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    <title>Kennedy Center Could Close Immediately as Leaders Warn of Bankruptcy</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts could shut its main building as early as Tuesday, September 15, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.

Per the Post, a 57-page packet sent to the center&#39;s board of trustees ahead of a special meeting on Tuesday lays out two resolutions. The first addresses the center&#39;s finances, with officials warning that the institution could be unable to meet payroll or pay routine maintenance contracts within weeks. The second would close the main building immediately on safety grounds.

The financial resolution ties a rescue to public recognition of President Donald Trump, who installed himself as chairman last year. According to the Post, the packet says Trump has offered to raise the funds needed...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 23:04:09 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Video: DEATH BECOMES HER First Curtain Call in Celevland</title>
    <description><![CDATA[DEATH BECOMES HER&#39;s North American Tour marked its first preview performance with a curtain call video posted to the show&#39;s YouTube channel, capturing the company taking its bows in Cleveland.

DEATH BECOMES HER is a musical comedy based on the 1992 film of the same name, following the rivalry between two frenemies who become entangled in a battle over eternal youth and beauty. The touring production follows the show&#39;s Broadway run and brings the story&#39;s dark comedy and supernatural stakes to audiences across North America.

Leading the company are Jackie Burns (Madeline Ashton), Kristen Beth Williams (Helen Sharp), Ken Marino (Ernest Menville), Nasia Thomas (Viola Van Horn), Louis A. Williams Jr. (Chagall), Michael Buchanan (Stefan), and...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 20:21:50 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>The Greatest Showman Gets The Savannah Bananas Treatment With New Performance</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Jackson Olson is bringing his signature Savannah Bananas showmanship to the ballroom&mdash;without forgetting how to entertain on the diamond. Check out the video!

The Banana Ball player joined his Dancing with the Stars partner, EMMA SLATER, for a performance set to &ldquo;Rewrite The Stars&quot; from the movie musical The Greatest Showman. The energetic number offered fans at the Grayson Stadiump/a/KSAMTLAWWB0KSAMTLAWWB a--][dHPQgT--!--][dHPQgT--!--][dHPQgT--!--]]1,0,;touq&;touq&,llun,llun,0,llun,]]}]01[:;touq&4253;touq&,];touq&dfp_60/m/;touq&,llun[:;touq&502;touq&{[,llun,llun,]1,1,llun,908652[,llun,llun,llun,llun,llun,llun,llun,llun,1,llun,llun,llun[,0,;touq&;touq&,];touq&srats eht etirwer mrofrep noslo noskcaj did erehw;touq&,llun,llun,];touq&1007afb2847c2628x0:3047327010e9bf88x0;touq&,635440.23,266870.18-,;touq&dfp_60/m/;touq&[,;touq&1007afb2847c2628x0:3047327010e9bf88x0;touq&,;touq&dfp_60/m/;touq&[[[dHPQgT--!--]["https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdLG2-EOnMo/">
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The Greatest Showman holds a special connection to Olson, who has incorporated it into the larger-than-life character he...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:24:05 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Lea Michele Reveals If She Would Participate In A Glee Reboot</title>
    <description><![CDATA[After creator Ryan Murphy revealed this summer that he would be willing to revisit Glee with a possible reboot, he told People in an interview, &quot;that show is interesting because it&rsquo;s come back around. So many young people now watch it. And I&rsquo;m like, &lsquo;Maybe we should revisit that show.&rsquo; &rdquo;

While attending New York Fashion Week, Lea Michele was asked about the possibility of returning to the world of Glee for a potential new project. Speaking in an interview with E! News, Michele reflected fondly on the series and its lasting significance in her life.

&ldquo;I love Glee. I will always love Glee,&rdquo; Michele said. &ldquo;I love Ryan Murphy... it just holds such a special place in my heart for me.&rdquo;

Michele...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:40:38 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Video: Ariana Madix Prepares to Join JUST IN TIME and Sings &apos;Ain&apos;t That A Shame&apos; In New Rehearsal Footage</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Ariana Madix is getting ready to trade Roxie Hart for Connie Francis! New rehearsal footage has been released of the Love Island USA host preparing for her return to Broadway in Just in Time, including a look at Madix singing &ldquo;Ain&rsquo;t That a Shame.&rdquo; Madix begins performances as Francis on Saturday, September 12 at Circle in the Square Theatre.

