AVENUE Q winner of three 2004 Tony Awards including Best Musical will conclude its celebrated 15 year run in New York on April 28, 2019, it has been announced by the show's producers. Produced by Kevin McCollum, Robyn Goodman, Jeffrey Seller, Vineyard Theatre and The New Group, AVENUE Q will have played a total of 6537 performances upon closing from its first Broadway preview on July 14, 2003 to its final performance at New World Stages 340 W. 50 St. on April 28 next year.

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Tony Goldwyn sat down with Kelly and Ryan this morning to chat about NETWORK on Broadway Check out the clip here.

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Later today, December 10,The Shops at Columbus Circle10 Columbus Circle will continue its third year of Broadway Under the Stars, a five-week series of free public performances taking place this holiday season. Select cast from today's hottest Broadway musicals will perform against the backdrop of the famous twelve massive stars. These stars are the largest specialty crafted exhibit of illuminated color display in the world, which hang from the 100-foot-high ceilings. Performances are free to attend and open to the public, no reservations or tickets are required.

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Just last night, New York Stage and Film held its annual Winter Gala, featuring performances and appearances by Tony Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist Jon Robin Baitz, Tony Award nominee Santino Fontana, David Forman, Tony Award winner John Gallagher Jr, Grammy Award nominee Rob Hyman, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Screen Actors Guild Award nominee Mozhan Marno, Bonnie Milligan, Manu Narayan, Josh Radnor, Dee Roscioli, Academy Award and Tony Award winner John Patrick Shanley, Grammy Award and Tony Award winner Duncan Sheik, and Obie Award winner Lucy Thurber. Brian Usifer served as Musical Director.

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Australian recording artistCody Simpsonmade his Broadway debut inAnastasialast as leading man 'Dmitry.' See all-new photos of Cody in the production below

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Ruben StuddardAndClay Aikenjoin forces forRuben amp Clay's First Annual Christmas Carol Family Fun Pageant Spectacular Reunion Showaka Ruben amp Clay's Christmas Show,the monumental, one-of-a-kind Holiday spectacular Broadway show opening Tuesday December 11th, at the prestigious Imperial Theatre 249 West 45thStreet. Get a first look at the show below

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Kiss Me, Kate is coming back to Broadway with favorite Tony winning soprano Kelli O'Hara leading the cast alongside Will Chase. Below, watch as Chase gets in the holiday spirit by wrapping gifts for some of his co-stars

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Welcome to this week's edition of BroadwayWorld's exclusive WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS Read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, for the week ending 1292018.

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Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 1292018.

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School is still in session, but it won't be for longAs BroadwayWorld previously reported, School of Rock, which opened to rave reviews on Sunday, December 6, 2015, will play its final Broadway performance at the Winter Garden Theatre on January 20, 2019. By that date, the show will have run for more than 3 years, playing 1,307 performances and 31 previews.

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Think you have what it takes to navigate the halls of North Shore High Telsey casting announced today that the Broadway production of Mean Girls will be holding an open call for future female replacements in the Tony nominated musical

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This New Year's Eve, Live From Lincoln Center rings in 2019 by celebrating the beautiful intersection of classical music, popular musical theater, and dance. Marking the beginning of Lincoln Center's 60th anniversary celebration, Grammy winner and beloved soprano Renee Fleming performs as soloist alongside the New York Philharmonic, led by new Music Director Jaap van Zweden in his Live From Lincoln Center debut. Tony winner and Grammy and Emmy nominee Kelli O'Hara guest hosts the broadcast, airing live on PBS Monday, December 31 at 900 pm.

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BroadwayWorld has learned Tony Award-winning actress Jessie Mueller Waitress, Carousel will reunite with Beautiful director Marc Bruni Broadway Center Stage How to Succeed... for the Broadway Center Stage production of Meredith Willson's The Music Man at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Mueller stars as Marian Paroo opposite the previously announced Tony Award nominee Norm Lewis Porgy and Bess as Harold Hill. Also joining the creative team for the Kennedy Center's latest starry concert production is choreographer Chris Bailey Jerry Springer The Opera, The New Yorkers at Encores and music director James Moore Miss Saigon, the Kennedy Center's Follies and Ragtime.

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St. Ann's Warehouse presents the U.S. Premiere of The Jungle, the immensely acclaimed Good Chance Theatre co-production with the National Theatre and Young Vic. The show officially opened last night. Let's see what the critics are saying...

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The top growing current Broadway musicals wereThe Cher Show23.09,The Prom3.13,King Kong1.89,Once On this Island1.85 andMy Fair Lady1.85.The top growing current Broadway plays wereNetwork14.08,To Kill A Mockingbird11.20,The New One8.00,The Waverly Gallery6.85 andTorch Song6.16.The top growing upcoming Broadway productions wereTootsie The Musical11.11,Moulin Rouge4.87,Hadestown3.62,Ain't Too Proud2.91 andBe More Chill1.91.

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Olivier Award nominee Catherine McCormack All My Sons, Braveheart will join the company of Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman, directed by Sam Mendes, beginning Tuesday, December 18. McCormack will make her Broadway debut in the role of Mary Carney, which she first played in the London cast, when Genevieve O'Reilly departs the production on Sunday, December 16.

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Curious about how a popular song became a cherished film and a Broadway musical We've got the full story Check out our in-depth timeline of how White Christmas came to be below

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It was over fifty years ago when designer Boris Aronson famously let a large mirror hang from the set of CABARET, forcing audience members to see their own reflections to bring home the point that what was happening in 1930s Germany could very well happen in America. And while that symbolic gesture may have become a bit of a cliche in the ensuing decades as it got used by other artists for other plays and musicals, designer Clint Ramos ads a provocative twist with the fully mirrored upstage wall in his design for Jeremy O. Harris' extremely daring, highly original and undoubtedly thought-provoking satirical drama, SLAVE PLAY.

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Pretty Woman the Musical is continuing to break box office records at the Nederlander Theatre.It was just announced that Atlantic Records will release PRETTY WOMAN THE MUSICAL ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING as a special 2-LP red vinyl edition on Friday, January 18, 2019.

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New York Theatre Workshop presents the world premiere of Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris Daddy, Zola, directed by two-time Obie Award winner Robert O'HaraBootycandy, which will now play additional performances through Sunday January 13, 2019. Slave Play began previews on Monday, November 19, 2018 and opened last night, Sunday, December 9 at New York Theatre Workshop 79 E. 4th Street New York, NY 10003.

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Below, BroadwayWorld brings you this weekly listing of Broadway shows and their show times for December 10-16, 2018.

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Lerner amp Loewe's Brigadoon - New York City Center 2017 Cast Recording, featuring Tony Award-winner Kelli O'Hara and Patrick Wilson, was just released last week. Below, watch was O'Hara, Wilson and the rest of the cast hit the recording studio

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BroadwayWorld has teamed up with Broadway alum Ilana Levine, who makes her entrance onto the podcast stage with her new show Little Known Facts. Ilana's unique brand of celebrity interview, 'Podcast Verite,' is unfiltered, raw, honest and uniquely funny.

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Lena Hall's ambitious and successful year long EP project - Lena Hall OBSESSED - comes to end this month with her lovely tribute to Chris Cornell, the iconic front man of Soundgarden and Audioslave. The four-track OBSESSED CHRIS CORNELL stands as a vivid and stirring conclusion to the series, offering listeners the entrancing angst of the grunge era and a delightful reprieve from effusively ebullient holiday music.

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From stage to screen, Broadway will be represented on TV for the week of December 10, 2018