The Daily Scoop

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Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty have provided the words and music to over a dozen musicals that are beloved by many and highly acclaimed earning Tony, Academy, and Golden Globe Awards to name a few. This coming December, fans have a new album of unheard music by the award-winning duo with Broadway Records' release of Legacy.

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Ahoy! Lucky West End theatregoers will have a new musical revival to cheer for in May 2021! Emmy winning funny lady Megan Mullally will step into Reno Sweeney's shoes in a musical revival of Cole Porter's de-lovely scored Anything Goes at West End's Barbican Theatre.

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Eleven years ago tonight, Broadway's Eugene O'Neill Theatre was celebrating the opening night of the thrilling, new, original Broadway musical with an Afrobeat score - Fela! sharing the story of Nigerian music legend Fela Kuti.

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He's a Grammy winner and a two time 2007 Tony Award winner for his magical score to Spring Awakening. Now singer/songwriter/composer Duncan Sheik is set to release his first live album Live at the Cafe Carlyle next week on Friday, December 4th on Sneaky Records / Missing Piece Records.

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Thursday, December 10th at 8pm EST - Broadway fans will want to stay close to their televisions and tune in to NBC for One Night Only: The Best of Broadway benefitting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

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Some exciting news this Thanksgiving! Three time Tony Award nominee Joshua Henry recently tweeted the announcement he will be appearing in Hamilton's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade performance this year.

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One of our favorite cast album moments of birthday star Michele Pawk's is her role as Gussie in the 1994 York Theatre Off-Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical Merrily We Roll Along. The character of Gussie Carnegie has the great fortune of singing the "Act Two Opening" in the show also known as "Gussie's Opening Number." We've rounded up 7 of our faves!

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Rodgers and Hammerstein's beloved Broadway musical The Sound of Music opened on Broadway on November 16, 1959. The recent television adaptation starring Carrie Underwood as Maria Von Trapp also starred the luminous Audra McDonald in the role of Mother Abbess where she performed this classic Act One closer.

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Mark your calendars for this Sunday, November 15th at 7pm. Write down Neighbors Episode 2! The multi-talented Sharrod Williams (Cats, Tuck Everlasting and Hamilton - Chicago) creates, writes and stars in the new 7 episode webseries Neighbors.