring. Both are up for The Times Breakthrough Award, which will be presented by Sir Ian McKellen.

Chace Crawford, Cameron Diaz and Jodie Foster are the latest celebrities to be confirmed presenters at the '67th AnnuAl Golden Globe Awards.'

Alec Baldwin, George Clooney, Jane Lynch, Michelle Monaghan, Chris O'Donnell, Anna Paquin, Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci will be presenters at the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, Executive Producer Jeff Margolis announced today. They join previously announced presenter Sandra Bullock in honoring their colleagues at this years Actors ceremony.

Today the Long List for the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2010 has been released.

Entertainment icon Donny Osmond will host a new lifestyle-driven music radio show targeting the advertiser-coveted female demographic for radio syndication network Citadel Media. The Donny Osmond Show was developed with broadcast industry consultant Mike McVay of McVay Media and will be the first offering from McVay Syndication. The program will air weekdays from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. and will launch nationally on January 18 with 60 stations. The Donny Osmond Show will provide an energetic, upbeat option for stations seeking a workday connection with their listeners and is designed for both adult contemporary and classic hits radio formats.

It has been confirmed that country singer and former American Idol champ will be making her acting debut in March when she guest stars on How I Met Your Mother.

The much hyped re-release of Beauty and the Beast in Disney Digital 3-D, which has previously been scheduled for February 12, 2010, has been dropped from the 2010 schedule, a Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures PR confirmed to thedisneyblog.com today.

IMDB News reports that stage and screen star Matthew Broderick, most recently seen in The New Group's Starry Messenger, has repeatedly turned offers to make guests appearances alongside his wife, Sarah Jessica Parker, in Sex and the City.

Twitter Watch shines a BWW spotlight on Mandy Gonzalez, the Drama Desk-winning actress who is currently starring on Broadway in IN THE HEIGHTS at the Richard Rogers Theatre.

Ars Nova presents Missed Connections NYC, short plays by Ars Nova's Play Group, playing for five performances only January 27 - 31. From the pages of Craigslist to the Ars Nova stage, Ars Nova's Play Group presents a night of short plays and live music inspired by ads for the ones that got away. Featuring plays by Annie Baker, Bekah Brunstetter, Dylan Dawson, Kristoffer Diaz, Zayd Dohrn, Tasha Gordon-Solmon, Amy Herzog, Samuel D. Hunter, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Steven Levenson, Matthew Lopez, Janine Nabers and Samuel Brett Williams, the show will be directed by Stephen Brackett, Adrienne Campbell-Holt, Tamara Fisch, Wes Grantom and Kerry Whigham.

Walt Disney has released the first promotion photo of the upcoming Alice in Wonderland, directed by Tim Burton and starring a host of big names including Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Mia Wasikowska as 19-year-old Alice, Matt Lucas -star of Little Britain - as both Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Helena Bonham Carter as Red Queen, Stephen Fry as the Cheshire Cat, stage and screen star Anne Hathaway as The White Queen, stage and screen star Alan Rickman as the Caterpillar, and Crispin Glover as the Knave of Hearts.

The New York Times has confirmed that THE ORPHAN'S HOME CYCLE will aim for a fall 2010 Broadway opening, as opposed to rushing the show in this spring, as we previously speculated. While the show had the opportunity to transfer from its current home Off-Broadway at the Signature Theatre into the Neil Simon Theatre on Broadway for a spring opening, the producers and director Michael Wilson have opted to take the extra time to better prepare the show for the move.