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Broadway in Hollywood has tuned up the slate of musicals for its 2023-24 season. Headed to the Pantages Theatre stage starting late this year are the touring productions of MJ The Musical, The Wiz, Chicago The Musical, Girl from the North Country, Mrs. Doubtfire, Peter Pan and Company. "We're gonna…

UPDATE, with Girl From The North Country Broadway’s Mrs. Doubtfire will unplug the vacuum cleaner and hang up the apron earlier than expected: The musical, which has been posting middling box office numbers during the industry’s crowded spring season, will end its run at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on May 29…

Mrs. Doubtfire will return to Broadway’s Stephen Sondheim Theatre on Thursday, April 14, a month later than originally planned. “We needed to see that Omicron was slowing down,” producer Kevin McCollum said in a statement to Deadline. “In the short time we were running before Omicron hit Broadway we saw two major…

Mrs. Doubtfire will be the latest Broadway production to go on hiatus, on Jan. 10, following rising Omicron cases. Producers announced on Sunday that the show is set to return to the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on March 14. "The first few months of a brand new Broadway show are an extraordinarily delicate and important…

UPDATED with latest cancellations: The audience at tonight’s performance of Broadway’s Moulin Rouge! was seated and waiting for the music to start when the show was canceled due to a positive Covid test result within the company. The result apparently had been received just prior to curtain. The audience was ushered…

UPDATED, 5:44 PM: Broadway’s Hamilton has canceled tonight’s performance due to breakthrough Covid cases, producers announced just before curtain. The hit musical tweeted the cancellation announcement at 7:09 pm ET, less than an hour before the scheduled 8 pm curtain time. Hamilton is the latest Broadway productions…

Broadway’s Freestyle Love Supreme and Off Broadway’s Little Shop of Horrors canceled at least some of their weekend performances due to Covid, joining, as previously reported, Mrs. Doubtfire. Freestyle Love Supreme, the improvisational hip-hop show originally created by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, and Anthony…

Looks like Mrs. Doubtfire is battling the Coronavirus as the 2:30pm and 7:30pm performances of Mrs Doubtfire on Broadway were canceled Sunday. The production just returned to Broadway October 21, and officially opened December 5. Broadway World reports that during their routine daily Covid testing at the Sondheim…

Barely 15 minutes of Mrs. Doubtfire has passed before the wife of the manic, cloying man-child at the center of the developing farce demands a divorce, and we can only puzzle over what took her so long. Granted, the wife is no prize either, a humorless, uptight career woman caricature rarely seen these days outside…

Well, poppets, Mrs. Doubtfire is the latest Broadway returnee: Producers of the musical adaptation announced today that the show will begin previews on Oct. 21 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, with an official opening night on Dec. 5. “I'm thrilled that the Mrs. Doubtfire company will reunite on Broadway this fall…

The Mrs. Doubtfire rumors of an NC-17 version have been refuted by the film’s director, Chris Columbus. But he says there is an R-rated cut among three different versions of the film. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Columbus said actor Robin Williams’s penchant for ad-libs resulted in the three different approaches…

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