Today’s Highlights:
Pretty Woman: The Musical, directed & choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, featuring Aimie Atkinson (Vivian Ward) and Danny Mac (Edward Lewis), with Rachel Wooding (Kit DeLuca), Bob Harmy (Happy Man/Mr. Thompson), Neil McDermot (Philip Stuckey), Mark Holden (James Morse), with Jemma Alexander, Andy Barke, Kimberly Blake, Katie Bradley, Oliver Brenin, Olivia Brooks, Alex Charles, Olly Christopher, Ben Darcy, Hannah Ducharme, Nicholas Duncan, Paige Fenlon, Damon Gould, Alex Hammond, Tom Andrew Hargreaves, Antony Hewitt, Matt Jones, Serina Mathew, Katie Monks, Joanna Woodard, and Charlotte Yorke, re-opens at London’s Savoy Theatre.
Fruma-Sarah (Waiting in the Wings), by E. Dale Smith, directed by Braden M. Burns, featuring Jackie Hoffman (Ariana Russo) and Kelly Kinsella, opens at Off Broadway’s the cell.
The Wizard of Oz, directed by Glenn Casale, featuring Jessica Grové (Dorothy), Dan DeLuca (Scarecrow), Evan Ruggiero (Tin Man). Drew Leigh Williams (Lion), Lisa Ann Goldsmith (Wicked Witch), Melissie Clark (Aunty Em/Gelinda), Jeffrey Howell (Oz), LaTrea Rembert (Uncle Henry), Sophie Aknin, Mike Baerga, Jamary Gil, Tamrin Goldber, Jeff Gorti, Jessica Ice, Jerreme Rodriguez, and Davis Wayne, opens at Pittsburgh CLO.
The Zoo Story, by Edward Albee, directed by Nathan Winkelstein, starring Michael Urie (Jerry) and Ryan Spahn (Peter), opens at East Hampton’s Guild Hall.
Lines in the Dust filmed production, by Nikkole Salter, directed by Awoye Timpo, featuring Jeffrey Bean, Melissa Joyner, and Lisa Rosetta Strum, begins streaming at New Normal Rep.
#SAVETHELAB All-Star Virtual Fundraiser, with special guests Joy Behar, Bobby Cannavale, Max Casella, Anna Chlumsky, Alan Cumming, Giancarlo Esposito, Colin Firth, Luis Guzmán, Jon Hamm, Julianna Margulies, Daphne Ruvin-Vega, Sophie Turner, and more, re-streams for FREE at 8 PM ET at Off-Broadway’s LAByrinth Theater Company.
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Video: Stars in the House, celebrating Disney on Broadway Live, with special guests Ashley Brown, Michael James Scott, Kissy Simmons, and Josh Strickland. (1:10:33)
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Friends! The Musical Parody, written by Bob & Tobly McSmith, with music by Assaf Gleizner, will run July 19 – Sept. 19 (opening July 27) at the Jerry Orbach Theatre, directed by Tim Drucker.
Sami Griffith (Rachel), Maggie McMeans (Monica), Jenn Cormey (Phoebe), Nick Anastasia (Ross), Domenic Servidio (Joey), and AC Rutherford (Chadler & others), with Coldin Grundmeyer.
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The next Kritzerland Concert will take place Wed. July 28 at 8 PM PT at Studio City’s Feinstein’s at Vitello’s, directed & hosted by Bruce Kimmel, with music direction by Richard Allen.
Daniel Thomas Bellusci, Chelsea Emma Franko, Jason Graae, Adrienne Stiefel, and Robert Yacko.
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Casting has been announced for Week Two of LA’s Blank Theatre‘s 29th Annual Young Playwrights Festival, featuring digital shorts by playwrights aged 16-19, which will stream on Vimeo July 16-23.
* Mama Bushwick is Dead, by Elizabeth Shannon, directed by Ryan Bergmann, featuring Marguerite Moreau, Scott Victor Nelson, Mandy June Turpin, Audrey Wasilewski, and Tamara Zook. 
When the matriarch of the family passes on, five siblings come back home to pack up the house and unpack family history as they try to figure out how to eulogize a woman who was a different person to each of them.
* The Waiting Room, by Abigail Milne, directed by Victoria Hoffman, featuring Scott Lowell and Melissa Sain-Amand. Two strangers are in a waiting room and have completely forgotten who they are, where they are, and what they’re waiting for. Stuck in the liminal “waiting” space before the host lets them in, they explore reality and purpose with dark humor and quick wit.
