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Liza Minnelli and Joey Grey are reunited, the Roundabout’s Assassins party like there’s no tomorrow, and Sean Combs struts his stuff in our latest photo feature.

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Come blow your horn, start celebrating! Joel Grey and Liza Minnelli, both of whom won Academy Awards for their performances in Bob Fosse’s 1972 film version of the Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret, made the scene at the Roundabout Theatre Company’s spring gala. The event took place on Monday, April 26 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

Also on hand for the Roundabout bash: Natasha Richardson, who played Sally Bowles in the company’s revival of Cabaret…




…Jason Alexander, who most recently trod the boards as Max Bialystock in the L.A. company of The Producers…

…Susan Stroman, director/choreographer of The Producers, in a rare photo sans baseball cap…

…and Bebe Neuwirth, who will soon be starring in Here Lies Jenny at the Zipper Theatre.

The Roundabout production of the Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical Assassins opened on Thursday, April 22 at Studio 54 to mostly rave reviews. Among the “assassins” and company on the scene: Marc Kudisch, who plays The Proprietor in the show…

…Mario Cantone, who plays Samuel Byck…



…Becky Ann Baker, who plays Sara Jane Moore, here with husband Dylan Baker…






…Denis O’Hare, who plays Charles Guiteau…

…and Neil Patrick Harris, who plays The Balladeer and Lee Harvey Oswald, here flanked by his parents.

Last night, a party was held at Guastavino’s to celebrate the opening of the first Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. Here’s the radiant Audra McDonald, who plays Ruth Younger in the show…

…and here’s McDonald’s co-star Sean Combs, paying tribute to Hansberry with a custom-made T-shirt.

Among the many celebs who attended the Raisin in the Sun opening: film and stage star Angela Bassett…

…filmmaker Spike Lee…

…and television icon Oprah Winfrey.