The Book of Mormon star talks about being nominated for his first Tony Award.

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GET TICKETS TO "THE BOOK OF MORMON": www.broadway.com Audiences surprised by the heartwarming and endearing moments of Broadway's raunchy musical hit The Book of Mormon have lovable actress Nikki M. James to thank. James, who plays African villager Nabulungi, recently stopped by Broadway.com's studio to chat with Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek about her new honor as a Tony nominee. A lifelong Broadway superfan, James admits sending Audra McDonald fan mail and sleeping on the street to score tickets to Rent. In her Show People interview, James recalls having to sign a confidentiality agreement during Mormon's early workshops, understudying Kristen Bell in her first Broadway gig, and how she plans on celebrating her upcoming milestone birthday. Take a look below!

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The acclaimed actor reflects on his Tony Award-nominated turn playing the title role of William Shakespeare's Hamlet on Broadway.

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MySpace.com Brad Oscar is an American musical theatre actor known for his Broadway performances in musicals such as The Producers and Jekyll and Hyde. The former garnered him a Tony Award nomination. Oscar's Broadway debut was in the 1990 musical Aspects of Love as a swing. His next roles were in Jekyll and Hyde as Sir Peter, Archibald Proops, Barrow Boy, and Second Gentleman. His performance, however, in The Producers garnered him the most acclaim. Oscar started out as Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind, and was also understudy for Max Bialystock (one of the lead roles) and Roger De Bris. The role of Franz earned Oscar a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. After this success, he replaced Nathan Lane as Bialystock. In 2007, he originated the Bialystock role in the Las Vegas production at the Paris Casino. He has appeared in several productions at the Arena Stage in Washington, DC In 2005 he played "The Devil" (Mr. Applegate) in Damn Yankees, and in October 2006 he played "The Master of Ceremonies" in Cabaret. He has completed playing multiple roles, including "Lady Enid", in The Mystery of Irma Vep from June 2008 through July 13, 2008. Other regional work includes the title role in the musical Barnum, at the Asolo Repertory Theatre (Florida), from November 12, 2008 through December 20. An all-star cast — including Ana Gasteyer, Carolee Carmello and Adriane Lenox — will appear in an industry reading of the new musical First Wives Club Feb. 2 in Manhattan <b>...</b>

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Tonys Best Actress contender Allison Janney discusses her Broadway turn with Gold Derby blogger Tom O'Neil of TheEnvelope.com

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The nominees answer: "Are You A Competitive Person?" Once again Gavin Creel made me laugh a lot. Brian Yorkey Next to Normal Lee Hall Billy Elliot Marin Ireland Reasons to Be Pretty Stephen Mangan the Norman Conquests John Glover Waiting for Godot Brian D'Arcy James Shrek Geoffrey Rush Exit the King Marc Kudisch 9 to 5 Gregory Jbara Will Swenson Hair Christopher Sieber Peter Darling Zach Grenier 33 Variations J Robert Spencer Next to Normal Diane Paulus Carole Shelley Alice Ripley Jane Fonda Janet McTeer Harriet Walter Gavin Creel Liza Minelli Martha Plimpton Hunter Bell Title of Show

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Tony best actress rival Sutton Foster ("Shrek") discusses the Broadway adaptation of the hit film with Tom O'Neil, Gold Derby blogger of TheEnvelope.com

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Tonys contender Jane Fonda dishes with Tom O'Neil of Gold Derby / TheEnvelope.com about her Broadway play "33 Variations," her father's history with the Tonys, her Oscars bout with Katharine Hepburn and her Emmy victory for "The Dollmaker" (her favorite movie role)

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Actors Matthew Broderick and Anika Noni Rose, announce the nominees for the 65th Annual Tony Awards. The Tony Awards will be broadcast on CBS on Sunday, June 12th at 8/7 central.

