Lifetime has greenlighted Patsy & Loretta, an original movie about the friendship between country music stars Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn. Smash alum Megan Hilty will play Cline, whose hits included “Crazy” and “I Fall to Pieces,” and Broadway’s Waitress star Jessie Mueller is set as the “Coal Miner’s Daughter&#8221…

Carousel pulled into town this year as two seasons were well underway – the first a Broadway spring crammed with Tony-worthy new plays, musicals and revivals, from the thoroughly modern Harry Potter and the Cursed Child to the polished gem My Fair Lady. But for Carousel and My Fair Lady, another season helped set…

Let’s state the obvious. Carousel is a masterpiece, a sublime piece of 20th Century musical theater that includes among its abundant treasures a song, “If I Loved You”, that ranks among the most beautiful ever written for the stage (I’d say the most beautiful but I’m not on a barstool). Jack O’Brien’s revival, at the…

Carousel, the sophomore effort by the Oklahoma! team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, will be revived on Broadway next season, according to producers Scott Rudin and Roy Furman. Opening night on Broadway is set for Thursday, March 23, 2018. The 1945 landmark musical was last revived on Broadway in a…

Give the pie a gold medal: Waitress, the musical that marked the Broadway debut of singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, has recouped its $12 million capitalization after less than 10 months, producers Barry & Fran Weissler, with Norton and Elayne Herrick, said this morning. Starring Tony Award winner Jessie Mueller in…

EXCLUSIVE: Look at that face: The oval eyes, blue, and broad smile bracketed by the parentheses that form when she smiles, which is often enough. Jessie Mueller’s visage telegraphs openness and vulnerability and warmth, a combination that’s hard to fake and that has served her extraordinarily well playing women who…

“She is gone, but she used to be mine.” I don’t think anyone, hearing that lyric from Waitress, could escape feeling a rush of sadness and exhilaration. Sadness at the line’s multiple meanings; exhilaration in the velvet, heartfelt beauty Jessie Mueller imbues “She Used To Be Mine” with, in the breath-bating 11…

Jessie Mueller has booked a recurring role in ABC’s midseason drama series The Family, written by Jenna Bans. It follows the return of a politician's (Joan Allen) young son, who was presumed dead after disappearing over a decade earlier. Mueller, repped by Innovative Artists, will play Fran, a cherubic and sweet…

After opening last month to very solid reviews at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA, the movie-based tuner — with songs by singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles in her Broadway debut — will move into the Nederlander Organization-owned Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Producers Barry Weissler and Fran Weissler said…

The musical adaptation of Adrienne Shelly’s 2007 indie beaut Waitress, with songs by Sara Bareilles and Tony-winner Jessie Mueller (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical) in the title role, opened Thursday in its Broadway tryout at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA. Slated to begin performances in March…

UPDATED with more information. A week before its official out-of-town opening, Waitress, the new musical based on the 2007 feature film, has announced its move to Broadway. The show will begin previews in March and open in April at the Nederlander Organization-owned Brooks Atkinson Theatre. It’s currently running at…

Chilina Kennedy, who played Mary Magdalene in Des McAnuff’s Stratford-to-Broadway transfer of Jesus Christ Superstar, is set to take over for Tony winner Jessie Mueller in Beautiful — The Carole King Musical. Mueller, who along with the biomusical got a big thumbs up from the “You’ve Got A Friend” writer, departs…