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How sad! Josh was an incredible comic actor, especially in ''Enter Laughing,'' which earned him raves and awards buzz. Below is a clip from Josh's YouTube channel from the show. Deepest condolences to his family and friends.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig9yQbv4teo

TheaterMania: Josh Grisetti, Broadway Performer & Cal State Fullerton Professor, Dies at 44https://www.theatermania.com/news/josh-grisetti-broadway-performer-and-cal-state-fullerton-professor-dies-at-44_1845476/

Lin-Manuel Miranda is the first to say that '' '1776' certainly paved the way for 'Hamilton,' and he says he discovered ''1776'' while in college. Anyway, here's a fun interview Miranda did with William Daniels, the original John Adams, a decade ago about ''1776'' and ''Hamilton'' for Playbill.com ...https://playbill.com/article/lin-manuel-miranda-and-william-daniels-talk-hamilton-1776-mr-feeny-and-more

Reel History: '1776' Is Way More Radical Than You Think! History Prof Jared Frederick Reacts!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAHEUe7UVxs

(With apologies to ''West Side Story'' and ''The Music Man'')Boy, boy, crazy Trump.A fool, Trump.Lost his marbles and he garbles.Keep that pool cool, Trump.Don't get hot'Cause Trump you've gotSome midterms ahead.Algae's stinkin' up the Lincoln,Costs millions and we'll die in red! ...Oh, yes, we got trouble here, we got big, big trouble.With Trump's ''Tea'' (with a capital ''T'')Gotta rhyme it with "Pee" and that stands for Pool!

Video of the full curtain call from the final show:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkUn-IfO-9g

Kad: Thanks for your post!

Ahead of his RSC debut as Rosalind in ''As You Like It,'' Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff gets put to the test about the Bard vs. Broadway.(But Evans missed asking the perfect quiz question to end on: Quoting ''Fear No More'' from ''The Frogs,'' Sondheim's setting of Shakespeare!)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9rk_ecdwCw

Slime every mountain: A pro-Trump PAC is airing a deepfake AI ad featuring James Talarico, the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas, in Maria's signature pinafore singing a parody of ''My Favorite Things'' from Rodgers & Hammerstein's ''The Sound of Music.'' The computer-generated Talarico sings: ''Boys in white dresses with blue satin sashes/ Girls dosed with hormones til they grow mustaches. Changing the gender of all your offspring/ These are a few of my favorite things.”Ugh. The ad, bough...

''Schmigadoon! is the fifth musical with a score that isn’t 100% original to win Best Score following Gigi in 1974, Cats in 1983, The Who’s Tommy (in a tie with Kiss of the Spider Woman) in 1993, and Newsies in 2012.''Jeffrey: I really enjoyed your 26 Tony Trivia Facts for GoldDerby.com, but shouldn't this tidbit include ''The Producers''? The Tony-winning score to the 2001 Broadway musical includes 3 songs from the 1967 movie: ''Springtime for Hitler,'' ''Prisoners of Love'' and ''Haben Sie ...

How'd your Tony pool go? Anyone get a perfect score: 26 of 26? I was fortunate enough to tie with Cititour's Brian Scott Lipton and Queerty's Michael Musto for the No. 1 spot among the experts at GoldDerby.com. We got 22 out of 26, or 84.6%. Elsewhere, we were oneupped by Time Out New York's Adam Feldman, who got 23 out of 26. And at GoldDerby.com, where over 900 fans entered, he was oneupped by TheCineMike and Jroemer, who got 24 out of 26, or 92.3%.For the record, if you had voted for all t...

Thanks to BroadwayHD's streaming of Roundabout's revival, I caught Rose Byrne and Kelli O'Hara's Tony-nominated performances. They play Jane and Julia, two upper-class, British gal pals who get progressively sloshed as they hope to reunite with a former French lover they both romanced in the past. Byrne and O'Hara are a riot in this 1925 three-act comedy as they fall over furniture, try to light cigarettes and stumble over the stairs in David Rockwell's ritzy-looking set. Alas, Coward's play ...

'The Tonight Show': Tony nominee Ana Gasteyer has fun evoking trouble & 'Tribulation' in 'Schmigadoon!'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpwCZokDwmE

Page Six: Stars of Off-Broadway 'Heated Rivalry' Parody Face Off With Ilya & Shane Lookalike WinnersJay Armstrong Johnson & Jimin Moonvs. Felix Eller & Aram Matagihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkIDYRdP0Yo&t=14s

Video of highlights from 2026 Drama Desk Awards: Includes speeches from Omari Wiles & Arturo Lyons (''CATS''), Christopher Gattelli (''Schmigadoon!''), John Lithgow (''Giant''), Caissie Levy & Joshua Henry (''Ragtime'')https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKo7bScuHCg

Kad, you're right. The Chita Rivera Awards gave a special award last year to ''CATS'' for Outstanding Off-Broadway Choreography.But the current production on the Great White Way was still nominated for this year's Chitas for Outstanding Broadway Ensemble, Outstanding Broadway Choreography and Outstanding Dancer(s) in a Broadway Show.

'Schmigadoon!'' was named Outstanding Ensemble in a Broadway Show and its Christopher Gattelli won for Outstanding Choreography in a Broadway Show.Outstanding Dancers in a Broadway Show were Max Clayton, ''Schmigadoon!''; Isabelle McCalla, ''Schmigadoon!''; and Robert ''Silk'' Mason, ''CATS.''The Chita Rivera Awards, held last night at NYU Skirball, also presented the legendary Ann-Margret, 85, with its Lifetime Achievement Award.https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/SCHMIGADOON-And-Mor...

Has ''The Lost Boys'' set a record for the most producers? At a cursory glance, I counted more than 80 names/entities. I wonder how many Tony voters are among them. In a close Tony race, could this be a factor? Here's the list of its producers:Produced by James Carpinello, Marcus Chait, Patrick Wilson, James L. Nederlander, At Rise Creative, Ayesha & Stephen Curry, Lauren Shuler Donner, Neil Patrick Harris, Douglas Sills, Slash, Kiefer Sutherland, Steve Young, Amy & Grady Burnett, Allison Blo...

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/2026-Outer-Critics-Circle-Awards-Winners--RAGTIME-and-SCHMIGADOON-Lead-the-Pack-20260511

''Luckily, both the Drama League AND Drama Desk Awards are happening this week and even tho like the OCC’s they honor both on and off broadway shows, they are voted on by those working in the industry''Frankly, i don't think the Drama League or Drama Desk represent more voters ''working in the industry.'' For the many years I edited at the New York Daily News, I belonged to the Outer Critics Circle and the Drama Desk, and their memberships are pretty similar: mostly folks who cover the theate...