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Tony Award nominee Christopher Gattelli talks with Just Dance about the athletic choreography in the world premiere of Newsies the Musical at Paper Mill Playhouse. Find out who inspired his movement, and how newspapers are incorporated into the dances. Featuring music by eight-time Academy Award®-winning composer Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast; Sister Act; The Little Mermaid), lyrics by Jack Feldman and a new book by four-time Tony® Award winner Harvey Fierstein (La Cage aux Folles, Torch Song Trilogy), Newsies is adapted for the stage from the 1992 live-action Disney feature film musical. Newsies will be directed at Paper Mill Playhouse by Tony® nominee Jeff Calhoun (The Will Rogers Follies; Brooklyn: The Musical; Grey Gardens). Tony® nominated Christopher Gattelli (South Pacific; Altar Boy; Silence: The Musical) serves as choreographer. Revolutionary newsie Jack Kelly will be portrayed by Jeremy Jordan of Broadway's West Side Story and Rock of Ages. Tony® Award nominee John Dossett will play newspaper giant Joseph Pulitzer. Kara Lindsay will play Katherine Jordan will be joined by fellow newsies: Ben Fankhauser as Davey; RJ Fattori and Vincent Agnello sharing the role of Les; Andrew Keenan-Bolger as Crutchie; Tommy Bracco as Spot Conlon; Brendon Stimson as Oscar Delancey, Mike Faist as Morris Delancey; Aaron J. Albano, Ryan Breslin, Kyle Coffman, Max Ehrich (Jack U/S), JP Ferreri, Garett Hawe, Corey Hummerston, Evan Kasprzak, Andy Richardson, Scott Shedenhelm and <b>...</b>

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Tony Awards nominees for best lead and featured actress Alice Ripley and Jennifer Damiano discuss their Broadway show "Next to Normal" (contender for best musical) with Gold Derby blogger Tom O'Neil of TheEnvelope.com

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Tony and Drama Desk awards nominees Jude Law, Valerie Harper, Katie Finneran, Robin DeJesus, Christopher Fitzgerald, Levi Kreis, and even the puppets from 'Stuffed and Unstrung' offer advice to acting newcomers. www.backstage.com

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Broadway Speaks OUT attended that 63rd Annual Tony Award Announcements with Cynthia Nixon and Lin Manuel Miranda announcing the nominees.

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www.tonyawards.com See how the 2011 Tony Award nominees for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical reacted to their nominations. The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards® are presented by Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing. Tune in to the broadcast live on Sunday June 12th, only on CBS.

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Tony Award nominees including Mark Rylance ('Jerusalem'), George C. Wolfe (director, 'The Normal Heart'), Tammy Blanchard ('How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying'), Mackenzie Crook ('Jerusalem'), and more offer advice for new actors. www.backstage.com

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www.playbill.com Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff plays Danny Larsen, a promising playwright on a crash course with destiny, in the world premiere of Jeff Talbott's "The Submission", a dramatic comedy about race, words, sexuality and ownership of story. The cast also includes "True Blood" star Rutina Wesley as an African-American actress who plays Danny's "front" after he chooses a nom de plume, Eddie Kaye Thomas as his partner and Will Rogers as his best friend. The MCC Theater production is scheduled to run through Oct. 22 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. For his work, the playwright received the first Laurents-Hatcher Award, established by Arthur Laurents, earlier this year.

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Tom O'Neil of Gold Derby chats with Tony nominees Alfred Molina and Eddie Redmayne about "Red," the hit Broadway play about expressionist artist Mark Rothko.

