EW!!!!

Poor Anna Friel! She couldn't have been THAT bad.

Currently, Anna is the star of the West End production of Breakfast At Tiffany's. During a recent interview, she retold a disgusting story about an ill theatre-goer who got violently ill during her performance.

Someone in the upper balcony became so sick that they vomited over the railing and onto the heads of six other people!!!

Bleh! Eww! Yuck!

And what did Anna do while the smell of vomit was wafting to the stage? She kept on singing!

Anna explains:

"I thought it was latecomers who shouldn't have been allowed in - but it turned out someone had vomited from the balcony over six people and they were being escorted out to be cleaned up. I carried on singing, but almost lost my way as there was such a noise coming from the seats. I almost lost it, but I'm proud I kept my concentration."

Disgusting!

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Guess the Great White Way is no longer discriminating!

Dancing with the Stars' Cheryl Burke is in negotiations to star as Roxie Hart in the Broadway production of Chicago.

And supposedly she can sing!

"People don't see her as a singer," said a source, "but she trained for her audition with one of the top vocal coaches in L.A."

She could probably do it once, but eight shows a week?!

But, it's not about that anyway!

"She's excited about the prospect of spending the holidays in New York," continued the source. "That's where her boyfriend [model Maxwell Zagorski] is based."

Cue reached for the gun!

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Breathe easy, Jude Law!

Though you might have a new mouth to feed, your Broadway career is holding solid!

The Broadway production of Hamlet is a BIG success on the Great White Way. Producers are rejoicing as the classic Shakespeare play is selling out and in the first three months of production, they have already recouped the show's $2.5 million costs.

A triumph for a Broadway show these days, indeed!

But to continue to be a success or not to be - that is the question!

Hopefully, there are enough young girls left in NYC with some spare cash that want to ogle Jude's handsome face.

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If you want to hate on Angela Lansbury, you're no friend of ours!

Sure she is getting senile and perhaps a little cranky in her advanced age, but we don't care! As long as she is still breathing, we want to see her on Broadway.

Some people were none to pleased to learn that Angela had a little helper in her ear while performing in the play Blithe Spirit this past year. In order to make it through her Tony Award-winning performance, Angela wore a carefully hidden ear piece, so someone could feed her lines, as her memory is not so good always anymore.

So much for ginkgo biloba.

But Angela defends her deception, and we support her, as she explains:

"It's not something you ever want to do, but if we're going to play important roles at our age, where our names are above the title on the marquee, we're going to ask for some support if we need it."

Amen!

Broadway legends are never questioned for their genius!

Now, if Sienna Miller was pulling this shenanigan, we would be in an uproar!

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Well, that's too bad because you're gonna get it!

The most infamous musical flop in the history of the Great White Way, Carrie, is being revived!

The show only ran for five performances in 1988 but set a new standard for Broadway campiness and lost $8 million!!!

Jeffrey Seller and Kevin McCollum, whose credits include Rent, Avenue Q and West Side Story, are the producers behind bringing the horror to the stage. And, next month, they will be putting on a six-figure workshop of the musical based on the Stephen King novel about a teenage girl with telekinetic powers.

Hopefully, they won't be making the same mistakes as the first production. The sets (a high school gym that resembled a Greek temple) and costumes (teenagers in white togas) better go! Not to mention, no one needs a musical number with boys dressed in leather slaughtering pigs!!!

According to the original director, Terry Hands, he was convinced that Carrie should be played as a Greek tragedy.

"I made some mistakes with the show," said Hands. "I thought it was a Greek tragedy. I was wrong. It was a Roman tragedy."

Yeah, that was it! Problem solved!

Would U dare to see Carrie?!

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At least,we don't have to worry about Nicole Scherzinger from the Pussycat Dolls effing this up!

Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess have been cast as The Phantom and Christine Daaé in the London premiere of Love Never Dies (aka Phantom of the Opera 2 ), in which the main characters move forward a decade and transfer to a different continent.

Sierra was handpicked by theatrical gods Andrew Lloyd Webber and Hal Prince in 2005 to play Christine in Phantom – The Las Vegas Spectacular, but recently made her Broadway debut as Ariel in The Little Mermaid. She received both Drama League and Drama Desk nominations for her performance.

Ramin has had the opportunity to play all of Christine's loves - playing The Phantom in the original London production for two years, a stint as Raoul in the same production and cast as the ingenue's father in the 2004 feature film adaptation.

Congrats you two!

We can't wait to see it!!!

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Doesn't sound very professional to us!

Disappointed theatergoers were very upset over Matthew Broderick's shoddy performance in The Starry Messenger. The actor had to ask for his line 10 times — and that was just in the first act!

Broderick is known for studying his scripts later on, but he may want to change his methods after hearing some of the harsh criticism from audience members:

"Broderick should be fined for this sort of thing. The theater, the producers, [director] Kenneth Lonergan and Broderick should be ashamed to have let an audience in for this."

"For God's sake, they are charging good money for this, and it is indeed unconscionable to use these as rehearsals. I only hope they do cancel this week of performances because I, too, have a ticket, and I don't want to endure this either."

"It was an overall mess. He kept apologizing under his breath after he forgot a line, and everyone in the audience started to feel awkward."

Ouch!

Broderick's last performance in The Philanthropist from earlier in the year didn't go over well with theater critics either. Some are saying people might be too harsh on the actor as it was a preview performance for The Starry Messenger. We tend to disagree.

Preview or not, people are PAYING to see you perform! Get it together and do your job!

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So she is doing Broadway after all, just not a musical (which is probably best).

Scarlett Johansson will be starring in Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge alongside Liev Schreiber with performances beginning December 28 and the official opening on January 24.

The show is set to run for 14 weeks.

Liev plays Eddie Carbone, "a Brooklyn longshoreman obsessed with his 17-year-old niece Catherine" played by ScarJo. When Catherine falls in love, his jealousy "erupts in a rage that consumes him, his family, and his world."

Sounds intense, but is anyone really going to buy that Scarlett is 17?

Broadway must really be wanting to ca$$$h in with all of these famous movie stars taking a turn on the Great White Way! Duh.

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We LOVES this coupling!

Broadway babe Jonathan Groff off Spring Awakening is dating Hair star Gavin Creel and they make an adorable twosome!

Yes, Groff is officially out of the closet - so we are not "outing" him.

In other exciting news, Jonathan is headed to Glee for a 5-6 episode story arc, playing a love interest for Lea Michele's character, Rachel. Lea and Jonathan starred together in Spring Awakening and are now reuniting on the telly.

Cute!

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