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Good morning BroadwayWorld! Today's top stories: the touring cast of Hamilton performed for George HW Bush, we took you inside the Vineyard Theatre gala, and more!

“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” has won the late-night ratings week of May 7-11 in adults 18-49 and every other key demographic – adults, men and women 18-34; men and women 18-49; and adults, men and women 25-54 -- according to “live plus same day” figures from Nielsen Media Research. Note that “Jimmy Kimmel Live” aired a Friday encore.

Laurie Metcalf talks about what drew her to working on Three Tall Women, the day she found out she was nominated for an Oscar and her brief stints on SNL on Late Night with Seth Meyers!

The Muny announced today that Emmy and Writers Guild Award-nominated Amber Ruffin will provide new material for the script of The Muny's production of The Wiz, June 19 - 25. Ruffin has been working with The Wiz's original book writer, William F. Brown, on The Muny production, with the full support of Charles Michael Smalls, son of The Wiz composer Charlie Smalls. The Muny production is directed by Denis Jones with choreography by Camille A. Brown and music direction by Darryl Archibald. The Wiz is proudly sponsored by Wells Fargo Advisors.

From stage to screen, Broadway will be represented on TV for the week of May 14, 2018!

New Jersey Repertory Company located at 179 Broadway in Long Branch, is proud to present the world premiere of Adam Szymkowicz's Mercy from June 14 through July 15, 2018. This surprisingly funny, dark comedy is directed by Gail Winar, and stars Christopher Daftsios, Dan Grimaldi, Nandita Shenoy, and Jacob A. Ware.

Good morning BroadwayWorld! Today's top stories: Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his Duck Tales debut, and more!

Michelle Wolf talks about her White House Correspondents' Dinner performance, running a 50-mile race in Utah and preparing for her Netflix show, The Break.

NBC has renewed its midseason comedy 'A.P. Bio' for a sophomore run, a network spokesperson confirmed this afternoon.

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” has taken the ratings week of April 30-May 4 in the key late-night demographic of adults 18-49, scoring “Tonight's” biggest percentage margin over “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” since mid-March, according to “live plus same day” figures from Nielsen Media Research.

From stage to screen, Broadway will be represented on TV for the week of May 7, 2018!

Elevator Repair Service, "one of the city's few truly essential theater companies" (New York Times), is pleased to present the world premiere of Everyone's Fine With Virginia Woolf, a new play written by longtime company member Kate Scelsa and directed by Elevator Repair Service Artistic Director John Collins.

ABC News' “Nightline” averaged 1.231 million Total Viewers, 462,000 Adults 25-54 and 343,000 Adults 18-49, during the week of April 23, 2018, based on Live + Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research. “Nightline” beat CBS' “The Late Late Show with James Corden” (1.207 million, 381,000 and 281,000, respectively) in Total Viewers (+24,000), Adults 25-54 (+81,000) and Adults 18-49 (+62,000).

Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Ashley Monroe is set to make the national TV debut of “Hands On You,” from her brand new album Sparrow, on NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers May 14. Sparrow, called 'her most ambitious, startling and first-to-last engrossing album yet' by the Wall Street Journal, was produced by Dave Cobb and recorded in Nashville's historic RCA Studio A. Arriving #1 on iTunes Singer / Songwriter charts, NPR Music notes that on Sparrow 'Monroe sounds more sensitive, sensual and comfortable in her skin than she ever has' with Paste proclaiming it to be '…one of the strongest and most grown up country albums to be released this decade.'

“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” has finished #1 for the late-night ratings week of April 23-27 in the key demographic of adults 18-49, according to “live plus same day” figures from Nielsen Media Research. Note that “Jimmy Kimmel Live” aired a Friday encore.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO and Liz Garbus are going to adapt Michelle McNamera's 'I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer' book to a documentary series. This comes on the heels of the golden state killer being arrested on April 24. 

Lauren Ambrose talks about the responsibility she feels playing Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, why she's become a bit of a hypochondriac and her childhood audition on Star Search on Late Night With Seth Meyers.

The Break with Michelle Wolf, a weekly half-hour variety/sketch series, will have jokes, sketches, celebrities, and more. Streaming every Sunday beginning May 27.

From stage to screen, Broadway will be represented on TV for the week of April 30, 2018!