The new role brings Madix back to Broadway two years after making her debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago. Her initial 2024 engagement proved such a success that it was extended, and she later returned to the production for a second run. Now, she&rsquo;ll step into the world of Bobby Darin opposite Jeremy Jordan in the hit musical.

Ariana Madix is a television...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:50:26 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Photos: First Look at THE FRUITS OF OUR LABOR at Arena Stage</title>
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Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is now presenting its 2026/27 Season opening production, The Fruits of Our Labor. The next installment of a multi-year partnership between the Tony Award-winning theater and the National Heritage Fellowship-awarded Dance Company Step Afrika!, The Fruits of Our Labor is a powerful meditation on patriotism, identity, and what it means to carry hope for a nation still in the making. Get a first look at production photos! 

Directed and choreographed in collaboration with Jakari Sherman, Conrad R. Kelly II, and Vusi Mdoyi, the percussive, visceral world premiere will run through November 1, 2026, on the Fichandler Stage. 

As America marks 250 years, The Fruits of Our Labor examines the endurance, labor, and beliefs that continue...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:41:09 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Exclusive: Inside Rehearsals for the DEATH BECOMES HER National Tour</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Don&#39;t say we didn&#39;t warn you! The North American Tour of Death Becomes Her is on its way to a city near you, launching at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, Ohio this September.  Leading the company are Jackie Burns (Madeline Ashton), Kristen Beth Williams (Helen Sharp), Ken Marino (Ernest Menville), Nasia Thomas (Viola Van Horn), Louis A. Williams Jr. (Chagall), Michael Buchanan (Stefan), and Gail Bennett (Standby for Madeline Ashton and Helen Sharp), with Calvin Cooper, Nick Cortazzo, Tiki Hopson, Karma Jenkins, Tyler Jimenez, Caroline Kane, Bryn Purvis, Jordan Vasquez, and Candace Janin Washington, with swings...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:00:09 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Photos: Wayne Brady and the Cast of MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT Meet the Press</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Wayne Brady and the cast of Ms. Blakk for President recently met the press ahead of the show&#39;s upcoming run at Vineyard Theatre. Check out photos from the event below!

Brady will lead the production as Terence Alan Smith/Joan Jett Blakk, alongside Nic Ashe, Gideon Glick, Kelvin Moon Loh, Sawyer Smith and Adina Verson. Ms. Blakk for President is written by Academy Award winner Tarell Alvin McCraney and Tony Award nominee Tina Landau, who also directs.

Inspired by the true story of drag performer and activist Terence Alan Smith, the play introduces Joan Jett Blakk, who ran for president in the early 1990s amid the AIDS epidemic. The story follows Joan and Queer...]]></description>

    
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    <title>Video: Lizzo &amp; Aaron Tveit Lip Sync to MOULIN ROUGE&apos;s &apos;El Tango de Roxanne&apos;</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Lizzo and Aaron Tveit teamed up for a new Instagram Reel, lip syncing to &quot;El Tango de Roxanne&quot; from Moulin Rouge! the Musical. 

Tveit&#39;s rendition of the song went viral on social media years ago, catching the Grammy-winner&#39;s eye. After she previously posted a solo version of the video from outside of the theatre. After they performed together at Radio City last night, the &quot;Juice&quot; singer recruited the Moulin Rouge! alum for another video.

&quot;Now we REALLY have to sing together,&quot; she captioned the post, tagging Tveit.


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The pair performed at Gustavo Dudamel&#39;s first concert as the New York Philharmonic&rsquo;s Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Music &amp; Artistic Director at Radio City on Thursday night. They...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:06:02 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Exclusive: Inside THE ASK First Rehearsal With Shannon Purser &amp; Marilu Henner</title>
    <description><![CDATA[This fall, Emmy nominee Shannon Purser (&ldquo;Stranger Things&rdquo;, &quot;Riverdale&quot;) will be starring alongside Marilu Henner (a five-time Golden Globe nominee) in the new play The Ask. Before the production begins performances on October 6, take an exclusive look inside the rehearsal room.

