Today’s Highlights:
Relax … let go … let fly
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Ain’t Too Proud will run July 27 – Aug. 2 at the St. Louis Muny, directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge.
James T. Lane (Otis Williams), Nick Rashad Burroughs (David Ruffin), Jawan M. Jackson (Melvin Franklin), Elijah Ahmad Lewis (Eddie Kendricks), Daniel Yearwood (Paul Williams), with Joseph Anthony Byrd, Robert Crenshaw, E.J. Hamilton, Tyler Hardwick, NaTonia Monét, Aramie Payton, Steve Rosen, TJ Staten Jr., Nasia Thomas, Galen J. Williams, and Candice Marie Woods.
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NYC’s 92Y’s Cabaret Conversations (both live & livestreamed) will take place this Fall:
Lindsay Mendez (Sept. 8). Click here for details.
Karen Mason: A Cabaret Workshop October 2-3). Click here for details.
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The North American premiere of Jethro Compton & Darren Clark’s The The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttton, based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, will run Oct. 8 – Nov. 15 (opening Oct. 21) at the Public Theatre, directed by Jethro Compton, with choreography by Chi-San Howard.
Andrew Durand (Benjamin Button / Reberthi.), Kelsee Kimmel (Elowen Keene / Sterenow), Britney Coleman (Gwyns), Matt Wolpe (Tir), Andrew Durand (Benjamin Button/Reverthi), and Kelsee Kimmel with Trevor Lindley Craft Craft, Brandon J. Ellis, & Andrew Furand (Elowen Keene / Sterenow).
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic story of an old man who is not at the end of his life, but at the beginning. Set in a Cornish fishing village on the coast of Great Britain.
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Sag Harbor’s Bay Street Theatre will present Tom Kitt: My Life on Mon. Aug. 10 at 8 PM.
Jessica Vosk and Tom Kitt.
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Ragtime has broken the all-time box office record at Broadway’s Lincoln Center for a second time, taking in $1.625M gross for the weekend ending July 26.
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The Outsiders, by Adam Rapp, Justin Levine, and Jamestown Revival Revival, will run Sept. 30 – Oct. 18 at LA’s Pantages Theatre, directed by directed by Danya Taymor.
Noah Pacht (Ponyboy Curtis), Johnny Cake (Caleb Mathrua), Dan Berry (Darrel Curtic), SeQuoiia (Dallas Winston), Emma Pittman (Cherry Valance), Sutton James Kaylor (Sodapop Curtis), Daryl Tofa (Two-Bit Matthews), and Victor Carrillo Tracey (Paul).
The play follows 14-year-old Ponyboy Curtis in 1067 Oklahoma, who navigates class conflict, family loyalty, and survival between two rival groups: the working-class Greasers and the wealthy Socs.
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John Monsky’s “We Chose To Go to the Mooon” will premiere Tues. Nov. 10 on PBS.Org and the PBS app. Directed by Michael Mayer, the event was filmed at Carnegie Hall in April.
Skylar Astin, Claybourne Elder, Elizabeth Gillies, Taylor Louderman, and oy Woods.
The multimedia presentation, which combines, theatre, concert, and documentary, tells the story of the space race of the 1950s and ’60s, culminating in John F. Kennedy’s challenge in 1961 to land a man on the moon.
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Little Shop of Horrors will run Sept. 3-13 at CA’s Altadena Music Theatre, directed by Sarah Azcarate.
TBA.
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CA’s Rubicon Theatre’s world premiere of Sharon Scott Willams’ Crazy Mama will run Sept. 16 – Oct. 18 (opening Sept. 22) at NYC’s 59E. 59 Theaters, directed by Anson Williams.
Linda Purl and Will Huse.
A deeply personal, poignant, and at times, surprisingly funny story based on Sharon’s experience growing up in a small Southern railroad town in the 50’s as she, her father, and brother grapple with her mother’s sudden mental illness. The play follows her decades-long desire to reconnect with the mother she lost and to find “the cure.”
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Jackson Browne in concert will run Nov. 19 – 20 at LA’s Pantages Theatre.
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Forty Year of of Being Alive in LA will take place Sept. 12 at at 2 PM at the Los Angeles Athletic Club. 
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Morgan Fairchild, Bruce Vilanch, and HIV therapeutic specialist Joseph Leahy.
An excerpt of “Mama, I’m. Big Girl Now” featuring Marissa Jaret Winkour, Kerry Butler and Laura Bell Bundy.
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The stage adaptation of the Prince movie-musical Purple Rain will arrive on Broadway in 2027 at the Majestic Theatre. Previews will begin Mar. 12, 2027, with opening night set for Apr. 12.
Casting TBA.
Also newly revealed is a fairly major creative team shake-up at the musical, which had its world premiere at Minnesota’s State Theatre last year. Saheem Ali will take the reins as director, succeeding Lileana Blain-Cruz; and Peter Duchan has replaced Branden Jacobs-Jenkins as book writer.
The production will also include choreographer Ebony Williams, music supervision by Ebony Williams and orchestrations by Jason Michael Webb.
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Broadway’s Ragtime has broken the all-time box office record at the Lincoln Center Theater for a second time, grossing $1.625M for the week ending July 26.
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The world premiere of Scott Gilmour & Claire McKenzie’s The Snow Goose will run Aug. 28 – Oct. 18 at CT’s Good Speed Musicals, directed by Marshall Pailet.
Eric Graise (Philip Rhayader), Ashlyn Maddox (Frith), Ally Bonino (Harper), Sam Sherwood (The Bard), Charlie Webb (Wilf), David Aron Damane (Garrick), Gabriel Marcus Omlor (Farley), Ayanna Nicole Thomas (Clara), Amy Nillner Larsen (Mrs. Frumsey), and Ayanna Nicole Thomas (Clara), with Alan Chandler, Matthew Davies, Leah Hofmann, Kiersten Kelly, Sophia Anna O’Brien, Patrick Tombs, John Viggiano, Sam Hoffman and Jessica Money, Alan Chandler, Matthew Davies, Leah Hofmann (Lead Puppeteer), Kiersten Kelly, Sophia Anna O’Brien, Patrick Tombs, John Viggiano, Sam Hoffman, and Jessica Mone.
On the windswept coast of England an unlikely bond forms between Philip, a reclusive artist shunned by society, and Frith, a resilient young woman, when they rescue a wounded snow goose. With World War II looming, their friendship allows her to imagine a life beyond her village, and him to confront his own humanity as he sets sail on a daring journey to save soldiers trapped at Dunkirk.
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Click here for the schedule of upcoming and Announced Broadway Shows.