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UPDATES with more information below. Broadway and Hollywood greats took the stage at the packed New Amsterdam Theatre today to salute the life and adventures of Roger Rees, the Broadway and television (Cheers, The West Wing) star who died in July at 71. Among those remembering the Welsh-born actor with words, song…

UPDATED with more details, Broadway to dim lights: Roger Rees, who won Olivier and Tony awards in the early 1980s for his performance as the title character in The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby, died Friday in New York of cancer. The Welsh-born actor, widely known for his recurring roles on Cheers and The We…

UPDATE, Friday A.M.: Corrects production history of Hot l Baltimore in last paragraph. Outcasts and losers link The Visit and Airline Highway, the two final entries in 2014-2015 Tony Awards sweepstakes (the nominations for this year’s awards will be announced on Tuesday morning). Seeing them — the former is a musical…

No Broadway theater goes unspoken for very long, especially in the frenzied run-up to the April Tony Awards eligibility deadline. As Deadline reported Monday, the Lyceum Theatre, a Shubert-owned jewel on West 45th Street, will be the home of The Visit, the last musical by the Cabaret and Chicago team of composer John…