The Ask plays a strictly limited engagement at Theater 555 (555 West 42nd Street, New York, NY) through Sunday, November 22. This marks Shannon Purser&#39;s New York stage debut.

The Ask is an 80-minute two-hander about the price of a donation. When Tanner (Purser), a young non-binary ACLU fundraiser, visits Greta (Henner), a longtime donor and Upper West Side widow who&#39;s quietly stopped giving, the routine &quot;ask&quot; turns into something sharper: a real-time negotiation over what the ACLU, and the American left, actually stands for...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:00:12 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Up on the Marquee: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Arrives on Broadway</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Up next at the Winter Garden Theatre is Jamie Lloyd&#39;s production of William Shakespeare&#39;s Much Ado About Nothing, which transfers to Broadway for a strictly limited 10-week engagement. Preview performances will begin on Saturday, October 31 ahead of a Thursday, November 19 official opening night. Much Ado About Nothing will play through Sunday, January 10, 2027 only.

As previously announced, the production will star Tony Award nominee, Olivier Award nominee, and Golden Globe Award winner Tom Hiddleston as &#39;Benedick&#39; and three-time Olivier Award nominee, Standard Theatre Award winner, and Golden Globe Award nominee Hayley Atwell as &#39;Beatrice,&#39; with Mara Huf as &#39;Hero,&#39; Mika Onyx Johnson as &#39;Borachio,&#39; Gerald Kyd as &#39;Don Pedro,&#39; Forbes Masson as &#39;Leonato,&#39; Phillip Olagoke as &#39;Friar Francis,&#39; Mason Alexander Park as &#39;Margaret,&#39; James Phoon as &#39;Claudio,&#39; and Tim Steed as &#39;Don John&#39;.

Lloyd&#39;s staging previously ran at...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:33:13 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Photos: Inside Rehearsals with the Company of WANTED</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The new musical Wanted gathered for the first time together for meet and greet. See photos from the gathering! A new Broadway musical inspired by a Clarke family story carried for generations, Wanted is the epic tale of Mary and Martha: sisters, outlaws, legends.

Wanted will star Solea Pfeiffer as Mary Clarke, Liisi LaFontaine as Martha Clarke, Grammy Award-winning and 16 time-nominated R&amp;B legend Ledisi as Tallulah Clarke, Grammy Award-nominated R&amp;B singer, songwriter, and actor Luke James as Elijah, West End and London star Bradley Jaden as Jesse, Aurelia Williams as Sissy, and Awa Sal Secka as Flo. The production will also feature Ximone Rose as the standby for Mary and Martha Clarke, Melody A. Betts, Aaron Arnell...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:44:22 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Disney’s THE LION KING Tour to Close in 2027; New &apos;Reimagined&apos; Production to Launch</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Lion King North American tour will close in 2027 in anticipation of a newly-configured production, designed to allow the landmark musical to continue reaching audiences in cities and venues across North America for years to come. The timetable and route for the new tour will be announced at a later date. 

The current touring production, which launched in 2002, Will Close following its performance on August 15, 2027. The closure will allow the Tony-winning creative team, including director Julie Taymor, to reimagine elements of the production while maintaining the scale and emotional power that have defined The Lion King for audiences around the world. 

No tour in theater history has achieved anything like The Lion King&rsquo;s reach or impact. For nearly 25 years, the...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:07:03 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Video: THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON Cast Performs &apos;A Little Life&apos;</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The Public Theater has shared new rehearsal footage of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, showcasing an early listen to the musical ahead of its North American premiere at The Public Theatre. The video, filmed in the rehearsal room, features Andrew Durand and the company performing &#39;A Little Life.&#39;

The musical reimagines F. Scott Fitzgerald&#39;s story of a man who is born old and ages in reverse, relocating the tale to a Cornish fishing village on the coast of Great Britain. The show comes from the Olivier Award-winning writing team of Jethro Compton and Darren Clark, who previously brought the production to acclaim in London, including a run at Southwark Playhouse and on the West End. The piece is performed...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:00:28 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Video: THE LION KING Cast Performs &apos;They Live in You&apos; on GMA for 9/11 Tribute</title>
    <description><![CDATA[The cast of Broadway&#39;s THE LION KING performed &quot;They Live in You&quot; on Good Morning America as a tribute in remembrance of September 11. Four cast members from the hit Broadway musical performed a stripped-back version of the beloved ballad in front of a photo of the New York City skyline, before the camera cut to footage of the Freedom Tower.

