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Sunday, June 7

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Flying vampires. A musical spoof of the megahit movie “Titanic.” Another spoof, this time of golden-age Broadway musicals. And a new “Death of Salesman,” one of America’s most decorated and mournful plays. It’s Tony Awards time.

Twenty-four Broadway shows will hope to nab at least one win Sunday across the 26 Tony categories, which can mean the difference between keeping the doors open and pulling down the curtain.

Grammy Award-winner Pink is the host of the show, which will be broadcast live on CBS and streaming for Paramount+ subscribers in the U.S. to both coasts on Sunday from 8-11 p.m. Eastern/5-8 p.m. Pacific.

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It’s been nearly 30 years since Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens wrote the music and lyrics for the musical “Ragtime,” an American epic tracking the intertwining lives of three families in New York at the turn of the 20th century.

Staged at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, the musical is in its third run on Broadway — and earned 11 Tony nominations, including for best revival. It’s resonating the most with audiences this time, they said. “Three is the charm,” Ahrens said.

“When we originally did it on Broadway, which was 1998, I think a lot of people, if not most people, were thinking about this piece as a period piece,” Flaherty said. “I think now, people are responding to it as a contemporary story.”

Anthony Head, the suave, smooth-voiced British actor known for roles in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Ted Lasso,” has died, his family said Friday. He was 72.

Head’s daughters, actors Emily and Daisy Head, told the Press Association news agency that the actor passed away due to complications from pneumonia.

The stage and TV performer became well known to British audiences in the 1980s as one half of a will-they, won’t-they romantic couple in a series of ads for Nescafe Gold Blend instant coffee. The ads were later re-shot for a U.S. audience for Taster’s Choice.

The “Friday Night Lights” showrunner attempted to write at a controversial storyline for Eric and Tami Taylor that could have redefined how fans remember their relationship between the iconic TV couple.

Head writer and executive producer Jason Katims said in an interview that aired on TODAY June 4 that the creative team tried to write an affair plot between coach Taylor and his wife, Tami. But actors Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton refused to portray it.

“We agreed right at the outset, we’re like, ‘No matter what, we can’t let them make either one of us have an affair,’” Britton said.

Making plans to see Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” turned into a quest of its own for some fans on Thursday as a surge of would-be ticket buyers appeared to bog down AMC’s website.

Dozens of people online said they encountered technical glitches while attempting to use the theater’s app to purchase tickets for the movie, which hits theaters on July 17.

Some reported major delays of up to several hours when trying to snag tickets; others said that they couldn’t even manage to find open seats, as theaters quickly filled up.

Chris Hemsworth has revealed that a family trip was derailed before it even left the ground after he showed up at the airport with the wrong passport, and then attempted a last-ditch explanation that went about as well as you’d expect.

Speaking alongside his wife, Elsa Pataky, in a joint interview with Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, the actor recalled arriving for an international flight only to discover he had brought his daughter’s passport instead of his son’s.

Hemsworth, 42, and Pataky, 49, share three children: India Rose, 14, and 12-year-old twin boys, Sasha and Tristan.