musicals

A new musical based on the classic film “Some Like It Hot” will premiere on Broadway in the fall of 2021. The show, which features a book by “The Inheritance’s” Matthew Lopez and music and lyrics from the “Smash” and “Hairspray!” team of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, was originally scheduled to debut in Chicago …

The Broadway shutdown continues with the coronavirus pandemic affecting some 87,000 jobs in the process. The Actors Fund, which launched its COVID-19 emergency relief fund in March, has come to the community’s rescue — distributing more than $10 million to displaced theater personnel in just eight weeks. The record-breaking fund, which totals $10,500,000, provides basic …

“Frozen the Musical” will close on Broadway, Disney announced Thursday, making it the biggest theatrical demise caused by the coronavirus pandemic so far. The $30 million musical becomes the third show to prematurely shutter during the crisis, following the plays “Hangmen” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” starring Laurie Metcalf and Rupert Everett. Those shows, …

“MJ,” the Michael Jackson stage musical headed for Broadway, will begin previews next March, an eight-month postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic shutdown. The new dates were announced today by producers Lia Vollack Productions and The Michael Jackson Estate. The world premiere of “MJ,” featuring Jackson’s music, will begin previews on Monday, March 8, 2021, …

Actor Jake Gyllenhaal posted a video on Friday of him singing a song entitled “Across the Way” as part of a monologue series. The four-and-a-half minute song was written especially for Gyllenhaal by the composer of the Tony Award-winning musical “Fun Home,” Jeanine Tesori, and playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Gyllenhaal singing …

Richard Kind is the latest star to join the cast of Tony-nominated composer Andrew Lippa’s “Tiger King: The Musical (A Parody!),” Page Six has learned. Lippa’s “Tiger King”-inspired tunes have recently been recorded as outrageous home videos by Kristin Chenoweth, Frankie Grande and “RuPaul’s Drag Race” star Nina West. “Now people are legitimately calling me …

Broadway actor Nick Cordero, who has been battling the coronavirus since March, had a “rocky night” Monday, his wife Amanda Kloots said. In an Instagram story on Tuesday, Kloots, 38, said that her husband’s oxygen level dropped and doctors were called to help clear away some of the infection in the actor’s lungs. “Hey everybody, …

When audiences finally return to Broadway, it appears frontline workers will be first in line for tickets. Popular ticket site TodayTix has unveiled an initiative to provide first responders to the COVID-19 pandemic with free tickets to Broadway shows once theaters reopen, according to Variety. The initiative, called Save a Seat Fund, launched Tuesday when CEO …

These former “Waitress” stars are serving up thanks to first responders in the coronavirus pandemic. Katharine McPhee, 36, posted a video with her “Smash” co-star Jeremy Jordan, 35, to Twitter on Wednesday singing “You Matter to Me” from “Waitress,” which they both starred in at different points. On Saturday, McPhee took to Twitter saying that …

Broadway star Amanda Jane Cooper and Andrew Bell made the best out of their canceled wedding. Cooper, 31, and Bell, 30, were supposed to get married on April 25 in Pennsylvania but moved their nuptials up to April 4 in light of the coronavirus lockdown so they could start their lives together. “My husband and …