Today’s Highlights:
*Shakin’ the Blues Away: A Virtual Gala Concert for Goodspeed, featuring James Snyder, Troy Anthony, Klea Blackhurst, Bryan Thomas Hunt, Gizel Jimenez, Rashidra Scott, Kelly Sheehan, Alysha Umphress, and Nicholas Ward, streams at 7:30 PM ET at Goodspeed Musicals (and will be available online for one week).
* Act Out: Vote 2020, a night of spoken word, song, and dance, featuring new takes on works by Jocelyn Bioh, Danai Gurira, David Henry Hwang, and Lisa Kron, featuring Yvette Nicole Brown, Tonia Jo Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Lloyd Knight, Sandra Oh, DeLanna Studi, and Ephraim Sykes, streams for FREE at 9 PM ET here.
* I Put a Spell on You FREE benefit Halloween party, in support of BC/EFA, featuring Gavin Creel, Todrick Hall, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Eva Noblezada, Will Swenson, Bob The Drag Queen, Alexis Michelle, and many more, streams at 8 PM ET here.
* Race reading, by David Mamet, directed by Phylicia Rashad, featuring David Alan Grier, Ed O’Neill, Alicia Stith, and Richard Thomas, streams at 8 PM ET. 
Pay-what-you-can tickets on TodayTix.
* The Brett Loudermilk Halloween Special, with special guests Gilbert Gottried (Dracula), Elvira, Mistress of the Dar, and Puddles Pity Party, livestreams at 8 PM ET here.
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15 Musicals set for movie adaptations:
1. “The Prom” (premieres Dec. 11 on Netflix), starring Meryl Streep, James Corden, Nicole Kidman, Keegan-Michael Key, and Andrew Rannells
2. “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie” (Feb. 26, 2021)
3. “In The Heights” (June 18, 2021)
4. “West Side Story” (Dec. 10, 2021)
5. “Tick…Tick…Boom!” (release date TBA), directed by Lin Manuel Miranda, starring Andrew Garfield
6. “Matilda” (release date TBA)
7. “Dear Evan Hansen” (release date TBA), featuring Amandla Stenberg, Nik Dodani, Kaitlyn Dever, Ben Platt, Julianne Moore, Amy Adams, Danny Pino, and Colton Ryan
8. “Follies” (release date TBA)
9, “Mean Girls” (release date TBA)
10. “Fiddler on the Roof” (release date TBA)
11. “Merrily We Roll Along” (release date TBA, probably the 2040s), starring Ben Platt & Beanie Feldstein
12. “Once On This Island” (release date TBA)
13. “Come From Away” (release date TBA)
14. “Cyrano” (release date TBA), starring Peter Dinklage
15. “The Color Purple” (release date TBA)
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MCC Theater has announced programming through 2021:
* iGÁRGOLA! (Oct.29 at 5:30 PM ET), by Omar Vélez Meléndez, directed by Cristina Angeles.
* “This is Where We Go,” a podcast play in 6 parts (premieres Dec. 3)
* Between The Two Humps (Dec. 17 at 5:30 PM ET), by Halley Feiffer, directed by Trip Cullman.
* Untitled Meditations on Love and Grieving (Jan. 21, 2021), by Mfoniso Udofia.
* A New Play (title TBA) (Feb. 11), by Susan Soon He Stanton, directed by Ellie Heyman.
* Rome and Ja’net (2021 date TBA), by Dominique Fishback.
* A new production livestreamed directly from MCC Theater (2021 dates TBA)
* Space Dogs (Spring 2021), a new musical by Van Hughes & Nick Blaemire.
* Nollywood Dreams (full production in 2021), by Jocelyn Bioh, directed by Saheem Ali.
* soft (full production in 2021), a new play by Donja R. Love, directed by Whitney White.
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The virtual world premiere reading of Joe DiPietro’s Conscience, directed by David Saint, has been extended, and will now be available through Sat. Oct. 31 at NJ’s George Street Playhouse.