* Las Mujeres de Los Ángeles, by Lourdes Castillo, directed by Andrea Fiorentini Del Rio, featuring Angela Alvarado, Ani Mesa, Grace Serrano, and Andrea K. Torres. Four immigrant women meet at a bus stop and explore their shared experience of waiting. Waiting for equality, waiting for security, waiting to be seen – all the while waiting for the bus.
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Liz Callaway‘s rendition of “Be a Lion” (from The Wiz) is now available to download for only 99¢ here.
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Broadway Bares: Twerk from Home has announced it annual Stripathon competition, which is available to watch online here.
It’s a friendly – but fierce – competition among the cast and crew to see who can raise the most money for those in need.
Donate here to your favorite dancers and crew members to help make a difference.
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Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter continues streaming through July 10 at the West End’s Old Vic, directed by Jeremy Herrin.
Daniel Mays and David Thewlis.
Two hit men await details of their next target in the basement of a supposedly abandoned cafe. When the dumbwaiter begins sending them mysterious food orders, the killers’ waiting game starts to unravel.
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Video: “Jim Caruso’s Cast Party,” with special guests Spencer Moses, Trevor Martin, Erika Spyres, and Ty Stephens. (1:19:27)
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Billy Porter & Kurt Carr’s Sanctuary will stream July 29 -.Aug. 2 at New York Stage and Film.
Deborah Cox, Bryan Terell Clark, Ledisi, and Virginia Woodruff, with Broadway Inspirational Voices.
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Disney’s productions will be returning to Broadway this month in the form of four concerts, Live at the New Am, at the New Amsterdam Theatre, in support of The Actors Fund. The concert will take place July 22-24 at 7:30 PM ET and a matinee on July 25 at 2 PM ET.
Michael James Scott, Ashley Brown, Kissy Simmons, and Josh Strickland.
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As previously reported, Waitress will run Sept. 2 – Jan. 9, 2022 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
Sarah Bareilles will return to the production from Sept. 2 – Oct. 17. Her replacement is TBA.
Additional casting TBA.
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Liz Callaway: Comin’ Around Again will run Aug. 8-9, both at 7 PM ET, at 54 Below.
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Alan Zachary, Michael Weiner & Austin Winsberg’s First Date will stream July 23-25 on Stellar, directed by Meg Fofonoff, with music direction by Julie McBride.
Diana DeGarmo, Ace Young. Nick Cearley, Kevin Massey, Jennifer Sánchez, Vishal Faidya, and Aurelia Williams.
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The new film remake of “Guys and Dolls” is currently in development, to be directed by Bill Condon.
Casting, timeline and additional information TBA.
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Center Theatre Group presents “32 Acres,” a uniquely outdoor soundwalk through the Los Angeles State Historic Park will be available July 14 – Sept. 29 through a FREE app (available at Apple and Google app stores). The event is available during park hours, 8 AM PT – sunset.
After downloading a custom-built app and putting on their headphones, audiences set off on a unique journey as their movements thought the park conjure sounds dialogue. The event combines original narrative, composition and sound recordings to lead audience members on a guided walk suggesting other ways of seeing and being in our immediate surroundings.
AS the city re-opens and many Angelenos begin venturing into public spaces again after a year of isolation, immersive artis Markie Splint’s site-specific piece offers audiences a rare opportunity to rediscover how they relate to the city they inhabit. The Los Angeles State Historic Park serves as the enigmatic canvas for a contemplative experience on the character of Los Angeles, its hidden histories and imagined futures while exploring the paradoxes of urban nature.
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The Ojai Playwrights Conference has the playwrights which will participate in two rigorous programs (the New Works Festival and the Foundry Project) for its 2021 season. All of OPC’s developmental work will be held online this season.
Workshop performances of 8 New Works Festival plays will be streamed at scheduled times Aug. 5-15, over the two weekends, Thursday through Sunday. Each play will be streamed twice. The schedule for the Fall program is TBA.
* Corsican, by Will Arbery, directed by Sam Gold)
* Hang Time, by Zora Howard, directed by Howard
* Support, by Elizabeth Irwin, directed by Nikkole Salter
* Regretfully, So the Birds Are, by Julia Izumi, directed by Rebecca Wear
* tiny father, by Mike Lew, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel
* Good Enemy, by Yilong Liu, directed by Chay Yew
* The Ants, by Ramiz Monsef, directed by Kimberly Senior
* Funning While Black, by Jahna Ferron-Smith
* The Jungle Project, by Kate Hamill
* that drive through Monterey, by Matthew Paul Olmos
* Tomorrow Will Be Sunday, by Heather Raffo
* Zakiya Young Project, by Zakiya Young.