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Film director Lasse Halstrom attended a performance of Mamma Mia! at the Winter Garden Theatre on Saturday, January 11 and then visited back stage with (l-r) cast members Jeanine Morick, Louise Pitre, and Judy Kaye.

Though the Drama Dept. production of Charles Busch’s Shanghai Moon has its official press opening on Thursday, January 16, the party for the show was held on Sunday the 12th and photogs were invited. Here is Busch, in full regalia, during curtain calls…

…and here he is sans drag at the party at Go Lounge.

Also on hand for the Shanghai Moon festivities: the show’s director, Carl Andress, pictured here with Julie Halston (a friend and frequent collaborator of Busch, soon to be seen in the Sam Mendes-Bernadette Peters Gypsy on Broadway)…

…and Rosie O’Donnell with her girlfriend, new mom Kelli Carpenter.

Joe Pantoliano, currently co-starring in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune on Broadway, is seen here at the wrap party for the film Mona Lisa Smile, held at Laura Belle on Saturday, January 11.

Another recent event at Laura Belle was the opening night party for the Roundabout Theatre Company production of Tartuffe on Thursday, January 9. Among the attendees were co-stars J. Smith-Cameron and Henry Goodman…

…another of the show’s stars, Brian Bedford, with movie and theater legend Lauren Bacall…

…Bryce Dallas Howard, who plays Mariane in Tartuffe, with her dad, Ron Howard…

…Matthew Broderick, soon to be seen as Harold Hill in the new TV movie version of The Music Man…

…and Edie Falco, who recently yielded her co-starring role in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune to Rosie Perez.

At a CD signing event for the new Broadway cast album of Flower Drum Song at Virgin Records Times Square on Thursday, January 9: Jodi Long (Madame Liang) and José Lana (Ta)…

…and the beauteous Lea Salonga (Mei-Li).