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Not sure, though I'd love to know too. I came to post https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2026/09/11/tom-selleck-reopen-broadway-9-11-postscript-exclusive/91697245007/ and figure this is as good a place as any for it.

Two of the buzziest replacement announcements of the year both took a role that has always been played by a man and handed it to a woman, and in both cases the reaction has been "oh, obviously." Zidler is a ringmaster. The Genie is a force of nature. Neither one is load-bearing on gender:https://www.google.com/url?q=https://playbill.com/article/emmy-w

With all the Aladdin casting news flying around right now, the question I keep coming back to is the one nobody at Disney seems willing to answer: where is the pro-shot which was captured in London?

Well, this confirms the Tangled stage musical is a real thing and not just a rumor with good PR. Erika Henningsen said out loud in an interview that she auditioned for Rapunzel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywjg9hTk-90She has the belt and she has the comedy, obviously, but Rapunzel is a very specific kind of wide-open ingenue energy and I keep wondering whether the role wants someone younger or whether it wants someone who can actually land the jokes. I would take the jokes.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has added performances at the Newman ahead of its North American premiere, which tells you something about how the West End reputation traveled. Details and dates here:https://www.google.com/url?q=https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2627/the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button/&source=gmail&ust=1788430171716000&sa

Any rumors out there? I thought we'd know by now...

Reports coming out of the all-South-Asian Spring Awakening are strong, and it strikes me as a much better fit for a reconceived production than most revivals get. The show is fundamentally about a generation being kept ignorant by adults who think silence is protection - moving that frame onto a specific diaspora community isn't a gimmick, it's the most natural relocation of that material I've heard proposed.Has anyone actually seen it? Most of what I've read is enthusiasm rather than descrip...

The Muny closed its season with a premiere production of Something Rotten! and per friends Jen Cody as Nostradamus walked off with the entire show.https://www.google.com/url?q=https://playbill.com/article/watch-highlights-from-opening-night-of-muny-something-rotten-starring-matt-doyle-will-burton-bryonha-marie-more&source=gmail&

The Globe just filed on A.R.T.'s RHINOCEROS and the word being thrown around is "bone-chillingly prescient," with John Turturro, Paul Giamatti and Tatiana Maslany all getting raves:https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/22/arts/turturro-giamatti-maslany-rhinoceros-review/&source=gmail&ust=1787520004097000&sa=EIonesco is a hard

https://disneyparksblog.com/disney-experiences/horizons-a-carousel-of-progress-opening-number-lyrics/Love this! So much Broadway talent involved this year. I hope they're all well paid.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/aug/09/the-secret-lives-of-theatre-workers-people-were-having-full-sex-in-the-stallsi'm seeing the wrong shows

Evita into the Winter Garden, Other Desert Cities into the Hudson. The Broadhurst has nothing announced? Or am i forgetting something?

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Grey-Henson-and-More-to-Lead-PRINGLE-FINN-Industry-Presentation-20260803The books are cute - where do we think this is headed?

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BURLESQUE-THE-MUSICAL-Postpones-Launch-of-UK-Tour-By-Another-Week-20260803we're never going to see this, are we? Not sure why they didn't try to retain Todrick, Orfeh and Jess as it's a show that likely needs both names and vocalists. Why so messy?

Anyone go to the concert? https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Exclusive-Janet-Krupin-Developing-Original-Musical-CHEMICAL-DRIVE-Into-a-Film-20260802

https://www.instagram.com/p/Dbd6VyPk0PF/?img_index=1

James Dolan is floating another ten years for The Wizard of Oz at Sphere. BWW storyI know the reflex here is to say it isn't theatre and move on, but a permanently-installed title in a 17,000-seat room is competing for the same tourist dollar and the same family-of-four decision that a Broadway sit-down or a first-class tour is chasing. If that's the model, Vegas stops being a place shows go to die and starts being a place t

Feels like we would have had an announcement by now

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/John-Mulaney-Reveals-New-MISTER-WHATEVER-Dates-Talks-Touring-With-His-Kids-20260728Fun idea - maybe?

https://pagesix.com/2026/07/27/society/sleep-no-more-and-masquerade-producer-says-he-would-take-over-the-shuttering-cats-the-jellicle-ball/i love this idea!