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Update: The Grammy nominations announced this morning included the Original Broadway Cast recordings of three ongoing hits: Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, and the Bette Midler-led revival of Hello, Dolly! In addition, opera star Dmitri Hvorostovsky, the celebrated Russian baritone who died of brain cancer last week, was nominated in the Best Classical Solo category for Sviridov: Russia ast Adrift. Earlier: The soundtracks for La La Land and Hidden Figures tied with two…...

Update: The Grammy nominations announced this morning included the Original Broadway Cast recordings of three ongoing hits: Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, and the Bette Midler-led revival of Hello, Dolly! In addition, opera star Dmitri Hvorostovsky, the celebrated Russian baritone who died of brain cancer last week, was nominated in the Best Classical Solo category for Sviridov: Russia ast Adrift. Earlier: The soundtracks for La La Land and Hidden Figures tied with two…...

Last week our critics picked their highlights of 2011. Did they get it right? Readers respond with their own highs (and lows)

MattB75

One Man, Two Guvnors was the most fun I've had in a theatre for years – easily the best play of 2011, and James Corden best performer. The National theatre largely misfired for me: A Woman Killed with Kindness, Cherry Orchard, 13, The Kitchen, Frankenstein and Greenland were all largely disappointing.

The RSC's Homecoming was the best revival. Rupert Goold's Merchant of Venice was great fun, even if the inconsistency in Portia's characterisation (from ditzy blond Glee fan to brilliant prosecutor, hm) took the edge off it.

Tom Brooke was my favourite actor of the year – in The Kitchen, and I Am the Wind.

oogin

Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid are still two of my least-admired starchitects. However, credit where it's due. I had the pleasure of wandering Toronto's Ago...

I'm trying to adjust to a new schedule and my body, which got to spend a whole summer sleeping until around 11am almost every day and then was free to take indulgent and unnecessary naps, is fighting back pretty hard. I keep waking up in the middle of the night totally ready to go, but three or four hours later when I actually have to be awake it's like I've been shot in the ass with a tranq dart. I'm hoping this all sorts itself out within a week because I'd really like to become a productive member of society one day and I get the impression that most of those people aren't hopping out of bed to start their day at the crack of noon. Here's your Wednesday night TV:

8:00pm: "Cma Music Festival: Country's Night to Rock" on ABC. That theme is dumber than dumb.

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A cast of internationally most acclaimed Verdi singers is showcased in the Met's new production of the Italian master's melodic tour de force, Il Trovatore, which opens February 16. Renowned director David McVicar makes his Met debut, and Gianandrea Noseda conducts a cast that includes Marcelo ?lvarez in his first Met performances of the heroic title role, and three singers who are celebrated interpreters of their parts: Sondra Radvanovsky as Leonora, Dolora Zajick as Azucena, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Count di Luna. Kwangchul Youn makes his Met role debut as Ferrando. In later performances, Marco Berti is Manrico; Hasmik Papian is Leonora; Luciana D'Intino is Azucena, ?eljko Lučić is di Luna, and Burak Bilgili is Ferrando, conducted by Riccardo Frizza. Performances run through May 8.

Hollywood beauty Scarlett Johansson is reportedly in talks to star in a New York City production of South Pacific. The Match Point star is one of the actresses being considered for the role of US Navy nurse Nellie Forbush in a revival of the musical at the Lincoln Center, which is scheduled to open in January 2008. Director Bartlett Sher is currently arranging auditions for the musical to take place next month, with Russian tenor Dimitri Hvorostovsky said to be in line for the role of plantation owner Emile De Becque, reports the New York Post. A production source tells the Post, "They want the leads to be sexy. This is not going to be a stodgy old production of South Pacific." Last year, Johansson was forced to put out of talks to play Maria in the London stage production of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Sound Of Music, after her management clashed with the theatre impresario over her fees and conditions of her contract.