In the weeks leading up to the 2012 Tony telecast, Broadway.com is posting videos of favorite Tony memories of this year’s nominees, with their own commentary. Kelli O’Hara, nominated for Best Actress for playing feisty bootlegger Billie Bendix in Nice Work If You Can Get It, looks back on her own performance on the 2006 telecast—and ...

Jessica Sanchez may not have been crowned the champion of American Idol's 11th season on May 23, but the 16-year-old certainly stole the show at the star-studded finale. Before the winner was announced, Sanchez joined Tony winner and original Dreamgirls star Jennifer Holliday on stage for a powerhouse duet of Holliday's signature tune, "And I Am Telling You ...

Broadway sweethearts and American Idol alums Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young got engaged on live TV during the May 23 season finale of American Idol. Taking the stage at the Nokia Theatre, Young began his proposal by saying, “Diana, we have conquered Broadway together,” then dropped to one knee, ring box in hand, accompanied by Idol’s dramatic “elimination” music ...

It’s hard work playing a bootlegger! That’s what Broadway.com learned when Nice Work if You Can Get It's Tony-nominated star Michael McGrath invited us into his dressing room at the Imperial Theatre to show of his five backstage necessities. McGrath, who plays Cookie McGee in the bubbly musical, is well stocked in the pain department, with ...

When it comes to Tennessee Williams’ classic A Streetcar Named Desire, the city of New Orleans is as much a character as Blanche or Stanley. So it fell to set designer Eugene Lee and lighting designer Edward Pierce to bring the energy of the city into Stanley and Stella’s cramped apartment, where the play takes place. “Emily Mann, the ...

As the excitement builds for the 2012 Tony Awards, Broadway.com is presenting a series of exclusive video features in which your favorite nominated stars spill secrets about themselves, their stage faves and their preparation for Broadway's big night. Today's nominee is the incomparable Linda Lavin, who picked up her sixth Tony nomination as ruthless matriarch Rita Lyons ...

If you thought life backstage at the Tony-nominated musical Newsies was one big party...you're right! Broadway.com asked two of the show's charming supporting players, Ben Fankhauser (Davey) and Tommy Bracco (Spot Conlon), to give us a behind-the-scenes tour of the Nederlander Theatre, and we got an eyeful. From video games with Jeremy Jordan to diva fits ...

For a brief period in the 1940s, eccentric book editor George Davis rented a dilapidated boarding house at 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn Heights. The house became home to a motley crew of artists, including Carson McCullers, W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten and Gypsy Rose Lee. Now this bohemian commune of sorts, February House, has come to life on the ...

In the weeks leading up to the 2012 Tony telecast, Broadway.com is posting videos of favorite Tony memories of this year’s nominees, with their own commentary. Three–time Tony winner Kathleen Marshall, nominated this year for both her direction and choreography of Nice Work If You Can Get It, recalls the 1976 Tony telecast, which featured a show ...

Lea Michele may play squeaky clean teen Rachel Berry on the Fox hit comedy Glee but in real life the actress has been hiding a secret addiction… to tattoos. On May 22 the Spring Awakening alum stopped by the Late Show to discuss Glee's season finale and share her obsession with host David Letterman. “For me, weirdly enough it ...