Today’s Highlights:
* Piano Bar Live! concert, with guest host Michael Orland, and special guests Ashley Argota, Dan Bauer, The Bleam Sisters, Hadiza Dockery, Robin Lyon, Julie Sheppard, Nancy Timpanaro, and Peter Vogt, streamed at 7:15 PM ET here.
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Video: “Stars in the House,” with guest host Andréa Burns, and special guests Luis Salgado and Sergio Trujillo. (1:00:58)
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Fox has announced its pilot “Big Leap,” a one-hour drama inspired by the UK documentary series “Big Ballet.” Production is expected to begin later this year.
Laura Benanti (Paula Dirks), Ser’Darius Blain, Ray Cham, Scott Foley, Jon Rudnitsky, Simone Recasner, and Teri Polo.
The series follows a group of amateur dancers as the compete (on a reality show) to be part of a modern version of Swan Lake. Paula Dirks is a tap dancer who used to be a white-collar executive at an auto company and finds a sense of freedom in performing.
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Video: Highlights from Broadway’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s (2013), starring Emilia Clarke (Holly Golightly), with Cory Michael Smith, George Wendt, Suzanne Bertish and more.
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NY’s Forestburgh Playhouse has announced its Summer Season 2020 Rebooted:
July 24: Nicolas King
July 25: Tom Hewitt and Edward Staudenmayer
Aug. 1: Kate Baldwin and Lewis Cleale
Aug. 8: Morgan James
Aug. 21: Christina Bianco
Aug. 22: Alice Ripley
For all performances, audiences in both the venue’s tent and lawn will sit in designated, socially distanced locations, and will not be allowed to cluster anywhere except in their pre-reserved areas. Public areas with lines (including box office and restrooms) will enforce proper spacing. Additionally, ticket holders will receive designated arrival times and will exit in small groups.
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Video: Madeline Kahn performs Irving Berlin’s “You’d Be Surprised”
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Off-Broadway’s York Theatre presents its Stars & Stripes Musical Theatre Trivia Night on Thurs. July 23 at 7:10 PM ET, co-hosted by Stephanie Umoh and Evans Haile.
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Video: “Don’t Rain on My Parade” dollmation.
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Michael Lavine’s next zoominar presents the 2nd of 3 decades, offering Moment Matinee Presents Songs of the Decade: The Enthalling Thirties on Thurs. July 23 at 3:30 PM ET here.
Steve Ross, KT Sullivan, Daisy Egan, and more.
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Video: Project Sing Out! benefit concert, featuring Chita Rivera, Don Cheadle, Vanessa Williams, Audra McDonald, Whoopi Goldberg, Lea Salonga, George Salazar, Colman Domingo, and Robin Roberts. (1:21:49)
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“Stars in the House” presents a reading of Shaw’s Misalliance, in support of The Actors Fund, on Sat. July 25 at 2 PM ET here, directed & narrated by David Staller.
Marc delaCruz, Dan Domingues, Midori Francis, Peter Francis James, Teresa Avia Lim, Jamie Sanders, Thom Sesma, Ryan Spahn, and Sharon Washington.
In a high-flying comedy, Shaw examines a variety of mating combinations. The social and the political collide with the romantic and the practical; the aristocrats take on the middle classes and vice versa, and-to top it all off there’s a glamorous lady aviatrix and a tipsy gun-toting socialist loose on the grounds!
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Lena Hall – Obsessed: Alanis Morissette will take place Fri. Aug. 14 at 9 PM ET.
Click here for $10 Early Bird tickets (sales ends July 24) and $40 VIP tickets.
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The Broadway Podcast Network will present a Be More Chill virtual reunion on Wed. July 22 at 9 PM ET.
Dori Berinstein, Joe Iconis, Joe Tracz, Stephen Brackett, Chase Brock, Jerry Goehring, Michael Hurst, and Jennifer Ashley Tepper…… Broadway cast members George Salazar, Will Roland, Jason Tam, and Stephanie Hsu…… and London cast members Scott Folan and Blake Patrick Anderson.
The program will also feature a tribute to the late Ned Vizzini, who penned the novel upon which the musical is based, by his wife Sabra Embury.
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Pandemic Parodies by SIX fans:
Video: “Persist”
Video: “Ex-Wives” solo cover
Video: “Haus of Holbein Parody”
Video: “Ex-Wives Descendants”
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Ballots Over Broadway will stream Fri. Aug. 7 at 8 PM ET here, hosted by Chris Mann.
Bradford Anderson, Laura Benanti, Christina Bianco, Deborah Craig, André De Shields, Juan Pablo di Pace, Eden Espinosa, Santino Fontana, Melissa Fumero, Jared Gertner, Tamyra Gray, Daheli Hall, Andy Karl, Mykal Kilgore, Jessie Mueller, Orfeh, Sabrina Sloan, John Tartaglia,Shanice Williams, June Diane Raphael, Michaela Watkins, the cast of Hash(tag) America: Kyle Carter, Anthonty Federov, Diana Huey, Kay-Ta Matsuno, Jennifer Paz, AJ Rafael, Christina Sajous, Heath Saunders, and Nik Walker, and the UCLA Musical Theater Class of 2020.
The concert will support Higher Heights for America’s work mobilizing and electing Black women, and Field Team 6’s efforts registering and empowering Democratic voters around the country, particularly in “Battleground states.”
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Sing Happy! The Songs of Kander and Ebb will take place Sun. Aug. 9 at 8 PM ET, hosted by Bruce Kimmel, with music direction by Richard Allen. 
here.
Brent Barrett, Debbie Gravitte, Peyton Kirkner, Karen Mason, Kerry O’Malley, Hartley Powers, Jennifer Simard, Sami Staitman, Adrienne Stiefel, Robert Yacko, and Karen Zimba, with Michael Gabiano, Chloe Hayen, Ellie Oliver, Cott Senior, John Schroeder, and Mackenzie Wrap.**********************
Quarantine, Cabaret & Cocktails, featuring the original principal Broadway cast of Side Show, will take place Thurs. July 23 at 7 PM ET here, hosted by Robert Bannon & Lee Lessack.
Alice Ripley, Emily Skinner, Hugh Panaro and Jeff McCarthy, along with Shawn Ryan.
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Video: “The Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened” (1:33:47)
The film follows Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, which opened in Nov. 1981 to scathing reviews and closed after just 16 performance. Despite its inauspicious beginnings, the musical’s score has grown to become one of the composer’s most beloved. Featuring archival footage of the rehearsals, with interviews with the cast, including Sondheim himself, and director Hal Prince.
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Video: “Mashup of Songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber.” featuring Katharine McPhee, Shoshana Bean, and Megan Hilty.
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The Old Vic presents a virtual world premiere of Stephen Beresford’s Three Kings, which will stream for 5 performances July 29 – Aug. 1, directed by Matthew Warchus.
Andrew Scott.
At eight years old, Patrick’s absent father returns unexpectedly and in a brief but memorable encounter, sets him the challenge of ‘The Three Kings’. Years later, Patrick traces the events of his father’s life and takes us on a journey of grandiose plans, aching disappointments, and audacious self-delusion.
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An Intimate Performance with Brian Stokes Mitchell, in support of the Berkshire Theatre Group, The Actors Fun, and Black Theatre United, will take place Sat. Sept. 5 at 8 PM under the tent at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, MA.
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Julie Halston‘s new series, “Virtual Halston,” will take place on Fridays at 5 PM ET here.
July 24 guests: Marilu Henner and Justin Squigs Robertston.
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