The Daily Scoop

Tracy Turnblads unite! On August 15, 2002 (18 years ago tomorrow), Hairspray celebrated its Broadway opening night. Original film Tracy Turnblad, Ricki Lake, invited the original Broadway company onto her popular daytime talk show to perform the show's toe-tapping opening number led by future Tony winner Marissa Jaret Winokur.

Photo by Joan Marcus

We've collected 10 beautiful covers by current Hamilton King George Euan Morton! Enjoy these covers that span from Hedwig and the Angry Inch to standards by John Lennon, Whitney Houston, Joni Mitchell and more!

About a month after The Addams Family opened on Broadway in 2010, the wonderful Wes Taylor (who is celebrating a birthday today) headed downtown for his Joe's Pub concert "Wes Taylor and Friends" where he sang this gorgeous Billy Joel tune.

R&H Goes Pop, the online series bringing modern version of Rodgers and Hammerstein musical theatre classics continues! This afternoon, Syndee Winters brought us a brand new "Where or When" which appeared in the 1937 Broadway musical BABES IN ARMS. Let's look back at 5 of our favorite music videos (in no particular order) from R&H Goes Pop!

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We beg your pardon, we're getting another brand new streaming Broadway musical!? Headlines broke this morning that upcoming Broadway musical DIANA is now set for a Netflix stream ahead of their newly announced May 2021 Broadway opening. We're looking at 3 real life Princess Diana moments audiences may see on stage and screen.

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August 12th marks National Vinyl Record Day. The first song that came to mind was sung by one of the coolest ladies - Annie Golden - singing "Spin Those Records" from the 2019 Off-Broadway musical Broadway Bounty Hunter.

Kyle Taylor Parker, of Kinky Boots and Smokey Joe's Cafe, will be releasing Broadway Soul, Vol. 2 and we are loving his Broadway Soul covers of some musical theatre classics.

Photo by Joan Marcus

On August 11th, one of the finest actors of our generation was born - Viola Davis. Her talent shines so brightly on stage, television ("How to Get Away with Murder"), film (Doubt and The Help) and it was this role as Rose in August Wilson's play Fences that earned her a vast amount of awards and critical praise.

Some of your favorite musical theatre stars are continuing to share their talent virtually these days. Broadway Isolation Project is another of these fantastic showcases for amazing duets, trios and quartets from the musical theatre canon!

Are you enjoying a lazy afternoon? That is fitting news as today is National Lazy Day. Let's bring this over to a Broadway correlation, shall we?