Andy Blankenbuehler News

For today's digital #Ham4Ham performance, Lin-Manuel Miranda invited late-night host Jimmy Fallon to sing HAMILTON's 'You'll Be Back' in the style of several music icons, including the late, great David Bowie.

Even though Rydell High's easily excitable and enthusiastic head cheerleader, Patty Simcox, might not be the coolest kid in school, Elle McLemore, the equally as excited and enthusiastic actress who plays her in the upcoming GREASE LIVE!, is as sweet and likeable as can be. Most theatre fans know McLemore for playing less than loveable cheerleaders, first as the Machiavellian Eva in BRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL, and then as the dim-witted Heather McNamara in HEATHERS THE MUSICAL. Despite some of her character's worst traits, McLemore is always disarmingly sweet and infectiously charming.

BroadwayWorld and The Muny announces today the directors, choreographers and music directors for the Muny's 2016 Season, which opens on June 13 with The Wizard of Oz.

Hennepin Theatre Trust announced today that tickets for the national tour of JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, directed and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Andy Blankenbuehler will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 22, 2016.

As BroadwayWorld reported yesterday, PBS has confirmed that it will air Hamilton'S AMERICA, a feature film documentary providing intimate access to Lin-Manuel Miranda and his colleagues during the two years leading up to the Broadway opening of the musical Hamilton. Following the big announcement, Miranda took to Twitter to share a trio of behind-the-scenes shots from the film - check them out below!

At today's TCA press tour, PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger announced that it will air Hamilton'S AMERICA, a feature film documentary providing intimate access to Lin-Manuel Miranda and his colleagues during the two years leading up to the Broadway opening of the musical Hamilton.

An article in yesterday's New York Times warns that counterfeit tickets to the critically acclaimed hip-hop musical are becoming more and more prevalent.

Miranda gathered his old classmates together in their elementary school auditorium for a performance of 'Martin Luther King,' a song they used to sing in honor of MLK Day. Check out the fun performance below!

Aspiring storyboard artist and HAMILTON superfan Megan Lloyd recently made a storyboard for a film version of 'The World Was Wide Enough,' the final duel song from the show. The viral video has already reached Lin-Manuel Miranda, and the HAMILTON star/creator has tweeted his approval, 'Let's get this gal in front of a crowd!'

Below, watch as Andrew Chapelle's private well-wishes get crashed by Betsy Struxness and a group of ensemble members, plus the Schuyler Sisters deliver their own rendition, but not everyone got the memo.

Legendary Disney songwriter Alan Menken lent his talents to this week's #Ham4Ham, the first digital incarnation of the pre-lottery performance. Below, join Menken and Lin-Manuel Miranda at the piano as the pair performs a medley of songs from THE LITTLE MERMAID!

As previously reported, ABC is at work on adapting the hit 1987 film DIRTY DANCING into a three-hour musical broadcast starring Abigail Breslin as Baby - today, Deadline has confirmed that the project has officially received a green light, with television star and stage alum Debra Messing coming on board.

NBC would love to take a shot at producing a televised performance of the smash Broadway musical HAMILTON, according to NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt.

Yesterday, the cast of Broadway's SPRING AWAKENING had fun some backstage performing 'Satisfied' from Lin-Manuel Miranda's HAMILTON. Featured in the impromptu video below are stars Robert Ariza, Lauren Luiz, Alex Boniello and Van Hughes. Check it out, plus the caption that accompanied the Tweet, below!

BroadwayWorld is excited to report the full cast for the world premiere of THE WILDNESS: SKY-PONY'S ROCK FAIRY TALE, with text by Obie Award winner Kyle Jarrow and Lauren Worsham and songs by Kyle Jarrow. 

With Troy Bolton singing on the basketball court, 'I'm not throwing away my shot...' takes on a totally different meaning.

It looks like we're one step closer to owning the HAMILTON LP.

In honor of the fifth anniversary of the closing of IN THE HEIGHTS on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, Christopher Jackson and Mandy Gonzalez, the original Benny and Nina, sang 'When You're Home.' Check it out below!

Today in 2011, In the Heights closed at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it ran for 1184 performances. In the Heights is a musical with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a book by Quiara Alegria Hudes. The story explores three days in the characters' lives in the New York City Dominican-American neighborhood of Washington Heights. The Broadway production was nominated for thirteen Tony Awards, winning four: Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best Choreography (Andy Blankenbuehler), and Best Orchestrations (Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman). It was also a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

If you're anything like the BroadwayWorld staff, you have been absolutely LIVING for 5:55pm on Saturdays and Wednesdays and 4:55pm on Sundays for the past five months.