Since its premiere on November 13, 1997, 32 global productions have been seen by over 130 million people.  Produced by Disney Theatrical Group, under the direction of Andrew Flatt and Anne Quart, The Lion King has made theatrical history with two productions worldwide running 20 or more years and three others running 25 or more years. 

Performed over its lifetime in nine different languages...]]></description>

    
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        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:49:28 EST</pubDate>
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    <title>Review Roundup: SAFE HOUSE Opens Off-Broadway at Theatre Row</title>
    <description><![CDATA[split/decision is presenting the World Premiere of Safe House by L.B. Browne, directed by Benjamin Viertel at Theatre Row.

Safe House is a family drama set in the days leading up to a U.S. presidential election. Convinced the second American civil war is imminent, Rock, a father secretly dying of a hereditary neurodegenerative disease, becomes consumed by the need to protect his family. In the basement of his Pennsylvania suburban home, transformed, beam by beam, into a doomsday bunker, he has built what he believes is the last safe place on earth.

But when his estranged teenage daughter returns home pregnant, the tensions that have long simmered beneath the surface of the household break open, and the father&#39;s obsession with safety turns into something else entirely....]]></description>

    
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    <description><![CDATA[This week&#39;s Stage Mag Spotlight is on Diversionary Theatre&#39;s production of Tick, Tick... BOOM! Stage Mag is BroadwayWorld&#39;s service for easily creating modern, fully interactive show programs for all types of productions, from streaming to broadcast to in-person.

Diversionary Theatre&#39;s Stage Mag is not just as a bare cast list, but a full-fledged show program &ndash; with special features to enhance the audience&#39;s experience.

Program builders can add photos, videos, interactive advertisements with their own ad pages, sell merchandise, collect email addresses, customize the design, and promote the show with a QR code.

Just one smartphone click on a code included on lobby signs, printed slips, website, or stream will instantly open the new interactive digital program.

Following general information about the production, Diversionary Theatre...]]></description>

    
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    <description><![CDATA[Some interviews are more personal than others. Long before Aidan Olmo was preparing to travel the country in the Tony Award-winning Buena Vista Social Club, he was a young musical theatre student with big dreams &mdash; and I had the privilege of being one of his teachers.

For years, we worked together as he developed as a performer, went after roles, did songs together, prepared for auditions and eventually worked toward the next major goal: studying musical theatre at Manhattan School of Music. I watched his talent grow, but just as importantly, I watched the work he was willing to put behind it.

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    <description><![CDATA[The big day is almost here! It is one of the most anticipated events of the season for theater lovers. The Broadway Flea Market &amp; Grand Auction is about to take over the Theatre District and we have all info you need to prepare yourself for the big day!


What is the origin of the Broadway Flea Market &amp; Grand Auction?

The Broadway Flea Market &amp; Grand Auction is one of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS&#39; longest-held traditions. The event had its humble beginnings more than three decades ago with two tables set up by cast members of A Chorus Line outside their stage door in Shubert Alley.

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    <title>Video: Watch a First Look at the BURLESQUE THE MUSICAL UK Tour</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Watch a first look at the UK tour of Burlesque the Musical, currently running across the country following its London engagement. The video features Faye Brookes as Tess Richarde, the Burlesque club owner played by Cher in Steven Antin&#39;s Golden Globe-winning and Best Picture-nominated 2010 film.

The story follows a young woman named Ali who travels to New York in search of her mother and finds herself pulled into an underground world of ambition, temptation, and music while discovering her own voice along the way.

Based on Steven Antin&#39;s iconic Golden Globe-winning and Best Picture-nominated film starring Christina Aguilera and Cher, Burlesque the Musical is a glittering, high-voltage theatrical event packed with powerhouse vocals, jaw-dropping choreography, and outrageous glamour. With a creative team led...]]></description>

    
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    <description><![CDATA[When Taylor Louderman was playing Mean Girls&rsquo; Queen Bee, Regina George, she was looking for a way to give back to a Broadway community that was showering her with so much love. 

