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	<title>You&#39;re the Top&#33;: A roundup of Tony&#45;nominated shows currently on Broadway</title>
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Feature Story:The Nance is the gayest play currently running on Broadway &#45;&#45; among other attributes&#44; it features a gay writer &#40;Douglas Carter Beane&#41;&#44; a gay lead actor &#40;Nathan Lane&#41; and gay content&#44; focused as it is on a gay burlesque star in the 1930s&#46; The critically heralded show also snagged five Tony nominations&#44; including one for Lane&#39;s performance&#46; But alas&#44; The Nance didn&#39;t get a nod for Tony&#39;s top honor&#58; Best Play&#46; The following is a roundup of the shows that did get nominated in Broadway&#39;s four top categories &#45;&#45; well&#44; those that you can still actually see on the Great White Way&#46; Sorry about that Bring It On&#58; The Musical and Who&#39;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf&#63;&#44; two shows that have already shuttered&#46; Also omitted&#58; Orphans&#44; which snagged a Best Play Revival but closes this Sunday&#44; May 19&#46; Blink and you&#39;ll miss it&#46; All shows included here are running until at least June 16&#44; one week after the 67th Annual Tony Awards are announced during a live CBS broadcast set for Sunday&#44; June 9&#44; starting at 8 p&#46;m&#46; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Boots Over Broadway: Billy Porter has many people pumped up about his remarkable&#44; Tony&#45;nominated work in &#39;&#39;Kinky Boots&#39;&#39;</title>
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Feature Story: A couple weeks ago Katy Perry raved to her nearly 37 million followers on Twitter&#46; &#39;&#39;Just saw KINKY BOOTS on Broadway &#38; cried w&#47;joy from it&#39;s &#91;sic&#93; powerful&#44; beautiful message&#44;&#39;&#39; the pop star Perry wrote in a tweet maxed out to exactly 140 characters&#46; &#39;&#39;Congrats on every of its deserved 13 Tony nominations&#33;&#39;&#39; But Perry wasn&#39;t done&#46; A few seconds later she sent a second shorter&#44; punchier tweet&#58; &#39;&#39;AND if Billy Porter doesn&#39;t win the Tony for best actor in a musical&#46;&#46;&#46; There will be words&#46;&#46;&#46; Trust&#46;&#39;&#39; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Broadway&#39;s Musical Wizard: In his extensive and varied career&#44; from Broadway to Hollywood&#44; Stephen Schwartz certainly knows about popular</title>
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Feature Story: Stephen Schwartz will make what he calls a &#39;&#39;guest appearance&#39;&#39; with the National Symphony Orchestra this weekend&#46; &#39;&#39;I sing a song with the orchestra towards the end&#44; and do another little thing about one of the songs in Wicked&#44;&#39;&#39; Schwartz says&#44; &#39;&#39;and that&#39;s kind of it&#46;&#39;&#39; Stephen Schwartz ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>2013 Metro Weekly Next Generation Awards Selection Panel: </title>
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Feature Story: The Next Generation Awardees are chosen from a pool of community nominations by a panel of Washington&#45;area LGBT leaders from the worlds of arts&#44; activism&#44; business and politics&#46; The 2013 Next Generation Selection Panel members are&#58; Ebon&#233; Bell Ebon&#233; F&#46; Bell Founder and Managing EditorTagg Magazine ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Je&#45;Shawna Wholley: Next Generation Awards 2013</title>
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Feature Story: Thanks&#44; in part&#44; to high school years in the Junior ROTC in Forrestville&#44; Md&#46; &#38;ndash&#59; where she rose to the leadership rank of regiment commander &#38;ndash&#59; Je&#45;Shawna Wholley was sitting pretty with a full ROTC scholarship to Texas A &#38; M University&#46; Something&#44; however&#44; wasn&#39;t quite right&#46; &#39;&#39;This was before the repeal of &#39;Don&#39;t Ask&#44; Don&#39;t Tell&#44;&#39;&#39;&#39; Wholley&#44; 24&#44; explains&#46; &#39;&#39;I was the only black female there in my corps&#44; one of two black people in my corps&#46; And I was closeted&#46;&#39;&#39; Je&#45;Shawna Wholley ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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