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Also at the Nightlife Awards: Donna Murphy opened the show with a sensational rendition of Cole Porter’s “I Happen to Like New York”…

…John Flynn (center) and company killed with “Stephen Sondheim’s Oklahoma!” from Rick Crom’s satiric revue What in the World?!…

…Kristin Chenoweth, on hand to represent Lincoln Center’s award winning American Songbook series, performed the cabaret favorite “Taylor (the Latte Boy)” by Marcy Heisler and Zina Goldrich…

…Lennie Watts, cited as Outstanding Male Cabaret Vocalist, lived out a Disney fantasy on stage…

…and chanteuse Miriam Passman substituted as a presenter for her friend Charles Busch.

Having a blast at the Nightlife Awards after-party at Trattoria Dopo Teatro: the eternally beautiful Julie Wilson, who received the “Living Legend of Cabaret” award and gave a thrilling performance of Stephen Sondheim’s “I’m Still Here” to cap the show…

…Lea DeLaria, who co-hosted the awards ceremony…

…and celebrity audience member Joyce Randolph, a.k.a. Trixie Norton on The Honeymooners.

The closing night of Our Town on Broadway — Sunday, February 26 — also happened to be star Paul Newman’s 78th birthday. Here is Newman during curtain calls, with wife Joanne Woodward and James Naughton (the show’s director).

Among the performers at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Winter Gala
at the Plaza Hotel last evening were Marin Mazzie…

…Jason Danieley (Mazzie’s husband), seen here rehearsing…

…and the ever-fabulous Randy Graff.

Caught at the opening night party for The Plank Project at SPA on Thursday, January 16: playwright Jeff Whitty with cast member Saidah Arrika Ekulona…

…and another cast member, Mike Doyle, recently seen Off-Broadway in Burning Blue.