Lin-Manuel Miranda paid a visit to The Tonight Show to herald the return of Broadway by performing a song about all of his favorite musicals with host Jimmy Fallon. The pair were joined by Jimmy Smits, Olga Merediz, Phylicia Rashad, Kristin Chenoweth, Christopher Jackson, and Laura Benanti as they referenced …
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The long-awaited Britney Spears jukebox musical Once Upon a One More Timehas rescheduled its premiere to this November. The new show was originally supposed to debut in Chicago in 2019 before it was delayed to April 2020. The Chicago run was subsequently canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Once Upon …
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Ariana Grande and Broadway star Shoshana Bean (Hairspray) will join composer Jason Robert Brown (The Last Five Years,13) for a special virtual concert to benefit the staff and musicians from famed Manhattan venue SubCulture. The intimate theater is currently shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. The show will take …
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“Why do we build the wall, my children?” asked folksinger Greg Brown, playing the character Hades, on the 2010 recording of Anaïs Mitchell’s “folk opera,” Hadestown. “We build the wall to keep us free!” answers the chorus, over ghostly pedal steel. “Who do we call the enemy, my children?” he …
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Devo‘s Mark Mothersbaugh and pro skateboarder Tony Hawk will team for a musical adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel Slam. The Tony Award-nominated composer for SpongeBob SquarePants the Musical, Kyle Jarrow, will write the book for the musical, which is aiming to open in time for the 2020-21 Broadway season. Hawk, …
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