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Hard to believe, but it's true, in the 83 years of the Academy Awards history only nine (!) women have been recognized for their cinematic contributions with The Academy Honorary Award: Greta Garbo (1955), Lillian Gish (1971), Mary Pickford (1976), editor Margaret Booth (1978), Barbara Stanwyck (1982), Myrna Loy (1991), Sophia Loren (1991), Deborah Kerr (1994), and Lauren Bacall (2009). The rest of them were obviously, men. Ms. Lansbury is a perfect, and one of the most deserving candidates to be recognized with an Honorary Oscar for her outstanding contribution to the art of film. The legendary Angela Lansbury, CBE (born 16 October 1925) is an English actress and singer whose career has spanned almost seven decades. Highly respected for her versatility, Ms. Lansbury has been nominated for three Academy Awards, eighteen Emmy Awards, won five Tony Awards and six Golden Globes. Ms. Lansbury was contracted by MGM while still a teenager and nominated for an Academy Award for her first film, Gaslight (1944). Year later she was again nominated for Best Supporting Actress, this time for The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). That made Ms. Lansbury the youngest actress to receive a second Oscar nomination by the age of 20, a record that she still holds. Ms. Lansbury's performance in The Manchurian Candidate (1962) in which she played Mrs. Iselin, the cold-blooded mother of a war veteran is not only her best screen performance, but also one of the greatest female performances ever to <b>...</b>

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www.playbill.com Norbert Leo Butz, a Best Actor Tony Award nominee for "Catch Me If You Can", talks about the complexity of the characters behind the kicklines and glitter, and the challenge of getting his repressed FBI-agent — one of three "broken male psyches" in Terrence McNally's script — to break into choreographer Jerry Mitchell's show-stopping dance number, "Don't Break the Rules."

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Musicals seem to get all the Tony love, so it's nice to see Whoopi Goldberg doing a great job presenting the nominees for Best Play at the 2008 Tony Awards. It's too bad the video clips of the plays themselves are so short! August: Osage County (winner) Rock 'n' Roll The Seafarer The 39 Steps

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I am a big fan of the Tony Awards. Tee hee :) Full list of nominees: www.tonyawards.com personal channel: www.youtube.com

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2007 Tony Awards Nominee Brooks Ashmanskas (Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for "Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me" talks about the backstage life as one of the stars of the Huntington Theatre Company's production of "Present Laughter," running May 18-June 17. www.huntingtontheatre.org

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www.playbill.com Tony nominated for his performance in "Big River," Michael McElroy ("The Who's Tommy," "Rent") joins Seth to explore the mystery of how a cast full of altos managed to get through the sky-high score of "Dreamgirls." (Hint: it involves going to church, some crazy vibrato and a touch of dead eyes.) Finally, the pair explore how a little "church time" could have helped McElroy nab that Tony Award.

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"9 to 5: The Musical" has been nominated for two Tony Awards!!!

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The American Theatre Wing's 2011 Tony Award® nominations were announced on Tuesday, May 3rd. The next day our friend Julie James of SIRIUS XM radio got the reactions from this year's nominees including: Edie Falco (The House of Blue Leaves), Andrew Rannells ("The Book of Mormon"), Judith Light ("Lombardi"), Beth Leavel ("Baby It's You!"),Victoria Clark ("Sister Act") and more!

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broadwayworld.com for more information. Performances began on Sunday, August 7th 2011 for James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim's FOLLIES, directed by Eric Schaeffer, with choreography by Warren Carlyle and music direction by James Moore. With a 28-piece orchestra, FOLLIES features a cast of 41 and stars two-time Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters as Sally Durant Plummer, four-time Tony Award nominee Jan Maxwell as Phyllis Rogers Stone, two-time Tony Award nominee Danny Burstein as Buddy Plummer, three-time Emmy Award nominee Ron Raines as Benjamin Stone and Olivier Award winner Elaine Paige as Carlotta Campion. Broadway Beat was on hand for the entire celebratory evening and brings you interviews with the cast and creative team!

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The American Theatre Wing's 2011 Tony Award® nominations were announced on Tuesday, May 3rd. The next day our friend Julie James of SIRIUS XM radio chatted with this year's nominees including: Andrew Rannells and Rory O'Malley ("The Book of Mormon"), Joshua Henry ("The Scottsboro Boys") Beth Leavel ("Baby It's You!"),Victoria Clark ("Sister Act") and Tony Sheldon ("Priscilla Queen of the Desert").

