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Matt and his Broadway actress-wife Jenny Powers (''Grease,'' ''Little Women'' ) will be joined by their kids, George, Henry and Rose, in ''Keeping Up With the Cavenaughs'' on Friday, Oct. 2, and Saturday, Oct. 3, at 7 p.m. at 54 Below, 254 W. 54th St., NYC. (The Oct. 3 show also will be live-streamed.)Among their credits, Cavenaugh is a 2009 Outer Critics Circle nominee for ''West Side Story'' and 2012 Drama Desk nominee for ''Death Takes a Holiday.'' Powers is a 2013 Drama Desk nominee for '...

From the opening paragraphs of Thomas Floyd's Washington Post's rave review of Signature's ''Merrily'':''Rattling off “Franklin Shepard, Inc.,” the neurotic tongue twister that arrives early in “Merrily We Roll Along,” can be a Tony-worthy feat. Just ask Daniel Radcliffe, who landed the award two years ago [on Broadway]. Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics come thick and fast. So does the anxious energy. Mindful of the musical’s reverse chronology, the actor portraying Charley Kringas must channel an e...

''Center Stage,'' Patrick Pacheco's new show on CUNY TV, includes interviews with Chita Rivera Award winners Christopher Gattelli, Isabelle McCalla and Max Clayton. But first, this episode opens with Sherie Rene Scott, who has joined ''The Rocky Horror Show.''https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmGvic_YdOo

Kudos to Michael and Matthew Gardiner's tiptop tap tribute to Dolly Parton. They're an Irish-American dance duo of brothers who've performed in ''Riverdance'' and are now based in Nashville.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4GNr7St_PQc

''Schmigadoon!'' also won Best Musical over ''The Lost Boys'' at the Outer Critics Circle Awards. And ''Schmigadoon!'' won Best Musical at the Drama Desk Awards, where ''The Lost Boys'' wasn't even nominated in that category.

Anna Louizos designed a terrific, Tony-nominated set for ''The Last Real Record Store'' in ''High Fidelity'' (2006) ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg5TzplxHSA

'Schmigadoon!' Cast Plays 'Bridge' on 'Good Morning America'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DyG9BDYv8I&t=8s

Tim Curry was so wonderful as Alan Swann in Stephen Flaherty & Lynn Ahrens' ''My Favorite Year'' (1992), with Evan Pappas, Lainie Kazan and Andrea Martin. Here are promo clips from Curry's YouTube channel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XQS0bC0W5o

Much will be written about Dolly Parton's hit songs, like ''Jolene'' and ''I Wil Always Love You.'' But I want to call attention to ''From Here to the Moon and Book,'' a lesser-known, but lovely and lilting tune she wrote for "Joyful Noise'' (2012), a wonderful movie written and directed by Todd Graff (who also did ''Camp'' and was a Tony nominee for ''Baby''). Dolly played G.G. Sparrow as she recalls her late husband (Kris Kristofferson), and Jeremy Jordan, in his feature film debut, portrayed

What an Asian-American pioneer of performers! Miller Daurey of ''Hey, Dancer!'' salutes the amazing dancer whom Gene Kelly once raved about as the next Fred Astaire. What a life and legacy!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCpGxcijqKg

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-

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 "Pe

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: '