Later this month, stars of television will be also honored at this year’s Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards for their performances on the “little screen” in the previous season. And even though TV stars are sometimes given second class status to film stars, their box office appeal can draw huge audiences translating into huge revenue, especially on Broadway. As second half of the current season on Broadway kicks into gear, many former TV favorites will headline highly anticipated shows, including a plethora of revivals, just in time for Tony Award consideration and the allimportant summer in New York. Familiar names appearing on Broadway in the second half of the season include:

Kelsey Grammer (Frasier Krane from TV’s “Cheers” and “Frasier”) will star in the second revival of the 1978 Tony winning musical, “La Cage aux Folles.” Grammer plays the gay nightclub owner George who tries to present a traditional family as he and his flamboyant partner prepare to meet the future in-law’s of his son (George’s offspring from a previous marriage) for the first time.

Frasier’s ex-wife Lilith, Bebe Neuwirth returns to Broadway with Nathan Lane in the musical version of “The Addams Family.” The musical is Broadway-bound from an out-of-town tryout in Chicago. Now with Jerry Zaks as creative consultant, the show will undergo fixes and changes. With the success of the films based on the iconic macabre TV series and the talents of Zaks and its stars, the show should get lots of attention.

TV’s favorite waitress, Linda Lavin from “Alice,” will star in a revival of “Collected Stories,” a drama about a novelist and her deceitful protégé played by Sarah Paulson (“Deadwood”).

“Monk’s” Tony Shalhoub and Anthony LaPaglia (“Without a Trace”) star in the revival of Ken Ludwig’s “Lend Me a Tenor,” a comedy hit that began in 1989 about an opera sing that can’t go on after taking a double dose of tranquilizers. Stanley Tucci directs.

Victor Garber (“Alias”) heads the cast in another revival of Noel Coward’s “Present Laughter,” a farce about a self-obsessed actor facing a midlife crisis and the many women pulling at him.

Sean Hayes (“Will & Grace”) costars with Kristen Chenoweth (from the short-lived “Pushing Daisies”) in the revival of “Promises, Promises,” a musical based on “The Apartment.”

“Ugly Betty” star Vanessa Williams will join the legendary Barbara Cook in the musical revue/tribute, “Sondheim on Sonheim.”

And finally, Valerie Harper, Mary Tyler Moore’s best pal and sidekick from her classic show and “Rhoda,” returns to Broadway in a new comedy, “Looped.” Harper stars as the troubled and celebrated Tallulah Bankhead who visits a sound studio to rerecord or “loop” one line of dialogue for what would be her last film. The show has traveled a few years on its journey to Broadway and Harper is truly wonderful, daring and hilarious.

Despite the chill in the air, it may be a good time to head south since hotels rates have dropped an average of about $70 per night, discount tickets to the above shows may be available and a few early season openers have already posted closing notices. It’s last call to see the critically acclaimed “Finian’s Rainbow” and John Stamos (“Full House”) in the first revival of “Bye Bye Birdie.”

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