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www.playbill.com Nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her work in "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown", Patti LuPone speaks on the value, thrill and infrequency of being chosen to originate a new role — and the obligation of the Broadway community to support playwrights, lyricists and composers who are working on new and original material.

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Theatre is about telling a story. TonyAwards.com collaborated with SMITH Magazine (SmithMag.net), the creators of the Six-Word Memoirs (TM) project, by asking the 2010 Tony Award nominees to create their own Six-Word Memoirs to define that singular moment, "What's your nomination story?" Their humorous heartfelt stories, in six: -Video by: Robert Postotnik

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www.tonyawards.com See how the 2011 Tony Award nominees for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical reacted to their nominations. The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards® are presented by Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing. Tune in to the broadcast live on Sunday June 12th, only on CBS.

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Academy Award and Tony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave and Academy Award nominee and 2-time Tony Award winner James Earl Jones at the 65th Annual Tony awards

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Katie Couric speaks with Kelsey Grammer, Tony Award nominee for "La Cage aux Folles." Grammer talks about playing Dr. Frasier Crane, overcoming personal tragedies, and being a conservative in Hollywood.

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Drury Lane Theatre presents Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning masterpiece SWEENEY TODD, previewing August 11, opening August 17 at 7 pm and running through October 9 at Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane. This razor-sharp tale of murder and corruption is Directed and Choreographed by multi-Jeff Award winner Rachel Rockwell (Ragtime and Miss Saigon at Drury Lane Theatre), who was named "Best Director" by Chicago Magazine in 2010. SWEENEY TODD stars four-time Tony Award nominee Gregg Edelman as "Sweeney Todd" (nominated as Best Actor in a Musical for City of Angels, Anna Karenina, 1776, and Into the Woods; other Broadway credits include Evita, Cabaret, and Les Miserables and the films Little Children and Spider-Man 2). Bistro Award winner and NYMF Award recipient Liz McCartney stars as "Mrs. Lovett" (The Phantom of the Opera, Mamma Mia!, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Les Miserables on Broadway). Drury Lane Theatre presents Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning masterpiece SWEENEY TODD, previewing August 11, opening August 17 at 7 pm and running through October 9 at Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane. This razor-sharp tale of murder and corruption is Directed and Choreographed by multi-Jeff Award winner Rachel Rockwell (Ragtime and Miss Saigon at Drury Lane Theatre), who was named "Best Director" by Chicago Magazine in 2010. SWEENEY TODD stars four-time Tony Award nominee Gregg Edelman as "Sweeney Todd" (nominated as Best Actor in a Musical for City of Angels, Anna <b>...</b>

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www.playbill.com Tony nominees Robert Lopez (Best Book and Score), Casey Nicholaw (Best Direction of a Musical) Nikki M. James (Best Featured Actress in a Musical) and Andrew Rannells (Best Actor in a Musical) weigh in on pushing the boundaries of good taste — and when to dial back the profane and the offensive in order to bring out the heart of "The Book of Mormon".

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www.playbill.com Highlights from 2010 Tony Award nominee for Best Musical, "Million Dollar Quartet," the new musical that was inspired by the famed 1956 recording session that brought together four of the most legendary figures in the history of rock 'n' roll: Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley.

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Theatre is about telling a story. TonyAwards.com collaborated with SMITH Magazine (SmithMag.net), the creators of the Six-Word Memoirs (TM) project, by asking the 2011 Tony Award nominees to create their own Six-Word Memoirs to define that singular moment, "What's your nomination story?" Their humorous heartfelt stories, in six: -Video by: Robert Postotnik

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The final episode of Road to the Tonys spends a day with nominee Laura Bell Bundy as she gets her hair done and finds a dress for the this Sunday's Tony Awards. We also talk to show producers/director Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss about the making of the Tony Awards.

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