At the time, the actress was in one of the most high-profile Broadway stage adaptations &mdash; with Tina Fey intimately involved in the musical&rsquo;s development &mdash; and she was nominated for a 2018 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress. 

&ldquo;I was looking for other opportunities to be creative, opportunities to give back, especially because I was playing the villain,&rdquo; Louderman exclusively tells BroadwayWorld. &ldquo;And I wanted to build something. I also saw that there was a need in our industry to support artists.&rdquo; 

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    <description><![CDATA[Roundabout Theatre Company will soon present the New York premiere production of The Heart with book and additional lyrics by Kait Kerrigan, music and lyrics by Anne Eisendrath and Ian Eisendrath, music supervision and arrangements by Ian Eisendrath, choreography by Mandy Moore and direction by Tony Award-winner Christopher Ashley based on Maylis de Kerangal&#39;s novel R&eacute;parer les vivants.

The Heart will feature Outer Critics Circle Award-nominee Heidi Blickenstaff (Jagged Little Pill, Something Rotten!) as &#39;Claire,&#39; Lincoln Clauss (Fly, Bat Out of Hell) as &#39;Thomas Driscoll,&#39; Nick T. Daly (MJ: The Musical) as &#39;Simon Lamar,&#39; Drew Gehling (&amp; Juliet, Almost Famous) as &#39;Dr. Breva,&#39; Bre Jackson (The Book...]]></description>

    
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    <title>Photos: Sophia Anne Caruso and More in Rehearsal For MEMOIRS OF AMOROUS GENTLEMEN</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Additional rehearsal photos have been released for Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, the new musical with music &amp; lyrics by Tony and Grammy Award-winner Duncan Sheik and book by Leah Nanako Winkler, premiering off-Broadway at a brand-new venue &ndash; &lsquo;The Night Egg&rsquo; at the Culture Club.  Check out the photos below!

A first batch of rehearsal photos was shared last month here.

Based on the manga graphic novel &ldquo;Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen&rdquo; by Moyoco Anno and directed and choreographed by Tony, Olivier and Emmy Award-winner Rob Ashford, Memoirs will begin performances on Friday, September 25 with an opening night set for Thursday, October 15, and is set to play through Sunday, January 3, 2027.

Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen stars Sophia Anne Caruso as &lsquo;Colette,&rsquo;...]]></description>

    
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    <description><![CDATA[Cinco Paul, the Tony and Emmy-winning creator of Schmigadoon!, has revealed that he has a new musical titled Sweet Jesus is in development.

Paul shared a photo from a developmental session for the project on Instagram, including a look at a Sweet Jesus binder indicating that the musical features music and lyrics by Paul. No production plans, dates, casting or additional creative team members have been announced.

The project follows Paul&#39;s Broadway success with Schmigadoon!, which opened at the Nederlander Theatre in April 2026. Paul wrote the book, music and lyrics for the stage musical, adapted from the Apple TV series he co-created with Ken Daurio.

Schmigadoon! won four Tony Awards in 2026, including Best Musical. Paul personally received Tony Awards for Best Book of a...]]></description>

    
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    <title>Video: Kerry Ellis and More Perform &apos;Little Women&apos; From JO - THE LITTLE WOMEN MUSICAL</title>
    <description><![CDATA[A performance of &ldquo;Little Women&rdquo; from Jo - The Little Women Musical has been released, featuring footage from the musical&#39;s January 25, 2026 concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Watch the video!

The number features Christine Allado as Jo March, Kerry Ellis as Marmee, Kelly Mathieson as Meg March, Eleanor Grant as Beth March and Sophie Pollono as Amy March.

The concert was directed and choreographed by JoAnn M. Hunter, with music composed and conducted by Dan Redfeld and lyrics by Christina Harding and John Gabriel Koladziej. The performers were backed by a 27-piece orchestra.

Sound design, recording, editing and mixing were by Nick Pugh. Ensemble and chorus performers were provided by Vocals Unlimited, with Tom Pearce serving as choirmaster. Orchestral management...]]></description>

    
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