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The end in is sight for Tony-winning An American In Paris. The hit musical will end its Broadway run on Sunday, January 1, 2017. Since the first performance at the Palace Theatre on March 13, 2015, An American In Paris will have played 719 regular performances and 29 previews. "An American In Paris has been a dream…

Once a staple of bedtime talk shows, Broadway in recent decades usually has taken a back seat to Hollywood. But while it’s unlikely we’ll be seeing fewer movie stars anytime soon, the Gotham return of NBC’s The Tonight Show and Broadway fan Jimmy Fallon — not to mention the ever-growing population of screen stars…

The Drama League, a service group whose members are theatergoers from across the U.S., announced its 81st annual awards on Friday, providing a bit of chatter-worthy insight into how the winds are blowing for the June 7 Tony Awards. An American In Paris was voted Distinguished Production of a Musical, and The Curious In…

New York’s pre-Tony theater awards blitz is in spring bloom. Last week there were the N.Y. Drama Critics Circle tips, limited to plays and musicals. Yesterday were the Lortels, honoring off-Broadway shows and creatives. Today comes word from the Outer Critics Circle, whose voters include area media and which honor…

EXCLUSIVE: One of the busiest dance-makers on the world stage, Christopher Wheeldon just earned a pair of Tony nominations for his Broadway debut directing and choreographing An American In Paris. The show danced off with 12 nominations in all, matched only by another new musical, Fun Home. Born in England, Wheeldon…

UPDATED with complete list of nominees, quotes: The National Theatre of Great Britain’s ingenious adaptation of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time and a revival of David Hare’s end-of-the-affair romance Skylight, with Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, were among the most non-musical Tony nominees this…

Broadway this week welcomed a pair of lavishly produced revivals of 1950s musicals that were processed by MGM’s Arthur Freed unit into hugely popular movie musicals, both directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Leslie Caron: An American In Paris (six Oscars in 1951, including Best Picture), and Gigi (nine Oscars in…

UPDATE Sunday 8:30 P.M.: Adds Gigi review, following An American In Paris, below. In the weird time warp that Broadway sometimes can be, this season offers Betty Comden and Adolph Green owning 42nd Street with concurrent revivals of On The Town and On The Twentieth Century, while a few blocks north the MGM musicals…

It didn’t take long for the Nederlander Organization to fill the gap at the Palace Theatre left by the soon-to-depart Holler If Ya Hear Me. As Deadline reported previously, the producers of An American In Paris — the musical with old Gershwin songs and new everything else, including staging and dances by superstar…

Warner Bros has launched a digital publishing initiative called Inside the Script that offers a series of illustrated eBooks that present actual shooting scripts for classic movies including Casablanca, Ben-Hur, An American In Paris and North By Northwest. The eBooks are available on iBookstore, Kindle and Nook. The…