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A historic night of musical theatre took place at The Dix Hills Center Performing Arts Center. The 1929 Rodgers & Hart musical Spring Is Here, was revived by Five Towns College Theatre Division students along with a handful of talented Broadway professionals.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party presented the return of Tony Award-winning actress/singer Christine Ebersole in concert on Monday, May 4 at 7pm. The evening was a continuation of the award-winning series, Broadway at Birdland.

Creative Alternatives of New York (225 West 99th Street), celebrating the use of theater to help New York's most vulnerable children and adults, honored Tony Award winner & Board Chairman, Dick Latessa, and Emily Nash, Artistic Director at this year's 25th Anniversary celebration, 'Broadway at the Boathouse,' which held at Loeb Central Park Boathouse (at East 72nd Street entrance) on May 4, 2009.

Point Foundation (Point), the nation's largest scholarship-granting organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students of merit, honored the recipients of its Courage, Inspiration and Legend Awards earlier this week.

Broadway star Lee Roy Reams received The Friars Club Thespian Award while honored by friends and colleagues in a star-studded musical tribute on Monday, April 20th at 8:30PM at The Friars Club (57 East 55th St). BroadwayWorld.com was there to cheer the theatre favorite on as he was joined by the starry crowd!

Following an extremely successful off Broadway run and the sale of the film rights to New Line Cinema, ROCK OF AGES opened on Broadway, tonight, Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre (256 W. 47th Street). Previews began on Tuesday, March 17, 2009. BroadwayWorld.com's 'rockin' cameras' were there to join the wild opening night crowd at the after party!

1776 held a press 'meet and greet' rehearsal yesterday at the New 42nd Street Studios in Times Square, BroadwayWorld.com was there to spend the day with the group of 'historical' greats!

George Watsky is the recipient of the Rod Parker Playwriting Festival Award and had his original play Harold's Fall or King Will produced by Emerson Stage from April 2 through April 4, 2009 in the Semel Theater at 10 Boylston Place.

HAIR began preview performances on Friday, March 6th, and celebrated its official opening last night, Tuesday, March 31, 2009. After a smash-hit run at Central Park's Delacorte Theater last summer, HAIR returns to Broadway for the first time in over 30 years. BroadwayWorld.com's cameras partied down with the cast as the post show celebration began!

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine, and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, continued its 10th Anniversary season with the debut of 'Avenue Q' and 'Shrek' star John Tartaglia on March 30th.

Tony Award-winners Philip Bosco, Jim Norton and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, as well as Cheyenne Jackson, Kate Baldwin, and Jeremy Bobb starred in Finian's Rainbow, the final production of New York City Center's 2008-09 Encores! season, preformances ran from March 26 - 29. BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there to celebrate with the cast at the closing night party!

GLAAD Media Award recipients were announced in 29 of this year's 41 media categories at the 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards presented by IBM and Prudential at New York's Marriott Marquis on Saturday night, March 28th. BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there to catch all the starry excitement!

On March 12, 2009 at 7:00 p.m., The Collegiate Chorale appeared with The New York City Opera Orchestra at the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall in a performance of Kurt Weill and Ira Gershwin's 1945 Broadway operetta The Firebrand of Florence.

On Monday, March 9th, 2009 the Friars Club presented DIVO NIGHT! in the Frank Sinatra Dining Room at the Friars Club.

The curtain rose for the fifth consecutive year as the spotlight shined center stage on stars from ABC's 'All My Children,' 'One Life to Live' and 'General Hospital' as they sang and danced on Broadway for one night only in support of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The show, hosted by Cameron Mathison, was held on Monday, March 9 at Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street).

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY continued its 10th Anniversary season with the second sold-out appearance of Broadway star Cheyenne Jackson on Sunday, March 8th.

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine, and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, continued its 10th Anniversary season with the nightclub debut of Broadway star Cheyenne Jackson on March 2nd.

Guys and Dolls stars Oliver Platt ('Nathan Detroit'), Lauren Graham ('Miss Adelaide'), Craig Bierko ('Sky Masterson') and Kate Jennings Grant ('Sarah Brown'). The first joint Broadway project by two-time Tony Award winning director Des McAnuff and choreographer Sergio Trujillo since their collaboration on the Tony Award winning musical Jersey Boys, Guys and Dolls began previews on February 5, 2009 at Broadway's newly refurbished Nederlander Theatre (208 West 41st Street). The cast celebrated Opening Night on March 1, 2009 and BroadwayWorld's cameras joined the 'dames and gents' as they partied after the show!

On Monday evening, February 23 at 8:00pm, the Broadway community (and beyond) came together for one of the most important events of the year - Defying Inequality: The Broadway Concert -- A Celebrity Benefit for Equal Rights, a one-night only concert event at the Gershwin Theatre (222 W. 51st Street). BroadwayWorld.com was there to celebrate the historic and emotional evening!

On Monday evening, February 23 at 8:00pm, the Broadway community (and beyond) came together for one of the most important events of the year - Defying Inequality: The Broadway Concert -- A Celebrity Benefit for Equal Rights, a one-night only concert event at the Gershwin Theatre (222 W. 51st Street). BroadwayWorld.com was there to celebrate the historic and emotional evening!