February may not have had any Broadway opening nights, but that doesn't mean the month lacked star power. It was the month that the Drama League honored five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald for her contributions to the world of musical theater. It was the month that not one, but TWO starry theatrical concerts were held at Avery Fisher Hall, the landmark musicals Ragtime and Carousel. Also in February, Academy Award winner Helen Mirren once again took on the role of Queen Elizabeth II (this time on stage), the body of Richard III was found buried under a parking lot, a coterie of kitties auditioned for Broadway's Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Game of Thrones stars Peter Dinklage and Emilia Clarke stepped out, albeit separately, to meet the press. Check out February at its finest in the gallery below.

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February 3: Broadway favorites Kate Baldwin and Erin Dilly fight for the affection of Danny Rutigliano, their leading man in the New York City Center Encores! concert production of Fiorello!.
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February 3: And the winner is: Erin Dilly!
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Gordy vs. Gordy: Brandon Victor Dixon, who plays record mogul Berry Gordy in Motown: The Musical, fools around with the actual Berry Gordy at the show’s press event.
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February 7: Motown: The Musical’s The Temptations perform a soulful rendition of “My Girl.”
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February 7: Berry Gordy couldn’t be prouder than to produce Motown: The Musical alongside Kevin McCollum and Doug Morris.
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February 7: Playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman and bleached blonde actor/director Ethan Hawke celebrate the opening night of their new play, Clive.
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February 7: Guests at the Clive opening included stage and screen favorites Natasha Lyonne and Chloë Sevigny.
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February 7: Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage was also in the audience for Clive, in support of his pals Jonathan Mark Sherman and Ethan Hawke.
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February 10: Days after the body of Richard III was found in a parking garage, two-time Tony Award winner Mark Rylance, playing Shakespeare’s version of the character on London’s West End, shows off his character’s latest accoutrement, a “No Parking” sign.
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February 11: Five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald is honored by the Drama League. Guests included legendary actress Zoe Caldwell, who starred alongside McDonald in the original Broadway production of the drama Master Class.
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February 11: McDonald is thrilled to see her 2009 Twelfth Night co-star, Julie White.
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February 11: Also honoring McDonald at the event were Broadway favorites Bobby Steggert and Judith Light. We’d like to see this pair share a stage.
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February 12: Alan Cumming has a laugh on his way up to view his Macbeth marquee at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
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February 12: Once in the cherry picker, multiple stories off the ground, Cumming takes an iPhone photo of his marquee up close.
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February 13: Lori Manette cuddles up to her feline pal, Mercutio, at the Breakfast at Tiffany’s open cat call.
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February 13: At an open call for kitties for the new Broadway production of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, owner William Pollak shows off his nine-month old, short-haired tabby, Dren.
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February 13: Smash star Megan Hilty (center) and Tony Award-winning songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman promote their new album, a cast recording of the (as of now) fictional musical Bombshell, at the NBC Experience Store in Rockefeller Center.
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February 15: Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award-winning role as Queen Elizabeth II in the new West End stage drama, The Queen.
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February 18: Michael Arden, Lewis Grosso, Howard McGillin, and Lea Salonga appear in the starry concert reading of the landmark musical Ragtime at Avery Fisher Hall.
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February 18: Tony Award nominee Norm Lewis takes on the role of pianist Coalhouse Walker, Jr. in the Ragtime concert at Avery Fisher Hall.
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February 18: Tony Award winner Tyne Daly plays legendary social activist Emma Goldman in Ragtime.
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February 19: At the opening of off-Broadway’s Really Really, director David Cromer photo bombs MCC Theater’s artistic staffers, who were happy to share a laugh.
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February 27: Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke joins Cory Michael Smith and their feline friend Monty at the meet and greet for Broadway's Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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February 27: At the meet and greet for the upcoming off-Broadway transfer of Peter and the Starcatcher, Rick Holmes’ Black Stache shows his affection for his Smee, Kevin Del Aguila.
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February 27: Kelli O’Hara’s Julie Jordan cries over the body of Nathan Gunn’s Billy Bigelow as Stephanie Blythe’s Nettie Fowler looks on in the New York Philharmonic’s concert staging of the classic musical Carousel at Avery Fisher Hall.
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February 27: Broadway favorites Jessie Mueller and Jason Danieley take on the roles of Carrie Pipperidge and Enoch Snow in the New York Philharmonic’s Carousel at Avery Fisher Hall.
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February 27: New York City Ballet principal dancers Robert Fairchild and Tiler Peck dance a spectacular second act ballet as part of the New York Philharmonic’s Carousel concert.
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February 27: A full view of the stage at Avery Fisher Hall, with life-sized carousel horses hanging from the ceiling.
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February 28: The cast members of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Shalita Grant, Billy Magnussen, Kristine Nielsen, David Hyde Pierce, Sigourney Weaver, and Genevieve Angelson) are proud to take the comedy to Broadway.
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February 28: Playwright Christopher Durang and director Nicholas Martin wheel their work (and themselves) to the Great White Way.
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February 28: Billy Porter and Stark Sands show off a moment of choreography from the new Broadway musical, Kinky Boots.
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February 28: Billy Porter, as Lola, strikes a pose alongside ensemble members in Broadway’s Kinky Boots.
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February 28: Jesse Eisenberg opens his new drama, The Revisionist, off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theater.
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February 28: Joining Eisenberg in the drama is Tony Award-winning stage legend Vanessa Redgrave.
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February 28: Guests at the opening of The Revisionist include Academy Award-winning film director Woody Allen, who guided playwright Eisenberg in the film To Rome With Love.
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February 28: Melissa Errico, Ryan Silverman, and Judy Kuhn celebrate their opening night in Classic Stage Company’s off-Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Passion.
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