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It was feast or famine at the Broadway box office as 2022 wound down, with eye-popping revenue for popular shows — including a staggering new Broadway record for “The Lion King” — not lifting all strugglers.

On red carpet for his latest film, “The Son” at the Toronto International Film Festival, Hugh Jackman announced that “The Music Man” will end its Broadway run on Jan. 1.

Broadway has its groove back, said Tonys host Ariana DeBose at an exuberant ceremony seeking to illustrate just that sentiment.

Nominations for this year's Tony Awards will be announced on Monday, May 9. (Polk & Co. via AP, from left, Boneau/Bryan Brown via AP, O & M Co./DKC via AP) (Uncredited)NEW YORK — (AP) — “A Strange Loop,” Michael R. Jackson’s critically cheered theater meta-journey earned a leading 11 Tony Award nominations Monday as Broadway joined the national discussion of race by embracing an envelope-pushing Black-written and Black-led musical. Jackson’s 2020 Pulitzer Prize drama winner about a Black gay man writing a show about a Black gay man earned nods for best musical, best leading man in newcomer Jaquel Spivey and best featured actress for L Morgan Lee, who becomes the first openly transgender performer to be nominated for a Tony Award. Playwright Lynn Nottage has two reasons to smile Monday morning: Her book for the musical “MJ was nominated for best book and her play “Clyde’s” got a nod for best play. "The Minutes,” Tracey Letts’ depiction of a small-town city council meeting that exposes backstabbing, greed and the larger delusions in American history, also earned a best play nod.

Nominations for this year's Tony Awards will be announced on Monday, May 9. Tony Award winner Adrienne Warren and three-time nominee Joshua Henry were scheduled to help reveal the 26-category list Monday morning on the Tony's YouTube channel. The season — with a whopping 34 new productions — represents a full return to theaters after nearly two years of a pandemic-mandated shutdown. The potential shows eligible for nominations are an extremely varied lot, from a David Mamet revival to one by Paula Vogel. There are golden-age classics like “Funny Girl” and “The Music Man” and very current entries like “Thoughts of a Colored Man” and “Pass Over.” There's Stephen Sondheim's gender-switched “Company” and a show celebrating Michael Jackson.

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An intimate, sold-out production of “Cabaret” was the big winner at British theater's Olivier Awards.

Could it be the curse of the Scottish play.

The long-awaited revival at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre is an exercise in misconception, and doesn't do justice to the Tony-winning classic.

Theater - Anything Goes This image released by Matt Ross Public Relations shows Sutton Foster, foreground center, with the cast of the London production of "Anything Goes." A filmed recording of the London cast of Cole Porter’s romp “Anything Goes” hits more than 700 cinema screens across the U.S. for two days — March 27 and March 30. You can always catch her at your local movie theater in another classic musical. “It’ll be really, really fun to be able to watch it with my daughter,” Foster tells The Associated Press. “I’ve hopefully grown up a lot in 10 years, and I think I’m a different performer, even being a mom.

If you can’t make it to New York to see Sutton Foster on Broadway in the classic musical “The Music Man,” don’t worry.

Las Vegas isn’t canceling or scaling back plans for New Year’s Eve gatherings.

Louisiana, officials reported Monday that hospitalizations of people infected with the coronavirus had doubled over the course of a week. Authorities reported a total of 99,671 new positive cases, a new daily record for the seventh consecutive day. ___ATLANTA — Georgia is setting new records for the number of test-confirmed COVID-19 cases. Dec. 24 also marked the first time Washington state reported over 6,000 cases in a single day. ___LONDON — The U.K. has reported another record number of confirmed COVID-19 cases, with a further 129,471 infections on Tuesday.

Days after actor Hugh Jackman lauded the work done by swing performers on Broadway, the dancing man has announced he has tested positive for COVID-19. >> Read more trending newsLast week, Jackman’s co-star in the Broadway revival of “The Music Man,” Sutton Foster, had tested positive for the coronavirus on Dec. 23. On Tuesday, Jackman took to social media to tell fans that he had tested positive for the virus. I tested positive for covid. @MusicManBway pic.twitter.com/q1oEAzXX02 — Hugh Jackman (@RealHughJackman) December 28, 2021Broadway has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.

The Broadway revival of “The Music Man” has been one of the hottest tickets in town and it has limped along without co-star Sutton Foster.

Michael Kors loves fashion, but he also loves the Broadway theater.

CORRECTS DAY OF CONCERT - FILE - Patti Smith attends a special screening of "Pavarotti" at the iPic Theater in New York on May 28, 2019. Smith performed six songs as well as read poetry and excerpts from her book “Just Kids” in the Beaux-Arts Court at the museum, her voice bouncing off the skylight 60 feet above. It was a concert to also honor museum workers and drew just under 50 people, all socially distanced in widely spaced chairs. The Smith concert came on the same day in 1989 that Mapplethorpe died at age 42. It also marked the one-year anniversary of when Smith last performed live, at The Fillmore in San Francisco.

NEW YORK The shutdown on Broadway has been extended again until at least early January. Although an exact date for performances to resume has yet to be determined, Broadway producers are now offering refunds and exchanges for tickets purchased for shows through Jan. 3. The Broadway experience can be deeply personal but it is also, crucially, communal, said Thomas Schumacher, chairman of the board of The Broadway League, which represents producers. Producers, citing health and city authorities, previously extended the shutdown to June 7 and then again to Sept. 6. Broadway grossed $1.8 billion last season and attracted a record 15 million people.