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Monster Mash: Tonys line up celebrity presenters; Broad in a bidding war; more orchestra cuts

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Star power: Nicole Kidman, Jane Fonda, Anne Hathaway and Kevin Spacey are among the celebrities scheduled to present at the Tony Awards on June 7.

Bidding war: Eli Broad is embroiled in a lawsuit as to whether his bid for a 1954 abstract painting by Sam Francis, titled “Grey,” came in before the gavel at a recent Christie’s auction.

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Dissonant noise: Members of the Charlotte Symphony in North Carolina react angrily to deep cuts in the orchestra’s funding.

More dissonance: The Utah Symphony and Opera faces a potential $1.3-million budgetary shortfall this year.

Possible recovery: Paintings by contemporary Chinese artists show signs of a rebound at a Christie’s auction in Hong Kong.

Mobile art: Artist Jorge Colombo used an iPhone application to create artwork for the recent cover of the New Yorker magazine.

Nervous making: Broadway’s summer box-office prospects still look iffy as New York deals with the recession and swine flu.

Dickensian: Are performers on London’s West End being forced to work in squalid conditions?

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Soothing art: Digital artwork by musician Brian Eno is being projected onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House as part of a citywide festival of sound and light.

On the telly: Live theater is returning to British television in a new venture from Sky Arts that will see six writers creating half-hour plays.

Silent auction: More than 900 items that belonged to the French mime Marcel Marceau are scheduled to hit the block this week in Paris.

— David Ng

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