Harriet Harris (Margaret Chase Smith), Lee Sellars (Senator Joseph McCarthy), Mark Junek (William C. Lewis), and Cathryn Wake (Jean Kerr)
On June 1, 1950, Senator Margaret Chase Smith stood on the Senate floor and delivered her “Declaration of Conscience” in a historic moment of political courage. This sharply written new play takes you behind the scenes of 1950s Washington in the days leading up to and following the singular speech that rattled McCarthyism, Congress and the nation itself.
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Video: Aaron Tveit and Karen Olivo sing “Come What May” from Broadway’s Moulin Rouge!
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More than 700 members of Actors’ Equity Association have been laid off from performance jobs at Walt Disney World.
The entire casts of park production shows Beauty and the Beast — Live on Stage, Festival of the Lion King, Finding Nemo: The Musical, and the Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue have been let go, as have the casts of Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor and the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular, as well as various street performers.
Disney announced earlier this fall that they will lay off nearly 28,000 employees, mostly from its Disney’s Parks, Experiences, and Products division, which was hit hard with pandemic-related theme park closures.
Actors’ Equity signed off on a memorandum of understanding with Walt Disney World regarding the layoffs. According to this new document, these Equity members maintain recall rights until the end of 2021.
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The West End‘s production of Julian Fellowes, George Stiles & Anthony Drewe The Wind in the Willows, directed by Rachel Kavanaugh, with choreography by Aletta Collins, will continue to stream for FREE through Oct. 30 at 10 AM ET. 
Watch here (2:11:33).
Rufus Hound (Toad), Simon Lipkin (Ratty), Craig Mather (Mole), Neil McDermott (Chief Weasel), Denise Welch (Mrs Otter), and Gary Wilmot (Badger), with Chris Aukett, Joel Baylis, Jenna Boyd, Abigail Brodie, Abigail Climer, Jorell Coiffic-Kamall, Nicole Deon, Emilie du Leslay, Joshua Gannon, James Gant, Evan James, Michael Larcombe, Bethany Linsdell, Ryan Pidgen, Adam Vaughan, Georgie Westall, and Natalie Woods.
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The Skivvies have released their first digital album, “The Rocky Horror Skivvies Show,” which is available here.
The album features the entire score of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, performed with the Skivvies signature style of mashups and gender-bending twists.
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NY City Center‘s 2020 Gala, An Evening with Audra McDonald, with music direction by Andy Einhorn, will stream Dec. 9 at 7:30 PM ET, and will be available on demand for one week.
Concert-only viewing will go on sale Mon. Nov. 16.
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Jennifer Simard and Jessica Vosk have created “Killing It On Broadway,” a new series featuring stars discussing infamous cases linked to their home states. The weekly podcast will launch Fri. Oct. 30 and continue every Monday, wherever you download your podcasts.
Kristin Chenoweth (Oct. 30), who reveals a personal connection to the Oklahoma Girl Scout murders.
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The biopic “Respect,” which was originally scheduled to open in theaters in 2020, then pushed back to Jan. 15, 2021, has been rescheduled again, and now expects to be released Aug. 13, 2021, directed by Liesl Tommy.
Jennifer Hudson (Aretha Franklin), Audra McDonald (), Heather Headley Clara Ward), Hailey Kilgore (Carolyn Franklin), Saycon Sengbloh (Erma Franklin), Titus Burgess (Reverend Dr. James Cleveland), Forest Whitaker (Aretha’s father), and Mary J. Blige (Dinah Washington).
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The news series “Things I Know to Be True,” based on Andrew Bovell’s play of the same name, will stream on Amazon (release date TBA).
Nicole Kidman, and more TBA.
The series is about the resilience of an enduring marriage and the evolving nature of a family’s love, as Bob and Fran Price watch their adult children make unexpected decisions which change the course of their lives.