Vanessa Nadal and Lin Miranda By LOIS SMITH BRADY AS a teenager in upper Manhattan, Lin-Manuel Miranda carried a boombox everywhere, not that he needed to. “You’d hear all kinds of different music...said. “Every once in a while, someone on the subway will holler at me. Otherwise, life is normal. Vanessa’s had people hollering at her all her life.” Video and various links at the source .

... he does. ‘Fiddler’ Up His Sleeve: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Wedding Surprise   We weren’t able to make it Sunday to the wedding of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Vanessa Nadal (our invitations must...been much better. Mazel tov! Source Show some love,  bwaydaily !  This man pretty much wins at life, yes? And I do believe that's Thomas Kail and Chris Jackson up there dancing, too.

Cute! Neil Patrick Harris is going to have his hands full come fall. E! News has exclusively learned that the ubiquitous actor and his longtime partner, David Burtka, are going to become the parents...a surrogacy agency in L.A. to get the ball rolling on expanding their family. They've been together for roughly six years. Reps for Harris have yet to return our calls for comment. Source  

Actress Dana Dawson Passes Away At Age 36 Broadwayworld has recently learned of the passing of actress Dana Dawson. The 36 year old had been battling cancer. Dawson began acting at the age of seven in a national tour of Annie . She was an understudy of the character Mimi, in the national tour of Rent in 2000 and joined the Broadway cast in 2001 as an understudy/swing. Source

Rue McClanahan, the Emmy-winning actress who brought the sexually liberated Southern belle Blanche Devereaux to life on the hit TV series "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 76. Her manager Barbara...starred on "Golden Girls" with Beatrice Arthur, who died in 2009, Estelle Getty, who died in 2008, and Betty White. source RIP you amazing woman. Her IBDB credits, if anyone's interested.

Following the death of 42-year-old actor Gary Coleman, the Tony-winning musical Avenue Q — in which Coleman is depicted as one of the show's characters — will alter some of its script, according...General management is by Ken Davenport, Davenport Theatrical Enterprises. New World Stages is located at 340 W. 50th Street in Manhattan. Visit the Avenue Q website at www.avenueq.com. Source

Doris Eaton Travis, Among the Last of the Ziegfeld Girls, Dead at 106 Doris Eaton Travis , the former Ziegfeld Follies dancer who inspired 21st century audiences with her pluck, good will — and...a kick or two and thanked the audience for the love they had shown her over the 12 years of her appearances at the Bonnet event. She then headed into the wings under her own power. Source

Lynn Redgrave , a member of England's legendary acting clan, died Sunday night at her Manhattan apartment. In 2003, Redgrave had been treated for breast cancer. She was 67. The death comes just weeks...you through any plane delay." Last fall, she performed Off-Broadway in her own Nightingale , her solo show inspired by the life of her maternal grandmother, at Manhattan Theatre Club. Source

June Havoc, a show-business legend whose hard-knocks childhood as a stage performer was depicted in the classic musical Gyspy , died March 28, according to the Village Voice. She was 96. Driven...Reed, she married Donald Gibbs. They divorced in 1942. She was married to William Spier from 1948 to 1973, his death. Reed fathered her only child, April Kent. Kent died in 1998. Source

My Favorite Sondheim: Broadway Songwriters Choose Their Most Cherished Sondheim Songs To mark the 80th birthday of groundbreaking composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim , Playbill.com asked Broadway...in the Country' (from A Little Night Music ). I will stop now. Even this is too hard, but, thanks, Steve!!" Source Favorite Sondheim song, bwaydaily ? Share it with us!