THE STARS LINE UP FOR AMERICA'S TONY AWARDS IN JUNE

Broadway Collection Shows Receive 39 Tony Nominations

Latest New From The Top Broadway Shows

A line-up of top US stars will be on-stage for this year's Tony Awards taking place in New York on Sunday 8 June 2014 - with Broadway Collection shows up for 39 nominations.

Guests at the Tony's who will be on-stage Bradley Cooper, Kevin Bacon, Carole King, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Will Ferrell, Live Schreiber, Emmy Rossum, Kate Mara, Zachary Quinto, Zachary Levi and Clint Eastwood, who will be introduced by Hugh Jackman, hosting the 68^thannual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall.

Last year's Tony Awards saw great success for two British-inspired shows, Kinky Boots and Matilda won no less than 10 awards between them. Both shows are members of The Broadway Collection, British theatre lovers' quick and easy way to book the best of Broadway shows ahead of their trip to New York.

This year Broadway Collection shows have received no less than 39 Tony Award nominations as follows:

After Midnight - 7
Beautiful - The Carole King Musical - 7
Bullets Over Broadway - 6
Aladdin - 5
The Bridges of Madison County - 4
Rocky - 4
Les Misérables - 3
Cabaret - 2
A Night with Janis Joplin- 1

Meanwhile, a host of new leading ladies have been lined up for Broadway Collection show, the Cotton Club musical: After Midnight. The smash hit currently has Fantasia Barrino in the role of special guest star until 8 June. She will then be replaced by Patti Labelle from 10-29 June, Gladys Knight from 8 July - 3 August, and then Natalie Cole from 5-31 August, allat the Brooks Atkinson theatre.

In other news the following shows from the Broadway Collection have group rate updates:

• Phantom of the Opera - extended to 27 June 2015

• Les Miserables - extended to 24 May 2015

• Jersey Boys - extended Summer offer to weekend performances 1 June - 7 September 2014

• Once - extended group sales to 21 December 2014

• Rocky - some schedule changes during holiday season

• Pippin - lowered group size to 10 tickets to 4 January 2015

• Matilda - extended group sales to 4 January 2015

• Beautiful: The Carole King Musical - some changes to group pricing.

About Broadway Inbound and The Broadway Collection

The Broadway Collection is part of Broadway Inbound, a Shubert Organization company with decades of experience in the theatre industry, the travel industry and wholesale ticket distribution, who specializes in FIT sales of Broadway shows. The Broadway Collection was created in response to a huge demand for Broadway within the travel industry and includes The Metropolitan Opera and 18 distinctive, top tier shows. Broadway Inbound specializes in travel industry and wholesale ticket distribution for live theatrical events around the United States. Broadway Inbound provides various technologies to give wholesale partners access to extensive inventory directly from venue box offices' primary ticketing systems including its sister company,Telecharge.com. Unparalleled experience in wholesale theatre ticketing, marketing, and operations makes Broadway Inbound a perfect partner for distributors in travel and other industries.  

To become a wholesale distribution partner

Contact Broadway Inbound on T: 020 7831 8105.

Visitwww.broadwaycollection.comorwww.facebook.com/thebroadwaycollection.

Contact Allison French in New York onAllison@broadwayinbound.com.

Alternatively Broadway Collection shows and can be booked in the UK through the following agents:

• Attraction World:www.attractionworld.com

• Attraction Tickets Direct:www.attraction-tickets-direct.co.uk

• Encore Tickets:www.encoretickets.co.uk

• Lastminute.com:www.Lastminute.com

The following tour operators also sell Broadway Collection shows;

• TUI Travel:www.tuitravel.com

• Virgin Holidays:www.virginholidadys.co.uk

• Titan Travel (Acromas Group):www.titantravel.co.uk

• Superbreak:www.superbreak.com

For general information about Broadway, including many videos, please see the interactive site:www.spotlightonbroadway.com

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